Evening journal., 1897-03-23
LIONS FOR CHARITY.
o1ese I{irsch TO Give 81, ,8oo,-
oco TSore In America.
aR s. eTRAUs THE ALMONER

aR 8. eTRAUs THE ALMOEBR
mister % Turkey Returns From Eu.
&c with Assurances That Large Sums
the Daron's Estate WIN BE Donated
Worthy Charitable Institutions Here
wv YORK, March 2s.-It is probable
IN very short time the Baron lie
,h fund in this country will be aug
cd by magnificent donation from
'idow.
is STATED on good authority that Oscar
raus former minister TO Turkey and
IF the trustees of the Baron dc Hirsch
who enjoyed a close personal ac.
ltancc with the famous phllanthro
md who returned from trip abroad
&c steamship Kaiser Wilhelm III last
rday evening, brought with him the
i've assurances from the baroness OF
ispositiOn to give the sum of 81 500,
o divers benevolent enterprises in the
cd States.
this great sum 70 is reported that
O,0OO Is to be given to the alienation
;tress in entirely new charitable chan.
which, those conversant with the
3r expect, will create a great sensa-
when the details become known 10y
originality and scope. But the pre-
nature Of the beneiicence is kept a
Y guarded secret for the present
was stated further that 500, 1000 is tc
iven TO the Educational alliance in
D Baron do Hirsch took so much in
:, and the remaining 500, 900 will be
buted among various other charities,
ust what ones, it is believed, has not
cen fully determined.
Baron DE Hirsch's Great Gifts.
. ron dc Hirsch, it viii be remembered,
suddenly at his estate at Pressburg,
. ,ary, on April 20 Of last year, leaving
s widow fortune which, it is be.
I, will amount to not less than S13O,
F 90 after his affairs have all been set
He was the son of a wealthy Bava.
+ 'attle dealer who was ennobled for a
a e to the state, and the baron inherit
title from him. But the greater part
8 wealth he amassed himself, mostly
3 liroad building on the European
4 mont For the last 3 years of his life
reported to have given TO charity
& 90, 600, proving himself a great phi
ropist, and like the late Peter Coop
:< lived to behold many Of his works
established.
u ron de Hirsch's motive may be dis.
= d in the words he once spoke TO a
/; Il am an old man, childless.
been eminently successful in all my
ess ventures. With my money 1 hope
so out Of ignorance and despondency
slpless and persecuted race of Europe
Jews of Russia and Austria.
greatest single project was establish
K years ago in the Jewish Coloniza.
.ssooiation. the purpose Of which was
und colonies of Jews in North and
America for the pursuit of aRricul-
md commerce. To this he gave So
DO. In 1892 he gave 81, 500, 600 foi
,nsfit of Russian jew emigrants tc
Inited States, to be used for their
ance, education, Americanizatior
support after landing" and many
Is and settlements have been estab
through the Baron de Hirsch fund
trustees he named for the associa
zero Oscar :. Straus, Jacob II. Schiff
Rice, Meyer :. Isaacs. James II
IAN and Julius Goldman of New
and Mayer Sulzberger and William
okenberg Of Philadelphia
blishment Of American settlement.
deed Of gift, as it might be called
b tho association was organized pre-
as any other corporations, with Bar
Hirsch, howegr owning all but
hares Of the stock, which was di
into shares of $500 each, was signed
iris Jan. ., 1891, in the presence oI
t NJ Hooper, vice consul general
'ork was begun on the principal set
nt in this country at Woodbine, CapC
+" ounty, n. J., where 100 acres OF
land was selected for the purpose
where a handsome synagogue was
ted to the memory of the founder
ovember by the grateful residents.
Baroness dc Hirsch is said to be al
rs remarkable a woman as her hus
was a man. She, too, has devoted
reater part of her life to charitable
and once wrote in a letter to ;
1T is a great and terrible respon
Y, this possession Of wealth and thl
distribution of IT,
ing a short visit TO Constantinopll
the haron's death she spent he
i'm the slums in search of cases o
Y which she might relieve, for sh
to come In contact with her bonefi
she also established q nUmher o
thero and spent i'm all about Sl25,
fore she went away. Yet she had al
,bits Of poor mans wife and tn
hrift and economy to which, in lii
ings, her husband attributed hi
rfui success in life-his suocesse
other men had failed