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Show this vast sum about $1 ,000,000 is to be spent in erecting the group of buildings build-ings on the high Susquehanna bluff back of the town of Port Deposit This wil leave J3.000.000 for the maintenance mainten-ance of the institute. It is a remarkable remark-able endowment, as it causes Tome institute in-stitute to be many times richer than the richest secondary school in AmerU ca, the one at Lawrenceville, N. J., which has only about $300,000 in endowments en-dowments and $700,000 in property." The Tome Endowment. The Baltimore Sun, speaking of some changes in the management o the Tome endowment, sa ys of it. u has frequently been stated that Jacob Tome's endowment of the school bearing bear-ing his name was about J2.000.000, but Us now town that the securities and properties- which he gave or bequeath-li bequeath-li are worth at least 4,000 000. Of |