The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-01-30
YEARS GREAT CHARITIES
Carnegie Led in Beneficence, With
John D. Rockefeller Second.
Gifts and requests Show a Total
of 100000, O0o-Not Up to
the Record of 1901.

Chicago. - The record of benef-
cence for 1906, expressed in gifts
and requests, as compiled by the
Chicago Tribune, shows a total of
s106,3SS,063, no items of less than
$1,000 being included. This total
does not include contributions to
charity in the general sense, church
collections or minor subscriptions,
but only such donations and requests
as have been published in the daily
papers.
AS compared with former years,
the record stands thus: 1901 (the
record breaking year,. s122,S8S,732;
1902, s77,397.167; 1903, $76.634;-
918; 1904. $46,296,9S0, and 1905,
s104,5S6,422. The donations for
1906 amounted to s61,179.O93, and
the requests to 45,20S.970. The
total was distributed as follows: To
educational institutions. s32,492,-
636; to charities. S49,397,615; to re-
ligious organizations, $~5,443.475; to
museums, art galleries and public
improvements. s16.849,700, and to
libraries. S1,704,617.
AS usual, Andrew Carnegie Is
the most conspicuous figure in this
distribution. His donations amount
to $11,094,000. which is $8,S64,7 700
less than those of1905 ($19 ,700).
He has provided buildings for seven
teen libraries, at a cost of $273,000.
as compared with fifteen libraries at
a cost of s355,000 last year, and has
given S~1,167,5O0 to forty-four small
colleges, as compared with $2,755.-
700 to 144 colleges last year. His
gifts of organs to churches, as re-
ported, are $10,925, as compared
with $11.S25 in 1905.
John D. Rockefeller falls behind
in the race with Carnegie. his con-
tributions amounting to only $685.
900, as compared with $11,620,000
in 1905. These contributions have
been as follows:
University Of Chicago. ..$4,890,000
Young Mems Christian AS
ClatlOn $3.50. o4o,VUO
Juvenile R~eformatory in
New York. 100000
School Of Applied Design
Tor women .......... 25,OOU
Children's Hospitalin New
YORK ....:... ....... IZ5'OOV
Foreign missions ....... 275,000
sity ................. $4,000
Church ...... 100000
McMaster's College $50. $4,000
Or. D. K. Pearson's "liver"s has
~ Ioo~ - oo&;o1v 1~op11ua1 nc In
past years. He has given $145, 900
to the following small colleges: Gull
ford, $4,000; Yankton. 100000; U.
s. Grant, $4,000; McKendree, $780,
900, and $4,000 to charity.
A new philanthropist, Mrs. Russell
Sage, appears. Her gifts thus 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-
tons in 1907.
The donations and bequests dur
ing 1906 amounting to S~1,000,00O
and upward were as follows:
San Francisco relieffund. SIS 100000
Charles T. 'gerkes by will
to found Yerkes Hos
pital...... ........ 10000 900
Charles T. Yerkes by will
to found Yerkes Art
Gallery .......... 5,0OO, 900
Marshall Field, by will to
Field Museum ...... 5000, 600
lnegie Technical School. OOO,o 900
P. A. B. Widener, gift to
found Home for Grip
pied Children. ...... 100000
David Rankin, st. Louis,
gift toindustrial school 100000
John D.. Rockefeller, gifts
to University of Chi
cago .............. 100000
Marianne Brimmer, Bos-
ton, gifts to Museum
Of Fine Arts. ...... 1,315,O0O
D. B. Shipman, Chicago,
will to charities ..... 100000
Andrew Carnegie, gift to
Fine Arts Building. 100000
John D. Rockefeller, gift
tory $4,000. ......... 100000
York, gift to charities. 100000
Charles Fergus, Philadel-
phia, will to charities. l,O00,0O0
Albert Wilcox. Seabright,
Society 800. ....... 100000
C.. E. Schoelkopf, Kan
sas City, Mo will to
charities ...... -. 1,O00,O 900
John D. Rockefeller's present gift
of s2,917,0O0 to the University of
| Chicago makes his total gifts to the
university during eighteen years
s21,324,322. The present was re-
| ceived by Acting President Harry
Pratt Judson in a letter from John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., speaking for his
| father. 1t was given Internationally,
and Is one of the three largest dona-
lions that the founder of the univer-
| sity has made since his Initial sub
| scription of $234,000 in January,
1889. He gave the university 3d.
100000 in November, 1895, and
s3,245,000 in December, 1904.