The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03
THEY GAVE SIX MILLIONS.
THE WOMEN OF THIS COUNTRY SIG
NALIZE THE CLOSING YEAR OF
THE CENTURY.

New York Feb. 1.-Women were, as US
ual, conspicuously generous with gifts and
beouest during 19o0-the closing year Of
the century. The record for charitable,
educational and like purposes reaches APP
proximatey the very respectable sum OF
Sc. 100000 or a half million dollars month
I ~, and this is not a complete record. At
least as much more perhaps might be
added if all left hands knew what right
hands had done This Sc 100000 has been
contributed for the most part in small
sums.
In 1899, one half of one per cent. of
the entire accumulation of wealth in this
country was given by private persons TO
education alone. Mrs Leland Stanford
gave 81 100000 for educatio purposes.
This past year one of her gifts was
house and endowment fund for the Ro-
man Catholic diocese of Sacramento. val
ued at $4,000; her other gifts for educa-
tional purposes amount to half million.
Last May Washington and Lee Uni
versity came into $4,000 by the will of
Mrs. Juliet S. Bradford of Philadelphia,
in addition to handsome paintings and
valuable library.
To the Free Museum OF Science and
Art of the University of Pennsylvania,
which was the result of the labors and
benefactions of Dr. William Pepper. his
widow, Frances Sergeant Pepper, lineal
descendant of Benjamin Franklin, has
given the trustees $4,000 as a memorial
to carry out the work inaugurated by her
husband.
To the University of California, Mrs
Jane Krom Sather has given $4,000 and
has contributed property worth $4,000 as
found for the purchase of books. To
Bethany College, Topeka, Mrs Felix r.
Brunot of Pittsburg, gives $S9, OOO
The Misses Stokes of New York have
given $4,000 for a new building at Yale
College. Mrs. Leslie Pell-Clarke builds
and equips a girls school, "Bishopstead,"
in Florida at a cost of $4,000.
Mrs. Caroline Atwater has added to her
gift of $4,000 to Vassar College for new
infirmary. A handsome library is being
erected in Orange, N. j., by Mrs. Joseph
w. Stickler at cost of $780, 600. She like
wise intends to erect new building for
| the Young Mems Christian Association a
a cost of $4,000, she has also given for
| other purposes $50 600, most for the edu-
cation of colored children; Mrs William
F. Senard of Illinois gives 5000.
For the establishment of home for
destitute men of letters, Mrs. NJ. p Fen
ton leave a quarter of a million doffars;
the home, which is at Poughkeepsie, will
! be opened this winter.
In the realms of science women are con-
spicuously generous with gifts, Miss Alice
! Bache Gould giving $1,000 this year to
| the American National Academy of Sci
| ence Miss Bruce makes frequent gifts
10 this academy, her latest being one of
$4,000 for the purchase of a new photo
| graphic telescope.
For hospitals, the gifts have, as usual.
been generous.
Mrs. Hoagland OF New York city is the
donor of the new clinic building of st.
Bartholomew's Parish House, which is to
cost $4,000; for endowment she gives $780,
600 more. The widow and daughter of
Roswell p. Flower give 100000 to the
Flower Hospital, which was founded in
1899 by Mr.. Flower. Mrs. Emma A
Schley, sister of Mrs. Flower left by will,
which was offered for probate in June
100000 in charity, $4,000 for the Flower
Hospital To one hundred relatives and
friends, Mrs. Schley left requests rang
ing in value from 81 900 to $1,OOO,OOO. Miss
| Ray of New York leaves 5000 to the
Flower Hospital.
For a cot age ho-p'tal at New Dorp,
Staten Island for the use of St. Johns
| Guild, Mrs. Frederick Elliott Lewis gives
5000
Kt the last annual meeting of the Wo-
mans Hospital, New York city it was an
nounced that Mrs. Frederick F. Thomp-
son, had offered to build a nurses home
in connection with the hospital he home
to cost 100000 to $4,000. The latest g #
| of Mrs. Tno'r pson is in addition to an
other of S55 00) which she made In the
| early part of the year.
Mrs. Harvey H. Brown of Chicago. do
mates 5000 for the endowment of bed
IN the Lakeside Ho pital and a beouest of
5000 to St Luke's Hospital is m de by
the will of Mrs. Ef1e Gertrude NICK n ey
of Chicago All of her fortune of ahopt
100000, Mrs. A. L. A. Faulkner leaves for
hospital in BIS on Mrs. ]. Va CHAN
Merrick of Philadelphia bequeathes &c.
0G0 to the man gers of st. Timothy's Hos
pital of which she was the founder
Miss Emmeline Macurdy of Mt Holly.
N. j., left the bulk of large estate to
charity, $500 beiag given to hospitals
and about $4,000 to various ether chart
table organizations. Miss Sallie VAIN of
Morristown, Pa, gives by will $500 to
hosp tals and half of her resideuary estate
of 100000 she leaves for educational pur-
poses.
Fer the promotion of religion, Miss
Julianna Dunlap Of Phi ladelphia, leaves
her real est tie and personal estate. val
ued at $50 600. Mrs. Ra hel Ritter be-
queathes a share of her fortune Of $40. o.
to old Chr st Church, Philadelphia, for
the endowment fund. BY the provisions
of the will of the late Miss Susan b.
Perne of Baltimore. Md, church corpor-
ations benefit to the amount of Il 90
To the Peoples Church, Ka,ama o.,
Mich, Mrs. Henika ! ayes by Will 50 900
To the Chris tia0 Scientists Miss He en-
c. Brush of Brooklyn leaves $4,000.
For the fresh air work of Grace
Church, New York city, Mrs. Richard
Auchmuty gives $4,000. Pensioners Of
Cavalry parish, New York city, build a
temperance inn-Sauirrel Inn at a cost
of SIS 900.
Mrs. Hart of Albany and Miss Emme-
line Noyes Green of Worcester. Mass,
gives 81 900 each for church purposes. Mrs.
Alice NJ. Rice of Worcester, left nearly
the whole of her estate of 100000 to
churches and hospitals To different Ro-
man Catholic Institutions Miss Louise c.
Glover of Springfield leaves $4,000 Mrs.
Henrietta Ballou of Lockport, gives by
will 5000 for missions, and Miss Cecilia
j. LouX leaves $4,000 for the same pur-
pose. Mrs. M c. Croker of Fitchburg, Is
erecting at an expense of $4,000,
church at Leominster, Md. and Miss
Edith Clifton has left by will $500 to a
church at Fall River In disposing of her
estate of $i5,O0O Miss Anne T. Bolean Of
Lar gdalp Pa. piVps 81 C0O m a ob1rch