The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-24
AMERICAS RICH MEN
Do GOOD WITH MONEY
Public Benefactions for 1911
Amount to More Than
$50, 900, 900.
CARNEGIE HEADS LIST
Over $4,000, 600 Donated by
the Steel Magnate; BequeStS
Made by Pulitzer.
CARNEGIE HEADS LIST
Br Leas.d 90 % % rrlbune.

By Leased Nirc 20 The Tribune
NEW YORK, Dec 23.-The pub
lie bcncfsctions Of 1911 have amount
ed in this country 20 moro than $780,
100000. This total was never exceed.
cd except in 1909. when the aggregate
approximated sl75,0oO,0o0. 1t was
said that the panic Of 1907-oS left the
rich broke or "pcuitent and the vast
beuofactions Of 1909 were therefore
charged by the experts mp 70 the Amer
lean penitentials account.
Andrew Carnegie has this year given
away more than $i0,000,0o0 of the
remainder of his fortune. His bencfac.
tions were. as usual, in the shape of
gold bonds of the United States Steel
corporation. His largest gift was SO:
100000 TO the Carnegie corporation or
New York. specially accepted by the
legislature AZ Albany 70 carry on the
iron man 5 charities. The money was
turned over 10 the corporation to pro
mote tine advancement and diffusion
Of knowledge aud understanding among
the people Of the United States.
Many Hero Funds.
Mr. Carnegie gave sl0,00O.o0O 10 the
be used for general scientific re-
searches He founded hero funds IN
Italy, Sweden Holland. Denmark and
Switzerland and he added to the en-
dowmeut of his hero fund in Germany.
Mr.. Carnegie. who is now little
moro than - years old. has given to
the public over .S22l 100000;
The elder J. ID. Rockefeller pub
lclv announced gifts this year have
no, totaled in all more than S3.000.000,
of which sI,35o,000 went to the Uni
versitv of Chicago and 100000 10 the
Rockefeller Institution for medical re-
search in New York City. The rest
was to colleges far west and south.
The donation to Chicago University
was the second installmcnt of the oil
mnn's single and final gifc of Sl0,-
100000 TO that institution.
The second largest individual gircr
was Frederick {. Hewlett, who left
100000 to the Post Graduate Med
zeal School hospital and S2,0UO,0OO 10
The Little Missionary day nursery,
Doth New York institutions.
Pulitzer's Gifts.
Joseph Pulitzer, owner Of the World
who died October 20. on his yacht LIB.
crtv, bequeathed more than $3,000,OOC
TO public uses OF this 81 100000 goes
10 Columbia university for school OF
lourDaIisul. connitlonallN. IS an aVul
ton 10 : 100000 previously donated
Mr.. Pulitzer gave 100000 to the Met
ropoitau Museum of Art and S50O,0Ol
TO the Philharmonic society. His viii
provided for an additional gift OF
81 100000 10 he divided. on certain
conditions. between Columbia uDiver
sity. the Philharmonic society and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The organized uplift institutions oi
Inc country were largely remembered
The y VI. {. ~, for instance, has
raised Sl,s0O,000 since tho first OF
.lanuaTv for use in the far east. Thet
have in Philadelphia. with the aid OF
John Wanamaker. garuered moro thar
= 000, 600 for lis building fund
The missionary societies of Amerlcs
reported that their gifts have exceeded
$lS.00O.000 in the year.
The crusade against tuberculosis go
n lift 10 the extent of s2,000,0O0 from
James y Pattcu, the Chicago grain
operator. The figr against consump
ticn is now backed by millions OF cap
itsl IN the United States, Great Brit
ain and Germany,