The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-30
MRS. HEARST WITH
DRAWS SUPPORT
Friends of California Univer =
sity Receive q Terrible
Shock

Berkeley. May 29.-People within and
greatly surprised by the announcement
Saturday that Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst
had withdrawn her support entirely
from the Hearst Domestic Industries,
an institution she founded four years
ago to provide the means Of self-sup-
port for women students in the Uni
versty of California. But this is not
all. for an investigation has developed
that Mrs. Hearst has withdrawn her
patronage from other activities that
she has long assisted and given orders
to cut down expenditures in numerous
directions.
Those interested in the university
are asking what it all means, and
there is a deal of gossip and shaky
feeling among the many that have
looked to Ms. Hearst for salaries and
assistance. Some are asking whether
1t does not mean that Mrs. Hearst Is
preparing to lift her munificent hand
altogether from the university. There
Is talk that she has quarreled with
the powers in the university and may
never return to it. Some color is
given to this idea by Mrs. Hearst's
sudden determination not to build a
mansion in Berkeley after she had act
ually laid her plans for 1t. Some tine
ago it wcs given out that she would
return Immediately to Berkeley after
her arrival in New Yo.k from trip
around the world. but weeks have
passed and now 1t is announced that
she is about to return to Europe. She
was to have been here in time for
commencement and to give the senior
| class the usual annual outing to Pleas
anton. but commencement has come
and gone and no word came from Mrs.
| Hearst.
| In letter to Miss A. NJ Hicks. sup
ervisor of the Domestic Industries
School. she declares that the results
obtained do not justify further expen-
ditures from her in behalf of the in
stituton This may be taken to mean
that the cost of maintaining this and
other institutions has been too heavy
a drain upon the purse strings of Mrs.
| Hearst. and that she must reduce the
Mrs. Hearst has given to the UNI
versity In one way of another a sum
approximating s1.o0O,000. and this un-
doubtedly has made a deep impression
on her fortune.
The story of Mrs Hearst's with
drawal of support from the domestic
industries school was precipitated by
the publication of dispatch in the
morning papers that she had formally
| declined to further asst a kindergar-
| ten training school she established In
Washington eight years ago and which
has since borne her name. IT appears
that she announced that size could no
| longer stand the expense of $4,000 re-
| quired to maintain it. as the condi-
ton OF her finances would no longer
! permit the outlay. certain of her in
vestments having turned out to be un-
profitable.
Now Mrs Hearst's acton in regard
to the Washington school seems to por-
| tend policy of reduction In the cost
of the activities she has hitherto sup
ported at the Unive sity of California
Her attitude toward the training school
is exactly the same as that she has
assumed toward the domestic indus
tries school. The school here has cost
her not less than $4,000 to maintain
| ard she feels now that she can no
| longer afford that large amount
Mrs. Hearst evidently feels the same
way about the Young Women's Chris
| tian Association. to which she has al
ways given literally. Hearst Hall and
the women's clubs. This year she gave
nothing to the Young Womens Chris
tian Association and her support was
& eatly missed at the recent Capitola
| confer ence. In Hearst Hall she has
| cut down expenses in the culinary de-
partment and dismissed a night watch
r,an she has employed. The women's
| clubs she has left now TO support
fntmselves. although ii was the un-
derstanding that they would eventu-
ally become self-supporting. Thus IL
| is easy to see that the university's
| benefactress Is curtailing the outgo In
every direction.
The Hearst Domestic Industries
School was designed to open the way
| for girls seeking to support them
selves through college. Fine sewing
was taught them and they We're paid
/ at the rate of twenty cents and hour
/ from the beginning. so II really gave
j each girl scholarship. Orders were
/ taken foi sewing and the school made
self-supporting so far as possible. Even
with the money earned. however. the
school was a source of great expense
to Mrs. Hearst and she found herself
compelled to spend annually something