Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-31
YEAR IN AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY
AxRrexse Gs Show ncseess Over Previous Twelve Mont Nearly $3O0.000.000 Given For the Improvement ef Life-C.rnssis Sill ths Leader

! deed Of trunt for &4, GOO, 900 iH four Der cent securities to be used as er- dowment for the Widener Memorial School for Crippled Children. He gave another million to Harvard for build fn1 to be known as the Harry Elki1s W1dener Memorial
 George F. Baker. of New York city, made a royal gift. said te be $4. .0ee.- oea. to the New York Hospital on con- ditfon that that fnstitEtion should aa1liate with the Cornell Medical School
 By an anonymous gift sa.6aa.a0a be- comes the property of the Massachu- setfs Institute of Technology. to be of the Charles River and for new buildings.
 The late Richard T. Crane. the mill ionaire ironmaster of Chicago. an az sressive opponent of the higher educa- tion, willed $2,135,000 to charity. For pension and disability fund for the benefit of the employees of the Crane Company he gave $1,aoe. .ooo and sn- country near Chicago for helpless children and their mothers, preference being given to those who have been deserted by their husbands To the United Charities of Chicago. as an en- downient fund for the Mary Crane Nursery, he gave s100,00o-
 Mrs Caroline Neustadter widow of Henry Neustadter, formerly of San Francisco, beoueathed $3,ooe.eo0 to philanthropy. Half of this was set aside for the establishment cfsa vaca- ton home for the poor and needy and for convalescents. to be known as the Neustadter Home. Mrs. Neustadter's s charitable institutions include a gift to tho United Hebrew Charities Of $leo. .ooa. A special fund of s1o0,eao. to be known as the Louis W. Neustad- ter Home Fund, was given to Mt Sinai Hospital.
 By the will of Edwin Bancroft Foote of New York s2.eoe. GOO was divided among charitable institutions in New York New Haven and Maine. MT. Foote gave $2ee.0e0 each to the New Haven Hospital. the New Haven Home for Aged and Destitute Women, the Maine and the Presbyterian Hospital of New York.
 O s. Johnson of Scranton. Pa. willed $2.oso.ooo to Scranton for a Manual Training School
 Alfred Filler Moore of Philadelphia beQueathed g, 900, 600 for the creation of a school of electrical engineering.
 The estate of Mrs. Tootie McGregory Terry, Mamaroneck. N. Y. was be- queathed to the A M. McGregory Home for the Aged in East Cleveland, O., an institution founded by Mrs. Ter rvs first husband. The amount of this bequest was s2,0G0. .0o0.
 
 York bequeathed s1s07.22s to Yale University.
 Julius RosenwaId of Chicago con- tributed $1.ooe.000 to the cause of scientific farming through the medium of the crop improvement committee of the Council of Grain Exchanges NIT. Rosenwaid celebrated his dftieth birth day by giving s687. 300 to educational and general charities and $250, 900 to the University of Chicago for a wom- ay,f a Addams, Julia Lathrop and Sherman c. Kingsley as his alnoners. with Judge Mack as general adviser, and never questions their action.
 Mrs John Stewart Kennedy of New York city gave to Hartford Theological Seminary $250. .0o0 for the endowment of the Hartford School of Missions. The Hartford School of Religious Ped addition. Mrs. Kennedy promised $100.eoo for new building to house the students of the above two schools. Her generosity has also made possible home for Women Christian Workers on the East Side of Manhattan. cost ing s400,000.
 John Armstrong Chaloner. the eccen- tFic millionaire of Merry Mills, Va. has conveyed his entire property, val ued at s1.50O.o0o. in trust to the Vir- ginia Trust Company of Richmond, naming the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina as residuary legatees (each to receive s5a0,e00), while nine other educational institutions will receive s10.000 each One o< MT. Chaloner's bequests was $1f,e0o to the town of Roanoke Rapids, Va, The interest to be expended an- nually for Christmas treat for school children.
 The late Henry Strong of Lake Gen. eva, Wisconsin. left provision in his will that s1.s0o.ooo should be used to