The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-24

PIUFTuCU a IOdIIug NOsiIIIdT ITIp,
last summer For cyclone sufferers in
Wisconsin, July 6. last. she sent her check
| for $3.50.
In March the Countess de CasteIlane
Gamma Could gave $4,000 to a children's
society in Paris. She Is to present
splendid hall TO be used for charitable
bazaars, to take the place of the building
destroyed by fire, in which so many lives
were lost The site alone has cost 10000.
| When the Countess took possession of her
new home on the Avenue de Bots de Bo-
logne last Christmas, she visited the chI-
| dren of all the workmen employed in its
| building to a Christmas tree and sent
them home laden with presents.
Gifts From Fashionable Women.
Since her husbands death, perhaps the
| largest check written by Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt for a gift, is that of 5000 for
the police pension fund, as a recognition
| OF the services rendered by the police force
at the time of Mr.. Venderbnt's funeral.
To the Kings Daughters of Newport
her personal check for $1,000 was lately
sent the amount to be used IN ministering
to the wants of the sick poor
Mrs. Frederick w. Vanderbilt visited
Newport early in November to personally
supervise the Thanksgiving dinner which
she has given for many years TO the news
boys, bootblacks and other poor boys of
that fashionable watering place. To de-
AAeiS Aiit GA pCllS6S OF NfG OCCASION she
writes her check for 1900
Mrs. 0. H. p Belmont's gift of $500 TO
Trinity Church Sunday School was used
in providing Thanksgiving entertain
ment. To the Nassau Hospital, at
Hampstead, L. l.. Mrs. Belmont has sent
$1,000. Mrs. p A. Harper has given the
same amount to the hospital.
For st Anthony's Bread Mrs. Fran
els Brockholst Cutting contributes So 90
year. The charity was founded a year
ago in memory of Mrs. Cuttings son
Brockholst Cutting. The fund is for the
sick poor within the limits of st. Mary's
parish, Newport which is more than half
without regard to creed, color or national
ity. st. Mary's is a Roman Catholic
Church, and a requiem mass is celebrated
for the dead man upon each anniversary
of his death. He died three years ago.
During the year at an outlay of about
$1,000 Mrs Anson Phelps Stokes has con-
tinued her gifts to the home she presented
to the parish of the Heavenly Rest, New
York, a library and recreation house for
the use of the crowded Italian colony cen
tered around Mulberry street. The King
and Queen of Italy have recognized the
charitable work of Mrs. Stokes by sending
their portraits.
May last the new church of the Holy
Trinity was consecrat ed-this is the
Rhinelander memorial, the church, morn
| ing chapel, parish house and clergy house
| being memorial gifts and costing well up
| into the millions. The family have reserv-
ed the right during ten years of adding
memorials in the form of windows. The
buildings stand upon the last of the
Rhinelander farm, which has been owned
| by the family over 100 years.
Miss Elizabeth Plankinton of Milwaukee
| gives 100000 for Young WomenS Chris
tan Association in that city. Through
the generous gift of $4,000 from a lady
residing in New England Bishop Grafton
of Fond du Lac, Wis, recently announced
that the Indebtedness on the cathedral had
been wiped out and the school fund aug
mented.
The $4,000 raised in England for the hos
pital ship Maine to be dispatched to South
Africa. received so many noble contribu-
| tons from American women that the sum
may justly claim place in this list.
In WOmen's Wills.
Gifts by bequest have abounded during
| 1899. A quarter of a million dollars was
| left by Mrs. Eugene Kelly to build lady
chapel for ST. Patriek's Cathedral, New
York, and to provide fund for the sick
poor. OF the Baroness de Efirsch's $780,
| 100000 left to charity. $l,2O0,OOO comes to
| America-to the De Hirsch's foundation in
New York city The Clara de Hirsch
| Home in Sixty-secoud street, founded
about two years ago by the Baroness, re-
ceives an additional legacy of S250,00O
The will of Mrs. Caroline L. Macy, who
founded the Macy Memorial Art School
in New York, bequeaths 100000 to the
| Teachers College and 5000 to the Presby-
terrain Hospital. Mrs. E. A. Stevens of
| Castle Point, Hoboken, left generous be-
| quests to Holy Innocent Church, which
| she was mainly instrumental in estab-
fishing A fund of $1,000 is to provide coal
| for the poor of Hoboken, free or at cost
price $12, 600 is left for other church chari-
| ties. To the Church of the Holy Commun-
| ion, New York, Mrs. Caroline A. Cisco
leaves $40 900. To the Missionary Society
domestic and foreign-Mrs Emile A. Mat
THEN, $1,000. About $4,000 is distributed
| among New York charities by the will of
| Mrs. Caroline E. HOLSTER.
Generous legacies, making total of $2O,
co., were also left by Mrs. Mary E. Hart
of Troy N. Y Mrs. Fels r. Brunnot of
Allegheny City, Pa, bequeathed by will,
probated in November, 900 to missions.
! The late Mrs Harriet rockingham VOL
colt stepmother of Gov Roger Wolcott,
distributed by her will. probated in April
last. $32, 500 to various charities; among
| the number the Massachusetts, General
| Chapel the Hampton School, Virginia. the
Bennett Industrial School, Boston, and the
Tuskegee Normal and Agricultural Insti-
| tute
St Barnabas Hospital Newark, bene-
fits to the value of $1,000 and share in
the residuary estate of Mrs. Eliza Wells,
who also left $1,000 to the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children. By
the will of Mrs. T. w. Robbins, widow of
the late Congressman john Robbins, her
estate is charged with the payment of
many charitable legacies.
| BY the death of Mrs Elizabeth Thomp-
son in July, the poor seamstresses of
Rhinebeck on Hudson find themselves
heirs to an estate of $500, 900, which is to
be equally divided among them. F. S.
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