Cimarron Valley Clipper (Coyle, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1919 Page: 3 of 4
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a quarter billion dollars. ^Pogive this
CALLEDjy DEATH
WORLD’S GREATEST PHIL-
ANTHROPIST PASSES •
AWAY
GAVE AWAY $350,000,000
In His Efforts To Die Poor Mai Af:
Amassing One of the G t
Fortunes Ever Made In
America
Lenox, Mass—in his
overlooking a lake lb the 1
Berkshire?, where hr so■
when bodily infirmity ovr i,
and his mind was sadden-: i ■ n
trance of his country into the \ > ltd
■war, Andrew Carnegie, iron in. u-r
and philanthropist died
Although he had been u x<. • bh
health for more than two y, .. hi-
final illness was brief—i m, tter of
days. A severe cold developed quick
ly into bronchial pneumonia, the aged
patient lapsed into unco
and tne end came as though if was
tbe beginning of a de per
ostentation marked th< funei
man, who, when he b
years ago to give aw t, 'nona
was reputed to have the
®st private fortune in
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Andrew Carnegie
was held at the horn... yimcow ■ ■■:.
The body was taken to Plttsbu: , tin
olty where he laid the foundations foi
his wealth, for burial.
Mrs. Carnegie was at hei hu.-ii : d'-
bedside In the last hour of bin lift but
he did not revive sufficiently to pi i
mlt of any sign of recognition
daughter, Margaret, wlio i ■
married Ensign -Roswell
New York was notified
parent that tin illness would i 1
and she bunded from 1
MiUbrook. N v arriving
uUs alter her father had
Andrew Carnegie began a race
against time when, in 1901. at tin .
of 65. ht i ■ n d to
enormous fortune He 1 -. ! I it
graceful" for a man to kee. i.n t-,
oriag idle mill Ions
tlvely few years wliich the ai
could allow him, he wot ' I
r&ss himself of prai 1
No man had ever launched a philan
throi»ic campaign ol urdi : < u
His was then a fortune -
-futi.’udous » irn awav In about half
tife time he had taken to gather it
was a purpose Carnegie had fairly
well fulfilled when death overtook
him He had distributed about f300,-
000,000. It was giving money away at
the rate of over $20,000,000 a year, oi
more than $50,000 a day.
Hi? first big gift was the setting
aside of $4,000,000 to supply pensions
and relief for the injured and aged
employes of his steel plants.
He added an extra million for the
support of libraries for his workmen
and took up his library hobby in a
wholesale way by giving $5,200,000 to
New York City for the erection ol
sixty five blanch libraries in the me
tropolls. Another'million he gave foi
a library in St. Louis.
Ou libraries alone he spent upwards
of $53,000,000 He gave them to some
two thousand English speaking corn-
nmnitie throughout the world. One
of l it libraries is in the Fiji islands
He remembered Pittsburgh, the
sci no of ids steel-making triumphs,
by - tuWishing there a great institute,
im’l.idin tlie largest of bis libraries,
mm urn, a magnificent concert hall,
and the Carnegie Technological
Si I ools with a total endowment of i
$16,000,000, !
He built a great national institu-
t on in Washington, which should be
the l'cvntain head of advanced work in
“invest!/ ation, research and discov-
ery” and placed in the hands of its
i ur 'ees a total endowment of some
$20,000,000,
Ti- h. native Scotland his largest
■ ngle gift was a fund of $10,000,000
to ;ilii education of Scottish univer-
sities. i
His Pet Idea.
He curried out his pet idea of a
H• o commission, endowed in 1905
’.' ill $5,000,000 by which hundreds of
men, women and children have been
■-warded with Carnegie medals or
-nsii.t.s for acts of heroism in the
•esctie of imperilled persons. He
. uvled similar benefaction.- to
revi ai foreign countries.
la * aabllshed tiie Carnegie Foun-
i a ion for tin Advancement of Teach-
wlth a total fund of $15,000,000,
which lias taken up efficiency sur-
veys ol educational work, aided many
in millions, and provided pensions for
coll. - professors. In 1911 he capital-
ize I lii educational benevolence, so
t: l his gifts to libraries, colleges and
other institutions should live alter
. by • -tabllshing the Carnegie Cor-
poration with a fund of $26,000,000.
For Abolition of War.
(>ne ot his latest and greatest ideals
was the abolition ol war, a hope that
hi cherished in the face of interna-
ti. ml conflicts. He gave $10,000,000
tow-:rd an International peace fund,
and built the peace palace at The
Hague, wlilt-h was dedicated in 1913.
l: gave $, 1-1.000 for the Bureau of
Ani'-.ii-an Republics at Washington
His love ol music moved him to
equip hundreds ot churches and in
itutions with pipe organs. He never
a ve directly any large sum to relig-
ions , ... Of his organ gifts he
-Aid he would hold himself respon
sible for what tlie organ pealed forth
on the Sabbath,' hut not for what
mi. In be aid in the pulpit One of
In-- very earliest gifts, as far back as
139 . as tie Carnegie music hall in
New York, at a cost of $2,000,000, and
ai president of the New York Phil-
ha monic society he spent his money
It tilt in furthering its ideals He
n lib. iiui, backed the Pittsbutg oi
chestra.
n ti ala t engineers societies tie
g ■ _ ■ ' • a His small gifts to
colleges amounted to some $20,000,-
I-- i n left at his death such
n ut,a; c and such a scattered series
0, i .onument* to perpetuate his mem-
ory
n ti Caine it- had given away
up to June 1, 1913, a com
iUt in b nefactlons prepared
b; tl. I'ainene Endowment tor Inter
national Peace shows
Tin passing of one of the greatest
nil certainl- tlie most pictueresque
of world financiers at his MassaehU
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come or the leuI&TncTei of the Carnegie •
fortune, variously estimated at be
tween $300,000,000 and $400,000,000.
Andrew Carnegie's wife, who w«i !
Louise Whitefleld, of New York, sur j
vives him.
PLAN TO REPEAT
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vives mm. He leaves only one child p -, rmni nU:, <„ .
Margaret, who was married recently j R^ilvVivy L.lipItycCS Chi-fS Ap-
i pear at Washington With New
Threat to Congress.
ASK $1,000,000,000 MORE PAY.
to Roswell Miller, a young reserve of j
fleer in the United States navy. None j
of the Ironmaster's associates profes
sed to know what provision he made
for them in his will, though at the
time ol the wedding Margaret Car
negie was called the •’world’s richest
heiress.”
BAKER READS
FOfiJP Bill
576.030 SOLDIERS NEEDED
FOR THE UNITED STATES,
. SECRETARY SAYS.
Frisco Shopmen Back At Work. j
Oklahoma City.—following the an ,
nouncement that all employes of the
Frisco railway who have been out on
strike will return to work agents of |
the road were Immediately instructed
that tlie embargo on the lines will be
withdrawn, and all freight would
again be accepted The decision of the
Frisco employes to return to work
came as a surprise to even the work
men involved, and was the climax to
a meeting of representative employes j
from every division of the road at '
Springfield, Mo
Also Demand Nationalization of Other
Industries, Following Example of
Russian Soviets.
Railway Profits Belong To Public
Washington.—That surplus earnings
on r rofits of railroads reinvested in the
properties by the management in past
years belong to the public and should
not be included in any plan of com
pensation for such propeitles if takeu
over by the governn’ient, was the con
tention of Glenn E, Plumb, counsel foi
tlie lailroad brotherhoods, in advoeat
ing his plan 1'or the nationalization ol
the railroads and their operation undei
a tri partite board, before the lioilse In
terstate
mittee,
and foreign commerce com
Revolution Followed By Suits.
Mexico City Claims for damages
inflicted during the Mexican recolu-
tion totaled $21,500,000 pesos on Aug.
2.
WHISKY RUNERS ARE BUSY
Government Agent Captured
Bottles of Beer in July.
3,762
Oklahoma City.—National prohibi-
tion makes little difference to
whiskey runners in Oklahoma, accord
lng to T, E. Brents, assistant special
officer of the United States Indian
service, who says that even though
July is supposed to be the dryest,
month in the history of the country, it
brol* the record for being wet Id his
work.
He discovered five automobiles, dur-
ing the month, carrying a totgil of 3,-
762 bottles of beer into tlie state.
One car carried as many as 1,032
bottles. Most of the cars were dis-
covered in the vicinity of Tulsa.
Brent says that more liquor was con-
fiscated during July than any other
month this year. He is in the city to-
day having an analysis made of soft
drinks to determine their alcoholic
content.
BANK CASHIER ARRESTED
Examiner Charges Embezzlement by
Savanna Officer.
McAlester.—Investigation into the
affairs of the First State Bank of
Savanna, a small town near here, by
tlie State Bank Examiner resulted m
the arrest of A. L. Zeiher, former
cashier of the institution, on two
charges, one embezzlent for the appro-
priation of $600 to his own use and
tlie other for an exhibition of false
writing with intent to deceive the
bank examiner. It being charged that
Zeiher, to cover up alleged miuse of
money, showed the bank examiner a
note signed with the name of Thomas
Beard, of Savanna, a depositor of the
bank, Zolher was released on bond of
$3,000.
Tick Poison Kills Man.
Cameron,—Opponents of the cattle
dipping law found more ground for
argument against dipping resolutions
when Calvin Taylor, aged 22, died
from the effects of being burned by
dipping solution.
Christy Marries Model
New York.—Mrs. Nancy May Palm-
er, the beautiful young woman who as
his model inspired Howard Chandler
Christy to produce some of the rnpat
artistic posters used in the Liberty
toan campaigns, became The artist’s
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234,180 Pounds of Coffee Seized
' St. Loui3.—Federal officials hers
1 seized 284JS0 pounds of coffee held Us
storage in a warehouss on a libel in-
formation issued by ths United States
district attorney
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Washington.—It Is Just three years
since tiie four lead - of lh< ri.ilvvu ,
brotherhoods, linvli.y r - rt-il rMtiu
tlon of their demands, sat in the gal-
lery of tlie United States Sennte and
held their watches on the Senators
while tiie memorable vote was being
taken on the Adamson Law that g,.\t
them $iiu,000,000 additional wages a
year. When tin vote was counted and
announced the four labor chiefs rushed
out to tiie telegraph office and with
drew the order for a nationwide
strike.
That such a scene may be again en-
acted on a much greater scale is indi
ented by tlie startling developments
at the nation's cqpitul in tlie past few
days. Now the 850,000 men in tho
brotherhoods have been joined I
more than a million other railroad
workers—shopmen, trackmen, tele-
graph) rs, clerks, station agents and
tlie demands ure many times what
they were three years ago.
A Thousand Million Dollars.
O11 top of a thousand million dollars
of added wages granted by the Gov-
ernment In the past year and a half,
tlie allied workers are asking for an-
other increase of a thousand million
dollars.
But more than this, this great body
of railroad employees has served an
ultimatum on the Government that nil
the railroads of Ihe country must l-e
taken away from (heir owners and
turned over to tho employees to he op-
erated by them on a communistic
profit-sharing plan.
The plan Is ns daring as any enn-
cidved by the Russian Bolshov i is, and
behind It is Hie threat of a nation-wide
strike, with the leaders of the men sit-
ting in tlie Sennte gallery, watches In
hand, counting Ihe vote.
To Tie Up All Transportation.
“We will tie up the railroads so that
they will never run again if ivc do not
get what we want," announced one ot
Hie labor spokesmen, standing within
11 stone's throw of tlie Capitol, and
tlds amazing announcement, like an
ultimatum from a leader of the Rus-
sian Soviet, was instantly flashed over
the telegraph wires In every part of
tlie country.
Since ihe first Brotherhood bomb-
shell exploded in Washington at the
end of July, the fact lias leaked out
that the brotherhoods are gathering
a propaganda fund of $10,000,000 for
an intensive drive on Congress. Three
million dollars, It is announced, has
already been collected from the mem-
bers of the unions Tills will he used In
campaign work in the Congressional
districts, with the purpose of enlist-
ing the votes of the members ot
■ Congress, or of defeating them f,,r
■ re-election if they do not vote as tho
brotherhoods dictate. Money will also
be lavishly spent, it is stated, in send-
ing speakers throughout the country
| to stir up the enthusiasm of organized
1 labor for the brotherhood plan of
communistic railroad operation,
J "Nationalizing” All Industry
1 “If we don’t get what we want out
of this Congress we will put tlds
Congress out and put another one in
that will give 11s what we want,” Is
the matter-of-fact announcement of
ihe central propaganda office of tlie
brotherhoods in Washington,
i Back of ihe immediate purpose to
gain control of the railroads Is an
even deeper scheme to gain control of
nil grent industries, taking them from
their owners and putting them under
the direct management of tlie organiz
ed workers, as lias been done in Rus-
sia, and as they are attempting to do
in Germany and Austria.
The reports of tlie United States
Railroad administration show that tiie
• Government, since It took over the
j roads In December, 1917, lias Increased
! railronil wages by considerably more
1 than a thousand million dollars, and
about $500,000,000 a year is being tak-
en out of tlie National Treasury to
meet the deficit caused by the great
Increase In labor cost.
Big Wage Increases.
I The principal advances in wages
have been: To shopmen, $3^0,000,000;
to unskilled labor, $223,000.000; to the
train brotherhoods," $200,000,000; to
clerks, $123,000,000; to telegraph and
station agents, $100,000,000; to mis-
cellaneous classes, $110,000,000.
All of these groups arc now demand-
ing additional increases of from 80 to
60 per cent. Wheu tho Government
took control of the roads the average
earnings of all railroad workers,’in-
cluding several hundred thousand un-
skilled workers, was $1,000 a year. The
average Is now more than $1,300 and
the new demands would raise it t«
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FMORS COMPULSORY IBAINIH8
Either ,n the Army or the Navy for
Youths of Nineteen—Oppose*
Formation of Separate
Air Ministry.
1 aker de-
fended beioie the seiuite s ti-comnilt-
tee on military affairs h iccoin-
mendation for an army of 576.000 men
hv saying that in view of tlie "di»-
ta 1 bed conditions in the world,” tie
d.it not wish the responsibility ot ask-
ing foi a small torce
Svicretai.i Baker indicated several
tun. th.it the bill as presented la-
eluding its provision tor compulsory
universal military training for 19
tear old youths was that of militaty
i vpi.i ratiiii than Li- own, although
11 had tils approval He said that
in own guess' was tliai an army
01 616,uOO w;e perhaps somewhat
iiugei than necessary, hut that he did
not v. 1 11 10 take tfie responsibility of
nr>posing tlie opinion ol the country's
greatest military men.
Agrtes To Naval Training
Regarding the provision for maiti-
tenanci of three divisions in the in-
sular possessions, the secretary ad
milled that the force appeared to him
somewhat large and agreed to tlie
ii"ii of Senator Wadsworth of
New York that native troops might
he used to advantage.
The secretary also considered aa
worth while a suggestion that a part
c,i the youth of the country might bo
giveu the opportunity for naval train-
ing possibly as a substitute for the
training he otherwise would receive
in tlie army.
Against Air Cabinet.
The interrogation of the secretary
offered Hie opportunity for obtaining
hi opinion on the proposed establish-
ment of an air ministry. Senator
New ol Indiana presented arguments
lor the separation of the military and
aeronautics, but Secretary Baker was
frank in his declaration of opinion
that i( would make for inefficiency.
Difficulty would be experienced, Mr.
Baker said, in maintaining ihe proper
co-ordination under separate heads
and if a more adequate air service l.i
desired, he suggested, it would ho
more practicable to utilize the exist
Ing military organizations.
Question of More Money.
The testimony developed that the
Uniled States now lias 10,718 air-
planes, of which, however, only 3,328
are service planes. The major part
of the present equipment now is obso-
lete, but, it was asserted by tlie sec-
reiary, Ihe type: are better than any
lu Europe.
The secretary said that, if the gov-
ernment wished to develop tlie air
luduslry either for commerce or for
war purposes, the solution was simple
merely spend the money to buy
inure planes
Republican Leader Under Arrest,
Rialadelphia.—Charles A. Ambler,
former insurance commissioner of
Pennsylvania and prominent as a re-
publican leadei, was arrested, charged
with conspiring to loot the North
Htnn Bank which closed on July is,
owing more than $2,000,000.
A DIVORCE IN "HIGH LIFE”
Mrs Reggie Vanderbilt Has Another
Prospect in Sight.
Newport,—Mr. Reggie Vanderbilt
has brought suit for absolute divorce
against her multi-millionaire husband.
Papers were served upon Mr. Vander
hilt at his farm in Portsmouth, R. I,
Mis Vanderbilt charges desertion
for five y > 1.- She seeks the custody
of her only child, Miss Cathleen Van-
derbilt, but no alimony. The papers
set forth that Mr, and Mrs, Vander-
bilt were married in Newport in April,
1903. Report is current that Mr.
Vanderbilt will not contest the action.
* Mrs Vanderbilt, who is occupying
this season the Weld cottage on Belle
sue avenue with her daughter, Miss
Cathleen Vanderbilt w-as Miss Niel-
sen daughter of Mrs. Frederick Niel-
son
Carranza Firec British Agent.
Washington —More friction between
Great Britain and Mexico appeared to
complicate the Mexican situation
Britain's last remaining diplomatic
representatives in the Mexican capi
tal—William Cummings, in charge of
the archives ot the legation there, has
been ordered from the country by a
mandate of Carranza. The action
amounts to the British reprc3onta-
ttva’s practical deportation.
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Wandell, Clarence F. Cimarron Valley Clipper (Coyle, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1919, newspaper, August 21, 1919; Coyle, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc913114/m1/3/?q=aRCHIVES: accessed May 31, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.