The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-25
HENRY PHlPPS THE DONOR
THE $1OO, 900 GIFTT0 HELP DES-
 TITUTE BOERS.

! General B0tha Mistaken fin Announce
 ing "Henry WhIte'' as the GIyef-Nlr. Phipps n Director in the Carnegie
 Steel Company-Trnsts,a and is Assured d by General Botha, That Nothing Un- friendly to Great Britain VyilI be Done. London, Sept. 24.-A dispatch from
 The Hague to-day confirms the report that the donor of the $1000O0 sent to General Botha for the relief of destitute Boers was Henry Phipps, an American, and not Arthur White" as announced
 by the general in Rotterdam on Mon- day. The money, however, was sent through Arnold White.
 MT. Phipps sailed for New York to-
 day from Southampton on the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse.
 In notifying General Botha of the gift MT. Phipps wrote from Beaufort Castle. Scotland, September 20, that he and his family had followed the course of the war with anxious hearts and
 were eager for the sake of both sides that just ending might be made.
 Now that the war is over," continued MT. Phipps, it is a privilege and I be- lieve a duty to do something to relieve the sufferings caused by the war. feel that the best service could render would be to provide $1OO,O0O for the re- lief of the Boer widows and young or phans' fund, to be disbursed by you and two others. My desire is that the temporary misery of the women and children should be relieved and at the same time trust nothing will be done which could be justly described as un- friendly to Great Britain
 General Botha in his reply dated from Brussels, September 21, acknowledging
 this most generous and unexpected gift adds:
 T have not the slightest hesitation in giving you assurance that the money
 will be used solely and entirely -pillian.- thropically and that it will in no way be applied to do anything which could be justly described as unfriendly to Great Britain. Having laid down our arms and carried out Loyalty, as our late enemies admit, the terms to which we subscribed at Pretoria we made peace in the fullest sense of the word and my only object now is to try to alleviate as much as in my power lies the misery in which my countrymen find themselves, after war that has entirely ruined them and made thou candS of ttri6nty-S rfl1 uyb hoUo no means of livelihood, so that my peo- pie may. be restored to happiness and contentment in the countries which are their and my only home. l am the more thankful and more grateful to you for your generous gift as it immediately contributes so largely to make thou sands of unhappy people happier and will gladden. so many hearts. Your generosity will always be most thank fully remembered by me and all those who are to benefit thereby. In behalf of them as we'll as General Delarey and myself tender you our deepest thanks, and may the Lord reward you.'
 Attached to the correspondence is a letter from Colonial Secretary Cham berlain to Arnold White saying that as he understands MT. Phipps' gift is purely philanthropie he will be willing to render any assistance in his power to secure it's proper administration, even though the fund is confined to as- sisting the Boers. MT. Chamberlain points out that the fund, naturally, would appeal more strongly to English sympathy if it's object was to assist all the widows and orphans who have suf- fered through the war, without distinc- tion of race or politics.
 Henry Phipps of New York city is a director of the Carnegie Steel company and of other concerns