Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-09
$50, 100000 Gift
From RockefeT, :
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Oil King Gipes % s' 20 Cause
of Education oioux City
College Gets $4,000

New York, Feb. 8.-John D. Rookie
feller gave away $32,00o,0O0 yesterday.
He informed the general education
board that the vast sum was at Its dis
posal. The announcement was made
through his son, John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., who wrote letter to the board.
The donation, the largest single gift
ever made, is for general educational
purposes throughout the country.
Mr.. Rockefeller previously had given
the board $11,OO0,0O0 for the same
work, his contributions now amounting
to $43,000,000.
Makes Total $4,000, 900.
This benefaction brings Mr.. Rookie
feller's total gifts to the public for edu-
cation, religion. or philanthropy up to
the immense total of $S5 5,O56,9SS. These
figures represent the sum of his known
gifts. Probably several millions might
be added to the amount if all of his
contributions were known.
OF this immense sum $21 1924, 1922 has
been given to the University of Chi
cago. He had previously given SILL
100000 to the general education board
and yesterdays gift brings his total
contribution to that organization up to
s43.000,00o.
Second to Carnegie.
Mr.. Rockefeller ranks second only to
Andrew Carnegie as the worlds great
est contributor to the cause of human
progress. The Pittsburg ironmaster's
gifts, as far as known foot up to the
amazing total Of $134,955,366.
All previous records for benefcence
shrink in comparison with this single
gift Of $32,000,000. Andrew Carnegie
has given altogether 30,000,OOO to the
famous Plttsburg Polytechnic school,
but the amount has been extended over
a number of years. Cecil Rhodes gave
$10.000,000 for the foundation of thN
Rhodes scholarships. Leland Stanford
and his wife gave $10.000,000 for the
foundation of Stanford university. Mar
shall Fields gift of SS,O0O,O00 for the
Field museum In Chicago is of recent
date.
$4,000 for Sioux City.
While the, board was in session to-
day gifts to five colleges were ordered,
amounting In all to 100000, as fol-
lows: Beloit college, Beioit. Wis; i;
Morningside college, Sioux City. Ia;
Lafayette college, Easton, Pa, $5O,0O0
each. Wabash college, Charlottesville,
Ind, and the University of Wooster,
Wooster, O., each $125,00
In 1908 the general education board
was chartered by congress. 1t en-
ploys force of experts in the contin-
uous and systematic study of educa-
tinnal conditions In all paris of the
United States. The object of the or
ganization is promoting education IN
the states of the union by means of
gifts and otherwise.
The organization was adapted to as
sist Mr.. Rockefeller in the distribution
of his gifts to education; but it was
not intended to limit the work of the
board to the administration of funds
given by him, said Chairman Freder-
ick T. Gates, who stated his explana-
ton of the purposes of the organiza-
tion:
"It was designed to meet wider
need and to offer a medium through
which other men of means who desire
to promote education in its various
forms in the United States could do
SO In systematic, intelligent, and eff
fective way, and the board is being so
used extensively by philanthropists.
Started by Oil Magnate.
I'm March, 1902, John d. Rockefeller
pledged S1,0oO,O00 to the work of the
board, confining its use particularly 10
the study and promotion of education
in the southern states"
On June 80, 1905, through Mr. Gates,
Mr. Rockefeller gave the board $10,-
100000 in securities, the principal to
be held in perpetuity as a foundation
for education, the income above ex-
penses of administration to be dis
tributed to, or used for, the benefit of
such institutions of learning as the
board hight deem best adapted to pro-
mote a comprehensive system OF
higher education in the United States.
These were the simple conditions and
the brief form in which Mr.. Rock
efelled endowed the board
From the income of lie original
fund of $11,000,000 conditional sub
scriptions have already been made to
eighteen colleges in Virginia, North
Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia.
Louisiana, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa.
Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsyl-
vania, amounting to a total of $1,077,
500. AS condition of receiving these
gifts the colleges are raising the fur
ther total sum of S3,262 500.
CRUISE is BEGUN