Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-11
sENEFAcTloNS IN 1911.

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1911 reached the sum OF 50,O00,0O0
a total that has not been exceeded IN
any single year except 1909, When the
aggregate appropriated $l75,00O,o0O
The World almanac gives the follow
ing summary of the 1911 benefacuons
Andrew Carnegie has this year CIV
en- away more than $4O,O0O,OOO. His
largest gift was $25 100000 to the Car
negie corporation OF New York, spec
tally organized by the legislature at
Albany to carry on the iron mans
charities. "
Mr.. Carnegie, who is now a little
more than II years of age, has given
to the, public over 1921 100000.
/ John D. Rockellers publicly an
nounced gifts this year have not
amounted in all to more than $4,000,
600, Of which $1,315,000 were to the
University of Chicago and $1,00O,O0C
to, the Rockefeller Institute for Med1.
cal Research in New York City, The
rest waste :, colleges; fer i, west and
south. The donation to the Univers
thity Of Chicago was the second annual
installment of the "single and final
gift" of $10,OOO,O0O to that institution
The second. largest individual giver
was Frederick C. Hewitt, who left
81, OOO, 900 to the Post Graduate .Medi
cal School and Hospital and $2,OOO,O0O
to the Little Missionary Day Nursery
both New York institutions.
| Joseph Pulitzer bequeathed more
than SO, 00O, 900 to public uses. "
The missionary societies Of America
reported that their gifts have exceed
oil etQ nm 00O in the wear
The colleges have been large gain.
ers through the generosity of their
wealthy graduates. Columbia univers
ity received $z,535,000. ,r-
Harvard and Princeton universities
were left more than $1,7O0,0O0 apiece,
|'and Chicago, Yale and Johns Hopkins
universities inherited more than'a mil
ion each.
The crusade against tuberculosis got
lift to the extent of $2,O0O.OOO from
James A. Patten, the chicago grain
operator.
The Presbyterian hospital in New
York City came into an additional In
stallment OF nearly 100000 from the
estate of John S. Kennedy. ~'
Prominent women were large givers
to public purposes. Mrs. Russell Sage
provided 100000 for new dormltory
at Cornell university and 100000 for
,, other purposes.
Mrs. Rhinelander King of Great
Neck, L. l., provided nearly s1,500,0OC
for church charities and 100000 was
dispensed for the same purpose by
Mrs. Mary Lathrop Peabody of Bos
ton. Mrs. Emily H. Moir of New York
gave 100000 to charities and col
leges. Mrs. Emily Yarnell of Philadel
phia, left 100000 to ST. Clements
Protestant Episcopal church there.
Mrs. E. H. Hartman gave 100000
to the hospital department of the
Southern Pacific railroad company
S125,OOO to Yale university, principally
for forestry. -.
DR.. D. X, Pearsons of Hinsdale, Ill.
found he still had some of his fortune
left. and he celebrated his ninety first
birthday by giving 100000 to charity
The Progressive News Bureau, with
offices in Washington, D. c., is certain
" working hard for Senator LaFollette
! and against President Taft. 1t keeps
an endless stream of articles against
the president going to the newspapers
Of the country. Accounts of meetings
in different parts of the country are
written in Washington headquarters
and sent out from there. The object
Of these articles is simply to create
a prejudice against President Taft.