The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-26
GIFTS OF MILLIONS
THE NOTABLE RECORD OF GEN.
ERoUS WOMEN.
A Total Of More Than $4,000, 900
Given in Large Sums by American
Women-Much Of the Money De-
voted to Educational Purposes.

"uSH VI INC Money 70.
voted to Educational Purposes.
During the year 1899 nearly SIG, 000,.
600 was given for philanthropic pur.
poses by American women.
or this amount, the single largest
sum is Mrs. Stanford's $4,000, 900.
Half million given by Mrs. Lydia
Bradley, Of Peoria, ILL.,, comes next
to Mrs. Stanford's gift. It was pre-
sented 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 approximating
$250,000. 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 gift Of money. The house
and its contents are valued at 81 ,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.
n. b. Croker, who has conveyed to
the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks her home in Sacramento as a
memorial Of her husband; 1t is valued
at 100000. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst and
Mrs. Leland Stanford are constantly
adding to their gifts to the universe
ties they have built up il California,
and their benefactions go up into the
millions.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine, of Chicago,
In May announced that she would
found college of pedagogy. 1t will
represent an outlay of $500 900.
AT the commencement of Vassar
College in June 1t was announced that
Mrs. Katherine futile has given a
ten thousand dollar scholarship in
memory of her sister, and Mrs. Caro-.
line Swift Atwater of Poughkeepsie,
to build a new infirmary 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, graduate of the class of
1885. Another gift Of $4,000 was re.
ceived by the university from the fam.
lily of John Simpkins for the Lawrence
Scientific School, and still another
$4,000 from Mrs. Frederick T. Philips
of Lawrence, R. I. The gift is in mem.
ory of the donors brother.
A new dormitory to be erected at
Wellesley College, at a cost of 500.
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 Moffatt, 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 home for
convalescents and invalids at Santa
Barbara, $4,000 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, $10,-
900, and to a Boston hospital a like
sum.
During last summer a new floating
hospital for st. Johns Guild was built
by Mrs. Augustus D. Juilliard, of New
York, at cost of $4,000.
To the endowment fund of the uni
versity of Chicago Miss Helen Miller
Gould has recently contributed $685.
900. A second scholarship of $4,000
to Vassar College was announced at
the commencement of June-these
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. To
endow free bed III perpetuity in the
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New
York, she has given $4,000. At the cost
of about $3.50 she provided for a float
ing hospital trip last summer. For cy-
clone sufferers in Wisconsin, July 6
last, she sent her check for $3.50.
In March the Countess de Castel-
lane (Anna Could gave $4,000 to a
children's society in Paris.
Since her husbands death, Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has sent $4,000
to the police pension fund. To the
Kings Daughters Of Newport her
check for $1,000 was lately sent.
Miss Elizabeth Plankinton, of Mil
waukee, gives 100000 for a Young
Women's Christian Association in
that city. Through the generous gift
of $4,000 from a woman residing in
New England, Bishop Grafton, of Fond
IN NTic -
the Indebtedness on the cathedral had
been wiped out ard the school fund
augmented.
Gifts of requests have abounded
during 1899. A quarter of a million
dollars was left by Mrs Eugene Kelly
to build chapel for st. Patricks
Cathedral, New York, and to provide
a fund for the sick poor OF the Baron
ess de Hirsch's S10,000,000 left to
charity, $1,200000 comes to America.
The Clara de Hirsch Home in New
York, founded about two years ago
by the Baroness, received an addi-
toinal legacy of $250,000.
The will of Mrs Caroline L. Macy,
who founded the Macy Memorial Art
School in New York, bequeathed $780,
900 to the Teachers College and $4,000
to the Presbyterian Hospital Mrs e.
A. Stevens, of Castle Point, Hoboken,
bequeathed to Holy Innocent Church,
which she was mainly instrumental in
establishing a fund of $4,000 to pro-
vide coal for the poor of Hoboken
free or at cost price, and $4,000 for
other church charities. To the Church
of the Holy Communion, New York,
Mrs. Caroline A. Cisco leaves $4,000.
st. Barnabas Hos pital Newark, ben
efits to the value OF 1000 and a share
IN the residuary estate of Mrs. Eliza
Wells who also LEI; $1,000 to the So
ciety for the Pre- sntion Of Cruelty
tn Children.
By the daath ~ Mrs. Elizabeth