Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-31


pitfalls and various charities during
| 1926 reached an enormous total
| The largest single benefaction of tire
year was Frank A. Munsey's gift. by
will, of his rcsiduary estate, estimated
| at $4,000, 900, to the Metropolitan
! Museum of Art
| The Toledo ohio Museum of Art
| received $4,000. 900 by the will of
| Edward Drummond Libbey. Oberlin
! College was left 0,192, 400 by the will
| of Charles NJ. Hall.
| Other notable benefactions are:
Anonymous, $1,000 900; Dartmouth
| College, Hanover. n. r.
| Anonymous two donors), 81 900 900;
Yale University, New Haven, Conn,
| for an art museum.
Charles w. Bingham. children of.
/ 81 900, 900; Yale University, New
| Haven, Conn.
Mrs. Charles w. Bingham. $500 900
! to Case School OF Applied Science.
| Cleveland, Ohio.
100000 to Science School.
William Bingham. I'd. $500 900 to
Case School of Applied Science, Cleye-
land, Ohio.
| Frederick Brown, New York City.
/ $500, 900 site at No. 81 West Forty.
seventh street. New York, 10 build
office to house Federation for Support
of Jewish Philanthr0pic Societies. etc.
+. II. Buhl of Sharon, Pa, by will.
So ,000, 900 for relief of destitute vie
Tins Of war in northern France and
Belgium.
| Carnegie Corporation made grants
of $1,000 600 during year ending Sep
TENDER 80. of this $4,500000 went to
| library service; $500. 600 to aid the
fine arts; $4,000 for educational and
research work; 100000 for adult edu-
cation.
Carnegie Corporation. $1,385 900
University of Chicago; $150,000 Yale
University for establishment of a pro
fessorship in Yale School of Fine
Arts; for Medical College, 5000 900 10
University of Cincinnati; S125 900 to
Carlton College, Northfield, Mimi.
William Andrews Clark, jr.. resi-.
dence and library valued at SIS 900 600
to University of California, southern
branch.
Commonwealth Fund of New York
100000 for one years work in a pro.
gram Of community mental hygiene.
DR.. ]. Alderman Coles, by will, art
works valued at $1,000, 900: Newark
Museum, Newark, \. J.
| Will Aid Children.
Edgar 3. Davis, 81 ,000. 900 for fund
to be known as fanny ID. Pratt and
Oscar G. Davis Foundation, started
at Brockton, Mass, the income to be
used for needy children of Massachu
sets.
James Deering. by will. oil paint
ings worth $528, 900, to Chicago Art
Institute
Mrs. Leonard * Elmhirst, $1.4o0.
20
Straight Hall, Ithaca, n. Y.
Wood Fosdick, by will. about $500.
600 to America n Museum of Natura'
History, New York; $50 900 to the
IChildren's Aid Society, New York City
Mrs. Elizabeth Blee Frasch, S940.
00o, TO tosLer chemistry, directed BY
the United States Trust Co, after
consulting with the American Chemf
cal Society.
General Education Board. New
York City; $4,000 TO University
of Chicago Medical School, S1,067.
600 to Columbia University Medica
School, New York City; $1.00000O tt
Princeton University. 100000 Il
| University of Virginia Medica
School, S7S0,000 10 Harvard Law
School, S750,000 each to University
of Rochester, n. Y. and Yale Uni
verslty MEDICAL School; 100000 tC
Teachers College. New York CITY,
S4So.o0o to University of Chicago
for Oriental Institute; S414.O00 t.
various colleges and universities fol-
negroes, $350,000 to Vanderbilt Uni.
versity, 100000 to Marine Biological
Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass:
$685. to Harvard Medical School
S225,0 to Tulane University Medi.
cal School, $500 600 to Johns Hop.
kins University. S164.000 to State
Departments of Education in South
ern States, SAP, 600 to Anna T
Jeanes and John f. Slater funds
5000 to North Carolina College foI
Women. $4,000 to University OF
North Carolina, $4,000 to University
of Iowa Medical School, S143, 622 to
University of Cincinnati for Medica
College. Ohio; S378,G33 to Carleton
College. Mortified, Mimi; $135.00(
to Illinois University.
Hospital Gets Fund
Miss NJ. E. Griffith, by will, $685.
900: Presbyterian Hospital, N. Y.
Daniel Guggenhein. New York
City, 100000 to found School OF
aeronautics at New York Univer-
sity, New York City; $2,50O,000 tC
| Aphilti TIE ITuSSeuIielEn L una 10 pro
mote aviation $4,000 Hebrew Union
College Endowment Fund.
Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the
Promotion of Aeronautics, $4,000 tC
the University Of Michigan.
Mrs. Edward S. Hardness, $1,000,
coo Geological Park, New York City
Melk copy of Gutenberg Bible
valued at 100000 Yale University.
Mrs. William l.. Hardness, son and
daughter. 100000 to Yale Univer-
sity for erection of lecture and reci-
tation hall.
Israel Hecht, by will, 100000 to
buy coal for worthy poor families
in Philadelphia.
Alfred NJ. Heinsheimer, a country
home at Breezy Point, Far Rocka-
way, with 100000 endowment fund
to hospital for joint diseases, New
York City.
William Radcliffe Trby, by will.
$1,000,000 to Tulane University. New
| Orleans. La.
Miss Elizabeth Jenkins of Balti-
| more, by will, $2,000,00O for the erec-
| ton of homes for incurables and
aged women.