The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-01-16

good works have been So active the
past fortnight rs To arouse speculation
as 10 their motives and identity. Judg-
ing 10y the reports OF the Young Men
! Christian association the great unit
versities and hospitals, the anonymous
form of giving is more popular Than
ever.
From unnamed sources alone the
] former organization in the first five
days Of this months campaign for its
| "a 900 GOO fund received $346,5O0. This
is unparalleled in the history of the
association, as a hair a century a."
three years were required to raise u
like amount from all sources, anony'
nous and otherwise.
Nowadays. however, single gifts
amounting To hundreds of thousands
If dollars find their way anon! NOUS
~ to the organizations treasury. The
largest donation SO made was $4,000,
ON the first day of the November cam
paien. Il was made hy woman,
Another anonymous gift was for
$4,000, but it was expected in time
that this benetactor would declare
himself. From the fact that one of
the mems teams" in the collecting
contest reported an additional secret
pledge OF $4,000, it may be assumed
that not all the anonymous giving is
done by women. The total TO the
credit Of men who prefer to hide Their
Identity was increased by an additional.
$4,000 cahlcd from abroad 10y a man
who said that he wanted time to
come home ana consul, with his wife
as 10 whether it shall be made in her
name or mine
Some one who aimed TO pay grace
rul tribute 20 the late Robert r.. Nc
guruey. the Young Mems Christian as
socian worker, sent $4,000 anony
mously, in mcmoram. There was an
other secret gift of $4,000, besides scv-
crai of $1,000 and $1,000 each.
\ definite religious basis may doubt
less be cited in the endeayor to ac-
count Tor a certain percentage of the
anonymous y. NJ. G. \ gifts of today.
II is less easy to explain why other
and more secular gifts are being re-
corded from time to tune as coming
from unknown sources.
Attention has been attracted this
month by the anonymous 100000 do
mated for great college Of commerce
i'm New York city. While it is de-
clarcd that tins comes from a member
of the chamber of commerce and
uucsscs have been made as to his
identity, the fact is that the giver is
not known. Here is a new departure
in large scale bencfactions. because
the project of first class commercial
museum and college for higher cduca-
ton in commerce is ar innovation in
this country, although Munich and
other foreign Centers have such iusti-
buttons. If the popular acclaim that
would ordinarily 90 to the philanthro-
pist i'm such a case is necessarily lack
ing i'm the present instance, he UNI
doubtedly experiences his own salts
faction.
Gift for Fine Arts.
Another anonymous November do
nor is he who gave, earlier in the
month, $250,0OO as an endowment Of
the fine arts at Columbia university.
The giver concealed his identify 10y
acting through "a thnd person. and
the method of using the gift is de-
tailed in letter To the trustees \
number uf bcnefaCtions Of $4,000 each
have been given auoul mously to Der
nard college affiliated with Columbia.
Another educational institution ben
ciitting by enormous sums from un-
known sources Is the Massachusetts
institute of technology IN New Eng
land which celebrated it's fiftieth am
nivcrsary i'm 1911. Nut long after "A
gift of $2,j00,O00 Was received from an
anonymous donor who has come {,
ho known among Tech men as the
Mysterious Mr.. Smith" \ month
ago $CC0,O00 additional reached the in
stitutc from the same source. This
money is to bc used in constructing
! the great white city which is to be tn,
new home of the institution. Ulti-
mately twelve acres of ground will bC
| OttuIltu on Nll' Y dllpl lhBf Slh' VI NV
| Charles river. near the Harvard
bridge, the cost of the buildings whcr
completed to be $10,OOO,000.
| This greatest center Of technical in
struction. in the world will he a vast
group of connecting, harmonious struc-
lures The education group will com
prise connected buildings, four stories
high, clustered about the library. TIL,
latter is to be the central feature IL
the arrangements with a great dome
200 feet high, overlooking a court opef
to the river front.
The largest gift perhaps ever made
anonymously was announced by Pres.
idcnt Jacob Gould Schurman of Cor
rell university on Nov. 10. This wa
for $4,000 900 TO be used as cudow.
ment for the Cornell medical college
None Of the income arising from this
extensive bencfaction is to be used fol
new buildings or equipment All of i
IS TO bc devoted To- maintaining The
medical school Of the university. sit
uated In New York city
novel method at attracting semi
anonymous gifts was inaugurated
few months ago at Harvard university
trust, known as the Harvard Mu
tual Foundation, has been formed I,