Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1900-02-07
GIFTS OF MILLIONS
THE NOTABLE RECORD OF GEN.
ERoys WOMEN.

Given In Large Sums by American
women--Muoh Of the Money Dc
voted to Educational Purposes.
During the year 1899 nearly $4,000
600 was given for philanthropic pur-
poses by American women.
OF this amount the single largest
sum is Mrs. Stanfords S10000O0O.
Half million given by Mrs. Lydia
Bradley, of Peoria. ILL.,. comes next
to Mrs Stanfords gift. It was pre-
scented 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 a sum approxlmatlng
$25O00 In addition, Mrs. Bradley
has given to Peoria 1877 acres OF land
home for aged women and many other
smaller institutions.
Miss Floods presentation OF her
= fathers country place at Menlo Park
TO the University of California, made
last year, has been supplemented re-
Gently by a gift of money. The house
and its contents are valued at $1,000
600, and tract Of nearly 5000 acres
is included in the transfer
Another California woman has been
munifcent in her gifts; this is Mrs.
Z. B. Croker who has conveyed to
the Benevolent and Protective Order
Of ElSs her home in Sacramento as a
memorial Of her husband; it is valued
at $4,000. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst and
Mrs. Leland Stanford are constantly
adding to their gifts to the universe
ties they have built up j. California,
and their benefactions go up into the
millions.
Mrs Emmons Blaine. Of Chicago.
in May announced that she would
found a college Of pedagogy. It will
represent an outlay of 100000.
At the commencement of Vassar
College in June IL was announced that
Mrs. Katherine futile has given
ten thousand dollar scholarship in
memory Of her sister, and Mrs. Caro-
line Swift Atwater. of Poughkeepsie,
to build a new indrmary has donated
$4,000
From Mrs. William Beldon Noble,
of Washington, Harvard University
has received a gift OF $4,000 to en-
dow a lectureship in memory Of her
husband, a graduate of the class Of
1885. Another gift Of $4,000 was re-
ceived by the university from the fam.
lily OF John Simpllns for the Lawrence
Scientific School, and still another
$1,000 from Mrs. Frederick T. Philips
Of Lawrence, r. /. The gift is in mem
DRY of the donors brother.
A new dOrmitory to be erected at
Wellesley College, at a cost of $780,
600. is the gift of Mrs. Martha S. Pom
eroy Of Washington. Mrs Irene b.
Lewis. Of Hamilton, n. Y, has re-
emily made a gift of $4,000 to Colgate
University.
Miss Marie Hopper, Of Philadelphia.
has given $4,000 to Bryn Mawr Col
lege.
Mrs Joseph Mofatt, Of Los Angeles,
CAL has given property to the value
of $4,000 to the endowment fund of
the National Florence Chittenton Mis-
sion.
For the maintenance of a home for
convalescents and invalids at Santa
Barbara, $50 600 has been left by Miss
Anna S c. Blake. her will being pro.
bated in April. She also left to the
Cottage Hospital, $4,000; to the Or
theopedic Hospital. Philadelphia, S10-
600, and to a Boston hospital a like
sum.
During last SUMMER a new hOatir &
hospital for st. Johns Child was built
by Mrs. Augustus d. Juilliard, Of New
York, at a cost of $4,000.
To the endowment fund Of the uni
versity of Chicago Miss Helen Miller
Gould has recently contributed S25,
600. A second scholarship of $4,000
TO Nassar College was announced al
the commencement Of June-thesG
scholarships are given in memory OF
her mother. Two scholarships Of
$4,000 each she has given to Mr.
Moody's schools; one for the boys
seminary and one for the girls ~
endow a free bed in perpetuity in tn,
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New
York, she has given $4,000. At the cos
of about $3.50 she provided for a. float
ing hospital trip last summer. For cy
clone sufferers in Wisconsin. July
last she sent her check for $3.50
In March the Countess de Castel
lane (Anna Gouldl gave $4,000 to
children's society in Paris.
Since her husbands death, Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt has sent $500
TO the police pension fund. To tn
Kings Daughters of Newport he
check for $1,000 was lately sent
Miss Elizabeth Plankinton, Of Mi
waukee. gives 100000 for a Youn
Womens Christian Association il
that city. Through the generous gif
OF $4,000 from a woman residing ii
New England, Bishop Grafton, Of Fon
du Lac. Wis, recently announced tina
the Indebtedness on the cathedral ha
been wiped out and the school fun
augmented.
Gifts of requests have abounde
during 1899 A quarter of a millio
dollars was left by Mrs. Eugene Kell
TO build a chapel for st. Patrick
Cathedral, New York, and to prOvid
a fund for the sick poor. OF the Barol
ess de Hirschs $4,000 900 left {
charity, $1,000 900 comes to Americ;
The Clara dc Hirsch Home I'm Ne
York, founded about two years az
by the Baroness. received an add
toinal legacy Of $780, 900.
Tho win Of Mrs Caroline L. Mac,
who founded the Macy Memorial Al
School in New York. beuueathed $500
600 to the Teachers College and S.. OC
to the Presbyterian Hospital Mrs. ]
A. Stevens OF Castle FONT. Hoboker
baqueathed to Holy Innocent Churcl