The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-02
GIFTS ID PUBLIC
 TOTAL S17,816,000 Andrew Carnegie Heads List
 of Record Year ROCKEFELLER IS SECOND Would Pay Maintenance of Army or Is Equal to S1.75 10 Every Per-
 in the United
 States
ROCKEFELLER IS SECOND

1 New York, January 1.-(Special With
 gifts for public purposes totaling ST.
 S16ooo. Andrew Carnegie heads the list
 i'll a record-breaking year for philan-
 thropic giving. John D. Rockefeller ran a
 close second with $17. .000, 900. with Isaac c.
 s10 100000. The total benefactions reach
 the enormous sum of $15O.0o0,0O0 | This sum would more than pay for a years maintenance of the German navy
 or the American army or navy and would pay the debt of Greece of the countries Norway and Denmark. If divided equally among the inhabitants of the United States each person would receive about
 N.75
 The sum of the amounts given during the last 10 years would make about $1,- 0oO, ,000, 900. This amount, if collected and | saved for a single purpose and bearing
 interest, would almost wipe out the en- tire debt of the United States. MT. Carnegie, besides his $1o.Ooo,ooo peace
 gift, gave s30Oo,0O0 to 10 cities for the
 benefit of public school teachers, 8, ,s00, GOO
 
 German hero fund, while the balance went to various institutions. John D. Rockefeller gave s1O,0O0,000 to the Chicago university $3,82O,000 to the hospital for medical research, s540,00 to
 the Young Mems Christian association ex- pansion fund, s500,0OO to the Hartman park and the balance in various smaller denominations
 Isaac c. Wyman takes third place by giving $10, 100000 to the graduate school of Princeton university as a memorial of his Tasting affection for his alma mater. The United States Steel corporation put aside ss, 100000 for which to pension dis
 abled employees. This, added to the A,- oW,ooo previously given, makes s12ooo,oOo dedicated for that purpose.
 David Rankin, Jr., who desires to be- come poor, gave his fortune of $so00,0oo for the maintenance of the Rankin school of mechanical trades, which is to aid poor boys
 An anonymous donor gave $2,00O,oOO to the "economic and general foundation Thomas Murdock left an estate of $2,-
  Chicago.
 | Henry Curtiss willed s2,OOO,00o for home for friendless children in Chicago. Thomas orsythe of Boston made gift of s2,- 00o 900 for the care of teeth of the chii- dren of his home city, and John A. kas- son. diplomat, left sl,Oo0,00o for the main- tenance after erection of the Protestant
 Episcopal cathedral in Washington, D. c. Among the givers of $1,0Oo,ooo are Mar tin A. Ryerson to the University of Chi cago, Thomas F. Rryan to the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, Frank B. Cotton Tor trade school for girls and women, Hor- ace B. Stillman to various charities, most
 of which were in Cohoes, N. Y, in which city he lived.
 With a view to establishing in New York the greatest medical school in the world and creating one of the worlds $ centers of medical teaching and research, g, 900 900 was raised by Columbia univer- sity J. P. Morgan gave 2,OOOoOO to various charities, including $oOo,oV to the Hartman park
 Of the donations by women Mrs. Rus sell Sage is the leading one She gave E. 800. GOO to build a town for home-maN- ing families of moderate income Otner gifts were a $400,0o0 church and sloo'- OO0 endowment to the First Presbyterian society of Fairrockaway, N Y.; Yale, se5O ooo. Princeton, s150.Oo0; Hartman Park s5o.0Oo: Emma Willard School at Troy. N. Y, for a group of buildings, <, ono 900. sl ,50O,000 to the National Asso- cia ton of Audubon Societies for its Work in the south $500.0O0 of which was 10 start a special Robin protective Iuno to protect this bird from extermination. Mrs Mary Hartman donated 10000 Hartman estate at Arden, supplemented by s1,OOo.oOo Tn cash for a 6O-mile river park to run from Fort I ee to Newburgh. She gave num- Der of other smaller gifts.
 Miss Caroline Stokes willed $l'Wo'oo TOT education. The money is left in trust TOT the erection and improvement oi .,",, ment houses in the city. for the education of negroes in Africa and the United states of needy and deserving white SUI dents through the medium or 1ndustrlai schools and of North American indians, Tuskegee institute, of which booker . Il. Washington is the head. received N.oN'W1 l hy the death of Mrs. Flora h. De'sei oi South Orange, N. J. Many institutions in her nome were beuueathed generous sums.
 Mrs Mary Hunt Loomis of Chicago
 gave to the institution which bears her name in Windsor. Conn.,, N,2oo,ooo ana Mrs. Amanda w. Reid of Portland, ore, | left s2,0O0,000 for college In that city'
 to be known as the Reid institute. | gift of s,OOo0Oo was made by Mrs. | Harriet Coles of New York, divided De-
 tween the Female Guardian society and
 the Presbyterian hospital; sS5oooo was willed by Mrs. Mary A. Mason or Fitts-
 Seid Mass. for a hospital and library i'll
 Great Harrington; ssoo.ooo to charities by
 Miss Martha R. Hunt; s5oo.ooo for an an.
 t,ronolorical museum was the gift or
 Mrs. Phoebe Hearst to the University oi California; s2oO,0oo reverts to Rhode lss
 land institutions named in the VII
 Mrs Hope Brown Russell of that state
 and the Misses Alice and Irene Lewison
 gave s5OooOO to the Hebrew Guaro'an society of New York.