The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-12-31
3l5 MILLION
Q CHARITY
AMERICA GENEROUS ON HUGE
SCALE DURING 1915-ROCKE-
TELLER LEADS.

New York City.-It is estimated
that donations and requests by Am
orleans to educational and charitable
institutions during 1914 totaled 315
million dollars. In New York state
alone the cash contributions to wal
relief funds exceeded lh million
dollars. Besides cash, shiploads OF
clothing, foodstuffs and toys were
sent from American ports. Notable
among these was the United States
naval collier Jason, which was loaded
to it's utmost capacity with gifts of
clothing and toys for the children left
homeless or destitute by the war.
John d. Rockefeller also s,nt a
shipload of supplies, and Mrs. Harry
Poyne Whitney took owe a COM
pletely equipped ambulance corps for
service with the armies of the allies
in France and Flanders. While
the bulk of the relief extended from
, this country was sent to the countries
of the allies the Germans in the Unit
ed States showed financial fealty to
' The Fatherland by making large COLI
, tributions subscribed by private So
! l~icitation and public meetings.
i Rockefeller Gave Freely.
4 John d.. Rockefeller's gifts in the
e year we're: To University of Chica-
go, $%1,019.9O8; Rockefeller Institute
3 for Medical Research. 2h million
for GENERAL purposes n l million
for the study of animal diseases: Y.
III. C. A. building fund, 1900, 600,
e TO be paid in installmsnts; for the
7 purchase of the Grand Chenier tract
of $4,000 acres in Louisiana, to be
maintained as a protected refuge sor
wild fowl, S225,00o; Stevens Insti-
tute, ~ million; American National
IS 4 1a3 Trocc fund for tho arCCtjon in
l. Washington of a memorial building
to the women of the Civil War,
lesJ S30O,0OG; American Acadamey in
~ Rome, 100000, to be paid in ten
installments of $4,000 each; Amer
II lean Red Cross for the relief of Bni-
d garian sufferers in the Balkan War,
g $4,000; Salvation Army for the
relief of sufferers in the Empress OF
ireland disaster, 10000; ana other
smaller gifts. Z
~ Carnegie Gave g Million to Peace
a Andrew C~arnegie's b~enefactions
a we're: To vondetoilt UNIVERSITY. !
million dollars; Carnegie Institute
y of Technology, 1 million dollars: In
u ternational Peace Propaganda,
million dollars: New York Assooia-
y ton for the Blind, 800 600 toward
a fund Of 100000; foundation 10
establish a pension for employees o!
the New York Geological Garden
a. and the aquarium. 100000: Car
= negfe Institute at Pittsburgh, 2 mil
:. lion dollts; Stevens Institute of Tech.
~ nology, SOS, 600; medical department
- Washington university; st. Louis, 4
a. million dollars; d~isRensary building
~ fund of the Hospital for Deformities
and Joint Diseases, $500; Nationa
= Society for Promotion Of Industrial
:. Education. $4,000; toward a Il n
~ of 800, 900, town of Dover. N. j.
* IS 10000 for a library; town OF lias
Y Orange, N. t., $4,000 tor improve
81 ments on library building.
Mrs. Carnegie gave $1,000 to TIL
Fables Hospital in New York tt
maintain two beds as memorial Q
her nephew.
Campbell Gift the Largest.
Among the more conspicuous lcr
NJ efactions of the year was h a of tn
late James Campbell. a st. Loui
banker and railroad man, who direct
~ ed in his will that upon the death =
the last child of his n child,
daughter, bride of the last summer
:. his estate Il ould go to the medica
la department of st. Louis universit.
Is the leading Jesuit college of tn
OF West. 1t was estimated at.the tim
OF Of Mr.. CampbeIl's death tina. his es
M tate was worth from 35 to 40 millio
" dollars.
ler The gifts announced by college
ard institutions of learning general
aiai aggregate approximately IS mllilo
the 80 -
eg-