| Show MILLIONS GRANTED 7 J TO John D. D Rockefeller Hands Ova Ove Mere Trifle of to Board NOW LEADS LIST OF GIVERS Donations for or r Purposes s Total Against t tS of Carnegie 13 S New ew York Feb 7 The 7 The largest sum of monc money ever given by a man to charity or in time Iho history of oC the world was presented by John JohnI D. D I Rockefeller today to the th Central Educational board This Timis monster o offering of of- fering f to lo the tie cause auge of or education I Is a 3 n a fortune that is iR greater grealer than titan the total wealth of or many mony cities clUes in the land Yet Mr 11 Rockefeller gives it il In a lump hump sum sum to 10 the general education board stipulating only that he and his son o on shall direct the specific use to which two thirds of It is 19 put With this unprecedented donation Mr 1 Rockefeller surged surgel to lo tIme Ow front ronta a as u the gl greatest ull sL giver to the cause of oC education In the His nearest competitor I Is Andrew Carnegie whose gifts total Bui flut ut time Rockefeller gifts no now stand at time the magnificent mag sum um of 1 find and there thero is little HUle probability that HuH the time steel tf 1 magnate will ever overtake his oil trust tru t rival again Letter l Great Gift Tho Time offering to the general c education uca- uca Ion tion board was WUN made quite unostentatiously nta- nta ia in a meeting JI held today In the Uw otic ollices s in No 4 46 Williams street Mr 11 Rockefeller had hial announced that his imis hisson hison ha had a soul son on John D D. Rockefeller jr message to convey to lo tIme the directors anti and the young oung man was wa on hun hand promptly with a 3 letter r which he lie r read lead ad Not 01 a member r of the board ha had an inkling of the intended gift Amazement at al the tremendous size of S of the offering was plainly depleted depicted ted on the faces aces of oC er e everybody c boh present when the purport of Mr 11 Rockefellers Rockefeller's letter was grasped And Anti when it il fi finally nal I dawned upon thorn them that the time great fortune for for- fortune or- or tune t was to b be u used td solely In irm the toe in interests In- In education throughout through through- of general out time the United States Slate several directors unable to lo I restrain themselves es longer longet- began to cheer They rw realized that with Mr Rockefellers Rockefeller's Hocke- Hocke tellers feller's previous pre gift girt of he heI hal hail now placed at the time boards board's disposal the princely sum of oC for forthe forlie I till the education u of the young oun of or tho tholand tholan lan land |
