The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-23
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three hundred and eightyfour dollars
and eleven cents a day! That Is the
philapthropic tribute which the year
now passing has paid 10 mankind s bet
terment and relief from sutleT1ng; m me
twelve months total of SOL ,230, ,294 is
Immensely impressive, even to those
who may have followed the course of
such annual records, and have so become
accustomed TO eight-fgure giving,
Yet all records such as this are peces
sarily incomplete. Much that is given
passes, without public notice, so that
even an estimate is practically out of
the question. The journalistic stats.
tician must rely upon the figures pub
lished from day to day, and must yet
farther define the limits of his work
because of the uncertainty OF publlca-
tion in one part of the country of gifts
of small total made in some other part.
In the tables following $4,000 has been
assumed as the minimum to he consld-
ered--though the multiciplicity of small
donations, thus lost sight Of, would
raise the year S aggregate by not less
than $4,000, 900.
Again, only individual glvers are
here taken account of, which fact pre-
vents the list from enrolling such mag
nihcent charities as 1905 has seen made
10 the suffering Jews of Russia, to the
famine-stricken provinces of Japan, the
homeless and hungry of San francisco
and VALPARAISO, and fhc destitute of
Italy, driven from hesrths and fields
bv the fury of Vesuvius. The so-called
small gifts made to these FIVE causes
would total at $5,00o,000.
Old Worlds Generous Part.
Finally, only American giVers are
here listed. If il is not always easy to
gather accurate figures of the benefac-
tions made in this country, even within
the limits specified, it is much more diff
fcult to compile trustworthy tables of
such philanthropies in the Old World.
1t is but right in passing, however, to
state that the small' donations Of
England and the continent are not much
less in the aggregate than those of
America, while the record of the larger
gifts is invariably a splendid one. For
eign benefactions during 1906 must
have been quite equal to those bearing
the hallmark of the United States
(making the world IS charities for that
period something more than 100000
00oD in support of which statement
NAV be instanced dozen of such gifts,
each of 100000 or more:
Estate of sam" Lewis. Lon-
don; 10 general charities,
Five prominent Germans. in
honor of the Kaiser's silver
wsGdlnG JU,uVu,'''
Pedro Aivarado. Mexico. 10 the
ber) ..,................. 10000. 900
ly educational causes (July),. 10000 900
Princess Matternich. France;
ruaryj .,,.,.,.,.,,.......... 5,ooo.o 900
temperance cause (July).... 100000
Charities (AugustS ....7...... 10000
An anonymous Pole, 10 endow
tember) ............r.,f. 1000, 900
Princess of Monaco, to found
(Paris) marine institute
Lord inverciyde, London; va
rious marine charities (May). 100000
Montfore Levi, Brussels. TO aid
berl 500, 600
Oscar Biishchoffscheirn, London;
various charities (November) 100000
Writing then within the limitations
suggested, the American people, on this
Christmas eve, with peace and good
will ruling their prosperous land, may
ftly congratulate themselves that their
mighty nation has given to good causes,
since January last came in, exactly
S6391 an hour-or, something little
better than million dollars a week.
sls,264,35o for Education,
More than third of the years grand
total has gone to the advancement of
education. Fiftynine colleges and uni
versities, and 81 institutions Of the
secondary" class, with two gifts of
a general nature, are named in that
part of the annual report, the half
score leaders in this splendid work be-
ing:
P. a. 3. Widener, Philadelphia.
for school endowment ..--.-'. 81, 900. 600
j. d. Rockefeller, TO the Uni
versity OF Chicago -...-.....- 2.260. 900
Andrew Carnegie, to the Pitts
burg Technical schools -,..os,- 1000, 600
ing =. '...,.,............,-. 1000. 900
cai testing laboratory ........ 1000, 900
versity of California -. $4,000
A. j. Dotger OF New Jersey. to
Albert THeS WilleoN vi o of New York '''''''
City. TO Tuskegee college -. 100000
Anonymous. TO start a unver-
sity at Louisville. KY ...-,-.. 500 900
Mrs. ]. T, Swan OF Princeton. TO
Princeton university ...~-.-... 300. 900
Of the gifts to colleges donations
of more than sl00,0o0) there are six.
teen to be recorded as "lucky;" they
are:
University OF Chicago .........s2. $50 900
Carnegie Technical schools -. 1000 900
Tushegee college ......-..... 1.1s0. 900
University OF California .. 1880 900
Union Theological seminary -. 325 900
Cclurn bia university ........... 80, 900
Princeton university ..........- 800 900
University OF Virginia =. ... 500 600
Yale university ....-......-.. 271 900
Barnard college 80. -...--~-. $50, 900
Lehigh university -e.- ...,... 222. 900
Williams college .. ....,.., 100000
Adelbert (Western Reserve) -, lie. 900
Ooerlin college .,-,-,.,>...-. 1880
Lafayette college - ..,........ 10. 900
Harvard university y. ......... 10000
How the Totals Rank
Following education the benefactions
Of 1906 rank; To galleries, museums
and societies Of kindred aims, Sl1 ,029,.
$40; to homes, hospitals and asylums,
S5,7l9,O5o, with practically the same
sum (s5,6l0,6s1) to miscellaneous
charities Various gifts made, not in
cash, but officially valued, amount
ed to. .s5,44s,0oO; church works of one
kind br another received s3,047,075;
and $1,3l6,795 was spent for library
building or endowing. This country
then, received s50,437 ,294; s799, 900 OF
American gold was sent to do its work
in foreign fields.
A study of these figures, in connec
ton with the similar totals of the pas,
six years, shows that 1906 has fallen