The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
GIFT TO WASHBURN
j. w. Moore Leaves the College
$4,000 Estate.
Old Time Real Estate Dealer
Dies at Hospital.
is ALMOST $4OO,OOOs
Washburn Endowment Will Be
Greatly Benefited.
Andrew Carnegie Will Make His
$4,000 Gift.

er of this cit who has been living b.
himself at 1900 East Sixth avenue 70
the last ten years. died at Christ's hos
pital Tuesday night and left as will
to Washburn college of this city II
bonds and property practically $4,000
The entire Moore estate was valued a
SIS, COO and the remainder was left t
Mrs. Ro6ette Smith who is now living
at Toledo, Ohio.
| When Mr. Moore made out his will tt
Washburn college<he could hardly real
ize that through his action the Toueks
school would obtain permanent
lordowmens of almost 100000 and place
| the school in the best financial condi-
| ton it has been placed in all the years
| of it's history.
Washburn has been collecting $75.-
! coo endowment fund and the trustees
are busily engaged in collecting the
subscripticns at this time. This tuno
would mean that the endowment would
have reached 100000 and in that case
mary other sums were promised them.
BY the gift from Mr.. Moore today
it means that Washburn college VIII
add to the present endowment OF $l6O.
coo a eund of over 100000 more. IL
means that Washburn will receive from
Andrew Carnegie $4,000, from the New
York educational board $4,000, On ad-
6ition to the 5000 that has been dona-
teD and IL will also place Washburn
en- the Carnegie pension fund which
provides for all the college professors
who have taught IN the college a GER
tam length of time and have become
unable to continue their work In other
words-it means that Wasnburns
complete endowment will amount to al
most 100000
The New York educational board Of
fered the college $25.000 as soon as they
raised the SIS, 00c endowment in Topeka.
AS fast as the endowment is collected
the board turns over the gift. ABOUT
IS 900 has been turned over at this time
and when the Moore will is settled
it means that the remaining $13 600 Will
be sent to the Washburn treasury at
once.
andrew Carnegie promised the college
a gift of $4,000 as soon as the per-
manent endowment was raised to $780,
OeO The endowment at this time is
about $4,000 and with the Moore es-
tate it will reach over the required
r alters are settled Mr.. Carnegie viii
be informed at once and the $50,o0O
will be forwarded to Washburn.
Then there is the third advantage
which will be taken by the growing To-
peka institution. The Carnegie pension
fund for retiring allowances to profess
sors is given onlv to colleges having
ar endowment of 100000 or over. Also
Only to colleges not under sectarlan
control, that is. that their trustees or
professors must be of any one denomi-
nation. Washburn has always been in
UNCONVENTIONAL in the sense that It's
trustees and faculty have been of many
Ger ominations scarcely more than enc
half of either are now Congregational
lists. 50 with a slight technical change
Ir- it's charter Washburn will receive
tie benefits. The trustees have ap-
pointed a committee to take TINS mat
ter in hand and the charter VIII De
change at once.
When this is done Washburn will be
the only college in Kansas with the
Carnegie fund. None of the other col
leses in the state have the rights. All
this talk about Washburn being
Congregational college during the last
ten years is follish-the college has not |
been under the control of the Congre-
themselves are far from being from |
this one church. -
When asked about the Moore will |
this mrning, Treasurer Griffin OF the
College said:
~ have not oen- Informed officially |
If this estate anG have done nothing |
toward it's settlement but understand |
that it is correct. 1t Will take consla-
cradle time to go over the rroper-!
!,oi.1ings and I can nor give cut any
tkD.g official as yet"
J. w. Moore came to Kansas forty |
years ago and settled near Topeka at
{ nee. as a country school teacher Dur
ing the big boom of about 23 years
ago he went into the real estate bust
ness and made a fortune. He with
: rev just in time and for the last sew
enteen years he has been living by
himself making acQuaintanceS with !
very few people and with practically
no friends At his death he owned a |
big 320-acre farm near Meriden' Two
quarter sections, another nine miles
south of Topeka and still another near
Esl ridge. He also has considerable
money invested in stocks and bonds.
1t is said that the stocks and bonds
and the Meriden and Eskridge prop
srty have been left to the college. 1t i
IS not known why he left this vast
sum to the Topeka school. He knew
no one there but it is thought that
this is where it would do the most
good. He had been Influenced to leave
The money for the erection of Saliva
ion army home.
w. E. Atchison, assistant county at
has been attorney for Mr..
Moore in many lawsuits brought by
aim. In speaking of the ways of the
Did man, Mr.. Atchison said this morn
ng; ,,,+
re could hardly be called a miser as
;ome people have stated. 1 remember
,ne time when he went back to Ohio
o see his sister. When he arrived
here he insisted that a family reunion
De held and at his expense elaboratel
orepartions were made for the gath
.ring. Eighteen of his closest relatives
we're there and when they had finished
he big meal, Mr.. Moore arose from
lis chair and pulling one thousand
lol1ars out of his pocket he distributed
t among the relatives. He came back
% Topeka and for months he talked
lbout tit made him one of the hap
)iest men in the world
Mr.. Moore has always lived by him
elf and has cooked his own meals.
He had very few friends-not seeming
o care to make them. His son and
laughter (who was a very beautiful
a
,randchild also died. He left some of
lis property in the city to Mrs. Ellen