Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-31
business Features Policies Year 1926
GIFTS TO ART, EDUCATION
AND CHARITIES ENORMOUS
Largest Single Benefaction of 1926 Was
S25,OOO,OOO Request to Museum
by Frank A. Munsey.

the Kresge Foundation; $500 900 to
| the y. NJ. c. A.. Detroit
w f. Lawrence of BronxvIlle.
n. Y. $f,200.000 III property and
securities, including a site to found u
! two-year junior college for women
! at Bronxvile
Curtis Gates Lloyd. by will, $3.50
| 900 To Lloyd Library and Museum.
| Cincinnati.
Cyrus H.. Mary Virginia aud
Harold L. Mccormick, Chicago.
sio00,0o0 to Mccormick Theological
/ Seminary.
| Cyrus IT. Mccormick and sons.
! Cyrus, Jr., and Gordon. Chicago,
i $l,000.oo0 to Young Women's Chris
tiau Association.
William J. Mcdonald. Paris. Tex.
| by will, S1,40O,0Oo to University of
| Texas for astronomical observatory.
| j. T. Morgan, 16-acre site, valued
/ at 100000. for a park to be known
| as Morgan Memorial Park, to City OF
Glen Cove, Long Island.
building Fund Offered.
! Nicholas Foundation, Incorporated,
/ $500 ,l6S, to New York University.
New York City, for construction of
chemistry building.
James Cash Penney. $500 900. for
building for aged clergymen and wives
at Green Cove Springs Fla
Mr.. and Mrs, Henry Phipps. New
York, 100000, to University of Penn.
! sylvania.
Henry c. Provost. New Orleans,
| 100000 scholarship fund for the
Jesuit High School of that place.
Stacy Arson Ransom. by will S.
100000 trust fund for prosecution
persons cruel to animals and proA
ton OF animals and game in all paA
of the world.
Charles Rebstock. 81 900 900 ~
washington University, St. Louis, for
biology building.
Mrs Kate S. Richardson. by will.
S587,97S to New York Hospital; $2OG,-
o00 to Henry Street Settlement, New
York City; 100000 to- Peabody Mu.
scum, Salem. Mass: $50 900 each to
:. +. G. g., New York City. Seamen's
Church Institute, New York City: 500
600 to Association for Aid of Crippled
Children.
John ID. Rockefeller, jr, 81 900 600
for reconstruction at Versailles and
Fountainebleau and Rheims Cathedral.
| France: 100000 To Geological Park,
New York City; $685. 900 to Brooklyn
Botanic Garden, New York City; $I7T.-5
500, on conditions, to fund being
campaign TO prevent public accidents:
500 each to Boys Club of New York,
Phi Beta Kappa Foundation, United
Jewish fund; $50. 900 to Euclid Avenue
Baptist Church, Cleveland; Federation
for Support of Jewish Philanthropie .
Societies.
| Rockefeller Foundation, S112.5O3 to
University of Toronto, Canada; $50.-
600, Leland Stanford, jr, university,
Calf.
John d. Rockefeller, ST., $500 900 to
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, C1eve-
Ind.
$5,S22 800 Is Distributed.
+ Rockefeller Memorial laura Spell
mani, during year distributed $7,S22.-
500 for social science. child study, etc.
of which So ,000.0 900 was for social.
science and child study, the largest
items of which were $3.50, 800 TO ca
lumbia University. New York Cittt
and $4,000 to London School 6lE
Economics and Political Science
Mrs. Elizabeth Clark Rogers, by
will, S300.000 to Harvard University
Medical School, Cambridge. Mass.
$4,000 to Harvard University I'm mem
DRY of her husband. $4,000 in trust
to Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital,
n. Y.
Miss Ella A. Rogers by will. $3.50. Geo
to Cathedral of St John the Divine.
$50 900 to New York Hospital.
Julius Rosenwald, Chicago. $1,000
: 900 for the establishment of q mu-
scum.
John G. shedd, Chicago, 81 .OOO.0 geo
for proposed Shedd aquarium, Chi
cago.
Louis Sherry, by will, $780, 900 for
the J. Bentley Squier Theological Clinic
at Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center, New York.
jeremiah Smith. Boston. S100.0s1
two years salary, returned to Hun
gary, from which jeremiah Smith
scholarship fund was founded.
John w. Sterling, by will. sS.500,
600, for new buildings to Yale Uffi-
versity.
James J. Storrow. Boston. by will,
$325.000, for new building endowment
for West End House, Boston; $500,
900 each to Franklin Union, Boston
Council of Boy Scouts of America.
| Massachusetts Girl Scouts and Society
for the protection of New Hampshire
forests.
Ambrose Swasey. Cleveland, $500
600 for engineering foundation.
Colleges Are Aided.
Mrs. Mary Clark Thompson Cans
andaigua. y. Y, by will. $500 900 to
Ferris f. Thompson Hospital $500. 900
to Nassar College, Williams College
and Teachers College, 100000 to the
Women'S Hospital of New York; $300-
900 to the New York Geological So
ciety
John Kennedy Tod, by will, $250.000
to Princeton University, New Jersey;
500. 900 each to Presbyterian Hospital
the Greenwich Hospital and the Chill
dren's Aid Society; $4,000 each to
New York Association for Improving
Condition of the Poor. st. Andrews
Society and American Museum Of
Natural History
Henry r. Towne, Stamford. Conn.
by will, $2.616,211 to maintain "mu
seums of the peaceful arts in the City
| of New York; $500, to erect ser.v-
ice building for employees of YaB
& Towne Co; $4,000 each 10 Mer-
| chants Association of New York and
| United Engineering Societies. q
| Mrs. Hamilton Nick. Twombly. 800.
600 to Vanderbilt University, Mash.
vile, Tenn.
/ Gustav Ulbricht. New York City, BY !
will. $S37.S7 to the Lenox Hill Hos
pital New York: $50 900, New York
Association for Improving the Condi-
ton of the Poor.
Clinic Gets 100000.
! Frederick W. and Harold s Van
derbilt, 100000 to the Vanderbilt
! Clinic,
| Mrs. Cornelius +. Van PeIt New
Brunswick. n. j.. by will, $50 900 to
Rutgers University; $4,000 endow-
ment to the Children's Industrial
Home; $4,000 endowment to Middle
| sex Hospital both addresses as above
Felix NJ. Warburg, $400, 900, to the