Show CARNEGIE STRICKEN BY WAR REASON GONE GO Andrew Carnegie formerly the lively I now heartbroken over failure of his dream t bf l world peace t toome some true Andrew Andrei Carnegie known internationally internationally as the apostle of peace is awU a aw w war wU r casualty bereft o of reason and mo mom moHr It became came known today when learned Dr Henry Smith Pritchett president of the Carnegie foundation and one of ot Carnegie's closest friends has been appointed conservator of ot I the vast ast Carnegie funds Carnegie's reason has been ing since war war began but the condition condition condi condi- tion of t the old has been guarded Jealously Quickly but cautiously the tho power to give away money was waa taken from him The appointment of Dr Pritchett was without publicity Aged penniless and heartbroken th tho once p powerful Industrial monarch I and apostle of peace sits in his castle home waiting the great armistice Closest friends are no longer rec rec- 1 i by Carnegie Only now an and d the then does ho he know Dr Pritchett Emperors masters of ot finance steel stee kings these kings these axe are but shadows now ow t to o the min marl who once mingled with them themas as na a PC tx per N New Yorks York's pulsing around his palace U la unobserved d. d The once loved beautt of his Highland castle are f forgotten Wife wails the weary old v voice over and o over er again as as AIrs Ga carne ne gle gie tries to soothe him has the war ended yet et When when Whon-when when will peace come No man tried to do more Dore for In In- In tt t peace than Carnegie After Atter At- At Ater t ter er the commission which he financed had reported on an Balkan war atrocities atrocities t ties ies he pledged himself to a world campaign against war When in the last days das of July 1914 Europe faced Armageddon Carnegie tolled lik like a Titan As ultimatums ul ul- flashed lashed back and forth Jorth Carnegie worked tense with anxiety He was sending cables to ministers of at state when Britain's midnight declaration declaration dec dec- of war war against Germany rea reached d him Stricken to the heart th the veterans veteran's veter veterans veteran's ns n's pen Den dropped from rom his hand An hour later Mrs Carnegie knelt by his ls side striving to comfort him My great dream gone My great dream gone he moaned endlessly I I could weep Weeks passed with their Invasion rapine atrocities each falling Calling upon him as a physical blow The dream of my life is ended sobbed Bobbed Carnegie General paralysis said the scientists ordering no word of w war r spoken to the old They ordered quiet and change of scene Tenderly th they Yf brought t Carnegie back home bowed down down with years and sorrow But Dut almost from day day to day his condition changed for the worse Seldom did he lie show any interest in money-getting money or gift W War r was the great burden of his brain How long will the war continue he pleaded constantly and pitifully I would give gho all I 1 have have my my last dollar dollar to to shorten hostilities s by a week But Dut the gre great t fortune of at the master master mas mas- ter er of ot Bethlehem has slipped from from his grasp He is the tho man an w who o was as Andrew Carnegie wailing walling now and then out of shadowland l nd Wife Ite when will the wa Ma war end Dd |