The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
EIGHTY MILLIONS
GIVEN TO CHARITY
One Years Record for Philan.
thropic Work in United
States.
OUR MEN LEAD WORLD
Carnegie and Rockefeller Devote Large
Sums for Special Purposes-What
Colleges and Libraries Get
Large Sums.

Colleges and Libraries Get
Large Sums.
New York special: Eighty million
dollars We're donated to philanthropic
and charitable work in the United
States last year. OF this sum $4,000
900 came from New York. Vast as the
amount is the reports Indicate that it
will be still greater this year. The
distribution of these mighty fortunes
has been extensive The money has
been made to v all fields of en-
deavor known to the experts of ,chari-
table organizations. Millions of dol
lars have been expended wisely. Per
haps millions have been expended fool
ishly. 1t seems like an easy thing ~
do to give money away. When one has
determined, however, to give away NIL
lions and give them away judicially
the proposition is evolved into a
science. Experience has taught the
Rlmoners that the art of giving gen.
%erously, wisely and we'll is the greatest
blessing of the philant!iropist.
On every side where n may turn
free hands of the givers. Magnificent
libraries. colleges. schools, hospitals
and public institutions, donated and
maintained by generous Americans. APP
pear in all cities and in many of the
smaller towns. Millions are expended
in providing for the poor by private
means outside of the regular work OF
the state n municipal governments.
Schools of A Kinds.
Private school for technical work, in
situations for scientific research, homes
for the blind, for the deaf and dumb.
for the crippled. for the ola, for the
o~rphans-for all classes, all conditions
of poor and needy. halt and lame-are
maintained; museums of art, of edu-
cation. OF natural history, are founded:
expeditions are equipped for the dis
covery of new lands and new people:
missionaries are sent to all parts of
the globe; churches and cathedrals are
built. II in every conceivable way
that money may be donated it is given
freely, eagerly.
Nearly every wealthy philanthropist has
his own method. There are men. ,lke
Carnegie and Rockefeller, who work out
one grand philanthropic scheme, and then
unload their fortunes in blocks of hale
millions. There are others. like Jacob II.
Schiff, who go into the details of charities
and seek to make their donat tons varied
as we'll as effective. 1t is these different
methods-the personnel of these mun.ti-
cent givers-that form one Of the most
interesting chapters in one worlds history
of philanthropy.
-Four Greatest Givers.
Probably the four greatest givers in the
world. in the sense of general charitable
and philathropic donations, are Andrew
Carnegie, Jacob III. Schiff, James Speyer
and Morris X. Jesup. OF these Mr.. Schifr
has been rated as the model philanthro-
pit on account of the amount that he
gives, the way in which he gives 1t and
his discernment as to the helpfulncss of
his donations.
IN his methods of giving Mr.. Schiff is en-
tirely unselfsh. He Is easily approached.
quickly makes up his mind, and acts
promptly. His charities cover such a wide
field that 1t Is difficult to name them. He
has given a museum to Harvard college.
He is one of the most liberal contributors
to and president of the Montehore home.
the largest institution for invalids In the
world. He is a liberal donator to the
National Museum of Art and to all the
benevolent institutions in New York and
many other cities. In fact, there is scarce
ly any list for charitable donations in
which his name may not be found. Mr..
echiff's methods are entirely without self
interest. He does not seek to build up a
mon .ent for himself. Wide as is his
public philanthrophy his private charities.
OF which the world knows little, are SAID
70 be fully as extensive. He relieves hum
dreds of cases of individual poverty very
year.
Rockefeller Leads in Education.
unquestionably John d. Rockefeller
gives more to educational work than any
other man. No one knows exactly the ex-
tent of his donations. He is know to have
given away more than S35. 900. 600, more
thar one-third of w~hich-s13,0 600, 0O0-was
given to the Chicago university.
To other institutions he has given. Rush
Medical college. Chicago, sc, 600, 600; Bar
nard college, sl,S75, 600; Southern I.duca-
tional fund, SLIPS, 600; Harvard university.
100000; Baptist Missionary fund. $1,000.
600; Teachers college, New York, $500. 600:
Vassar college. 100000; Brown university.
ssS0, 600; Cornell university, $3.50, oOo; Bryn
Mawr college, $3.50, 900; Rockefeller Jnsti-
tute for Medical Research, $500, 900; New
ton Theological seminary, $15O. ono: Adelphi
college. SIPS 600; Syracuse university. s1to.-
600: Smith college, s1oo. 900; Y. M. c. A.,
New York, 100000; Y. M. c. A., Brooklyn.
$4,000; Wellesley college, s1so. 600; Column
bia university, 100000; Denison college.
Granville, o., 500, 900: Furman university,
Greenville. S.. c., 500, 900: University Of
Nebraska, 500, 900; Y. M. c. A., Washing-
ton, $4,000; Indiana university, $50, 900;
Shurtleff college, Springfield, ILL.,, s35, $50:
Bucknell university, s25, 900; William Jew
ell university, $4,000; gifts prior to 1892
exclusive Chicago university, 81, 0OO, coo;
gifts are so colossal that the mind cannot
$1,000. 900.
Andrew Carnegie, however, has been a
greater giver than Mr.. Rockefeller. Mr..
Carnegie's gifts have been for the estab-
lishment of libraries. He has already given
away more than $50, 900, 900. OF this sum
the United States received s6s, 517, 472, Scot
land sl7, 713, $50, Holland 81, $780, 900. England
and Wales 81, 1854, 800, Canada 81, O16, 500, Ire
land s315, 900. and Cuba $252. 600. RockefeI-
Her and Carnegie give more than any other
two men in the new or old world. Their
gifts are so colossal tat the mind cannot
grasp the immensely of the figures repre-.
senting them.
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