Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-16
A PRICELESS GIFT.
ENDOWMENT OF THE LELAND
STANFORD, JR., UNIVERSITY.
DEED OF SENATOR AND MRS. STANFORD.
The Most Magnificent Educational
Endowment of the World
The Deed of Trust.

The many statements previously pub
lished by the press had foreshadowed in a
measure the great event of the founding
and endowment of the Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University, which was finally consum-
mated by Senator and Mrs Stanford, in
San Francisco. on last Saturday. Concern
ing the ceremony attending the delivery
of the deed of trust, the Eve1liRg Post of
that date says:
Shortly after IL o'clock this morning the
handsome library and reading-room of
Senator Leland Stanford's mansion on CAL
ifornia street was the scene of an event
never to be forgotten by the few who had
the good fortune to be present, and which
was the beginning of one OF the grandest
acts of self-abnegation ever performed.
There, in the presence of hundred peo-
pie, Senator Stanford made over to Board
of Trustees a principality of land in value
greater than the life of one man in ten
millions sutfices to accumulate, and so vast
that though they are condensed in the
expression three or four millions" one
can scracely conceive of the immensely of
the gift, both of size and value. Never was
an act performed with more singleness of
purpose and with less ostentation. That a
man who, after years of anxiety, work
that no human being can estimate, and
care unparalleled in the history of enter
prise, has accumulated a fortune, should
freely give so great gift is wonderful but
when he does it while scarce beyond the
prime of life, while in the best of health
and while surrounded by nearly &ll that
90 to make life worth living, is so stipend
Gus an act of greatness that one feels the
weakness of ordinary language to fitly
characterize it. Ii is proof, indeed that
Senator Stanfords sole aim in life is to
make men and the world better than he
found them. and to bend all his energies,
devote all of his vast fortune, put out all of
his rare power of concentration and execu-
tive force, for the benefit of those who will
come after him, yet who are not nearer to
him than the common kinship of the de-
sCendants of Adam,
There was an utter absence of ceremony
al the little gathering this morning Col.
Greed Raymond was there with Senator
anaMrs. Stanford, MrsNash and Mr.. Shay,
to receive the guests.
The San Francisco CAL. speaking of the
meeting at Senator StanfOrd's residence, saws
that there were reminders on every side of the
dead boy whose memory is to be kept alive
by the educational institution of which the
well-known gentlemen who had come
together will have charge. Facing Senator
Stanford, who sat near his desk by cur
tanned alcove, was painting of his departed
son. Several large portraits in oil and q
number of marble busts also served to re-
call the bright face of young Leland Stan,
ford. In front of the two paintings were
immortelles and forget-me nots.
The meeting began by the choice of Lo.
renzO Sawyer, Judge of the Circuit Court
| for Chairman, in accordance with nomina
ton by Judge Mcfarland, of Sacramento
| Herbert Nash acted as Secretary.
| Colonel Creed Raymond, addressing the
gentlemen named in the deed of trust, said
On the 11th of this month Governor Stan
| ford and his wife made and executed
| grant for the purpose of founding and en-
downing university at Palo Alto, and you
| gentlemen, among others, were named as
| the Trustees in that grant and have beer
called together by Governor Stanford il
order that you may hear the grant read anC
receive delivery thereof, and, at the reques
| of Governor Stanford, if it meets your ap
| prevail | viii read the grant
| Greed Raymond then read the deed oftrust
which had been engrossed on huge volume
of parchment in the old illuminated style.
was afterward signed by all those men
| toned in it as Trustees, with the exception
of Senator Miller, James Mem. Shafter
Judge Deadly and Judge Field, who wer
| not present.