The news & observer., 1905-12-31
THE YEAR GONE BY:
WHAT HAS
BEEN DONE FOR MAN
Over Eighty-Six Millions
Given for Charity.
Andrew Carnegie, Who Has Raised
His Total Benefactions to Sl15..
582,633 Leads Roll of
Honor.

Honor.
Written for the News and Courier by
Warwick James Price,
One hundred and seventy~nine dol
lars a minute. That is the Christian
tribute paid by the year now passing
through each Of its hours. night and
day. TO mankinds betterment and re-
lief from suffering. The total is as
founding. unless one mas followed the
course OF such annual reports and -
become somewhat accustomed to
/ eight-ngure giying-sS6. .104. 1927
Yet ali records such as this are
necessarily incomplete Much that i
given passes without public notice SO
/ that even an estimate is out Of the
/ question. The journalistic statistician
must rely upon figures published from
day 10 day. and must farther define
/ the limits of his work because of the
uncertainty OF publication in one part
/ OF the country OF gifts Of small total
made in some other part. In these
4 tables S5. 000 has been assumed as ths
minimum 10 be considered-and the
multiplicity of small donations thus
/ lost sight of would certainly raise the
] years toal by ten millions.
| Individual giYerS too. are here ac-
/. counted for only, which fact prevents
the list from enrolling such a magni-
/ flcent charity as that which went out
+ To the suffering Russian Jews.
With all OF these limitations. how
ever. the American people. on this
4 Christmas Eve, with peace and goOi-
viii ruling their land, may congratu-
ffaJe themselves thar their nation has
given the good causes since January
last came in. at the rate OF an hourly
average of Sl07, 410.57.
$5S,30S. .O00 For Education.
Considerably more than half of the
grand total has gone TO the advance
ment of education. Eighty-three col
leges and schools are named in that
part of the annual report. though.
even so, the gifts 10 this cause would
not have stood in such overwhelming
proportion 10 the benefactions of the
whole twelye-month had not the four
largest donations of all fallen under
this head. February saw S20,000, goo
come anonymously TO the Western
University of Pennsylvania: in April
Mr.. Carnegie set by $10,00o.000 as a
fund for aged educators. followed a
month later by Mr.. Rockefeller. with
another $10,000,0o0 for the cause OF
general education: while the tragic
death of Mrs. Leland Stanford threw
into this same scale $4.S95,000 more.
The bakers dozen" of most
lucky" universities rank then as fol-
lows:
Western University of Pennsylvania
tS2O.00,000: Leland Stanford Uniyer-
sity S4,S75.0o0: Harvard University
81. SOC. .0O0: Yale University $1.405.-
1000: University of Chicago s1.150,00O:
Union Theological Seminary S1.l0V,-
600: Mccormick Seminary $1.o00.00e:
Milikin University SI.000.o000; Col
unbia University $699. 900: University
of Virginia Solo, 600: Brown Universe
ty S550,000; College of the State of
New Jersey (Princeton) S4S7,00o;
University of California 100000.
Good Names i'm Good Cause.
Among these given to the train
ing of ideas. old and young, are sew
eral of the country's more prominent
citizens. Senators Elkins and Aldrich
have each given $40. 600 to the Cath
olic University; T. p. Shonts, of the
Canal commission. has given 10 Mon
mouth University. and Col. Jim"
Guffey 10 the University of Virginia.
Thirty thousand went to various edu-
cational works in the name OF w. J.
Bryan. and the Will OF Elizabeth Wea-
ton left the whole residue of her for
tune to the seminary which bears her
name. Is one also to consider as edu-
cationaI the bequest of $4,000 by an
| anonymous Chicagoan. who wished
his money to be used to explore the
soul?"
Following education the benefac-
tions of 1906 ranks as follows: To gal
ileries. museums and societies of kim
dred aims went $T.024,0o0: TO homes
hospitals and asylums $5,39l sec. with
i$4700,1T5 10 miscellaneous charities.
Church works of various sorts follow
ed close with $4.a42.757. and $685.
600 for buildings Add TO these
totals S2.435.0 600 which came in gifts
other than of cash. though valued
| Officially" ad this country is found
TO have received in all SS4. .432--
$2015.000 was sent TO do IT'S work IN
foreign fields.
1905 S21. $50 900 Behind the "Record"
a study of these figures in connec-
ton with the similar totals of the past
five years. shows that 1905 has sur
passed 1904, though it has not equal
led earlier years. falling indeed far
behind f90I's splendid record" The
benefactions for these years in round
numbers. have been: $4,000. 600 in
Il 1900: S107 100000 in 1901: $94, ,00O,-
600 in 1902. with 1903 beating that
by an even million: only S62, ,000.00e
last vear-and SS6.100,000 this.
In the second place compare the
gains and losses in the various divis-
ions as shown by the figures of '04
and '05. There have been losses in
the gifts TO galleries and museums.
in those made 10 church work and TO
miscellaneous charities, and nearly
IS, ,OO0, ,000 less has been sent abroad,
but there have been gains in the bene
factions made TO hospitals and libra
ries. while the advance shown under
the head of education is of itself SO
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