Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

Who added q million and q half to her
long list Of gifts.
itan Museum of Art Of New York city a
fine collection Of gobelin tapestries valued
at S329,OO0 These tapestries were pur-
chased by Mr.. Morgan from Lord Sack
vile, 4 cousin of the late Lord Sackvile
West. one time British ambassador to
Washington, who was given his passports
by President Cleveland for .instructing an
American eleator how to vote i'm presi-
Dental election. The tapestries had lain
at Knowll Park, Kent, England. Lord
Sackville's country seat, for eight genera
tons They were sold to meet the eX-
pfnse- of a costly lawsuit wherein Lord
title against the son of a Spanish dancer,
who claimed that the late Lord Sackville
West had married his mother, thus maxi
ing him heir.
Mrs. Oliver H p. Belmont presented to
the Political Equality Association Of New
York city a new. clubhouse costing $780,.
'OGO. !.
Mrs. Amelia T. wofthington. widow of
the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Ne
braska, left $4,000 to churches, hos
pitfalls and other public institutions in
Massachusetts and Nebraska. Gordon
House. a club for boys and young men
III view Ioih. IeCtiN eu d ndnuSO1nG en-
dowment under the will of Prof Theo-
dore White. Prof White was an in
structor of physics at Columbia Uni
versity, and although a bachelor. was
greatly interested in boys. He willed his
estate of $500, 600 to establish a social re-
sort for young men and boys.
The most unselfiSh giver of the year
was DR.. D. X. Pearson OF Hinsdale ILL.,,
who has now given away everything he
had. including his home DR. Pearson
co. oh fad nil -6rC h;rfb
giving the remainder of his fortune $780,
CO., to various small colleges. This makes
the total of Dr. Pearson's gifts to educa-
tional institutions 100000. The gifts
are termed debts by their donor. he
would promise sums Of money when GER
tain institutions collected other sums, II
shall celebrate my birthday, April Il"
said Dr.. Pearson. ''by getting out of debt
year ago l gave notice that 1 would be
getting old by that time, and that a
young man of my age had no business
being In debt"
Bishop Abraham Grant of the African
Methodist Church. who died in Wyandotte
county, Kansas. left his estate. amount
ing to $4,000. to two negro educational
institutions-the Payne Theological Semi
nary of Wilberforce. Ohio. and the Hall
Quinn College of Waco, Tex. Bishop
Grant was born a slave in Florida in
1913, and was sold at Columbus, Ga. for
$1,000 in Confederate money during the
war. After the war he became a clerk in
the Florida grocery store of the man who
formerly owned him. Leaving this en-
ployment, he became steward of Florida
hotel, this occupation giving him chance
to attend night school He acquired
good education, and was licensed to
.oI, ;v, oil fod hiChnn
Waco. Tex. in 1883, and amassed his for
tune by successful real estate investments
in Indiana and Texas.
James Rufus smith of New York city
ordered his estate OF s25o.ooo to be dis
tributed among the Charity Organizations
Society, the Children's Aid Society, How
ard Mission for Little Wanderers, the
New York Founding Hospital, the New
York Juvenile Asylum and other similar
New York institutions. James B. and
Benjamin n. Duke, the tobacco mag
mates. made Trinity College. at Durham.
n. c., their debtors by an additional gift
of lands, buildings and endowment
amounting to 100000. This makes the
$1.50O,O0O, and they still further promise
SSOc, 900 il the college raise another sos
600. This generous offer. however. being
conditional. cannot be counted in with
the years benefactions.
Other givers in the observation-disclosures
sand-dollar class were Charlotte c. Gar
retson of Mineola, l.. l.: John Curley of
Brooklyn: Clarence Mackay of New York
city, Mary Ann Fury of Hoboken. n. j.:
Myrtle Reed, George Gould, Mrs. Alice
Hicks of Westbury, l.. l., n. Y: Mrs.
John G. Heckscher and Mrs. John S.
Kennedy of New York city.
Miss Garretson's requests to various
Long Island churches and charities re
suited from their donors business ability
She was the daughter of George II. KEEL
sey, wealthy cotton trader before the
civil war. At its close his family found
themselves practically penniless, their
sole possession being 500 acres of land
at New Hyde Park--an asset of little
value at that time. Miss Garretson, how
ever. so administered the estate that she
accumulated 100000 from the small be-
ginning.
Clarence Mackay aided the University
of Nevada by presenting to ii $200,00O for
the erection of two buildings. Myrtle
>Reed (Mrs. Mccullough, the talented
author. who committed suicide in Chi
cago in August, directed that her estate.
which was accumulated ~ her writings
and amounted to 100000. be divided
among eight Chicago charities which for
benefactor George Gould contributed
S9Oo oOO for the erection of modern
charity hospital and nurses home at
lakewood. N J.. where he has his Ia
NOUS country seat. Georgian Court.
odd No widow