Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-12-20
SANTA r FOLKS
SHOW THEMSELVES
GENEROUS GIVE RS
People of Capital City Have
Contributed More Than
100000 to Enterprises
for the Public Good.

Santa Fe. Dec. la.-Ihat santa Zee
neople during the present year have
Maid out more than 100000 In sub
scriptlons and payments for the pub
liz good. is the statement of local
business man who has kept track OF
the donations.
subscription lists. such as for the
Y NJ. c. A.. summer school. good
roads convention. political conven-
tlons. exposition souvenir book bu-
,ean of information. Chamber Of Com
merce. Merchants association. charity
Belgian relief fund. Christmas tree.
etc. amounted TO a total Of $4,000.
churches, clubs, lodges and societies
tool, $4,000 GU: Of the purses OF To-.
cal people Campaign contributions,
baseball. good roads, public or semi
publie improvements paid out OF pri-
waite purses $4,000 more. Taxes Of
various kinds collected amounted to
500. O00. Personal charity and PR
ynte schemes to lure nickels aai
dimes and quarters and larger sums
on, of the till of business men and
pockot books of the charitably dis
posed ran up. no doubt. TO anothe'
$500. making a total Of $4,000 OF
one-eighth OF a million dollars.
Rich Men Are Few.
This would be quite a notable con-
trihution from any community Of s.
eco people, but II is the more notable
because Santa Re has no people of
great wealth and thrce-fourths Of its
wage earners average less than So a
week no other city Of its size In the
United States being as poor in that
respect
still more remarkable that vast
contribution appears when the SUP
scription lists are scanned, for they
altogether do not contain more than
one hundred different names One is
astounded as much because of the
names that are not upon those lists
as because of these who are the heav-
lest and the most regular contributors.
For Instance. ii Is married men, who
each already support from two to Ten
times as many persons as each single
man, who gives most freely, the un-
married being almost entirely absent
when IL comes to lifting a collection
for the Public good. II is the men
with political Jobs and limited salaries
who give the most. while. the bust
ness man and property ewner IS
mulcted heaviest in taxes and by 9r-
CARNATIONS. such as churches, lodges
and societies On the other hand.
men who have their money picked
away drawing interest and who pay
the least taxes in proportion to their
wealth, are almost entirely absent
from the subscription lists. Some OF
the most popular men about town
never contribute on the other hand,
men who are criticized most and who
are perhaps the most unpopular are
liberal givers when it comes to sup
port a public cause. The name of a
woman is very rare on any of the sub
scription lists.
The Archbishop's Gift.
The largest individual gift during
the present year. was by Archbishop
]. II. Pltaval. who paid for the redeco
rating OF the cathedral, public work
that must have cost fully $4,000. In
the past year, the largest individual
giver to public cause in Santa Fe
was Hon. Frank Springer, whose mi-
nificence has made the New Mexico
museum veritable treasure house OF
art. The two men whose names ap-
pear most frequently upon the sub
scription lists that were scanned, and
each time with handsome sums op-
posite their names. were Mayor W. G.
Sargent and Federal Judge William H.
Pope The largest cash contribution
this year was by u. n Sen. Thomas b.
catron. $500, to the Y. NJ c. A.
OF the eighth Of a million dollars
thus contributed to the public good
less than 1000 went to relieve actual
need. Still. in addition to cash con-
trbntions there have been donations
of supplies and much unostentatious
charity is being done, Of which, ma
turally, there is no record. There
have been also handsome gifts to the
museum and the churches, upon
which it is difficult to place a money
value. But summing it up less than
one hundred men in the Capital city
pony up regularly when the subscrlp-
ton lists pass around and It Is gen
orally only from twenty to forty VINO
raise the sums needed when any OBJ
ject for the public good Is to be OBJ
tanned.