Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-20

ment OF very little, and some of them ~.
from people wno ere evidently in need
Il is hard TO discriminate however be
tween the true and the false and the mil
lioEeire who gives without Investigation
Will soon be worth nothing. Taa result
Is that great many rich men have es.nts
who do nothing else but inysstigste
such matters for them. Senator
Stanford Tsreiy gives except when be
Is sure that he is right and his beoe-
faction runs high iuto the thousands.
Mrs. Stanford is especially bsrevoIe u,
and few OF her gifts come 10 the ears o,
the public. l know Of number Of wcmen
whom she has helped, snd there are pso-
pie both IN Washington snd il SIN +. en-
cisco who never fsil 20 mention her In
their prayers.
Senator Stsnford's gift of S20, 900 600
TO estaolish the University in CaliforI is
Is one OF The largest OF the kird known to
history, and this gift is three times the
Size CT the fortune which Stephen Girsrd
iefs. Glrard's fortune amounted 10 about
$1,000. COO, and of this he left SIS, eco eco
TO Ills university. He gave nearly al his
property to the public, and cut CT his
whole fortune his relatives received only
sl40, 600 He gave somewhat during his
lifetime, hut he paid no attention to tey-
ging letters, and did not believe il sup
porting street Migrants. He LIFT his
estate in such way that il has since
grown to many times It's original yslus.
aud the Girsrd College property pays
bigger income every year.
money given TO educational Institutions
Is wisely placed, snd the milliouaires Of
America seem 10 have understood this
fact. Dsniel Drew vas scared into he.
coming 8 Methodist by the lightning
striking dead horse watch he was once
driving, and he founded the Drew Theo-
logical Seminary, and he gave largely to
Methodist institutions. George I. SepeV
gave $500, geo to the Wesleyan University
OF midd!etoWr, Conn and his charities.
which have been chiefly educational. have
amounted to over $1,000 600. Asa Pack |
er gave shout 1000, 600 10 the Lehieh
University, ard there is college st
Cleveland which received $500, 900 from
the estate OF Amsss Stone. This college
is called Adeloert College, and it com
memoratss Mr.. stones son, Adeibert. |
who was at Yale College at the time of |
his death and who was drowned while on |
q botanical EXCURSION in Connecticut, Sr.p- |
lords big university scheme was brought |
about by his son dying, and Philadelphia |
got Girard College because Girsrd had TO /
children 10 leave it to. It may be that
Providence had hand in bringing ebout !
ihe distribution of this greatWeslth, Vas |
3ar College was founded by MsttheW Ves- |
'sr, who gave $780, 900 towards il, and !
eassar's sou added 10 this amount. Pea
1ody'5 charity * ended 10 Ysle and |
Harvard, each of which got SI5O, 600 from
nm. He gave $4,000. coo to the southern
'ducatiou fund, 81, 100000 10 the Pes
'ody destitute at Baltimore, and $40, OC0 |
o the PeaoCdy Academy in Massacbu-
etts. Senator Joe Blown OF Georgia hiss
.lVen $50. goo 10 q university there.
Nanaamaker Of Philadelphia gave $50
UO 10 the Bethany Sunday School Of raas
ltyI ard Robert L. Stuart, the mi!ii0rsire
ugar rehaer. who died ABOUT FIVE years
go, nsd given before his death $500.
W to Princeton College, and ne lett it
$50 coo more
OAe Of the curious charities Ct the
jnlted States is the Louise home st
'ashjngton. This is home Tor reduced
entieWomen. Tits supported bV w. W.
;orcofan ana IS named after Co.corAn's
ecesseo daughter, L0Disa. The ground
pom winch ii stands is worth fortune,
nd the beautiful building erected upon
must nave cost several hundred thou
snd dollars. The ladies' admitted 10 this
ONE live here as though at hotel. They
ave their rooms to themselves, they are
reated IS though they were the owners
the house, and they entertain their
'iends. Mr. Corcoran always visits
lem On New Years, and he pays all the l
expenses OF the institution. Another of
orcoran's charities is the Art Gal {
nv, which has already cost :
fortune, and 10 which he viii -,
ave another at his death. He gave the 1
oney which brought John Howard
ayne to this country, snd in respect to !
lis Kind OF giving George W. Childs of J
nliadelphia is like unto him. Cn1lds was
large subscriber to the Edgar 4. Poe
onument il Baltimore. He put man.
rial window in eu English church to the
emory Of the poet, T, N Moore. He
loscrloed largely TO the monument to
iexarder FL. Stephens and he gave a 4
'ar or 50 ago $500 to erect monuments
the two southern poets, Hsyne and
lchard Henry Wilde.
Among other charitable Yich men
Br1en, the California millionaire, gave
so. 000 to Catholic orphan asylum. d. w
Mills gave $500 900 20 q female semi d
sry in San Francisco and $75, 600 to the d
University Of California. Amos Lsy- C.
nee, one CT the noted Boston million :,
res of the past, gave more !hsr $500 coo =
charity, and BUrnside, the a T. Stew :,
I OF NsW Dfleaos, donated $500, coo to -
g sss'e OF Louisiana for caari.sele dis Z
:outton, giving the state the discretion :.
to now the money should be placed. \
Looking over the rich men q to-day :
ere Is hardly one Of them who does =
1t give away large sums daily, K ick.-
Her, the president CT the Standard OH .
'mpsny, who is worth 81, ,OO0, 600, =
tely said that his income was so large :.
ST he prayed God to give him the =
sdoa to dispose If it, and Flagler, an -
her Standard Oh man, hanoed his ,,
stor rot long ego MS check for $780, a
D and told him to distribute it as he :,
ought best. FIagler has gwen awsy -
out 81 ,0G0, GEO in the I.sg FIVE years, =
IT is said tnst he never says anything a,
Others about his gifts. ~
FRANK G. CARPENTER. ;,
M. =.