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Show oo Carnegie Leaves Enormous Fortune To Be Divided NEW YORK. Aug. 30 Although Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and philanthropist, declared during hie life : lime that he expected lo give away his huge fortune and "die a pauper" his estate to be disposed of by a will which will be filed for probate next week was ' several times $50,000,000," It was learned from an authoritative source here tonight. Publication of a story to the effect that Mr Carnegie had given away all of his estate with the exception of 1 about $50,000,000 brought the statement state-ment thai the estate was much larger. It also was stated that a will of approximately ap-proximately 4,500 words, drawn by Mr. Carnegie himself and which was generally believed to be his last will had been superseded by a briefer document docu-ment of 2000 words drawn bv Elinu Root. The decision of Mr Carnegie to revoke re-voke tho original will which bequeathed bequeath-ed a large part of his estate to his daughter, Margaret, was said to have resulted from her marriage to Ensign Roswell Miller several months ago. Mr. Carnegie settled a large "dot" on his daughter at the time of her wedding. wed-ding. The Home Trust company of New Jersey which was organized by Mr. Carnegie in 1901 for the purpose of administering a lund set aside bj him for nearh 5l0 persons to whose individual indi-vidual welfare he had eoni ributed, will act as ' ecutor of 'he will |