Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-15

ment OF very little, and some of them 81
rom people WHO are evidently in need
IL Is hard to discriminate however be
sWeen the true and the false and the mil
i1onslre who gives without investigation
VIII soon be worth nothing. Tae result
is mat crest may rich men have agent
"ho do nothing else but tnvestigal
sucn matters for them. Ssnsto
stanford rare.y gives except when h
Is sure that he IS right and his bera
13cilon runs high into the tho1ssnGs
mtg. stanford IS especially beneyolsn
snd lew OF her gifts come 70 the esrS @
he puolic. / know of 8 number Of won ~
Waom she hiss helped, and there are peo.
pie both IN Washington and ia S:n Fan
CISCO who never fail TO mention Fer II
theic prsyers
Senator Stsniord's gift OF S20, geo OO(
10 establish The University IN Caiifo.cis
Is one OF the largest Of the kind kUoWl K
history, enc this gilt is thee times The
s'z9 CT TIE fortune which Stephan Girsrt
ieff. Girsrd's fOItIne amounted to SO. a
81 gu 600, ard of this be left ST. eco COZ
10 MS university. He gave nearly slI hi,
property to tie public, sud cut Of ct
Wnole fortune his relatives received 90 "
eI4U,C GOO. lie gave somewhat duriug his
I Iiiatlmei nut be paid no attention TO hes-
glng Letters, snG did not believe ID suG-
| porting street Migrants. He left Ms
esIste IN such way thst it hiss since
grown 10 many times its OrigiGal vS'ue.
Hho tae Girard College property phys s
| digger income every year.
Money given 10 educational institutions
! IS wisely placed, and the mIiionsires Of
/ america seem 10 have understood t2is
| tact. Daniel Drew Was sCsred into he
coming Methodist by the lightning
striking dead horse which ne was once
driving, and he founded the Drew Tbeo-
logical Seminary, snd he asye LARGELY to
het1oolst institutions. George |. Ssrey
/ gave $500, 600 to the WESLEYAN University
/ OF MiddietoWI, Conn and his cAariries.
which nave been chiefly educ lti0uel. bsye
aInou1ted to over $1,000 O00 ASS Pick
er gave shout IS, 600, GOO TO the Lahieb
University, and there is q College at
Cleveland which received 100000 from
Inc estate or Amass Stone. Th.s college
IS called Adeloart College, and il con-
memOrstes Mr. Stones soy. AdeIbert.
who was st Yale College 81 the time of
his death and who was drowned WhiIe or
e botanical excursion III Connecticut. Sian
$3.50 - IL u 14NCA-itA ESlCLlt WdS OECIHEt
ABOUT o MS son dying, and PnlIaGeIpata
got Girard College because Girsrd had no
children 10 lesve it 20. Il may be tnas.
Providence had hand in bringing about
the distribution of this greStweaib Vas
sSr College was founded by Matthew Vas.
sar, who gave $780, 600 towards it, and
fHssaI's son added TO this amount. Pea
h0dy'S charity extend, 10 Yale sud
HaTVr ri pArn nf UJb %
him. He gave 50, 000, COO &c the eouthefn
education fund, 81 500 600 TO the Ps..
BODY Institute at Baltimore, and SI4O. OCO
TO tne Peabody Academy in Mxssschu-
sets. Senator Joe Brown OF GeOrnis has,
given $50, 900 to o university there
Wannsm2keT of Pbil6daIphis gsve $50 =
600 10 the Bethany Sunday School Of tae.
city, and Robert L. Stuart, the millionaire
sugar refler, who died SPOUT five yes-s
age, had given before his death $500
coo to Princeton College, and he left il
$3.50 900 more.
Oae OF the curious charities Of the
United States ia the Louise home st
Washington. This is q home for reduce d
gentleW0men. It's supported by ". w,
CcrcoTan ard IS named after Corcorsr's
deceased daughter, Loni.a The ground
and the beautiful building erected upon
it must hsye cost several hundred th0u-
sand dollars. The ladies' admitted 10 this
home live here ss though at hotel. Tney
nave their ROOMS to themselves, thew are
treated as though they were the owners
Ct the house, aud they entertain their
friends. Mr. CoIcoran always visits
them on New Years, and he paws all the
HYTA0EpS nf tho irSFit--fi-,,, .
Corcoran's charities is the Art Gal
lerY, which mas already cost
8 fortune, ind to which he VIII
leave another st his death. He gave the
money which brought John Howard
Payne to this country, and in respect to
this kind OF giving George W. Childs OF
Philadelphia is like unto him. Childs was
a large subscriber 10 the Edgar A. Poe
orisl window in al English church &c the
memory Of the poet, T, In Moore. lie
largely to the monument 20
II. Stephens ana be gave .
year or 50 sgo $500 10 erect monuments !
to the two southern poets, Hayne and |
Richard Henry Wide.
Among other charitable rich men !
o Brlen, the California millionaire, gave |
~OV'SNS " y SAtlpA4N va CIaE as f4uLI. ~ !
o. Mills gave 5000 900 to female semi !
nary in Sau Francisco and $40 900 to the |
of California. Amos Law
renee, oae Of the noted Boston million /
aires of tue past, gave more than $500 600 |
in Charity, and Burnside, the I Stew
art OF New OrleSus, donated S500,CO0 TO |
the state OF Louisiana for charitable dis
tributioD, giviog the state the discretion
SIS to how the money should DE placed.
Looking ever the rich men Of today |.
there is hardly one Of them who does
not give away large sums dsiIy, cks-
Teller, the president Of the Standard Or
Company, who is worth So, 900, coo, |
lately said that his income was SO large
that he prayed Gad to give MIN the
wisdom to dispose Of it, and Flagler, an
other Standard OIL man, handed his
pastor not long ego his check for $780,
300 and told him to distribute IL as be !
thought best. FIsgler has given sway
about 81, 100000 in the last f ge years,
md 1t is said taat he never says ANYTHING
% Others about his gifts.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Two Tales of One City.