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HE SUNDAY CALL. dmericans. [he I'osr Charilable Pe OU may call endowment a fad if you like. You may call it a pose. You may throw all the mud you want to at the motive, but the fact 1 there that whatever the mo- tive, the recent results are big. It was one of the talked-about things of the nineteenth century. Bigger for- tunes were made then than ever had been ade before, and the possessors of them took to giving large sections of them away. They endowed librarles; they boosted the arts: they hunted out Strug- gling people and gave them education. The last year of the century excelled any that had ever gone before. Here is & list which Rossiter Johnson, editor of Appleton's Anmnual Cyclopedia, has fur- hed: According te the scheme followed by Mr. Johnson, the forthcoming number of dia will contain an exhaustive s and bequests, each amount- ® or over (where the value of hation 18 unknown it i so indicat- his list excludes the ordinary de- for educa- the cyclope 1 contributions nominat tional, benevolent and religious purposes, or State and municipal appropriations to blic and sectarian institutions and the nts of Congress for various measures of relief. For obvious reasons the muiti- tudinous contributions to the India fam- ine d, which amount to more than $250.0 nd to the Galveston flood suffer- ers, §1,253,710, have been omitted in detall, but the fact is emphasized that even omit- ting these gifts and reckoned within the imitations designated the number of gifts and becuests shows a large increase over t of 1 although the total, $47,500,000, 38 over $15000,000 less than the total for . the prec ing the ami s Jast eight years, calculated according to the above poted resarictions: cent total con- on wrote that it amount to the mag: 1899 Mr. John g off in the tof med even more significant that contributions were more numerous while it is furthermore in cation culture have in a large meas- ure sigr this augmentation in the r of denors. this subject made by Frederic Ha the other evening at Authors’ Club are pertinent at this their direct inspiration was the offer of Mr. Carnegie to provide for sixty-five free libraries in ter New York at an estimated ex- f $5,200,000. Mr. Harrison said: ng that has particularly struck this country has been the spirit of py which is everywhere dis- ur wealt citizens. A re- ance of such munificence de known within the las: few se great gifts to libraries, es have surprised me. ve nothing like it in England. Wh:; we have it not would take too long to teil, nt from yeur: house has to through which his son, or it = grandson, may take his place in Parliament, or may become the of a noble line. Apparently an American college has only to ask and means zre given it. Nobody in England ever thinks of bestowing upon our col- remarks izens so freely bestow upon yours. the people of the United possessing such generous donors, and I congratulate them also in possess- ing such a large and well cared for read- It is therefore not only the spirit of phi- lanthropy of certain wealthy Americans that has made the last year of the century conspicuous in this respect but the fact that the spirit has been more generally displayed than in the previous year not @lone in charity and benevolence but in those directions which help people to help themselves by opening to them the means of educetion and culture. Another thing should be borne in mind. The year of the Spanish-American war saw the contribu- tions to education and civic charity sink to $35,000,000. Capital was otherwise em- ployed or inactive. Then came the reac- tion, the relief, and 1899 was made con- spicuous by a number of large gifts which ren up the total of that year to an ex- traordinary amount. But the examples then set have since been emulated in many directions, and the fact that the contributions last year to objects of edu- cation and culture were more numerous than in 1899 reveals a most healthful de- velopment of public spirit. In the extracts which we have made we have been obliged to confine ourselves to the contributions made to non-sectar- ian institutions of learning, to schools, li- braries, colleges, academies, museums, art collections and for similar objects. Here 1s an alphabetically arranged list of such gifts and bequests, together with sundry notes of interpretation: ALBRIGHT, JOHN J., Buffalo, N. Y., gift to BSmith College, Northampton, Mass., $10,000. ARNOLD, OLNEY, Pawtucket, R. I. beguest to Tufts College, $5000. ATWATER, MRS. CAROLINE SWIFT, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., gift to Vassa? Col- lege for its infirmary, $12,000, doubling her gift of 1898, AVERY, SAMUEL PUTNAM, New York, gift to the New York Public Li- brary, a collection of 17,000 prints, etch- iugs, lithographs and photographs, repre- senting the labor of more than thirty years and a large expenditure of money. BARTLETT, A. C., Chicago, gift to Chi- cago University, for a physical culture hall, $125,000. BATES, ELIZABETH H., Port Chester, - N. Y., bequest to the Untversity of Michi- gan, as allowed by Burrogate, $88,688. BELOIT COLLEGE, Beloit, Wis., gifts from friends for permanent endowment, BENNETT, JOSEPH M., Philadelphia, bequests to the University of Pennsylva~- nia and the Methodist Orphanage, nearly all of an estate estimated at $2,000,000. BILLINGS, L. F., gift to Harvard Uni- versity, $5000. ELACKBTONF, TIMOTHY B., Chicago, bequests to the James Blackstone Memo- rial Library Assoclaticn, Branford, Conn., $100.000, and the Art Institute, $25,000. BOWEN, CHARLES C., Detroit, be- quest to Kalamazoo College for a Greek professorship, $50,000. BRADFORD, GEORGE R., Gloucester, Mass., gift to the local Young Men's Christian Association, real estate valued at $18,000. BRADFORD, PROFESSOR VINCENT L., Philadelphia (died 1884), bequest to Washington and Lee University, made available by the death of his widow, his law library, collection of paintings and half of his estate, estimated at over $200,- 000. BROADHEAD, JOSEPHINE, Washing- ton, D. C., bequest to the town of South Newmarket, N. H., for a public library, $10,000, BROMLEY, MRS. ISAAC H., Norwich, Conn., gift to Yale University for a lec- tureship on public affairs, $5000. BROOKINGS, ROBERT E&., UEL S. CUPPLES, St. Louis, Mo., joint gift to Washington University, the busi- known as Cupples Station, paying nearly 10 per cent on a stock capi- tal of $5,000,000. o BROWN, JOHN R. L (died May 1, and SAM- NICHOLAS, Newport, 19800), brother of old, bequest to Brown Unive: i and his pledge of $25,000; Redwood brary, Newport, $5000, and $150,000 ground and building and $500,000 for lowment of the Providence Public rary. BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, Lewisburg, . gifts from friends, an aggregate of h secured gift of {15,090 from John D. Rockefeller. BUGEBEE, EDWIN H., Putnam, Conn., bequest to the Daniels: Free Library As- sociation, his private library and $15.00 for a library bulldin BURT, HORACE G., New York. sift to the University of Wyoming, a tract of twenty acres of land adjoining the univer- sity grounds. CARLETON, GEORGE H., Georgetown, Mass., bequest, Perley Free School, $5000; other benevolent purposes, $12,000. CARNEGIE, ANDREW,- New York, gifts to the Carnegle Library and Insti- tute in Pittsburg, Pa., an addition of $1,850,000 to the $1.750.000 given in'18%9 for the enlargement of the building; for the erection and sndowment of a polytechnic institute in Pittsburg, $3,000,000; for public libraries in East Orange; N. J.; York, Pa., snd Hawick, Scotiand, each $50.900: for a library in Fort Dodge, lowa, $20,000; for libraries in Leavenworth, Kans., and Chil- licothe, Mo., each $25000; to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, $20,000, and to Stevens Institute of Technology, $15,000, supplementing a previous gift of $50,000 for a new building. CARR, A. WHITNEY, Jordam, N. Y., gift to the State of JTowa for fres scholar- ghipe in the State University for deserv- ing but poor boys, $50,000. CARRUTH, JOHN G., Philadelphia, gift to the dormitory fund of the University of Pennsylvania, $20,000. MARGARET DE KOVEN, Guests to three institutions in Middletown, Conn., and New York City, $7000. CHENEY, MRS. MARY ROBINEON, gift to Yale University to promote post graduate work, $5000. CHRISMA MRS. ELIZA, Topeka, Kans., bequests to .the Ohio Wesleyan |8 rsity, $35,000, and nearly all the re- mainder of her estate of $250,000 for the founding of a university of Topeka, con- tingent on the local Methodist churches raising a like amount within ten years. CHRISTIAN, HARRY L., Brooklyn, N. Y., bequests to the Hans Christian Kin- dergarten, $10,000. ] CLARK, JONAS G., Worcester, Mass,, bequests to Clark University, which he founded, for the library and a department of art, each $100,000; also $1,000,000 and the residue of his estate, providing the people of Worcester raise a fund of $500,000 with- in three years. If a smaller sum only is raised this estate is to double it. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, gift from a friend for the library fund, $10,000. CORAM, JOSEPH A., Lowell, Mass., gift to Bates College, Lewiston, Me., for library buildinz, $20,000. CORBIN, ELI L., Oxford, N. Y., chil- dren of the late, gift to the village, a pub- lic library. CRAPO, PHILIP M., Burlington, Towa, gift to the new public library there, $20,000. CUDAHY, MICHAEL, Chicago, gift to the Catholic University of America, ‘Washington, D, C., $50.000. CUTLER, ISAAC, Boston, gift to the town of Farmington, Me., for a public library, $10,000. DE KOVEN, John, bequest to Yale Uni- versity, $68,152. DENISON UNIVERSITY, Granville, Ohlo, gifts from friends, about $200,000, thus securing gift of John D. Rockefeller of $100,000. DICKSONy WALTER SCOTT, Salem, Mass., bequests to Salem Public Library and Peabody Academy of Sclence, each $10,000; four other institutions, each $5000; Tufts College, $25,000 direct and $20,000 in reversion. » DODGE, WILLIAM EARL, New York, gift to Columbia University for the erec- tion of a students’ hall, to be under the control of the Young Men’'s Christian As- soclation of New York City, $100,000; Yale University, for the promotion of Christian citizenship, $30,000. DRAKE, EX-GOVERNOR FRANCIS MARION, Centerville, Iowa, gift to Drake University, Des Moines, named after him, $22500. He also made the university a joint heir with his five children to his property, valued at §3,000,000. DUN, ROBERT GRAHAM, New York, bequests to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 25 paintings, valued at $200,000. .DURAND, HENRY C., Lake Forest, 1lL., gift to Lake Forest University, §20,000. DUTTON, MRS. EVERELL F., Syca- more, Ill, gift to the Sycamore Public Library, for a new building, $25,000. DWIGHT, EDMUND, Boston, bequests to the Art Museum, two paintings by Wil- liam M. Hunt and one by Washington Alilsten, and to Harvard University the reversion of $125,000. DWIGHT, JOHN, Mcunt Holyoke College, art bullding, $60,000. EASTMAN, GEORGE, Rochester, N. Y., gift to the Rochester Mechanics’ Institute, $200,000. EICHLER, MRS. MARIE, New York, bequests to sgeven institutions in New York. $11,000, and two in Germany ETHICAL CULTURE, SOCIETY ¥OR, New York, for a memorial New York, gifts from three friends, names withheld, for new bullding fund, $150,000. : FAHNBSTOCK, HARRIS C.. New York, gift to the New York Post-Gradu- ate Medical School and Hospital, for a training school for nurses, real estate val- ued at $65,000. FORD, JARVIS, St. Joseph, Mo., be- quests to trustees for a free library, $20,- 000; and to the Municipal' Hospital, $10,000. FRENCH, JOHN D. W., Boston, be- quest to Harvard University. $5000. FRICK, HENRY C., Pittsburg, gift to Wocster (Ohio) University, a library. FURMAN; MRS. MARY J., Nashville, Tenn., bequest to Vanderbilt University, her estate, valued at $200,000 to $250,000. GALLUP, MRS. DELIA, Chicago, gift to the University of Chicago, to endow the history library, $30,000. GAMMELL, ROBERT IVES and WIL- LIAM, Providence, R. I, gifts to Brown University, each $10,000. GARCELON, MRS. CAROLINE M., Oakland, Cal. (dled 1891), bequest to Bowdoin College, $400,000, made available in 1900 by a decision of the United States Supreme Court. GARDNER, MRS. JOHN L., Boston, gift to the city, for a free museum, her new Italian palace in the Fens, with all its art contents, comprising costly paint- irgs, sculptures, bronzes, metal work, tap- estries, ete. GARTH, MRS. JOHN H., ‘Hannibal, Mo., gift to the city, for a public library, $26,000. GAYLEY, JAMES, class of '76, gift to Lafayette College, a chemical laboratory, cost $30,000. ; GENERAL THEOLOGICAL SEMI- NARY, New York, gift from alumni and others, Hoffman Memorial Hall, cost $100,- 900. GIBBS, EDWARD N., New York, be- quest to Amherst College, $10,000. GLOVER, MRS. LOUISA CECELIA, sift to’ New York, bequest to St. Joseph's Theo- logical Seminary, $10,000. GODDARD, CHANCELLOR WIL- LIAM, Providence, R. L, gift to Brown University, 000, GOLDSTONE, N. L., Des Moines, Towa, bequests to local institutions, $14,000. GOULD, HELEN M., New York, gifts to the New York University, for a Hall of Fame for Great Americans, $100,000; to Berea (Ky.) College, $000, and Hall of the Chr: building fund, Chautauqua, $5000. GREENWICH (CONN.) LIBRARY, gift from friend, name withheld, $10,000. GURLEY, W. F. E., Danville, 1., gift to the University of Chicago, a paleonto- logical collection of 700,000 specimens, per- sonally gathered In the Mississippi Valley, valued at more than $125,000. HAHNEMANN ASSOCIATION, New England, gift to Boston University School of Medicine, $7000. HALSTEAD, JOHN, New York, beauest to Cooper Unlon of his reslduary estate, estimated at $300,600. HARRISON, PROVOST, CHARLES C., Philadelphia, New Year's gift to the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, $250,000. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, gift from a friend, for the Architectural building fund, $20,000. HAVEMEYER, HENRY O., New York, gift to the town of Greenwich, Conn., a public school building, cost $20,000. HAVERFORD COLLEGE, Haverford, Pa., gifts from friends. to extend its re- ligious instruction, $65,000. HENNESSY, THE RIGHT REV. JOHN, Arcu..shop of Dubuque, Towa, be- quests to the fund for erectinga theolog- ical seminary in that city, $50,000; to the Catholic University of Amerlca, Washing- ton, D. C., and the Duwuque Theological Seminary, an equal share in a residue ag- gregating $500,000. HOLKER, ABRAM, New Orleans, gift to the public iibrary there, a valuable col- lection of books and $10,000. HUBBARD, THOMAS H., New York, 8ift to Bowdoin College, for a new library building, $150,000. HUNTINGTON, CHARLES PERIT, Yonkers, N. Y., becuest to the Free Li- brary, Norwich, Conn., $20,000, and to the Cathedral of 8t. John the Divine the resi- due of his estate, expected to vield the cathedral $700,000. HUNTINGTON, COLLIS POTTER, New York, bequests to the Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute, $100,000, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art the rever- sion of all his pictures. "INGRAM, O. H., Eau Claire, Wis., ®ift to Ripon College, a hall for sclentific study. . ISELIN, ADRIAN, New Rochalle, N. Y., gift to that village, the entire shore front at the foot of Neptune road, valued at $30,000, on condition that the villuge / "W establish a recreation pier there. JESUP, MORRIS K., New York, gifts to Princeton University, $25,000, and Yale University, the Landberk collection of Arabic manuscrints, cost $20,000. JOHNSON, WILLIAM M., Hackensack, N. J., gift to the village, ground and a public library building, estimated cost $40,000. KENT, SIDNEY A., Suffield, Conn., be- quests to the University of Chicago and the Chicago Art Institute, each $50,000. KLEINERT, ISAAC B., New York, uift to the Hebrew Union College, Cinciznati, $7000. KNIGHT, ROBERT, Providence, R. I, gift to Brown University, $25.000. LAMSON, WILLIAM. Le Roy. N. bequests to Yale University, $150,000. X LEE, ELLIOT C., gift to Harvard Uni- versity, $25,000. 7 LIPPINCOTT, J. DUNDAS, Philadel- phia, gift to the University of Pennsylva- nia, $20,000. LOOMIS, JOHN MASON, Chicago, be- quest for the endowment of a Loomis In- stitute in Windsor, Conn., the reversion of the greater part of $1,000,000. His broth- ers and sisters had previously joined him in an agreement to leave the residue of their estates for such an institution. McFADDEN, ALEXANDER, Philadal- phia, bequests to Dickinson College, $10,000. McKEAN, MRS. THOMAS, Philadel- phia, gift to the University of Pennsyl- vanfa for the new Law School buflding, $25,000. McLAUGHLIN, MRS. JAMES, Pitts- burg, gift to Princeton University, United States bonds bearing an annual interest of $300. McMAHON, MGR. JAMES, Washing- ton, D. C., gift to the Catholic University of America, real estate valued at $90,000, supplementing his previous gift of the Hall of Philogophy. < MALCOLM, BARONESS FREDERICA, London, England, bequest to “the School for the Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity, recently founded or about to be founded in America,” $25,00. Two Theos- ophist societies in New York claimed the bequest and the claims are to be decided in the English courts, MEBARRY, MRS. ELIZABETH, Rich- mond, Ind., gift to Ohlio Wesleyan Uni- versity, for two new chairs, $60,000. MILLIKEN, JAMES, Decatur, TIL, gitt for an industrial college. to be a part of Lincoln University, $100,000. e MORGAN, J. PIERPONT, New York, gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, three paintings — Piombo’s ‘‘Columbus,” for which $40,000 was paid; Hayden’s “Napoleon at St. Helena” and Lucy’s “Lord Nelson in the Cabin of the Vie- tory”; to the same a collection of ancient Greek ornaments, valued at $130,000. MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, South Hadley, Mass., gift from friends to endow a chair of philosophy, $25,000. NICKERSON, SAMUEL M., and wife, Chicago, gift to the Chicago Art Institute, their collections of paintings. engravings, Chinese and Japanese porcelains, jades, bronzes and other art works, the whole valued at $300,000. & NORMAN, GEORGE H., Newport, L. L, bequest to the Rogers High School, $10,- 000, and the Newport Hospital, Redwood Library and Free Library of Newport, each $5000, OSBORN, WILLIAM, Pittsburg, be- auest to Oberlin College for endowment of the president’s chair, $40,000. - OTTENDORFER, OSWALD, New York bequests Amerfcan Museum of Nat- s 09; New York Free Cir- culatin $20.000, and Society for Ethical Culture, $10,000. PEARSONS, DANIEL KIMBALL, M. Chicago, gifts, on fulfillment of spe- fic conditions, to Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.; Yankton (8. D.) Col- lege, Berea (Ky.) College, Colorado Col- legé, Celorado Springs; McKenzie College, Icbanon, Ill.; Grand Prairle College, Onarga, Ill.; Lake Forest University, Illi- nois; Carleton College, Northfleld, Minn., and two other institutions, the names of which ard”the amount of the gifts are to remain a secret during his lifetime, an aggregate of $300.000, making the whole amount of his gifts to colleges in the past ten vears about $2,000.060. PERRY. MARSDEN J., Providence, R. 1., gift to Browa Un PHELPS. DODGE & CO., mbia University, ols of Mining and Metal- ew York, for endow- lurgy, $10,000. PHIPPS, HENRY, Pittsburg, gift, chiefly for puplls of the public schools, a thcroughly equipped botanical school in Schenley Park. PHIPPS. HENRY JR., Pittsburg, gift to the First Ward Public School of that city, for a boys' playground, a tract of land valued, with improvements, at $100,- PIERCE, MOSES, Norwich, Conn., be- quests, $60,000 for the Mutual Training School of the Norwich Free Academy. PINCHOT, J. W., New York, wife and sons GIFFORD and AMOS, gift to Yale University for endowment of the new School of Forestry. $150,000. QUINTARD, GEORGE W., New York, gift to the University of the South, Su- wanee, Tenn., for a memorial dormitory, $60,000. REW, HENRY C., Newark. N. Y., gift to the village, a public library, cost $20,- 000, and the salary of a librarian for a year. ~ RICE, MRS. ALICE M., Worcester, Mass., bequests to Bowdoin College, $%,- 000; Worcester Polytechnic Institute, di- rect, $5000, in reversion $5060, and the res- jdue of her estate, which is estimated at $500,000, to Worcester Polytechnic Insti- tute. RICKER, JOSEPH, Poftland, Me., be- quests Bowdoin College, $20,000; Ancient Landmark Charity Fund of Portland, $5000. ROBINSON. S., Buston. bequest to the town of Gllmanton, N. H., for improve- ment of the public roads, $40,000. ROCHESTER THEOLOGICAL SEMI- NARY, gifts from friends, securing a like amount from John D. Rockefeller, $100,000. ROCHESTER (N. Y.) UNIVERSITY OF, gifts from friends, to secure admis- sion of woman students, 3$50,000. ROCKEFELLER, JOHN B., New York, gifts to Spellman Scminary, Atlanta, Ga., $180,000: Newton (Mass.) Theological Sem- inary, $150,000, conditional on a like amount being given by others: Brown University. Providence, R. I, on the raising of $750,000 for endowment within a year, $250,000; Denison University, Granville, Ohio, on condition that $150,000 be raised elsewhere, $100,000; Wellesley College, $100,000; Baptist College, Des Moines, Iowa, $30.000; Buck- nell University, Lewisburg, Pa., $15,000; University of Chicago, Christmas gift, $1,500,000; also to the university a duplica- tion of all gifts in 1900 up to $500.000. Four years ago he promsed to duplicate every gift up to $2,000,000 that should be made by January 1, 1900. The carrying out of this pledge and his spectal gifts during 1900 brought the tocal of his gifts to the university up to $9.133.874. To Rochester Theological Seminary, on subscription by friends of a like amount, $100,000. ROUSS, CHARLES BROADWAY, Néw York, gift to city of Winchester, V. for a City Hall, $30,000; (o thé city of New York, a bronze group representing Wash- ington greeting Lafuyette, by Bartholdt. SATHER, MRS. JAMES KROM, Oak- land, Cal., gifts to the University of Cali- fornia for a chair in classical literature, $75.000, and for a book fund for the law library, property valued at $25,000. Providence, R. L., New York, be- quests to the New York Historical So- ciety, the New York University, each $20,000; Rutgers Colleze, $10,000. SCHIFF, JACOB H., New York, gift to Harvard University, $10,000. SCHOENFIELD, MAX, formerly of Philadelphia, now of Rorshach, Switzer- jand, gift to the National Farm. School, Doylestown, Pa., $10.060. SEIBERT, SAMUEL, Hagerstown, Md., bequests to Lutheran Theological Sem- inary, Gettysburg, $3000; Pennsylvania College, $4000; other Lutheran institutions, $3000, and the Susquehanna Lutheran Uni- versity, Selinsgrove, Pa., a residue of about $10,000. SCHELL, ROBERT, SEVERANCE, LEWIS H., New York, * gift to Oberlin College for the chemical laboratory, $80,000. SMITH, CHARLES E., Philadelphia, bequests to the Academy of Natural Sei- ences, one-sixth of his estate of $500,000 and a 'valuable collection of botanical books and dried plants; the Franklin Institute, his large collection of books relating to fron, coal, general mining, railroads and statistics. SOUND BEACH, CONN., subscription of summer residents for a public high school (to cost $12,000), more than $5000. SPRAGUE, JOSEPH W., Louisville, Ky.. bequest to the United States Govern- ment for the Smithsonian Institution, the remote reversion of $250.000. SPRECKELS, CLAUS, San Francises, g'ft to the eity, a public music stand in Golden Gate Park, cost $100,000; dedicated Sentember 9. SPRING, JOHN RAND, San Francisco, gift 18 the public library of Newburyport, Mass., $20,000. STEEL, EDWARD T. Philadeiphia, daughters of the late, gift to the new high school, 2 memortal stained glass window, cost $15,000. STEINERT, MORRIS, New Haven, gift to Yale University, his collection of mu- sical instruments and manuscripts, the formier comprising about 300 separate pieces, many of them exceedingly rare. STEVENS, FRANK S., Swansea, Mass., bequest to the town, a free public library, dedicated Sentember 19. e STILLMAN, JAMES, New York, gift to Harvard University, $50,000, doubling his gift of 1899 for a students’ hospital. STOKES, the Misses, New York, joint gift to Yale University, Woodbridge Hall, for the administration, cost $60,000. TALCOTT, JAMES, and wife, gift to Mount Holyoke College, for an arboretum, $10,000. THOMPSON, JONATHAN, Woburn, Mass., bequest to the Burbeen free lec- ture fund, $3000; to the city of Woburn for a free library, a plat of ground and his residuary estate. TILDEN, DR. JOHN NEWELL, Peeks- kill, N. Y., gift to the village, the old Henry Ward Beecher residence, fully equipped for a public library. TILTO Mrs. CAROLINE STAN- NARD, New Orleans; gift to Tulane Uni- versity, for a library buflding, $50,000. TURNER, ELISHA, Torrington, Conn., bequest to the Torrington Library Asso- ciation, $100,000. VAN WICKLE, AUGUSTUS, Hazleton, Pa., bequests to Princeton University, $45,000; Brown University, $45,000; Lafay- ette College, $30,000. VASSAR COLLEGE, Poughkeepise, N. Y., gift from Boston alumnae, $35,000, se- curing proffered gift of like amount, all for a biological laboratory. VILLARD, HENRY, New York, be- quests American Museum of Natural His- tory and Metropolitan Museum of Art, each $6000, three other institutions in New York each $2500 and to Columbia and Har- vard. universities, unrestricted, each $50,- 000. WADSWORTH, HERBERT and WIL- joint gift to Harvard Univer- RODNEY, Fitchburg, Mass., gift to Smith College, Northamp- ton, Mass., $20,000. WARNER, EZRA J.. Chicago, gift to Middlebury (Vt) College for a science hall, $20,000, supplementing a previous gift for the same purpose of $50,000. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, gifts from friends, names withheld, for endowment of chair of Biblical History and Literature and the Kimball Professorship of Art, each $50,000; to symnasium fund, $5000. WELLS, DAVID AMES, Norwich, Conn. (died 1898), bequests made available by the death of his son, David Dwight Wells, to Harvard University, Willlams College and the City Library, Springfield, Mass., each $37,000. WESTINGHOUSE COMPANY, through Walter C. Kerr. gift to Cornell University, a complete outfit of the Parsons turbine, costing $6500. WHITIN, Mrs. John C., Whitinsville, Mass., gift to Wellesley College, a fully equipped astronomical observatory. WHITNEY, DAVID, Detroit, Mich., be- quests to Alma and Olivet Colleges, each $5000. WIDENER, PETER A. B., Philadel- phia, gift to the city for a memorial library, his costly residence and its con- tents. WILSON, MYRON H., Chicago, gift to the Northwestern University Settlement, for the erection of a mew hall, $50,000. WOLCOTT, ex-Governor ROGER, Bos- ton, bequests to Harvard University, $20.- 000; Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Museum of Fine Arts, each $5000; Milton Public’ Library, $2000; Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuske- gee Normal and Industrial Institute and Wolcott Library, Litchfield, Conn., each $1000. WOODFORD, STEWART L., Brooklyn, N. Y., gift to Berkeley Institute for three scholarships, $9000. YANKTON (S. D.) COLLEGE, gifts from friends, $30.000, securing gift from Dr. Daniel K. Pearsons of Chicago of $50,000. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSO- CIATION, Hyde Park, Mass., gift from a friend for building fund, $25.000. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSO- TION, New Haven, Conn., gifts from friends for auditorium. $35,000. . —_———— From Personal Inspection. “What makes Graynes such a bull on wheat?" “You remember he took a trip through the Northwest a short time ago in a pal- ace car in order to acquaint himself per- sonally with the state of the wheat crop?” * “Yes.” “Well, he lost about $25.000 in poker on that trip and he came back, naturally enough,. with gloomy views about the erop. He's merely betting that his im- pressions are correct.”—Chicago Tribune. —_—————— More Seductive. “See here,” said the lobbyist of the future, “I want you to secure the vote of Mrs. State Senator Jones of the 'Steenth District. You ought to get it for $100.” “Oh, my!"” exclaimed his female assist- ant, “I wouldn’t think of - offering her that.” “You don't mean to say she'll want more?”" “Oh, no. I'll offer her $98 98."—Phila- delphia Pres: ———————— Enew Him Better. Mrs. Caller—Surely, you're not jealous of ycur husband? Mrs. Chellus—Yes, I am. He simply can't keep his eyes off the women. Mrs. Caller—Oh, yes, he can. You should sea him some time when he has a seat in a crowded street car.—Philadelphia Press.