Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09

nualy as salaries to members of the fac.
ulty.
Mrs. Hearst's Munfhcence.
The University Chronicle for the last veal
contains the following summary of her mu-
nificence:
:
For salaries Exclusive OF those paid ''
pa q! .1e animated colleges)....-.... LEO OC
Tor scholarships ............. 1886. O(
OF amounts for erection Of Hearst
memorial mining building, and Of
MINING. mining laboratory, included under
For archaeological research and de-
partment of arthropology ........... 226 674 Al
Other gifts to departments at Berkeley S. 1872 ia
For LICK observatory. ............... g. leo. 90
Foe afhlfated colleges. ............ 1882. 10
ror the hearst architectural plan. 149, 262. OF
ea Ills not Immediately to the univer-
SHY .'''......... -.............. 45,1429
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81 ,221 ,lg2 u
In order to stimulate public interest In
the university, and to provide harmonious
ana dfgn1fed architectural scheme for the
future. Mrs. Hearst expended nearly
$lO0Oo few years ago in an international
architectural competition. which attracted
universal attention at the time. She in
vlted all OF the great architects Of the world
to submit designs for group of buildings
for an ideal university to include library,
chapel lecture halls, laboratories. dormi-
tories. museum, gymnasium and other
buildings the entire group to cost $4,000,
0OO The highest architectural authorities
were invited to serve as jury, and plans
were submitted by a number Of famous
architects in Europe and America The Jury
sat at Antwerp; 1t did not accept the entire
proposal of any one competitor, but from
the plans of a dozen or more different COM
petitors 1t selected the best features and
the group as finally determined upon was
adopted by the regents as a harmonious
and noole plan to guide them in building up
university city.
1t has not been the intention of Mrs
Hearst to erect all these buildings at her
own expense, as many people have sup
posed. 1t has been her hope and expecta-
ton that other patrons would assist In car
rying out the scheme, and she has set them
good example and has inaugurated a great
undertaking by erecting a building for the
school of mines as an appropriate memorial
to her late husband: and her son, William
R. Hearst has provided the second build
ing in the form of a novel Greek theater.
The alumni have pledged themselves to
erect an alumni hall at a cost of 500 900,
which shall serve as a center for the social
of California will erect the fourth build
ing, to be called California Hall, and
Charles F. Doe will erect library build
ing. at a cost of 100000, all from Mrs.
Hearst's designs.
Her mining building is nearly completed
and IS beautiful structure. The Greek
Theater Is also completed and was dedi-
Gated by President Roosevelt during his
reproduction of the theater at EDidaurus,
Greece. built by Polycletus in the fourth
century, B. c., and is esteemed by critics
as not only the best preserved of all thea
tiers of purely Greek origin, but the most
beautiful. 1t is located in a grove, on the
outskirts of the university campus, where a
hollow in the foot hills furnished a natural
amphitheater. The auditorium is a vast
semicrcle with seats of solid concrete rising
one above the other, and capable of accom-
modating 5000 persons. The stage is 133
feet long and % feet deep, and is inclosed
by paneled wall forty-two feet high, orna-
mented with statuary. There is no roof,
and none is necessary in that climate, but
the acoustics are remarkable. The class
day and commencement exercises were held
in the theater last summer, and every ut
terance from the stage was audible at the
farthest row of seats.
All Benefactions Cut Off.
John Galen Howard of New York, who
was educated at the Boston Institute of
Technology and at the School Of Fine Arts
at Paris, is the permanent supervising
architect of the university, and his salary.
until now, has been paid by Mrs. Hearst.
but for some mysterious reason yet unex-
planned that good woman, whose extraordi-
nary munificence I have recited. has sud-
IDENTIFY and without warning cut off that
and all of her benefactions to the insti-
from every enterprise and benevolence she
has ever fnaugurated or assisted or sus-
tanned. except the mining building now be-
ing erected as memorial to her husband.
and twenty-one scholarships for which per-
manent provision had been made.
The faculty and friends of the university
were almost paralyzed by the shock. They
would not have been more surprised If the
legislature of California had repudiated the
institution. The university year began in
September, and for the first time in it's
history without dollar from Mrs. Hearst.
The several departments she has support
ed have been closed; her exploring expe-
ditions have been recalled: the Hearst do
nestle industries have been closed, Hearst
and the clubs and associations that have
depended upon her generosity for so many
years are paralyZed. 1t Is impossible for
a stranger unfamiliar with the situation at
the University of California to comprehend
what ell this means, and the calamity is
aggravated by the fact that no explanation
has been offered.
The popular opinion is that Mrs. Hearst
is indignant because of the indifference of
the people of California, and the university
in particular, to her sons presidential as
pirations. 1t is also generally assumed
that she was compelled to pay his cam
paign expenses to such an amount as to
cripple even her enormous resources and
to compel her to Eetrench in her expendi-
lures But President Wheeler assured me
that there Is not the slightest foundation
for either Of these conjectures, and they
do noble woman gross injustice. Mrs.
Hearst has not cut off all her charities and
benevolences in California alone, but every
where. She has closed several philanthropy
ic institutions which she has been sup
porting for years at Washington. Albany,
New York and elsewhere, and has offered
no explanation in either place. She has
sold her palatial residence at Washington,
and last winter lived with her son in a
hired house.
President Wheeler is as much in the dark
as every one, but he has a theory that Mrs.
Hearst has been compelled to retrench be-
cause the directors of the Homestake mine
at Deadwood. which has been paying her
five or six hundred thousand a year in
dividends, are now devoting one-half of it's
earnings to rebuilding the plant, and be-
cause she has been called upon to pay an
assessment of several million dollars for
the purchase of the Oroya railroad and
the Cerro de Pasco mines of Peru, which
she has recently purchased in partnership
with the Haggin brothers. II. C. Frfck D.
O. Mills. Hamilton Nick. Twombly and
other American capitalists.