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Show Iieia's n h DO GOOD WITH iOW Public Lenefaclions for .19.1 1 Amount to More ..Than 5150,000,000. CARNEGIIH HEADS LIST Over 540,000,000 Donated by iheSleel Magnate; Bequests Made by Pulitzer. By Lco&all' iMrn to The Tribune. XEW YOBK, Dec. -J-:!. The public pub-lic benefactions of 1911 linvo amounted amount-ed in Lhis counlrj lo moro than .150,-000,000. .150,-000,000. This totru was never exceeded exceed-ed except in 1009, vrhen tbo aRrotc approximated $175,000,000. Tt -was baid tbafc tlic panic of 1907-05 left the rich broke or "penitent" and tho vast benefactions of J909 wcro thcroforo charged by the export s up to the American Amer-ican pcnitentials account. Androw Carnegie has this j-car 'ivcd away more than $10,000,000 of itbo remainder of his fortune. Ilis boncfue-lions boncfue-lions wcro, as usual, in the shape of gold bonds of the United States Steel corporation. Ilis largest if t was $25,-000,000 $25,-000,000 to tho Carnegie corporation of i"cu- York, specially accepted by I he legislature .'it Albany io carr' on the iron man's charities. Thcjnoncy wns turned avor to the corporation to "pro-moto "pro-moto the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding amonpr i lie people of tho United Stales." Many Hero Funds. Mr. Caniecitf gave .? 10.000.000 to tho ( avucgJo institution at Washington to be uicd for general scientific researches. re-searches. Mo founded hero funds in ttnjv, Sweden, Holland, Denmark and Switzerland and ho added to tin endowment en-dowment of his hero fund in Germany. .Mr. C'arneiiie, woo is now a littlo more than 77 vears old. has .given to tho public "over $221,000,000. liclv announced gifts this year havol not' totaled in all moro thau $.'5,000,000, of which $,:50,000 went, to the University Uni-versity of .Chicago and $1,000,000 to the Jtockefollcr institution for medical research re-search 5u Xcw York City. The rest was to colleges far west and south. The donation to Chicago University was tho second installment, of the oil man's single and final gifc of $10,-UOO.000 $10,-UOO.000 to that institution. The second largest individual giver was Frederick C. Hewlett, who left $2,000,000 to the Post-Graduntc Medical Med-ical School hospital nud $2,000,000 to tho Little Missionary day nursery, both Now York institutions. Pulitzer's Gifts. Joseph Pulitzer, owuer of the "World, who died October 29. on his yacht Lib-crtv, Lib-crtv, bequeathed more thau $:-J,000,000 to public uses. Of this $1,000,000 goes to Columbia university for a school of .journalism, conditionally, as an r.ddi-tiou r.ddi-tiou to $1,000,000 previously donated. Mr. I'ulitzcr gave $500,000 to tho Metropolitan Met-ropolitan Museum of Art and $.100,000 to the Phil-Harmonic society. Ilis will provided for an additional gift of 1.500,000 to bo divided, on ' certain condition, between Columbia uulver-Mty. uulver-Mty. the Pliil-Tlarmonic society- and tho Metropolitan Museum of Art. The organized unlift institutions of It ho countrv were largely remembered. The Y. M C. A., for instance, has raised $1,800,000 since the first of .human for use in the far east. They have in Philadelphia, with the aid of John Wannmukor. garnered more than $1,000,000 for its buildiug fund. The missionary sorictics of America reported that their gifts have exceeded $13.00O,0U0 in the year. The crusade against tuberculosis got a lift, to the extent of $2,000,000 from James A I'atten, tho Chicago graiu operator. The fig-lit against consumption consump-tion is now backed by millions of capital cap-ital in tbo United States, Great Britain Brit-ain and Germany. |