Carnegie's Gifts

Ann Arbor is to be numbered among the cities destined to aid Andrew Carnegie in escaping the ignominy of dying rich. At Monday's council meeting it was voted to accept his offer of $20,000 for a public library building. Of course the amount he has offered to give Ann Arbor is but a drop in the bucket of his princely benefactions, but it is a considerable sum for Ann Arbor. The amount of Mr. Carnegie's known gifts to the present time is $90,912,223, and his silent donations will undoubtedly swell this sum to t least $100,000,000. If this enormous sum were reduced to one-dollar bills and placed end to end they would make a ribbon extending from Chicago to Manila by way of the Suez canal. If pasted into a square they would cover 335 acres of ground. If all his benefactions were converted into silver dollars and piled one upon another, counting ten to the inch, they would make a pile about fourteen feet square at the base and one hundred feet high.