Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-16

University Is a pampercd beneficiary of
John ID. Rockefeller. But no one save
himself and his chief almoner knows
the aggregate sums SO distributed.
Besides the 100000 odd dollars given
the Chicago University. S6,0O0,000 each
, to British Medical College, $1,375, 900 to
Barnard $1,000. 900 each to Harvard, the
Baptist missionary fund, and the
, Southern Educational funds approx
imately $10,000,000 have been sown
where only the sower and his charity
; manager can directly trace them.
Miss Helen Gould, with the intelli
! gent assistance of Miss Elizabeth Alt
man. annually disburses 100000 in
charity. Probably Miss Gould sup
ports directly and indirectly more
charities than any person living. While
it does not mean that she gives away
| such sums are are recorded of the
| Rockefeller and Carnegie charities, on
the best authority her donations an
nually reach 500 or more beneficiaries.
Miss Altman is a Vassar graduate
and first met her present employer
some seven years ago, when Miss Gould
was visiting the college. Since then
she has been an active agent in giving
away nearly 100000.
Partly eclipsed by his commanding
position as trust organizer is the po-
sition of J. Pierpont Morgan as a Civ
er of money. But Notwithstanding the
secrecy he enjoins in all his benevo-
lences it is conservatively estimated
that he disburses close on half a mil
lion dollars annually in direct chari-
in, ct, ~.
His right hand in such matters is c.
W. King, for II years his confidential
secretary.
While if We accept such notable
philanthropies as the $1,0O0,000 Lying
in Hospital, 100000 for the New York
Trade School, s1.000,O00 to Harvard,
100000 for the Cathedral of st. John
the Divine, 100000 for the LOOMS
Hospital, and some 100000 in small
err donations, he confines himself to
buying art treasures, leaving individ-
ual cases to his wife. Mr.. Morgan is
known to give away a considerable to-
tai every year to personal applicants.
Including the $1.000,000 Garland
collection of porcelains and other gifts
to the Metropolitan Museum Mr.. Nor
gan has spent nearly $15, 900. 900 in art
treasures, most of which have been
purchased on the advice, it is said. of
Sir Purdon Clarke. To even enumer-
ate and describe these purchases would
require volume. But what is more
germane, the general belief is that
most OF them will eventually belong
to New York City, either in the form
of a special museum or by being dis
trlbuted among existing galleries and
museums.
In the case of Russell Sage aims
and the man seem widely divergent.
He is the last person to whom one
would look for an item not nominated
in the bond. But his wife is diligent
in doing good. She is an active men,
Der in several boards for charitable
work and concerns herself with many
individual cases. Breakfast and bus
iness-charitable business-arc daily
combined in the Sage household by
the reading of such mail as reaches
there on the early morning delivery.
One morning recently, according to
a family acquaintance. letter arrived
from a charity organization sorely in
need of $4,000. Mrs. Sage read the let
ter aloud and. having previously in
quired into the object for which the
money was intended. explained it to
her husband in detail, ending with a
suggestion that they give the money. |
Mr.. Sage said nothing. But, break |
fast over, he sought the library and |
wrote out a check for the amount |
asked. Handing it to his wife he |
cautioned her to get the check cashed |
herself, and to give the actual money |
instead of any paper with his name !
written thereon.