Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-07
THE GREAT ENGLISH CHARITY Londons Poor Profting by the Gifts of George Peabody
 the Danver's Grocerboy.

land to America. full page cut of the Monarch, the Empires then greatest man -of-war, bearing the coffin to Port land, Me. accompanied by an Ameri- can battleship.
 Thus the last funeral honours were paid to the memory of George Peabody. whose mortal remains were attended to the grave with more pomp and cer- emony than were ever displayed at the i burial of private citizen" And when the statue behind the Exchange was erected but a few days later, the dedf- catory address was made by him who later became Edward VII. Victoria ha d vainly sought to make the deceased man a baronet and to give him the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath but he declined both honors, believing them inconsistent with American citi- zenship.
 Yet who of this day and generation among his own country folk can talk for two consecutive minutes concern ing his life?.
 Why Peabody Gave..-
 Some sheer at sentiment. Yet it was sentiment that animated young Pea body-the memory of one of the trage- dies of undying affection. When he had begun to get on his own, as the saving here has it, he grew to love the only woman he ever wanted to marry. They did not marry, because of reasons that have never reached the public, and the shock of it all made the man the greatest philanthropist of all time, unless his plans be blundered awry, which now seems most improbable ofter their test of fifty years.
 Many, many years after this woman had passed from his life and ne had come, after absence of more than twenty years, to see the village of his first struggles, he con1ded to friend, likewise an old man. After my disap- pointment long years ago, determined to devote myself to my fellow beings. and 1 am carrying out that decision to the best of my ability"
 To House All London's Poor.
 It is reckoned that his benificence airy. roomy tenements and apartments all the worthy poor, except paupers, of the greatest city ever built by man.
 By the time MT. Peabody was fifty wealthy importing merchant of Bal timore, Philadelphia, and New York. and it was at this point that he Jeff America and opened a banking house. in London in partnership with the father of J. P. Morgan. among others, ander the name of George Peabody & Company. In 1862 he startled all the British nation by giving $750,o00 to a fund for the poor of London In 1886 and again in 1868. he added S500,00o and $750,000 more was paid to the same work in 1873 by his estate mak- ing total of $2,500, 900.
 The wise old man conveyed this sum, enormous for those days. and then and since the greatest sum ever by any individual to any charitable purpose with London or England as it's object, to a self -perpet- uating entity of five trustees, one of whom is always the American ambas sador. without restrictions of any character except that he hoped they would so invest the money that the re- suit would be appreciated, not only by l he present but future generations: 1 md the provisions that there be always ] rigid exclusion of any influences like | V to impart to the fund a character | .ither sectarian as regards religion. or | exclusive in relation to politics; and | he last restriction was that the sole l for participation in the i benefits of the fund shall be ascertain Ad and continued condition of lif.-, | ,uch as brings the individual within 1 he description Gin the ordinary sense 1 If the word) of the poor of aLendon: ! .oTn bined with moral chara cter and l ,ood conduct as member of society.
 The Peabody Aim
 MT Peabody intimated that his idea | vas to invest the money in construc-