Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-03-08
GIFTS OF MILLIONS
THE NOTABLE RECORD OF GEN.
ERoUs WOMEN.
A Total Of More Than St6,ooo,ooo
Given in Large Sums by American
Women-Much Of the Money De-

NOWcH-muCn OF tnc money Oe-
voted to Educational Purposes.
During the year 1899 nearly SIC, 00O,-
600 was given for philanthropic pur.
poses by American women.
OF this amount, the single largest
sum is Mrs. Stanfords S1O,OOO.000.
Half a million given by Mrs. Lydia
: Bradley, of Peoria, ILL.,, comes next
to Mrs. Stanfords gift. Ii 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 he money to build it.
| That involved 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 MCnlo Park
to the University OF California, made
last year, has been supplemented re-
! Gently by sift 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
munificent in her gifts: this is Mrs.
| +. b. Croker, who has conveyed to
! the Benevolent and Protective Order
| OF Elks her home in Sacramento as a
memorial of her husband il is valued
at 100000. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst and
Mrs. Leland Stanford are constantly
| adding to their gifts to tho uniyersi-
ties they have built up California,
and their benefactions Sc Up into tho
millions.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine, CT Chicago.
in May announced that she would
found college of pedagogy. 1t will
represent an outlay of $500 OOO
At the commencement of Vassar
College in June it 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 Pcughkeepsic,
to build new infrmary has donated
$4,000.
From Mrs. William Bcldon Noble.
of Washington, Harvard University
has received a gift of $50 600 to en-
dow a lectureship in memory of her
husband, graduate of Tie class of
1885. Another gift of $50 eco was re.
ceived by the university from the fam
lily of John Smplns fer the Lawrence
Scientific School, and stu another
$4,000 from Mrs. Frederick r. 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,
000 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 5000 70 Colgate
University.
Miss Marie Hopper, of Philadelphia,
has given $4,000 to Bryn Mawr Col
lege.
Mrs. Joseph Moffatt, OF Les Angeles,
Cal, has given property to the value
OF $4,000 to the endowment fund of
the National Florence ChittCaton Mis-.
sion.
For the maintenance OF home for
convalescents and invalidS at Santa
Barbara, $50. 900 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, $40. |
600, and to a Boston hospital a like |
sum.
During last summer q now floating |
hospital for st. Johns Guild was built |
by Mrs. Augustus ID. Juilliard, of New |
York, at a cost of $4,000.
To the endowment fund OF the uni. |
vel sity 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 Iune-these !
scholarships are given la memory of
her mother. Two scholarships of
$4,000 each she has given to Fir.
Moody's schools one for the boys
seminary and one for tine girls. To !
endow a free bed in perpetuity in the
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New
York, she has given $4,000. At The cost
of about $3.50 she provided Tor a float
ing hospital trip last summcr For cy-
clone sufferers in Wisc1as'l July 6
last, she sent her check for $50.
In March the Countess dc Castcl.
lane Gamma Could gave S20C to n
children's society in Paris
Since her husbands death, Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has seat $4,000
10 the police pension fUad. To the
Kings Daughters Of Newport her
check for $1,000 was lately sent.
Miss Elizabeth Plankinton of Mil.
waukee, gives 100000 for n Young
women NHTlSLldn AS SOCldtlOn in
that city. Through the generous gift
of $50 900 from a woman residing in
New England, Bishop Grafton. of Fond
du Lac, Wis, recently announced that
the Indebtedness on the cath edral had
been wiped out and 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 a chapel for st. Patrlck's
Cathedral, New York, and to provide
a fund for the sick poor. OF the Baron.
ess de Hlrsch's S10OO0,00O left to
charity, S1,20O,00O 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 s250,000.
The will of Mrs. Caroline L. Macy,
who founded the Macy Memorial Art
School in New York, bequeathed 5000.
300 to the Teachers College end $4,000
TO the Presbyterian Hospital. Mrs. e.
A. Stevens, Of Castle Point, Hoboken,
bequeathed to Holy Innocent Church,
which she was mainly inst rumental in
a fund of $4,000 to pro-
vide coal for the poor of Hoboken !