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Show ENORMOUS SUMS GIVEN AWAY. Moro Than $65,000,000 Distributed by Generous philanthropists. Tho contributions to charitable nnd educational Institutions during tho year Just past havo exceeded thoso or 1904 by a largo sum. The totnl amount of gifts reach tho Immenso flguro of $G5,10 1,432, or $137 a minute. Tho records upon which these flg' ures aro based aro necessarily Incomplete, Incom-plete, as tho amounts published from day to day in tho papers nro taken to compile tho.estlmato, and $5,000 has boon tho minimum considered. It Is probablo that tho multiplicity of small donations would raise the total, by $10,000,000 nt least, Individual givers, too, aro hero accounted for only, which fact prevents tho list from enrolling en-rolling tho big contributions to tho R isslan Jaws. Moro than ono-third of tho contrlbu-tions contrlbu-tions has gone to educational instltu-tions. instltu-tions. Eighty-two colleges and schools are-named In that part of tho annual report, though, even bo, the gifts to this cause would not havo stood In such overwhelming proportion to tho benefactions of the wholo twelvemonth twelve-month had not tho threo largest donations dona-tions of nil fallen under this head. In April. Mr. Carnegie set by $10,000,000 as a fund for nged educators, followed a month later by Mr. Rockofellor, vlth. another $10,000,000 for tho cause of general education, whilo tho traglo loath, of Mrs. Leland Stanford threw Into this sam'o scale $4,875,000 moro. Tho dozen most "lucky" universities rp nk 'then as follows : tl.el.tnd Stanford .... ; tf,875,000 "Harvard .., ,...,, 1,600,000 iJ : 1,405,000 Fth!CnB?m" ;, ' 1.150.000 Union Theological seminary 1,100,000 v!m,?r.'n;k,som!nnrJr 1,000,000 Mllllkln university 1,000,000 Columbia , ..,. 699,000 Unlvcrelty of Virginia 610,000 Xwn 650,000 Princeton 437,000 University of California 400,000 Following education tho benefactions benefac-tions of 1905 rank as follows: To galleries, gal-leries, museums and sociolles of kindred kin-dred alms went $7,024,000; to ."homes," hospitals nnd asylums, $5,-391,500, $5,-391,500, with $4,700,175 to miscellaneous miscellane-ous charities. Chnrnh wnrlrn nf vnrl. ous sorts followed closo with $4,424,-757, $4,424,-757, and $1,993,000 for library buildings. build-ings. Add to theso totaU $2,435,000 which camo In gifts other than of cash, though valued "offlclally," and this country is found to havo received in nil $84,089.432 $2,015,000 wns sent to do its work In foreign fields. Tho "roll of honor," where ono may rank tho givers of millions, reads: Andrew Carneglo $14,099,000 John D. Hockefollcr 11,635,000 Mrs. Jano L. Stanford 4,986,000 Stephen Salisbury 3,450,000 John C. King 2,000,000 General Isaac J. Wlstar 2,000,000 Mrs. E. D. Hand 1,250,000 Henry Phlpps 1,050,000 Margaret A. Jones 1,025,000 Mrs. Emmons Dlalno 1,000,000 Oeorge V. Clayton 1,000.000 Ilenjumln Ferguson 1,000,000 Cyrus McCormlck 1,000,000 James Mllllkln . 1,000.000 .W. F. Milton 1,000.000 i |