The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-18
Many Liberal Gifts During the Year
1912.

thropists is pointed out to them, sup
posedly unto their detriment
Yet, in view of the facts the charge
is not to be made without due con-
sideration to particular circumstances.
ton the benefactions of prominent
Catholics during the past year have
been truly generous.
Standing out in bold relief among
gifts of the year, as noted by an ex-
change, is the princely sum of $1,000
900 given by Thomas Fortune Ryan
for the building of the great Church
of st. Jean Baptiste in New York.
Mrs. Ryan recently gave the Sisters
of the Holy Child Jesus, $250,O0
property.
Other generous gifts of the year
have been:
Peter F. Meyer, New York, $4,000
estate to the Sisters of st. Francis, as
home for the aged.
Thomas F. H. Hayden, st. Louis,
100000 to charities.
Bernard Corr, of Philadelphia, $780,
900 to villanova College.
Thomas Fitzpatrick, Boston, $780,
900 property to the st. Vincent de
Paul Fresh Air Society.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. V. Shevlin, $780,
900 to the Bishop of Brooklyn, for a
hospital.
Miss Clara Hill, st. Paul, daughter
of James J. Hill, $4,000 convent to
the Visitation Sisters.
Anthony Brady, Albany, N. Y, $780,
900 to the Bishop of Albany for a
hospital.
Mrs. Louis G. Thomas, New Or
leans, Thomas Hall, at Loyola Univer-
sity, erected at cost Of 100000.
Morris Clancy, Saltwater, Mimi,
100000 for the founding of school
to be known by his name
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.,
New York, Catholic Day Home for
Children, San Francisco, costing $780,
900.
A Philadelphia lady presented $780,
900 to the building of the new Catho-
lie Girls High School,
Thomas Fitzpatrick, Lyon, Farms,
N. j., built the Church of st. Gather
inc, Elizabeth, N j., at cost of $780,
900.
Mr. Anthony Connich, New York, a
large country estate at Cold Springs,
N. Y, as a home for aged priests,
valued at $4,000
A Denver millionaire has bought a
site for a home for the Good Shep-
herd Sisters for $4,000, to the build
ing of which his wife and family will
present 100000
Estate of the late Michael Cudahy
of Chicago, $4,000 to the APOSTLE
Mission House, Washington.
Thomas Roche, of Philadelphia, $780,
| 900 to buy bells for poor churches in
Ireland
Mrs. Philip R. Gormully, of Chicago,
$13, 900 for a social center for Catholic
Deaf Mutes. She also promised $780,
900 additional as soon as ground is
purchased.
Catholic churches and charities we're
beneficiaries in wills to the following
amounts. Eugene Kelly, 100000;
Mrs. Marian Cutting, 100000; Mrs.
Bryan L. Lawrence, $4,000; Joseph
D. Carroll, $4,000 for Masses. All
these latter persons were former New
Workers. David L. Howell, of Ham
ilton, O., left $4,000 for free ward
for poor women in Mercy Hospital;
Mrs. Barbara Gilch, of Hartford,
$4,000; Henry F. Claufen, convert
on his deathbed, left $4,000 to st.
Joseph's Church, Edna, Mo.
Even non-Catholics and Jew were
generous benefactors to the Church.
Some Of their gifts were:
The late John Butler Taylor, of
Rockford, bequeathed $4,000 to st.
Vincent's Orphanage, Rockford.
The Polk family, of Des Moines,
turned over a 100000 house to the
Bishop of Des Moines at terms which
virtually constituted it a gift
Max Pam, the millionaire Jew, not
only established school of journal
ism at Notre Dame, but he also gave
$4,000 to the Catholic University, for
an anti-Socialist chair of studies.
Archer M. Huntington gave $751;
900 to the Spanish Church of Our
Lady of Grace, New York
The Cardinal Archbishop of Boston
has announced that the restoration
now being carried on by him in titular
church at Rome, was made possible
by twenty-five non-Catholic business
men of Boston. We believe the
amount already expended in such
restoration exceeds $4,000.
Miss Anna Blank, of Indianapolis, a
Methodist, has lately given $4,000 to
st. vincent's Hospital in her home
town. Secretary of State Knox has
presented check for $500 to st. Re
gis Home, Pittsburgh.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Gross, of Evans
ton, ILL.,, have purchased large
modern house in their town which
they have turned over to the Catholic
Woman's League as day nursery.
This is not by any means COM
plete list of gifts during the year,
and includes only such donations as
have been listed in the papers during