The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03
ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS
BENEVOLENCES OF 1903
Enormous Sum Donated and Be
queathed by Americans in
the Past Year.
COLLEGES AND
Hospitals, Churches and Mission
airy Societies the Gamers
Noteworthy Gifts.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, Jan. Each morning the
news dispatches tell of gifts and requests to
colleges, libraries, hopsitais, churches and
missionary societies. What was the total
of American benevolence last year? a
fair estimate puts it at about $lOO.Oo,Vn.
But this Is an estimate only. and it does
not by any means include all American
benevolence. The fact is, nobody knows
how much Americans give away annually,
and all tables, no matter what their claims,
are no more than estimates. For 1902 sew
eral principal newspapers figured out Amer
lean ~benevolence at S146,0 0,O00, and included
in that sum $4,000, 900 given by Americans
10 foreign missions. But Americans give
only sc. $780, 900 annually to foreign missions.
For some years Appleton's Annual has
published estimates, putting the total at
from ST. 900. eco to $62. eOO. 900. But the annual
excludes all gifts under $1,000, and every
body knows that gifts under that sum are
many times moro numerous than gifts above
that sum. Hence, when it is stated that
American benevclence ran about 800
during the year ending a day or two ago,
ii is TO be understood to mean only such
gifts as are noteworthy and therefore
chronicled. Some day, and by somebody
American benevolence will be recorded and
officially reported. 1t is not now.
Following are some of the noteworthy
gifts of the year Just ended:
Mrs. J. w. Winthrop, to Princeton
UNIVERSITY 1,s5O,oOO
Schools of Chicago ..o.............. 1,25O,OOO
ditions to endowment .............. 1,655.OOO
ieges 100000
College for Women '...'............ 100000
The .Wyman gift to Johns Hopkins
Mrs. uniI F Fl Thomson. TO Teachers '
College. New York ................ $4,000
NJ. Hartley Dodge, to Columbia
Orthodox Jewish Seminary endow-
ment 275.OOO
Seminary endowment .............. 275,Mo
Tradesmen Institute ...n........... 25O,ooo
lege 100000
II. NJ. Hanna. to Western Reserve
College. Cleveland ."N4...... 100, 900
OTHER LARGE GIFTS.
The foregoing gives an IDEA of the large
gifts to education, but are by no means
all of such gifts. From May 81, 1902. to
May 81, 1903, the gifts to libraries are placed
by the American Library Association at
SO, 3O6. 4O7, of which Andrew Carnegie is
credited with gifts amounting to $6,679,0O.
The largest single gift of the year was that
by John D. Rockefeller to the Rush Medical
Institute, Chicago. 1t amounted to $1,000
600. Next TO it in amount was one by
Andrew Carnegie for the endowment Of a
fund for rho raIiaf of injured men of the
steel works at Homestead. 1t amounts to
100000. The Phipps Consumptive Hos
pital fund. Philadelphia, was s1.25O,O OO, and
the Jeanes gifts, for a home for aged
Quakers in Germantown, a suburb of the
same city. was $1,000, 900. The Maxwell adj
citions TO the Long Island Hospital will
cost 100000, and the Reid gifts to Rich
mond. Ind, araount to 100000. Odd be-
quests and gifts of the year include Andrew
Carnegie's $600.O0 to Booker t. Washing
ton, Mrs. G. D.. w. Appleby's gift of 81
$50. 900 10 be invested for the benefit of the
poor of st. Paul, Mimi. and the $500 600 of
one devout woman Of George toward the
extension of the Episcopal Church in that
State. An interesting gift was that of
Harriet Lane Johnson, a relative OF a
President of the United States, OF 100000 TO
found a choir school in connection with the
Episcopal Cathedral at Washington.
The close of each year sees some projects
incomplete. Andrew Carnegie talks of Civ
ing several millions to the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Perhaps details
are already concluded, but the funds have
not, it is said, been turned over. There
/ are some Gordon Mckay millions to go to
Harvard University, as is supposed. and
during the year Mr.. r. M. Hubhell left in
about seventy years. $1,000 900 with which
to establish a university at Des Moines,
Ia. Marshall Field looks forward to a park
plan In Chicago that Will take millions, per-
haps as many as ten, and John d. Rookie
Teller has under consideration a medical
research institute for New York city to
-I a-1 naArA ~ pnEh
in Chicago. 1t is an interesting fact con-
corning all OF these gifts that while many
of them are TO causes outside all churches.
the funds for them are given, In fully 10
per cent. of the total, by persons inside
of the churches. The Church Economist
estimates the cost of maintenance of all
churches in America to be $3.50, 100000 a
year. Not only do Christian people give
almost all of this vast sum. but they also
give fully $75.O00,O0 of the $l0O,OOO,O0O going
to causes outside of the churches each year.
1t is impossible to say how much 1t costs
each year to maintain all Roman Catholic
Churches in America. including the build
ing of new churches. That church keeps no
record of such expenditures. save as each
parish keeps it's own. Not all Protestant
bodies compile such tables of expenditures.
Among these are the Methodists. and so, in
the table that follows. Methodist figures
are estimates; the others actual. All are
for church maintenance, missions, repairs
and new structures;
Methodist Episcopal, all bodies. l.. 50. OOO, 900
Presbyterian North ................ I.57l,3 81
Protestant Episcopal ............... 1851. 16S
RaDtist. all bodies commencement. II. O65, POI
Iutherans. ali bodies ............ II, 757, $40
] Congregations 10,O51, 402
The income of the Church of England,
all sources save contributions for missions,
is officially given at SIS, 767. 7S5 for thu year
1902, the last published to date.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO MISSIONS.
Almost ali Christian bodies, in all coun-
tries, have missionary societies for the
prosecution of work in foreign countries,
but it is only in America. Canada and Aus
tralia where immigrants are creating new
communities. that home missionary socie-
ties are found. The great missionary socie-
ties, foreign and home. had incomes last
year aggregating S33,OC0.OOe. The income