The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24

While the following is not a complete
record of women's gifts for the cause
OF charity during 1899, it approximates
the magnificent sum of s16,0O0.0 DOC. or
over s1,0O0,000 every month. OF this
Stanford's 100000 900, and Mrs. Brad
ley's 100000 is the next largest gift.
With the ending of the year and CEN
fury one may perhaps be pardoned for
dropping into statistics, statistics prov
ing the splendid munificence of Ameri
can women to schools, churches. art in
stitutes and philanthropic enterprises.
To bark back a little; the total of
gifts and requests for the five years
1898 through 1S97-in this country were
more than $165, 900. 000-that is gifts
from private fortunes for public uses.
OF this s45.00O.000 was given during 1927.
In 1898, in New York City alone S25.O00,-
600 was given away in charity. During
the same year, the gifts of thirty-four
women in the United States for higher
education amounted to IS, 446, 400; of this
sum, Cora ]. Flood gave the largest
amount, or s., 000, 900, and Helen Gould,
beside her magnificent donation to the
government, gave $37, 600 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 notable one.
Half 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 institute was built and the money
to build it. That involved sum ap-
proximating $250,000. In addition, Mrs.
Bradley has given to Peoria 139 acres
of land for a park, she has built
CHURCH, a home for aged women and
many other smaller institutions.
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 a gift of money. The house and its
contents are valued at s1,000.000. and a
tract of nearly 5000 acres is included
in the transfer.
Another California lady has been
in her gifts; it is Mrs. E.
B. Croker, who has conveyed TO the
Benevolent and Protective Order. of
Elks her home in Sacramento-it is
presented as a memorial of her hus-
band, and is valued at 100000. Mrs.
Phebe Hearst and Mrs. Leland STAN
ford constantly adding to their
gifts to universities they have built
up in Cal rnia. and their benefactions
go up into the millions. Mrs. Stanford'S
latest contribution made during the
summer was one of S10.000,000.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine of Chicago. in
May, announced that she would found
a college of pedagogy, the institution
to be started with a fund of several
hundred thousand rollars. She has had
this idea in mind for some years, it
being her desire to accomplish a prac-
teal good for poor girls, by giving |
them an opportunity to become teach |
ers, she bestows a permanent benefit !
upon them. The new college of peda- |
gogy, built and endowed by Mrs. |
Blaine, will represent an outlay of
$500, 900.
At the commencement at Vassar col
lege, in June, it was announced that |
Miss Katharine Tuttle had given $780, |
BOO scholarship in memory of her sister; |
and Mrs. Caroline Swift Atwater of |
to build a new infirmary /
had donated $4,000.
From Mrs William Beldon Noble of /
Harvard university has |
received gift of 500, 900, to endow lee /
in memory of her husband, a ,
graduate of the class of 1885, Another |
gift of $4,000 was received by the uni
VerSlty from tne Idinily OF JOHN SlInp- /
Sins, for the Laurence Scientific school.
and still another $1,000 from Mrs. Fred
erick T. Philips of Lawrence, r. /.
The money is to establish fund, the /
income of which to be expended annu-
ally in the purchase of books for the |
college library in the department of
English literature. The gift is in mem
Dry of the donors brother
A new dormitory to be erected at /
Wellesley college, at cost of $4,000, is
The gift of Mrs. Martha S. Pomeroy of
Mrs. Irene B. Lewis of |
Hamilton, N. Y, has recently made the
generous gift of $1,000 to Colgate uni
reraty. to found three scholarships. for
The purpose of aiding young men stu
lying for the Baptist ministry in that
Institution.
Miss Marie Hopper of Philadelphia