Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-20
VAST ENDOWMENTS
Some Facts About California's Rival
Universities.
One is A MEMORIAL TO A SON
Mrs. Hearst's Great Interest in the
State Institution.
SENATOR STANFORD'S IDEA
Copyright. 1900, by Frank G. Carpenter)
,ecial Correspondence of The Evening Star

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
| SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. January -, 1900.
| curious competition is going on here in
| California. 1t is that of two of the great
| est estates which have ever been piled up
| in this land of gold in the line of educa-
| tional charity Every has heard of
| Senator Stanford's enormous requests to
! the Leland Stanford, Junior, University.
| These began with the origin of the uni
versity scheme in the senator's mind years
before his death. They We're continued up
| to that time and being added to by
Mrs. Stanford, who has for that purpose
| given up almost the whole of his fortune
| amounting to tens of millions. Only a
| month or so ago the sale of the Pacific i'm
| provement stock gave something like S10-
| 100000 more cash to the institution and it
| has already lands, stocks and other invest
| nIents which make it perhaps the best en-
| dcwed college of the world.
The Hearst estate. rather Mrs. Senator
| Hearst. has now become interested in the
| state University, and she hopes to make
| this rival if not SurDass that of Leland
| Stanford. Junior. She has had the greatest
| architects of Europe and the United States
| competing with each other in making plans
| for 1t and has according to her agreement
| already paid out prizes to them amounting
| to $4,000. The only instructions given
| were that the plans were to be made with
| out regard to cost, and that the University
| buildings were to be the finest and grand
| est in the world. The prize for the best
| plan was to be $4,000, and in addition
there We're prizes of $4,000 $1,000 $1,000
| and $1,000 for the second. third and fourth
| best plans. Circulars giving the PROPOSE
| ton We're sent out through our foreign
| ministers to the greatest architect of near
| " every country on the globe and last
| September from the plans sent in the first
| prize was awarded to f. Bernard of Paris
| The smaller prizes were Won by architects
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| nard. In addition to getting his S1O,O 600 has,
| am told, been directed to come to San
Francisco, and he will probably be here be-
| fore this letter is published. He will be
| gwen the successful plans and will from
| them combine the one which is to stand for
| what California believes will be the finest
| university on the globe The idea is that
when completed the buildings will cost in
| the neighborhood of S2500OOOO and it is
said that Mrs. Hearst will furnish the
| money for one or two of them so that the
| work may begin at once The total ex-
penses of the competition. including the
prizes, has approximated $4,000.
| The New University.
The new university will be on the hills
| facing the bay of San Francisco, and If
| ever completed according to plans will in
| time be very city of learning The plans
| embrace wide avenues. statues gym
| lasium, theater, as we'll as the ordinary
| college structures and halls They are very
| imposing, and it may be that other multi
| 1hlllionaires may aid in carrying them out
| The University of California for which the
| buildings are planned, is at present not
| more preten,iouS than some of the larger
| colleges of orr middle states such as ODER
| lin. for instance. 1t was founded by an act
| OF Congress. passed in 1860. and it still has
| an income of about 100000 year from the
| United States. The state of California an
| nually gives it an amount equal to . cents
| on each 800 of taxable property in the
| state, which brings it in s240OOO year. 1t
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| 9,o0,TOO, and about 5000 600 have been
already pledged TO the new scheme.
| Rivals in Teaching.
| The university has now 1900 students
| which is a hundred or so more than Stan
| ford. 1t has trebled its attendance since
| the Stanford University was established
| and it is the existence and competition of
Stanford which is making it now one of
| the np-to-date colleges of the country 1t
| was sleeping along in dull way when Sen
ator Stanford put up his buildings and be-
| gan to employ the best talent of the United
| States for his professors The friends of
the college then became alarmed. and it
| was feared that the state institution would
| he seriously damaged. 1t began to put in
better men. The old professors pricked up
| their ears and today the race between if
| and Stanford is close
One of the strongest cards Stanford has
| is its high-priced president, David Jordan
| who gets, am told. a salary of SO 200
| d
| ecGtive and has a national reputation. To
| offset this the state university recently sent
| east and imported a ten-thousand dollar
president in the person of Benjamin Ide
| Wheeler. the well known historian and
| educator. so that now the rival institutions
are running almost neck and neck.
They have already an international repu-
tation, and have students from Mexico
| Central America and Hawaii. as well as
from all parts Of the United States Both
sexes are admitted. but Stanford Univer-
sity recently restricted the number of
| female students TO not more than 800 at
one time. This was because the girls were
applying in such numbers that it was fear
ed they would crowd out the boys and the
university might thereby become more of a
female college than one intended chiefly for
boys. as l understand was Senator STAN
ford's original intention.
Their Great Endowments
| The Stanford University and the Tniver-
sity of California are already the best en-
dowed colleges of the world. With the five
millions which has, it is claimed been
already promised the University of Cali
fornia, it will have about fourteen millions
| outside of its government and state aid
| and as | have stated. the hope is that
| the millionaireS of California will increase
this to twenty-five millions. Columbia Col
| lege. New York. has an endowment of thr-
| teen millions Harvard has eleven millions;
Yale ten millions and Johns Hopkins. three
millions. Chicago University is being sup
II,
and 1t may eventually have more than any
of the others. The Methodists trying
to raise twenty million dollars for their new
university al Washington but far their
collections are comparatively small.
Richer Than Job.
AS to just how much Stanford University
. has it is impossible to estimate. but its pos
sessions today far exceed those of any of
the other colleges. 1t is richer than Job
: in his prime. 1t has vast farms, enormous
vineyards and stocks which produce an
immense income l have visited the VIVA
{ ranch, which belongs to it. This is about A
days ride north of San Francisco in one of
the most fertile parts of California The
ranch contains $1,000 acres and upon ii is
the largest vineyard of the world 1t has
now about 3,Om.oN grape vines which
yield about 22,0900O0 pounds of grapes an
e nually. When all the vines are in full
S bearing it will produce twice this amount,
t or enough to give a half pound OF grapes
4 every year to each man. woman and child
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