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Show V'li The Most Generous Year j Swr t -r Z : W : " 1 8 -J hVcnTurvHaTDl7. f J. 1 T 1T A TT7" A V & 1 O 1 AW. Mr. Rockefeller Takes the If nisi r J.2jr .x w Jjl jl IZI?oD09'yii, w.wlms? gg ft3 ! . Nearly $254 a Minute Ji IT W -rk rmW T 9 T1 I TTk T Tn"ri ' Ism -"dini HI imMinm CHARITY'S GAINS FOR 1 907 tsssm. I oa! tiivintr "ion as many thousands cvii day as tl.. j aro day3 in tho 11 abjal t ' th e -month, Ji'UT has sot a now high- mpoil wjtcr mark for the twontieth century's 'UK ilt K'r:3 1 charitable causes That daily, s hjM Cciire (to speak oxactly) is 365,533.0.5, id -yhich means over two and a half mil. UtiK 'ions a week, or u ''record" total for via tho completed yea' of $121,356,973. i tl first of tiu fAaht yeara of tho I itoeslit nineteen hundred marked tho ebb of offtf lhc century's figures, with but $47,500,- ; 000. Ninotoan one jurapod to $107,- umjlfi 300,000, and that has stood at tho head fUAti . Jill oc & : 7t5STT D. ROCKEFELLER, i of cbarit3's ladder till this present v- "X year of grace and jreuerositj' camo far S1! to surpass it. The eight-figured toiuls 'm f 'nc nvp intervening ';ars nono of S' them reaching tho hundred million lino If -seem, today, almost inconsequential. I -W in the Hglit of this latest-aehioved ra proof of mankiud's desiro to put. into i n tangible practico the spirit of good will, 33 and mutual helpfulness which rules the 1; Christinas season. 2 Limitations of the Ohroniclc. i'l Impressive as is the 3'ear's great jg- ?f gregato it. is ncccssaril' incomplete. .Nrucli that is given passes with no pub- 3 lie notice ; even an ostimato closely ap- proximating perfect figures is out of fm the question. The .-journalistic statis- m lician must rely upon the items pub- M lished, from day to day, and must yet 'M farther define the limits of his work because of tho uncertainly of publi- W cation in one part of the country of C gifts of the smaller sort made in some other part. n tho following lists $5000 lias been taken as thu minimum to bo considered, though multiplicitv of small donations so lost eight of. would raise 000 000. The $25 and $50 aixl $100 guts to such a oauso as tho Chinese faminno fund, to quote but a finale instanco, ran up in a fortnight into tlio hundreds of thousands. Again, only individual givers aro horo taken nccount of: the generosities of cities, societies and clubs, churches and rolorm organizations and no reader of tho daily news will fail to rcalixo how 6iich figures as these would represent would climb toward tho millions have-not have-not been chronicled. Finally (and "of course") no items aro included save those which have looked to some public good. Old World's Part. Thnt only American givers arc listed is as necessary as obvious. If it is not easy to gather accurate- figures of the bqnofactions made here at home, even within the limits specified, it is far more difficulty to compile trustworthy tables of similar philanthropies in the old world. It is but fair, in passing, however, to state thai; the "small" donations of England and the Continent are not much less in the aggregate, than those of America, while tho record of the larger gifts is invariably a splendid one. Foreign benefactions in J 007 have probably fallen considerably short of those bearing the hallmark of the TJnitod States, but that they are not to be lost sight, of its proved by ton characteristic items. n; follows: January William Wlilteloy. to London charities , S5.000.000 June D. IS. Osiris of Parle, to Hlx charities . 5.000.000 April 3. Ilorrlng, London's hospital hos-pital funds .'I.750.Q00 Mny Basil IcCrca, Belfast, educational mds J ,250,000 February Princess IWnry of Saxe-Altenburpr "f.O.OOO April Baron Heyl zu llcrrn- shelm of Berlin 750,000 June Mlsu Perry . of Wolverhampton, Wolver-hampton, oducatlonal 750.000 July A. D. Kassoon, to tho poor of Brighton ."50,000 March M. ITedcnslcff, to Moscow Mos-cow university E50.000 May Mrs. Peter Rcdpalh, to McGIIl unlveralty 150.000 John D. Rockefeller, Premier. That '07 is a "record year" in its philanthropies is due directly to John D. Kockcfcller. When in the second of tho mouths he gave that. $32,000,000 to tho general education fund, ho insured in-sured a first place for it among its follows fol-lows and incidentally wrote his own name highest of all on charity's roll of honor. Today he is to bo thanked for something more than $63,553,000 givon in all to various causes of the public, good. Assuming him to havo donatod not less than another $10,000,000 of which onlj' private records bavo been kept, ho heads tho long list of American Ameri-can bonofactors. Mr. Carnegie, with nine gifts during the twelvemonth, totaling at $S,957,000, is still surpassed by three of tho year's givers Mr. "Widener of Philadelphia has promised $10)000,000 for a municipal art gallery; Mr. Prick of Pittsburg has signed chocks for $10,205,000, and Mrs. Russell Sage, in a scoro of most generous items, has built up her benevolent benevo-lent subscriptions to $13,830,000. Woman's Sharo in the Work. Woman, indeed, has borne n magnificent mag-nificent part in tho work. More than a Wilt sMM & tiff OlpSs! fifth of I he wholo sum given $24,-234. $24,-234. 10S has come from her. Tho dozen leaders havo been: Mrp. Russell Sage of Is'ow York City , $13,530,000 Miss Anna T. Jcanes of Phll- 'adelphla 2,312,10S Mrs. C. R. Calland of Now Haven. Ha-ven. Conn 1,500.000 Mrs. II. A. Cui'rler of Manclies- tor. X. H 1,000,000 MIsa B. D. Glbhos of Newport, ' R. I 750,000 MIhs Kate McKnlght of Pitta- burg 600.000 Mrs. Sarah Ropes of Salem, Mass 500,000 Mrs. Laura Currier of New York nity 202,000 Mlus Helen Gould of New York City 2B5.000 Miss Florence Lyman of Boston. Bos-ton. Mass 250,000 Mrs. Poller of Boston. Mass 150,000 Mrs. II. C. Durand of Chicago. Ill 175,000 Tho completed roster of these woll-doerSj woll-doerSj as long as tho year itself, and covering every Stato and Territory of ihc nation, contains such widely known names as those of Mrs. John Hav, Mrs. Robert T. Lincoln, Mrs. Anne Weight-man, Weight-man, Miss Helen StokeB and Miss Alico Longfellow. Tho "roll of honor" of millionaire givers, in addition to tho four first entered en-tered above, reads; John D. HooUefollcr of Now Yorlc City : $l2,r,15.000 Henry C. Frlck of Pittsburg.. 10.205,000 P. A. B. WJdcnor of Philadelphia Philadel-phia , 10.000,000 Andrew Carnegie of New York City ,. S.057,000 R. N Carson, Norrlstown, Pu.. 4,000.000 W. C. Andrews of Now York City 1,500,000 Thomas R. Patton of Philadelphia Philadel-phia ' 1,500,000 J. Plcrpont Morgan of New York City 1.350,000 Bloodgood Cutter of HI tie Noc, U 1 1.000,000 John Porlcrflcld of Allegheny City, Pa 1.000,000 Charlos M. Schwab of Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, Ua 1,000,000 Nor does this include "Mr. Anon'-mous, Anon'-mous, " who, as usual, stands well up among the honored ones. Since January he lias dug into his deep pockets for a neat little $2,446,000! Millions for Educational Ends. That lhc gifts to education should far surpass those for any other cause was a foregone conclusion, in the light of that Rockefeller $32,000,000. But, as if to make this assurance twice doubly suret the 3'car has had to record four munificent donations, each looking to tho foundation of an institution not yet on tho educational tapis. R. N. Carson of Nornslown, Pa., loft $4,000,000 to start there a sort of "Girard College for Girls" where tho parentless little wonion of tho land might receive .iust such training for tho later j'cars as has for so long been given "to orphan boys through tho far-sighted far-sighted generosity of Stophen Girard. v. C. Andrews of Now York oitv with W - JACOB H. SOHIFP a similar bnd in view, devised b' will a million and a half for a girls'" "Institute "In-stitute of Practical Training." to be localed in Ohio. The Into Chief Justice Jus-tice Pnxson of Pennsylvania marked his approval of the farm Hchool idea 13' a boquost of $200,000 for a now one, to be startod .in Bucks county, of his Slate: and Mr. Rockefeller has given $2,000,000 lo further tho project of a "Creator Louisville University." , Sotting aside the half score kofl gifts directed to purely technical training, perhaps an equal number dwiucd to further primal or Bccondary oduc.u- F. E. WEYERHAUSER, tion, and the half-dozen of a general nature, this part of the .year's chronicle shows nearly seventy distinct presents made fin good dollars and cents) to tho colleges of tho country. As usual, Messrs. Carnegie and Rockefeller kept their protego institutions at. the top of tho list, but, none tho less was tho giving giv-ing as broad-5iread as generous. The dozen "luckicj.t" ones read: Carnegio Institute. Pittsburg... .$(5,000,000 University of Chicago, Illinois... 3,000.000 Princeton university, New Jer- sey l,r.7fi.!tS" Tuskegcc Institute. Alabama.... 1,332.770 Yale univorslty, Connecticut J. 107,000 Emma Wlllard seminary, Now York t. 000.000 Pennsylvania Stato college 1,000,000 Renssalacr Institute, Troy, N. Y 1.000.000 New York Teachers' college... 850.000 Barnard college. Now York City 750,000 Amherst college, Massachusetts. 500,000 Crcighton university, Nebraska. 500,000 Savon Gains and a Loss. With 1907 loading by so great a difference dif-ference tho figures piled up bv last year's benefactions, it was to havo beeu expected that gains should have been marked in each of tho usual eight di-visions di-visions into which items of this sort II arc convenient- divided. Tn one case, however gifts made not in cash, but their values estimated and totaled an actual loss haa occurred. The compari-tivo compari-tivo figures for tho,' two -ears follow: 100(5, 1007. Kdiicnllonnl purposes pur-poses 51S,2GI.3riO 501,737,257 Galleries, Museums and Societies .... Il,020,:;i0 22,101,770 Miscellaneous charl- . tis r,.6io,C8i ir,,isc.300 Hoapllnls, homea and asylums 3,017,075 7.882,500 For religious pur-pones pur-pones 5, 71.0,053 r.,2G5.000 Libraries 1,310,7115 2,K12000 Gifts made not In -money 5.HS.000 4,052,116 Gifts sent out of the country 703.000 1,440,000 Totals 51, 230,204 $121,356,973 Gifts Made Out of tho Country. William TVnldorf Astor, London Eng., Oxford university. Eng. . ..?100,000 William Waldorf Astor. London, Eng., various causes. London.. 50.000 Andrew Carnegie, New York City. King Rdward's hospital fund... 500,000 Theodore Dowoh, New York Cltv, ICgyptlnn excavations '. . 20,000 ". 'S. Hubbard, Indianapolis, foreign for-eign missions 50,000 Lou Is Klopsch, New York City. Chinese famine sufferera ; 10,000 Louisa Lcclc-rc. New York Cltv, education In France . . 10,000 Louisa Leolere. New York City. the Academy of France 20,000 Louisa Leclcre. New York City, Mt. Matibnn seminary, France... 100.000 Alevnndcr Maltland, Princeton. N. J., foreign missions 20.000 Samuel IS. Moore. Phlladolphla, Soldiers Families' ossn.. Eng. . . 25,000 Howard Paul, Hartford. Conn., various va-rious causes. London 200,000 John D. Rockefeller. New York City, foreign missions 25,000 John D. Rockefeller. ' Now York City, Iiaptlst missions 200,000 Mrs. Russell Page. New York City. Syrian Protestant college 75,000 Nathan Strauss. Now York City, Ensllsh milk depots : . 25,000 AnonymoiiB (nn American). Paris statue to St. Pierre : 10,000 The lists teem with names that havo bocomo household words. The President himself figures, having offered his $40,000 Nobel prize to further tho causo of peace between capital and labor. Ex-Secretary of the interior Hitchcock has presented a church to Crystal City, Mo., and tho vcnerablo Hen- Gassb-way Gassb-way Davis of West Virginia, once can-didato can-didato for the Vicu-Presidcnc' on the National Democratic ticket, has largely aided the V". M. ( A. of Maryland. Archbishop O 'Council and Bishop Stang stand for the church; Chief Justice Jus-tice Pa.rson and Cortlandt Parkor for bench and bar: Chatfield Talor and Allan Marquand'for literaturo and art; T. P. Shonts and John Hays Hammond for tho nppliod sciences, and Frederick Movorhnuser. the lumber king, has aptly given monc.v to Yale's forest' school. Finance is represented b.y a score of names, high among them standing stand-ing W. W. Astor, W. K. Vnndcrbilt, I Henr3' Phipps, Jacob SchifV. Isidore I Wormser, James Speycr, Vermilyo and. J. I'. Morgan. I Nelson Morris may be held to reprc- sent Chicago; Hcnrv L. Higginson may i 9 stand for Boston, Joseph Wharton for EY l Philadelphia, Henry Laughlin for Pitts- burg. Colonel Goddard for Providonco fern j and J. A. J. Creighton for Omaha. w fi Story of tho Months. 'In I In the records of tho months, Feb ( Ell ruary leads bv a long margin again ( Wn thanks to thnt $32,000,000 of the oil & H king with a. total of $40,410,300, more ilia than (hrco times the average for the 1 IB months as a whole, which figures out ut ' H 1 ,032,452.09. April is second, showinn LIS $23,039,000, and May is third, with t jjjE'B J. PIERPONT "MORGAN, M $15,025,500. Poor little six-figurod Jub ', iS ' could pull together only $729,000 but ; I then it was vacation time. Ninetcen-soven has often boon spoken !m k of as "an uplift year." Wo havo had 9f fc pointed out to us the marked advances jH U it has seen toward a.higher standard of, mi If public morals, toward the growth of 'H ffi prohibition, toward a closer approxi- 1 ination. in tho business world to those KfffSj ideals of honestj- which tho individual Jl ;w American has always held. And is not 1m iffi puch a record as this tribute monev , Itijj to good works bestowed at the lavish n jui rato of more than $15,200 each hour of I juj tho passing weeks aud da3s added Itai proof that the old world grows bcttei Jf Hr ' as it grows older? ' a nil WARWICK JAMES PRICE. L t H |