Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-30


~ OMEAY, 1eio-T'he richest, the
- most powerful, the most intcli-
gent and most charitable ~ an
religions IL the Parsce, which has
It's headquarters here al Bombay
use these terms IN comparing It with
the other religions as to the number
Of It's members
There are less than 100000 Parsees In
the world. but their banks and other
financial institutions are scattered
throughout the far east. and their pos
sessions are untold millions. They have
10 be considered I'm every business
movement that goes on On India, for
they are the financial kings OF the
country They are noted for their In
togrity and progrossiveness, and just
now. when India is torn IN bv the
popuistic Hindoos the fact that they
stand In favor OF the government IL Of
value 70 Great Britain. one Of their
biggest capitalists recently said M a
PUrsec mass meeting that his people
denounced the violence and anarchy
advocated by the rcvoutionists or other
sects, and referred % the British rule
as an unmltisatoi blessing TO India.
Tho HindoOs are lliterato not one
In 10 can read or write. The Parsees
are universally educated Many OF
them are graduates OF colleges and uni
yersltles and they have large boys
schools and girls schools at Bombay
and other places in Hlndustan for tho
training Of their children.
MILLIONS FOR CHARITY.
There arc no moro charitable belicv-
ers in the world than the Parsces They
ore always giving TO public enterprises,
and their institutions, founded for their
own people have cost many millions
OF dollars. During the past year the
requests OF the late Naoroj NJ Wadia
have been largely distributed. and IN
addition there have been other gifts
from Parsees here AZ Bombay aggre-
eating 100000 The Wadin requests
amount TO more than i've million gold
dollars, All this was for the ameliora.
tion Of the condition of tho poor and
the promotion OF education among
the Parsees.
I drove today past the Jamsetjee
JeeJeebhoy Institute, which was found
ed 60 years ago by n Parsee Of that
name. He began life a poor boy and
died worth so 900, 900 A great part OF
his wealth went To charity. lie gave
S5.0O0.000 to hospitals. colleges and rest
houses. and about 100000 10 this
school. The government OF India took
per cent upon it as a loan. Since then
other Parsees have added To- the en-
dowment. and the capital Of the instl-
tuition X fourfold as large az when
started Tho Parsces OF Bombay are
building eanitary houses for the poor
OF their communities. Their schcmc Is
al bout the same as that ~ the George
Peabody trust fund. and they expect 10
make only 4 per cent on their money.
CHARITIES or PARsEE WOMEN.
Such charities are not confined 10 the
men. They are pushed and aided by
the women as we'll They have rich
widows who compare in their gifts with
Mrs Russell Sage and girls who
might stand side by side with Helen
Gould. or the latter character ia Miss
Hamabsi Framj Petit who has just
given her jewelry, valued at 200 900
ruepes for founding Parsee girls or
phanage where II Ia proposed to teach
the various arts and Industries. so that
the graduates upon leaving. may earn
their own living. Miss Pctit has given
this money over to trustees. and
committee OF influential Parsee gem
tlemen are now laying out the plans
for the institution.
one Of the Psrsee givers of the past
whom We might compare with certain
Of our millionaire widows was Mrs.
Raj Motli bal Wadia Of the same family !
as the man who has just left the
!. 100000 gold dollars She was the wife
OF millionaire Parsce Of this city,
whom she outlivcd mure than 30 years.
During that time she gave away one
million and a half dollars in public
charities, and almost two millions in
private aims. She gave Bombay its
first hospital for native women at a cost
Of over 100000, and Notwithstanding
all this. LEFT a big fortune to her
descendants
PARSEE MILLIONAIRES
These gifts suggest the wealth Of tho
Parsecs. The Pctits might be called tho
Rothschilds Of the country. save that
they are by far more generous one
of the men Of the Petit family. To