Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-20
CHARITIES OF RICH MEN.
How Peabody, Corcoran and Others
Have Given Away MiIIions--Pe-
ter Cooper, His Dollar Bills.
Young Jim Gorden's Soup Kitchen ant
Secretary Whitnsy's Thanks
giving Turkeys.
queer Charities Of George w. ChiIGs.
College Charities and Gifts TO
Religious Enstitutions
J Copyright, 1857. by toe Author. +

No nation of the world mas so man
/ charitable rich men as the United States
The gold which flows so easily into .theI
coftrS runs out In streams toWar
worthy objects, and we have had man
instances OF our richest men giving ava
during their lifetime more thsn they lef
at 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 insti
tutlons, to say nothing Of the hundred
OF thousands that he dispensed in othe
ways. W. w. Corcoran is still tn,
Flcnest man in Washington, but he ha!
gwen away between three snt
TOUR millions OF dollars, and hi.
purse Is always open. Abssm HeWit
says that Peter Cooper's charities Wer,
Twice as large as the estate he lief. anC
YfduriDg the panic Of 1873 "a his Hb.sr,
7 table was piled high with money and from
. O'Clock in the afternoon till 6 80 he dis
tributed hall dollars and dollar bills tc
all the poor who came to him for it. Ir
one week, it is said. that he gave away
$1,000 in this manner, and his daily gifts
TO the poor sometimes ran as high as
S2OO. During this same panic James
Gordon Bennett, Jr., donated $4,000 to
establish soup kitchens for the poor, and
fsul Tulane, millionaire, WHO died IN
New jersey wear or SO ago, gave 50 ,OOO,-
600 to the University st New Orleans
before his Gesth. Tulane began life
as farmers boy and WAS
born near Princeton. N. j. He
made his money at the start as ner-
chant tailor IN New Orleans, and he spent
his last days in his native state. He WAS
here noted as great aims .giver, and one
of his charitable methods was the paving
OF church pew rents for poor people and
another was his donations Of Christmas
turkeys to those who were unable 10 buy
them. lie often gave sway In this man
ner hundreds Of turkeys upon q single
Christmas, and many poor family relied
upon him for its winter clothing.
Speaking of turkeys hundreds Of thou
sands OF dollars are spent by ricn men
upon HOLIDAYS in this way Secretary OF
the Navy Whitney gives hundreds Of
these rare birds 80 his employees every
Christmas, and Austin Corbin not long
ago c6le brsted G Thanksgiving by run
ming turkey train over his railroad, and
giving turkey 10 each Of his hsnds. ?.
L. barnum gave few years ago winter
house plants to more than GOO working
people Of Bridgeport, Conn, and Pail
Armour Is said 70 delight in building up
struggling African churches.
Armour has negro student 81 Obarlin
Wnom he Is educating, and the story goes
tnat Armour met him on palace car dur
ing an eastern trip. He noted that the
colored boy spent his spare time In work
Ing away st we'll thumbed resder, aud
1t was such hard work thst Armour offered
MIN $50 II he could spell out ten lines
before the train got 10 New York. The
ooy succeeded In the task and got the
money. He got Armour's friendship S.
well and he has since bIossomed cut into
quite a college student. He has been
Orator CT his class and he can write IS
good o hand-s better l doubt not-than
Phil Armour himself. Armour is man
VINO Is very charitable to his employees
and delights In helping them. If be sees
s man trying to get along he promotes
him and he induces his men wherever
possible to buy BONES and to strike for
as nigh mark in life as possible. He
taxes good care OF his servants, too, and
one or ais former cooks has now res
taurant and little house Of her own !
from start which Phil Armour gave her |
Speaking of employees, there is 10 man |
who does better by them than George W. |
Childs CT Philadelphia. Cailds insures |
the Lille OF every editor, reporter, clerk |
and head OF department in his employ. |
He provides them With doctors when they |
are sick, and he has given burial plot Ia |
Woodland cemetery which is now known !
ss the Printers cemetery. He and his |
friend Drs xel lately gave $4,000 to the |
international Typographical Union, and |
ne is continuously giving to printers. He |
believes that a man can be liberal and !
successful at the same time, and he pays |
tor the composition on his paper SlQ0
week more than the amount called for By !
the union rules. Every Christmas he |
gives every indivldusl member
Of the Ledger staff q present
n money ranging from $40
70 $780, and he tries to make money for
is men. When they become old and
broken down he retires them on full pay
md number Of his employees have grown
-ich in his service. Like most rich men
1oted for heneyolence he is oVerrun with
and lie generally gives even to the
ramps.
Mr.. Childs gets about 200 begging let
ers every day, end the mail of this Kind |
Which is received by our rich men daily !
Teuld consume the supply Of large pa
yer factory. This letter will start the
'eegsrs sll over the country to writing
etteTs TO the charitable men mentioned
n It, and have been told by rich men
hat every mention of their wealth brings
cores OF new aims asking correspon-
tents. | once published news paper
eter about President Cleveland's chart
les in which told no " he FIRE quently gives
way $40 and $50 bills In response to
etters which excite his sympathy
Tor weeks after this WAS published the
White House mail was burdened with
eggipg letters masking reference to II, I
snd Sam Tilden's private secretary once |
Old me that the greater part Of Mr. TIL I
ems mail was msce up of letters from I
eggsrs. Tlden never saw these end il
vas only In few cases that their letters /,
yer reached his eyes 1t is the same !
7lth the mail OF ". w. CorcoTen and also
). P. Huntington. Huntipgton's letters I
ONE from 81 portions OF Europe and the
J nited States, though there are more I
rom the P.c!fc slope than anywhere
lse. He does not read such letters
loseiy and usually pitches them into the t
taste basket. Mr. Corcoran's letters are /
eplied to with printed form c
7hich states that his secretary is directed q
OF TO present euch letters 80 him as he
J uEabie to meet the numerous demands
7hich they contsin. The letters which =
e receives are from,everyw where and Of all
inds and the cheek exhibited in s
ONE OF them is to lsey the least re
Ooe woman had q husband