The story of Pittsburgh: Iron and steel

Iron and steel (Vol. 1, nr. 2)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831622831

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239739

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Iron and steel

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 2

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919

Scope:: [ca. 12] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Steel Corporation, besides receiving a large block of stock. Mr. Carnegie was not only an indefatigable worker himself, but he was quick to discern ability in others, and possessed a peculiar facility for attracting to himself promising voung men of ability. He was always ready to give full credit to the work of his assistants. Not long before his death he remarked: “I have always been able to find men who could do some things better than I could do them.” It is not known exactly the amount of Mr. Carnegie's fortune, at the time of his death, but his benefactions during his lifetime were more than $300,000,000. His will disposed of between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000, but provision had previously been made for his wife and daughter. The first of the long list of Carnegie Libraries was the one given to Allegheny. These institutions are now dotted all over this country and there are many in Great Britain, there being more than 8000 municipal buildings in use as Carnegie libraries. He gave $24,000,000 to the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh and $22,000,000 to the Carnegie Institute of Washington. The Carnegie Corporation of New York with a foundation of $125,000,000, was formed to carry on various works in which he had been engaged. He gave $5,000,000 to a fund for the benefit of employes of the Carnegie Steel Company; $5,200,000 to establish branch libraries in the city of New York, $1,000,000 to the St. Louis Public Library, and $10,000,000 to Scotch univers- ities. The various Hero funds, set apart for the reward of those who act on the impulse to help others at their own risk, is headed by $5,000,000 to the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission of Pittsburgh, and there are funds of this character for numerous European countries, ranging from $125,000 for Norway to $1,150,000 for Great Britain. Then there is the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, with $3,500,000; the Hague Peace Temple, with $1,500,000, and $16,250,000 for the Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in the United States, Canada and Newfound- land. The Carnegie Institute of Technology, in Pittsburgh, was founded by Mr. Carnegie in 1900 and incorporated in 1912. The site for the buildings, in Schenley Park, was

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