The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-18
FORTUNES FOR CHARITY.
Generous Gifts From, New Workers to Different ins.''u
tons Aggregate Many Mlllians-carnesie Leads

Generous Gifts From New workers. 10 O'TeTc't'
tions Aggregate Many Millians-Carneee I'aN
Ptsburg Dispatch.
New York July 1.-The New York papers have nao d.
most daily the of the s4ooo'ooo s
of John Maserson Burke, stories or items
Of this and unique benefaeor whose charity fesoueu
him from oblivion The gift calls renewed attention 10 al
assertion that been made before namely that the peop
OF New York although in respects unspproaohS0e
and lev taken all in all are the generous in the whole
when it comes to shovelng out money. Neither LONDON
Paris Berlin ST Petersburg contribute onehalf Oh ne
yearly sums New York spends charitable institutions
During the year the gifts and requests OF the resi-
dents Of this city to charitable and beneVoient
reached the total of 100000 OF wnich S3
100000 alone was given by New Hork-Fiusourgel, An
drew Carnegie 1t is quite probable that an equally large
amount will be given this year .
The following list, compiled by the Ne" otK Ne"s
includes the larger gifts and requests made in New fork
city 1901 and to date in 1909: The record Tor 1901 :
Andrew Carnegie gifts found libraries and for other pur
poses $,oooooo; John D. Rockefeller, gifts to colleges
universities and other educational institutions S3o4eSoo
J. Pierpont Morgan, gifts hospitals the Young Men
Christian Association public institutions, etc. SI445ooo
Helen NJ Gould gifts TO the Young Mems Christian ASso
citation and educational institutions S417,soo; John u
Archibald gift to endowment of Syracuse university 5000
George T. Bliss bequest to Yale university $4,000
NJ. c. D. Borden gift TO Yale university 100000; Samue
S Bovine gift Twentieth century fund of the Methodist
church 100000 General w Carpenter gift to Columbia
university establish chair of Chinese SIooooo; William
F. Dodge gift Young Mems Christian Association $780,
600; Henry L. Einsein gift to Mt Sinai hospital SI75-
+.
park to WATERFOWL, N. " 100000; Meyer Guggenhem
gift to Mt Sinai hospital $zoo,ooo Daniel Guggenhem
gift Jewish Theological seminary, $4,000 James j.
Hill gift Yale university 100000; Daniel w. Hitchcock
gifts OF $4,000 each the West End Nursery and Infants
hospital and Fathers and Widows society $4,000; C. P
Huntington, requests various charities and his
residence Cathedral Of St John $osooo; Mrs {. P.
Huntington gift endowment fund OF the New York School
OF Applied Design for Women $4,000, and to Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial institute $4,000; John S Huyer,
gift Syracuse university S25ooo Adoph Lewisohn, gift
Mt Sinai hospital $4,000 Lemue Lewsohn, gift to Jew
to Young Mems Christian Association, Ss5ooo Jacob s.
Rogers gift Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Sssso.ooo
Thomas +, Ryan gift city of Richmond Va, S15o,ooo
Jacob H. Schf, gifts Hebrews Shclterng Guardian
oiety Harvard university Educational Alliance and Jewish
Theological seminary, $4,000 James Speyer and wife, gift
Theological seminary 100000; Louis H. Severance gift
to Oherlin, Ohio college $4,000 May Beach Tousey be
quests several Episcopal churches. 100000; Edward
Tuck, gift to Dartmouth college 100000.
First six months OF 1909: John NJ Burke, gift for
founding home for convaecents $4,000 oo Mrs Ann e
Walsh fund for the education of candidates for the Catho
lie priesthood $45oooo; Benjamin Lord requests
institutions, SIS Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, gift St
bartholomew church a memorial, $2oo,ooo Mrs. c. P.
Huntington, gift General Memorial hospital, Sroo 600
Sophie E. Beach bequests poor OF church institutions
$4,000; Henry " Wertheim gift Of house to University
Settlement, $4,000; J. P Morgan gift to Young Mems
Christian Association 100000 John D Rockefeller gift to
William Jewell college, $4,000 the Young Mems Chris
tlau Association, 100000; Adeph college, BROOKLYN
$G2Sooo William T. Dodge gift Young Mems Christian
Association, S75,ooo Cleveland H. Dodge gift to Young
Mems Christian Associations $4,000 Lena Currier beouest
to Columbia university $4,000 Charles p DAILY bequest to
Bronx Botanical gardens $4,000 Leonard Lewisohn be-
quest TO Hebrew Shelterng Guardian $4,000 to Hebrew
theological college, $4,000 and to Hamburg hospital Sso
ooo. Blessed be those who give.