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Show MAKES RICH GIFT TO VENICE. New York Banker Glvoa Laroe Sum To Help Rebuild Campanile. The New York banker and former confidential partner of Jay Oould Is said to bavo given lum.ooo to the fund being raised in Italy to replace the thousand-year-old tower at Venice which la now a maaa of rulna. Thla Information enmo In a dispatch from Home, which also sad the munificent munifi-cent girt had caused much emotion among Venetians. In New York Mr. Moru.ilul aatii he bad offaed to con-trlbuip con-trlbuip to the Tumi, but would not say he had given fino.oon. If was horn In Venice In 134 and emigrated mf) to the I'nlted States I -. 1850. lie became be-came an employe of one of Jay (loull'a railroads, and In 187J Jay Oould appointed him hla private secretary sec-retary and later made him x partner. He haa accumulated a large fortune aa an Investment broker and banker. |