MR. CARNEGIE’S WILL.
AN INTERESTING DOCUMENT. BEQUESTS TO PUBLIC MEN.’ The will of the late Mr Andrew Carnegie, disposing of about £6,000,000, is a document of extraordinary public interest, writes h correspondent from New York, and discloses the fact that although the Laird of Skibo did not actually die poor, according to his announced intention, he did during his lifetime dispose of nine-tenths of his vast fortune, or £70,000,000, thus living up to his altruistic purposes. The real surprises in the will are the annuities to men who have rendered public service on both sides of the Atlantic. Names such as those of Mr Thomas Burt, Mr Lloyd George, Lord Morley, ex-Prc-sident Taft, Mr Walter Damrosch, and Mr John Burns, it is commented, suggest the breadth of Mr Carne-
gie’s interest on both sides of the sea. There is no suggestion that Mr Carnegie lacked ordinary family feeling in devoting the greater portion of his wealth to general purposes. What more precious possession, it is asked, could .Mr Carnegie devise his heirs than the faet that he really did divest himself ol his great fortune for the beneli! of mankind, as lie said he would. The will comprises about 3,000 words, and many paragraphs dealing with bequests to relatives, friends, and helpers are written in later on in Mr Carnegie's own hand, and in his own phrasing. The spelling is also his own, being in ‘‘simplified” form, and incorrect as to some of the names. Although drawn originally in 1911, and revised to February, .19.12, none of the makers quaint ways of writing was changed in the final draft. Every page of the document has “Andrew Carnegie” signed in full at the bottom, and every alteration or correction is initialled “A.C.” With true Scottish precaution, one clause provides that if there is anything legally amiss with any bequest it shall go to 'Mrs Carnegie. The late President Roosevelt’s opposition to Mr Carnegie’s plan to provide annuities for ex-Presidents of the United Stales did not prevent Mr Carnegie from bequeathing an annuity of £I,OOO to “Mrs Theodore Roosevelt, of Oyster Bay,” although no mention is made of Mr Roosevelt himself. Aside from his landed properly, furniture, and other household properly, which he loaves to Mrs Carnegie, the will makes no bequest to his wife or daughter, Mrs Roswell Miller, ample provision having been made for them, as life will Males, daring Mr Carnegie’s lifetime.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2054, 13 November 1919, Page 1
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403MR. CARNEGIE’S WILL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2054, 13 November 1919, Page 1
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