Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-15
CHARITIES OF RICH MEN.
How Peabody, Corcoran and Others
Have Given Away MiIIions--Pe-
ter Cooper, His Dollar Bills.
Youpg jim Gcrdon's Soup Kitchen and
Secretary Wai'ney's Thanks
giving TURKEYS.
puser Charities Of George w. Chuds.
College Charities ana Gifts TO
Religious Institutions

lCoPyrlsht, 1857, By the Author
Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
No nation OF the world mas so man
charitable rich men ns the United S .stes
The gold which flows SO esslly into thel
cofTrs runs out in streams toWar,
worthy objects. and we have had man
instances OF our richest men giving ava,
during their lifetime more than they LEI
ct their deaths. George Peabody die,
worth four millions Of dollars. He CAV
away while living eight and one-hali mil
lions to educational and charitable instl
iu!lons, to say nothing OF the hundred
OF thousands that he dispensed in othe
ways. ". ". CoTcoran is still tn,
richest man in Washington, but he hat
IgtEe1 sway between three spC
four millions Of dollars, and hi.
purse is always open. Abram Hewitt
says thgt Petsr Cooper's charities were
vice as large as the estate he left enc
during the panic OF 1873 a his lib7ar,
table was piled high with money aud from
, O'Clock in the afternoon Till 6 80 he dis
tributed nalt dollars and dollar bills &c
all the poor who came to him Tor it. Ii
one week, it is said, that he gave away
Sl5O9 II this manner, and his daily gifts
10 the poor sometimes ran SIS high as
$500. During this ssme panic james
Gordon Bennett, iii, donated $4,000 to
establish soup Kitchens for the poor, and
Paul Tulane, 6 millionaire, VINO died in
New jersey year or so ago, esve 81, O00..
900 20 tie University at NV Orleans
before his death. Tulane beg.u life
rs farmers boy and wss
born near Princeton. n. j. He
made his money st the start as mer-
chant tailor IN New Orleans, and he spent
his last days in his native state. He was
here noted as great aims ,giYer, and one
OF his Charitable methods was the paving
of church pew rents for poor people and
another WIS his donations OF Christmas
turkeys to those who were unable to buy
them. lie often gsve away in this mar
ner hundreds CT turkeys upon 8 single
Christmas, AID msny poor family relied
upon him for its winter clothing.
Speaking Of turkeys hundreds of thou
sands OF dollars are spent by rich men
upon HOLIDAYS in this WY. Secretary of
the Navy Whitney gives hundreds of
these rare birds to his employees every
Christmas, sud Austin Corbin not long
ago celebrated Thanksgiving by run
ming turkey trall over his railroad, and
giving turkey 10 each Of his hands. ?.
l.. Barnum gsye few years sgo winter
house plants to more than 600 working
people Of Bridgeport, Conn. snd Pail
Armour is said to delight in building up
struggling African churches.
Armour has a negro student at Obarlin
whom be Is educating, and the story goes
that Armour met him on palace car dur
Ing aE eastern trip. He noted theS the
colored boy spent his spare time in work
ing away st well thumbed reader, and
it was such hard WoIk that Armour offered
him $25 If ne could spell out ten lines
before the train got TO New York. TIE
boy succeeded IN the task and got the
money. He got Armour's friendship as
we'll and he has since blossomed out into
quite G college student. He has been
orator OF his Gags and he can write as
good q hand better | doubt not-thsu
Phil Armour himself. Armour is a man
who is very charitable TO his employees
and delights in helping them. If he sees
q man trying to get along he promotes
him and he induces his men wherever
possible to buy BONES and to strike for
as high mark in life as possible. He
takes good care Of his servants, too, and
one Of MS former cooks has now q res
taurant and little house Of her own
from start which Phil Armour gave her
Speaking of employees, there is no man
who does better by them than George ".
Chiids Of Pnilsdelphia. Cailds insures
the life Of every editor, reporter, clerk
snd head OF department in his employ.
He provides them with doctors when they
are sick, and he has given & burial plot in
Woodland HpnpntprD yvh 10
SIS the Printers cemetery He and his
friend Drexel lately gave $4,000 to the
international Typographical Union, and
he Is continuously giving 10 printers. He
believes that man car DE liberal and
successful at the same time, and he psys
fox the composition on his paper 500
week more than the amount called for by
The union rules. Every Christmas he
Of the Ledger staff S present
to $500, and he tries to make money for
IS men. When they become old and
broken down he retires them on full paw
and number OF his employees have grown
rich in bis service. Like most rich men
noted for benevolence he is overrun with
oeggars, andh generally gives even to the
tramps.
Mr.. Childs gets about 200 begging let
tiers every day, and the mail of this kind
which is received by our rich men daily
would consume the supply Of large pa
per factory. This letter will start the |
oeggars all over the country to writing |
letters 10 the charitable men mentioned |
in it, and have been told by rich men |
that every mention of their wealth brings |
scores OF new aims asking correspon- |
dents. I once published newspaper |
letter about President CIevelsnd's chart |
ties in which told how he frequently gives |
away SO .nd $40 bills in response to !
letters which excite his sympathy. |
For weeks eiter this WAS published the |
White House mail was burdened with |
begging letters making reference to 1t, |
end Sam Tilden's private secretary once |
told me that The greater part of Mr.. Til |
denis mail was made up Of letters from |
beggars. Tilden never saw these and it |
WAS only in few cases that their letters |
ever reached his ewes 1t is the same |
with the mail of W. W. CorCoran and also |
c. P. Huntington. HuntiDgton's letters |
come from all portions Of Europe and the |
United States, though there are more |
from the Pacific slope than anywhere |
else. He does not read such letters |
closely and usually pitches them into the |
waste basket. Mr.. Corcoran's letters are |
replied to with pr.n el form |
which states that bis secretary is directed |
not to present such letters to him as he |