The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-24
S15O,OOO,OOO WERE GIVEN AWAY IN 1911. Benefactions Never Been
 Exceeded Save in 1909 CARNEGIE LEADS LIST Pulitzer of the World Left Over Three Million to Public Uses-Patten
 Gives Two Million for Fight
 Against Tuberculosis
CARNEGIE LEADS LIST


 New York, December 2S.-The public benefactions of 1911 have amounted in this country to more than s150,ooOooo.
 This total was never exceeded except
 in 1909, when the aggregate approximated $175 OOO,0oo. It was said that the panic of 19O7-OS left everybody either broke or penitent." and the vast benefactions of 1909 were, therefore, charged by the experts to the American penitentials' ac- count
 Andrew Carnegie has this year given away more than $40.000.OOO of the remain der of his fortune. His benefactions were, as usual, In the shape of gold bonds of the United States Steel corpora tion His largest gift was $25,0o0,0o0 to the Carnegie corporation of New York, especially organized by the legislature at Albany to carry on the iron mans charities. The money was turned over to the corporation to promote the ad- vancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States"
 MT. Carnegie gave, too, $1o,OOO,Oo0 to the Carnegie institution at Washington to be used for general scientific research. He founded hero funds in Italy, Sweden, Hol- land, Denmark and Switzerland, and he added to the endowment of his hero fund in general.
 | MT. Carnegie, who is now little more than 77 years of age, has given to the public over $22l ,000,0OO. The elder John D. Rochefellers publicly | ,r;f4 1,ox amounted in all to more than s3,O00.000 of which $1,315,000 went to the University of Chicago and S1, ,00000O to the Rockefeller | institute for medical research in New York city. The rest was to colleges far west and south. The donation to Chi c7@N university was the second annual installment of the oil mans "single and n.lal sIll' or SW,000,0C0 to that institu- l ton. | The. second largest individual giver was Frederick c. Hewitt who left $2, GOO to the postgraduate medical school and hos pital and S2,000,009 to the Little Mission- ary day nursery, both New York insti- tutions. Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the World, who died October 29 on his yacht Lib erty, bequeathed more than .$3,000,000 to public uses Of this $1, 1,000O0 Goes to Co., lumbia university for school of journal ism, conditionally, as an addition to $l,- 900 previously donated Mir. Pulitzer gave $5O0,00O to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and S5O0,000 to the Philharmonic society. His will. provided for an addi- | tional gift of $1,500,o00, to be divided, on | certain conditions, between Columbia uni versity, the Philharmonic society and ] the Metropolitan Museum of Art | The organized uplift institutions of the country were largely remembered. The | Y. M. c. A., for instance, has raised l $1, 500, 900 since the first of January for use in the far east. The Y. M. c. A. in | Philadelphia with the aid of John Wan
 amaker, garnered more than $1,o000O0 fof l it's building fund.
 The missionary societies of America re- | ported that their gifts have exceeded $l3, 0OO,OO0 in the year.
 The crusade against tuberculosis got lift to the extent of $2,OO0,O0o from James | A. Patten the Chicago grain operator l The fight against consumption IS now
 backed by millions of capital in the
 United States Great Britain and Ger many.
 The men in this country who gave most largely in 1911 to public causes were: 1 Michael Valentine, to hospitals and 1 homes, $2, 100000.
 John M. Burke, to relieving distress, 1 $200O,o00.
 Henry J. Braker. to asylums and col
 
 leges, $1, 100000.
 Mrs Mary Rhinelander King, to church charities, $1,5o0,ooO.
 | Morton Plant to found womans col lege. s1,oO0,000. 1 Jacob H. Schiff. to found a university at Frankfort, Germany, s1.0O0,00o. l R. A. Long, Kansas City, for new hospital, 100000.
 Edwin A. Abbey, to the Corcoran arr l gallery at Washington, SOOO,ooo Armour & Co.,, Chicago, for employees pensions, $1,000,000.
 I Ernest Densmore, to negro education, | $1, 900, GOO.
 Gustave Mehringer to Hebrew hospitals and homes. S1,oO0,0o0
 | Mrs. M C. c. Wilson, homes and avs lums, S1, ,000,0 ,000
 Thousands of Americans donated lesser | amounts than those above to the public
 welfare. The gifts referred to range from ! s1O, GOO to S75000 apiece.