The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-05
HEARST
STOPS ALL GIFTS

her late husband; and her son, William
r. Hearst, has provided the second
building in the form of a novel Greek
theater The alumni have pledged
themselves to erect an alumni hall at
a cost of 100000, which shall serve as
a center for the social life of the uni
versity; the state of California will
erect the fourth building, to be called
California Hall, and Charles F. Doe
will erect library building, at a cost
of 100000, all from Mrs. Hearst's de-
signsy~
John Galen Howard of New York,
who was educated at the Boston Insti-
tute 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 pad
by Mrs. Hearst, but for some mysteri-
Gus reason yet unexplained that good
woman, whose extraordinary munifi-
cence l have rected, has suddenly and
without warning cut of that and all of
her benefactions to the institution She
has withdrawn her support from every
enterprise and benevolence she has
ever inaugurated or assisted or sus-
tanned, except the mining building now
being erected as a memorial to her
husband, and twenty-one scholarships
for which permanent provision had
been made.
The faculty and friends of the uni
versity were almost paratyzed by the
shock. They would not have been more
surprised if the Legislature of Calfor-
mia had repudiated the institution. The
university year began in September,
and for the first time in it's history
without a dollar from Mrs. Hearst. The
several departments she has supported
have been closed; her exploring eXpe-
ditions have been recalled; the Hearst
domestic industries have been closed,
Hearst Hall is without visible means
of support, and the clubs and aesocia-
tions that have depended upon her
generosity for so many years are para
lyzed. 1t is impossible for a stranger
unfamiliar with the situation at the
University of California to comprehend
what all this means, and the calamity
is aggravated by the fact that no eX
PLANTATION has been offered.
The popular opinion is that Mrs.
Hearst is indignant because of the IL
difference of the people of California,
and the university in particular, to he's
sons presidential aspirations. 1t is al
so generally assumed that she was
compelled to pay his campaign ex-
penses to such an amount as to cripple
even her enormous resources AMI to
compel her to retrench in her expendi-
lures. But President Wheeler assured
me that there Is not the slightest foun-
datiOn for either of these conjectures
and they do a noble woman gross in
justice. Mrs Hearst has not cut off all
her charities and benevolences in Cal
ifOrnia alone, but everywhere. She
has closed several philanthropic insti-
tutions which she has been supporting
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 i'm the
dark as every one, but he has a theory
that Mrs. Hearst has been compelled to
retrench because the directors of the
Homestake mine at DeadwoOd which
has been paying her five or six hundred
thousand year in dividends, are now
devoting one-half of its earnings to re-
building the plant, and because she has
been called upon to pay an assessment
of several million dollars for the pur-
chase of the Oroya railroad and the
Cerro de Pasco mines of Peru, which
she has recently purchased in partner
ship with the Haggin brothers, II, C.
Frick, d. o. Mills, Hamilton NICK
TwOmbly and other American capital.
ists.-William e. Curtis.