The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-01-10
GREAT CHARITIES
Carnegie Led in Beneficence, With
g John D. Rockefeller Second.
Gifts and Bequcsts Show a Total
of sIO6 5000, ooO-Not up to
the Record Of 1901.

Chicago, - The record Of benef-
enc for 1906, expressed in gifts
and requests. as compiled by the
Chicago Tribune, shows a total of
$1O6.SS8,o6S, no items of less than
$1,000 being included. This total
does not include contributions to
charity in the general sense, church
collections nr minor subscriptions.
but only such donations and beurests
as have been published in the daily
papers. -
AS compared with forraT yeas,
1.-The record stands thus: 1901 fthe
re"o-d breaking vear). s122.2SS,732;
1902, s77.3a7.167: 1903, s76.Sa4.-
a1S: 1904. s46.2q6.9S0. and 1905.
s1hA,5S6.422. The donations for
1905 amoonted to s~S1.179.O93, and
the beuuests to 4S,20S.970. The
total vas Distributed as follows: To
educational institutions. &32.492,-
e3s: TO charities. s49,2e7.S15; TO re-
I~lisious organizations. $5,442.475: to
museums. art salleries and prblic
improvements. s1SS49,7O0, and to
Libraries. 81. 704,617.
AS usual. Andrew Carneeie Is
tHe rrost consnicuons figure in this
distribution His donations amonnt
70 $11.094s000. which IS sS.S64.7OO
less thanthose of ] 9OS3($19.958.7OO
He has provided buildings for seven
e libraries, at a cost of $272,00O,
AS compared with fifteen libraries at
a cost of. S355:NOOfl last year. and has
given S~1,167,50O to fortv-tour small
colleges. as compared with S2,7S5.-
T00 F." IN 1 Al nnIlo~o6 1neA - IJsz
gifts of organs to churches. as re-
ported. are s10.a25, as compared
with $11.S25 in 1908.
John D. Rockefeller falls behind
in the race with Carnegie, his rom
tributions amounting +o onlv S7.0S5.-
600. az comDaTed with $tt,620.000
in 1905. These contributions have
been as follows:
University Of Chico 90. ..S4,S90,0 0O
Young Mems Christian AS
clatton 645, 900
Juvenile Reformatory in
New York. 100000
School nf Applied Design
for Women 1919. $4,000
Children's Hospitalin New
york .-...... 1890. 12a.n00
Foreign missions ....... 5000
Richmond (va.) Univer-
sity ........ ........ $4,000
Church ......... $500. 10000
McMaster's College ..... $4,000
DR.. D. X. Poarson's Give" has
not been as actively employed as in
past years. He has given $145.0n0
TO the following small colleges: Gull
ford. 100000: Yanktor. $4,000: u.
s. Grant. $4,000: MeKnndree, S10,-
00o. and $4,000 TO charit~.
A new philantbrooist. Mrs. Russell
Sage. anDears. Her gifts tins far
are small. amounting to $4,000 for
schools. $4,000 to the church. and
$1,000 to charity. but it is intimated
that she will make some large dona-
tions in 1907.
The donations md requests dur
ing 1905 amounting to ST, 900, 900
and upward were &c follows:
San Francisco -eIieffund.S SIS 900, 900
Charles T. Yerkes by will
to found YerEes Hos
pital. g.. ........ 1000, oo6
Charles T. Yerkes by will
to found Yerkes Art
Marshall Field. by will to
Field Museum -. 100000
negie Technical school 100000
P. A. B. Widener, gift to
found Home for Grip
pied Children. 100000
David Rankin. st. Louis.
gift toindustrfalschoo 100000
John D. Rockefeller. gifts
to University of Chi
cago 100000
Marianne Brlmmer, Bos-
ton. gifts to Museum
! OF Fine Arts........ 1,S15,000
/ D. p. Shipman. Chicago,
will to charities. ..... 100000
! Andrew Carnegie, gift to
! Fine Arts Building. 100000
John D. Rockefeller, gift
/ for Juvenile Reforma-
tory .............. 100000
!. w. ". Laurence, New
, York. gift to charities. 100000
Charles Fergus, Philadel-
phia, will to charities. 1.OOO.OOC
Albert Wilcox, Seabright,
Society -. -. 100000
: c. E. Schoelkopf, Kan
sas City, Mo will to
charities -. -. 100000
John D. Rockefeller's present gift
of S2,917,00O to the University o.
Chicago makes his total gifts to the
university during eighteen year:
$2~1,324,322. The present was re
ceived by Acting President Harry
Pratt Judson in a letter from JohI
D.. Rockefeller, Jr., speaking for hil
father. 1t was given Internationally
and is of the three largest dona
tions that the founder of the univer
sity has made since his initial sub
scription of ~$334,000 in January
1889. He gave the university So,
100000 in November. 1895. anC