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Show Our Millionaires' Generosity From a summary of the various gift of our big moneyed men-during the year just passed, it would appear that they are still in the business of making fa-I fa-I bulous amounts of gold each ye.ir, a portion of which they are more than willing to give us common folk a little more or less indirectly. The public benefactions of 1911 have amounted in this countty to more than $150,000,000. This total was never exceeded ex-ceeded except in 1909, when the aggregate aggre-gate approximated $175,000,000. It was said that the panic of 1907-08 left, the rich broke or "penitent" and the vast j benefactions of 1909 were therefore i charged by the experts up t the Amer- ! ican penitentials account. Andrew Carnegie has this year given away more than $40,000,000 of the remainder of his fortune. His benefac- tionswere, as usual, in the shape of gold bonds of the United Spates Steel co poratiun. His largest gift was $25,- j ' 000,000 to the Carnegie corporation of. ' New York, specially accepted by the! M legislature at Albany to carry on the' iron man's charities. The money was turned over to the corporation to "pro- i I mote the advancement and diffusion of, I knowledge and understanding among i i the people of the Uuittd States. j ; Mi'. Carnegie gave $10,000,000 to the; Cartieeoe institution at Washington to be used for general scientinc researches, i He founded hero funds in Italy, Sweden, Holland, Denmark and S MUerland, and he added Co the: endowment of his hero fund in Germany. Mr. ','arnegie, who is now a little more than 77 years old, has given to tne i ublic over $221,0ll0,00i). The elder J. D. Rockefeller's publicly announced girts this year have not total, ed in all more than $3,000,OjJ, of which $1, -'150,000 went to the University of Chicago and $1,000,000 to the Rockefeller Rockefel-ler ins.i-.utiun tor medical research in New YorK City. Tne rest was to colleges col-leges far west and south. Tne donation to Chicago University was the secon installment of the oil man's single and .....I ,.t o. $10,OJO,000 to the institution. institu-tion. The second largest individual giver was Frederick C. Hewlet, who left $2,000,000 to the Post-Graduate Medici School nospitil and $2,00j,0)0 to the Little Missionary day nursery, both New York rnsti.u. ions. Joseph Pu.K.er, owner o' the World, who ..ied Oc;ooer2J, on his yac'it Lib-em Lib-em , beque ithed more than $3,000,000 to public uses. Of this $1,000,010 goes to i Columbia University for a school of I journalism, conditionally, as an a Idition to $1,000,000 previously don ited. Mr. Pulitzer (rave $50J,000 to the . Met- ; ropolitan Museum of Art and $5 10, 03.1 to the Phil-H-irmo-iio society. His will ! provided for an additional gift of $1,500,- 1 000 to be divi led, on certain conditions, betveen Columbia university, the Phil-Harmonic Phil-Harmonic society and the Metropolitan I Museum of A-t. j The organized uplift institutions of! I the country were largely remembered. TheY. M. C. A., for instance, has' raised $1,800,000 since the first of Jan- uary for use in the far east. They have 1 in Philadelphia, with the aid of John I Wanamaker, garnered more than $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 for its building fund. j The missionary societies of America ! reported that their gifts have exceeded $13,000,000 ir the year. I The crusade against tuberculosis got I a lift, to the extent of $1,000,000 from ' James A. Patten, the Chicago grain' operator. The fight against consump-, tion is now backed by millions of capi-1 tal in the United States, Great Britain and Germany. |