The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-24
WOMEN GIVE MILLIONS.
HAVE GIVEN OVER s1,OOO,OOO A
MONTH FOR Philanthropy.

higher Education Makes the Strong
est Appeal to Feminine sympa-
thies - Splendid Bequests-PoOr
seamstresses Fare WeIi-Vast
Sums Expended for Memorials.
New York, Dec. 22.-While the following
is not a complete record of women's gifts
for the cause of charity during 1899, it APP
proximates the magnificent sum of $16,OO0,-
co., or over 100000 every month. OF this
amount, the largest single sum is Mrs.
stanfords 100000, and Mrs. Bradley's
$4,000 is the next largest gift.
With the ending of the year and cen
fury one may perhaps be pardoned for
dropping into statistics, statistics proving
the splendid munihcence of American wo-
men 10 schools. churches. art institutes
and philanthropc enterprises.
To bark back little; the total of gifts
and requests for the five years-1S9S
through 1ss7-in this country were more
than $165, 600, 0o0--that is gifts from private
fortunes for public uses. OF this 100000
was given during 1897. In 1898, in New
York City alone, SOS 100000 was given away
gifts of thrty-four women in the United
States for higher education amounted 10
49, 446,4 400; of this sum Cora ]. Flood gave
the largest amount, or 81, 100000, and Helen
Gould, beside her magnificent donation to
the government, gave $4,000 for education
al purposes.
For Educational Purposes.
The record of gifts TO charity and for
educational purposes by women in this
country for the year now ending is a noble
che.
Half a million dollars given by Mrs.
Lydia Bradley of Peoria, ILL.,, leads the
list. 1t was presented last summer to
the Bradley Polytechnic Institute, and
constituted her second donation, the first
being a gift of the land on which the in
stitute was built and the money to build
il. That involved a sum approximating
$250,OOO. In addition, Mrs. Bradley has CIV
en- 70 Peoria, 1877 acres of land for a park,
she has built a church, a home for aged
women and many other smaller institu-
lions.
Miss Floods presentation of her faith
er's country place, at Menlo park, to The
University of California, made last year.
has been supplemented recently by gift
of money. The house and its contents are
valued at $l,000,000, and tract of nearly
5000 acres is included in the transfer.
<tAipAAitI 0dnIOIUld dduy mas DeGu mum
fhcent in her gifts; it is Mrs. E. B. Crock
er, who has conveyed 10 the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks her home
in Sacramento--ib is presented as a mem
orial of her husband, and is valued at $780,
600. Mrs Phebe Hearst and Mrs. Leland
Stanford are constantly adding to their
gifts to the universities they have built
up in California, and heir benefacions go
up into the millions Mrs. Stanford lat
est contribution made during the summer
was one of $10,000O00.
Mrs Emmons Blaine of CHICAGO in
Maine, announced that she would found a
college of pedagogy, the institution to be
started with a fund of several hundred
thousand dollars. She has had this idea
in mind for some years, it being her de-
sire to accomplish d practical good for
poor girls; by giving them an opportunity
to become teachers, she bestows perm
anent benefit upon them. The new college
of pedagogy, built and endowed by Mrs.
Blaine viii represent an outlay of $780,
900.
At the commencement at Vassar College
in June, it was announced that Miss
Katharine futile had given a $4,000
scholarship i'm memory of her sister and
Mrs. Caroline Swift Atwater of Pough-
keepsie to build new intirmary had do
mated $1,000
From Mrs. William Beldon Noble of
Washington, Harvard University has re-
ceived a gift of $4,000, 10 endow a lecture
ship in memory of her husband, a grad
uate of the class of 1885. Another gift of
$4,000 was received by the university from
the family of John Simpkins for the
Laurence Scientific school, and still an
other 5000 from Mrs. Frederick T. Phil
fps of Lawrence, r. I. The money is TO
establish fund, the income of which to
be expended annually in the purchase of
books for the college library in the de-
Of ,,tf
in memory of the donors brother
A new dormitory to be erected at Wells
ley College, at a cost of $50 900, is the
gift of Mrs. Martha S. Pomeroy of Wash
ington Mrs. Irene B. Lewis of Hamilton,
N. Y, has recently made the genera s
gift of 5000 TO Colgate University u
found three scholarships, for the purpose
of aiding young men studying for the
Baptist ministry in that institution.
Miss Marie Hopper of Philadelphia has
given $4,000 to Bryn Mawr College for a
scholarship foundation fund.
For General Charities.
Mrs. Joseph Moffatt of Los Angeles.
Cal, has given property to the value of
$50 600 to the endowment fund of the Ma
tional Florence Crittenton Mission-a
charity which was founded sixteen years
ago by Charles N. Crttenton of New
York in memory of his daughter.
For the maintenance of home for con-
Valescents and invalids at Santa Barbara
$50, 600 has been left by Miss Anna S. c.
Blake, her will being probated in April.
She also left 10 the Cottage hospital $lO,-
600; to the Orthopede Hospital Philadel-
phia $4,000 and to a Boston hospital
like sum.
A noble charity is that founded during
the past few months by Mrs Alfred Corn
ing Clark, in memory of her husband A
more valuable and efficient form of char
ity does not exist in New York city than
the Alfred Corning Clark Neighborhood
House, which stands in the very heart of
mems, boys and girls clubs, kindergar-
tens libraries, conserva tories and roof
gardens are included in the work of the
Institutions work which is thoroughly
appreciated by the people in whose behalf
IL is being done. Ii has been established
and endowed at a cost of about $500 900.