Show HOW if I 1 r HAS stephen Gl Gi raids college rund fund of increased sevenfold the value of 0 the ginard estate Is not td ed by the hie annual the tha leading items of 0 which aro are based upon tho the returns 0 ot f tile assessors but the statement Is to exhibit the magnitude or of tho the arlous barlous properties which comprise the endowment under aich tile the work mork of education at girard college Is carried on from an ail original investment ot of as a lund fund lor for the preparation of 0 lila ills college coll cRe as directed tn in mr jr girards will whose wealth at the time or of his death in 1831 amounted to the residuary y fund now flow aggregates ogg offeree acca lit in invested capital but this sum does docs not properly pro ent the various holdings tile the real osta estaba in schuylkill and columbia counties for example covering in extent over acres ot of coul coat lands on oil which eleven coli cries are now in operation employing ying upward of 0 men Is assessed at only 1 probably not one tenth of 0 lis its value I 1 the real estate jn in this city on which rentals are paid from buildings alone Is assessed at MOSil lOO w chich inch Is based upon it a three fourths valuation of course courne no returns are hati had front from the college proper the inclosure of which Is valued at and ami on which tile the taxes amount to a year but the estate holds in city loans and in bonds and obtains from grounds more the cash receipts tor for the past year amounted to tl and lia eo effective and salutary has been the administration 0 f tile the board of city trusts that the unusual r spectacle Is presented of 0 jo and re investments added to the iho principal amounting to in the items making or up tile the receipts the estate derived as rent and royalty front the Herleg co 10 1081 81 1 from PlA philadelphia ladelPhia properties lep ns As in torbitt and ground around rents and as the principal of collect collected 1 I the gran grandest dept expenditure was for or the support of 0 college which required for or the maintenance 0 E the students itu denta now under tile the curt car t of af the board girards great work for a and ad the state stale grow brows 3 with the ians eoas ind nil each year adds t to its ita value As an the college occupies a peculiar place its as an educator fol lowin 9 closely tile lm text of the will of the founder in teaching caching facts and things anti anil less than half it century the iho college has matured a body of alumni of young men not one of whom has as yet the sixtieth year times I 1 |