The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-01-20
GIFTS AND BEQUESIS TO EDUCA'
ZION IN 1902.

Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia con-
quests for educational and charitable in
situations in the United States during the
uast wear. The list would fill sever
| columns of this paper. 1t has been care
| fully prepared and is the most accurate
information that could be gathered. N
| attempt is made to add up the gifts and
bequests. but they far exceed one hundred
| million dollars.
This writer has carefully gone over
| the full statement of each bequest, and
| fnds that of the total number, 264, only
IA give anything to the Southern educa-
tional or charitable institutions, and most
! of these are to institutions for the edu-
cation of the negro. The only donation
| in the list to a school for negroes III
North Carolina is the "~residuary estate
Of Mrs. Julia Brick, of Brooklyn, y. 1.
to the Joseph X. Brick Agricultural, In
| d~ustrial and Normal School, in Edge
cor1bc county.
The only gifts to North Carolina insti-
| tutions for the white youths are $500 0
to Elon and the gifts Of the Messrs.
Duke to Trinity College. The full list OF
| gifts and requests to the South is as
follows:
| Ball. Mrs. Sarah G. B., Galveston, Tex,
| gift to Austin Theological Seminary
$4,000.
Billings, Robert c., Boston, gives to
four institutions for the negroes OF the
South an equal portion of 81 ,O0O,o 600 TO
be divided between 1875 educational ana
charitable institutions.
Brick. Mrs. Julia Elma Brewster,
Brooklyn, N. Y, to Joseph K. Brick Ag-
| ricultural Industrial, and Normal School,,
Edgccombe County, North Carolina, her
| residuary estate.
Carroll, Mrs. Mary Austin, Boston,
Mass, gift to the University of Virginia,
a pledge of so, coo annually.
Duke. James B., New York city, gift
to Trinity College, Durham, n. G., a new
library building, 10000 for the purchase
Of books, and funds for the establishment
of chairs in German, Romance Ian
guages, Political Economy and Applied
Mathematics.
Duke. William w, New York city,
gift to Trinity College, Durham, n. e..
a dormitory.
Glover, Joseph B., Boston, Mass, Hamp-
ton Normal and Agricultural School and
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School
s237, 900.
Haggin, Mrs. J. B., New York and Ken
lucky, gift to Ashland Seminary, Yer
%sailles, KY, to restore dormltory, az
cost SIC. 900.
Haggin, Mrs. James Ben Ali, New
York city. gift to the Episcopal Diocese
of Lexington, KY, conditional on Ash
land Seminary being always at Versailles
funds for the Margaret Hall.
Huntington, Mrs. c. P, New York:
Hampton Institute, a new, library build
ing; Tuskcegee, a new academy building.
Leese, Mrs. S. P, New York, requests
to Central University of Kentucky, S25,-
COO; and Leese Institute Of Jackson, KY,
SIS. 900.
Palmer, Francis A., New York: Elop
College, n. c., $50, GOO.
Rice, William Marsh, New York, be-
quest to Rice Institute Of Houston, Tex,
the bulk of his estate of So, 00O, 900.
Tuskegee (Ala.) Institute, gift from ,
friend, for a. girls dormitory, $25, 900.
So far as the South is concerned, how
ever, in it's educational progress, the past
year marked the most important gift and
wise direction of help for Southern edu-
cation in the history Of the country. 1t
is thus outlined by Appleton:
John d. Rockefeller proposed to en-
dow a corporation, known as the Gen
eral Education Board and created by
an act of Congress in 1902, with a sum
understood to be SIC, coo, 900. The object
Of the corporation, as set forth in the
act, is 1.-The promotion of education
within the United States of America,
without distinction Of race, sex, or
creed" and the corporation is authorized
ito establish, maintain, or cndow, or
aid others to establish, maintain, or en-
dow, elementary or primary schools, in
d~ustrial schools, t%echinacal schools, nor
NAL schools, neutrality-suspicious. for teach
ers, or schools of any grade, Or higher
institutions of learning; to employ or aid
others to employ teachers and lecturers;
to aid, cooperate with or endow assOcia-
tons or other corporations engaged in
educational work within the United
States of America The corporators'
names in the bill are William H. Bald
win, Jr., Jabez l.. NJ. Curry, Frederick T.
Gates, Daniel C. Gilman. Morris X.
Jesup, Robert c. Ogden, Walter H. Page,
George Foster Peabody, and Albert
Shaw"
1t is we'll understood that the object
of this board is chiefly to assist the
Southern states which, in the poverty
that followed war, nave been struggling
to provide education for the children. The
first steps already taken have shown a
broad and wise spirit, and under the
control of the men who are the corpora
tors of the General Education Board
the policy has been to work in perfect
harmony with the State authorities, In
North Carolina the board has been in
complete accord with the Governor, State
Superintendent Joyner, and DR.. Charles
D. Mc1ver, who represents North Carolina
on the Southern Educational Conference
Executive Committee. This State is 60
ing forward of it's own motion and in