Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-01
A MILLIONATRE'S GIFTS.

James Lick Of San Francisco Gives Nearly
al Ills property for Public Purposes-A
List OF His Gifts-Encouraaemenfo of The
Arts and Sciences.
"A lew days since the telegraph gave a
llst OF The donations made by James
LICK OF Ban francisco, for the encorr-
agement OF the arts and sciences and for
other purposes. The deed conveying
nearly all his property, supposed to
amount to about s., 100000, was made
on the Ind June, between Mr.. Lick and
Thomas Il. Selby, D. O. Mills, H. M.
Newhall, VIM. Alvord, George H. How
ard, James Otis, and John O. Earl.
The deed, which was placed on record
IN the County Recorders office on the
80 June, covered all of Mr.. IIick's real
estate III San Francisco, consisting of
fifty lots, three lots in San Jose, his
homestead of 1O3 acres near San Jose.
LOU acres near Alvi3o, q tract of land in
Placer county, and Isle de Santa Cata-
Una (about $4,000 acres) off the coast of
Los Angeles. The property is to be
held III trust by the above named per-
sons, and is intended to secure the pay
ment of the gifts in gold coin. The
first gift is 800, 900 for an observatory
and more powerful telescope than any
yet made. The telescope is to be
erected on the summit of the Sierra
Mountains, on the borders of Lake
Tahoe, upon land donated by Mr.. Lick.
The second gift is $25, 900 to the Prot
estant Orphan Asylum of San Francis
co the third is $25, 900 for an Orphan
Asylum not more than five miles from
San Jose, free to all orphans without
regard to creed or religion of parents
The fourth and fifth gifts are 800, 900 to
the Ladies' Protection and Relief So
clety OF San Francisco, and $4,000 to
the Mechanics Library Association,
the latter sum to be applied to the pur-
chase OF scientific and mechanical
works for the institution. The sixth
gift is $4,000 to the San Francisco So
clety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, and Nh. Lick accompanies it
with ga hope that the society may Or
game such system as will result III
establishing similar society in every
important city and town of California,
to the end that the rising generation
may not witness or be impressed with
everyday cruelty and brutality as has
often taken place in this state" For
monuments to his mother, father. sister,
and grandfather, all of whom are buried
in Pennsylvania, $40, is given, to be
divided equally. The ninth gift is
SlOO,OOO for founding 1.-The Old Lady's
Home of San Francisco. The sum of
Sl5O, 900 is also given for erecting and
maintaining free baths in the city, and
like sum for bronze monument, in
Golden Gate Park, to the memory of
Francis Scott Key, the author of 1.-THE
arSpangled Banner" The thirteenth
gift IS $3.50, 900 for bronze statuary
group, representing the history of CAL
1fornla during different periods, to be
erected at Sacramento. For founding
the California School of Mechanical
Arts, for men and women, $500, 1000,
the institution to be open to all youths
born in the state.
The proceeds' of the residue oithe prop
erty decided about 1925, OOO) to be
conveyed in equal portions to the Cali
fornia Academy of Sciences and the
Society of California Pioneers, for the
purchase of apparatus, the erection of
buildings, &c. Legacies amounting to
$26, 900, are to be paid to certain rela-
tlyes, and a certain sum not to exceed
So, 900 year, is to bepaid to Mr. Lick
himself, who also reserves his personal
and homestead property during his life.
After his death his personal property is
to be conveyed to the aforementioned
societies. AS some years may elapse
before the trustees can dispose of the
real estate and pay off the legacies, the
value of the land may increase much in
the interval, and the Academy of
Sciences and the Pioneer Society, to
which he has already given valuable
lots, may be rendered very wealthy by
the surplus of the estate
Mr. Lick is a native of Pennsylvania,
from which state he removed to Brazil,
when he engaged in stock-raising. He
afterwards went to Chill and Peru, and
was At Valparaiso when the news of the
gold discovery in California reached
him. He was then engaged in bust
ness but he made haste to collect 800
900 and take the first steamer to Cali
forma. With this sum he purchased
the property he has just disposed of in
such philosophical manner.
A New Theory about Comets Tails.
From the Scientific American.
At recent meeting of the Lawrence
(Kmsas) Academy of Science, paper
entitled Expectations on the Nature of
Comets Tails, " was read by Professor
Frederick W. Bardwell, who took the
ground that comets tail is no more a
part of the comet than is shadow
part of the object which gives it form.
He supposes that the resisting medium
surrounding the sun for great dis
lance is itself luminous in degree,
as indicated by the zodiacal light; that
the nucleus of comet is merely large
meteorite; that, in its rapid motion
through the resisting medium near the
sun, great heat is thereby developed,
increased by the heat Of the sun, caus-
ing some Of the elements of the nucleus
to become volatilized, and thus to pre-
sent the OhenOmena of tho coma with