Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1909 — CARNEGIE IN PLAGUE FIGHT [ARTICLE]

CARNEGIE IN PLAGUE FIGHT

Donates 450 Acres of Land for Sanitarium In Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, Pa., Oct 22.—Andrew Carnegie has offered to State Health Commissioner Samuel G. Dixon a tract of 450 acres of land on the crest of the Allegheny Mountains, near Cresson, to aid the state ha its fight against tuberculosis. The tract is offered so that it can be made a sanitarium for western Pennsylvania, just as Mount Alto is for thii eastern section.