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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



1901 granted 9,780,000 marks for the expense of 

 administration, while only 213,000 marks were 

 raised locally. 



The German New Guinea Company has the 

 concession of the trade of German Xew Guinea 

 and of the other possessions now united with it. 

 The company surrendered the administration to 

 the Imperial Government on April 1, 1899. Cotton 

 and tobacco and coffee have been planted. Over 

 36,000 coconut-palms are preserved. The areca 

 and sago-palms, as well as bamboo, ebony, and 

 many other valuable woods, grow in the country. 

 Cattle and goats are reared. The chief exports, 

 besides copra, are mother-of-pearl and trepang. 

 Gold is found in the Bismarck mountains. The 

 European inhabitants in 1899 were 58 in number. 

 The administrative expenses for 1900 were 923,000 

 marks, of which sum 848,000 marks were con- 

 tributed from the imperial treasury. 



The Caroline, Palao, and Marianne Islands, 

 purchased from Spain for 16,750,000 marks, are 

 governed under the direction of the Governor of 

 New Guinea, but will have a separate administra- 

 tion. The eastern islands will be administered 

 from Ponape, the western Carolines and the Pa- 

 laos from Yap, and the German part of the Mari- 

 annes or Ladrones from the island of Saipan. 

 The islands cost the Imperial Government 370,000 

 marks a year. Copra is exported from all the 

 islands and tortoise-shell and mother-of-pearl 

 from the Palaos. There are 900 whites in the 

 Carolines, which are inhabited by a Malay race 

 with an admixture of Chinese and Japanese. On 

 April 12, 1901, Herr Senfft, the imperial adminis- 

 trator at Yap in the Carolines, raised the German 

 flag over the island of Tobi and the adjacent Helen 

 Riff. Tobi is covered with coconut-palms, and 

 has a population of about 500. 



Bismarck Archipelago includes New Britain and 

 adjacent groups, annexed as a German protecto- 

 rate in 1884. There were 200 Europeans in 1899, of 

 whom 96 were Germans. There were also 64 Chi- 

 nese and 68 Samoans and Fijians working on the 

 plantations. The imports for 1899 were 1,060,000 

 marks in value; exports, 939,110 marks. The ex- 

 port of copra was 726,400 marks; of trepang, 120,- 

 800 marks. 



The German Solomon Islands, diminished by 

 the transfer to Great Britain of Choiseul, Mahaga, 

 and other islands east of Bougainville, export 

 sandalwood and tortoise-shell. 



The Marshall Islands had 79 European resi- 

 dents in 1899 and exported 2,729 tons of copra. 



GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. The following list 

 comprises the most notable gifts and bequests for 

 public purposes of $5,000 and upward in amount 

 and value that were made, became operative, or 

 were completed in the United States in 1901. It 

 excludes the ordinary denominational contribu- 

 tions for education and benevolent purposes, or 

 State and municipal appropriations to public and 

 sectarian institutions, and the grants of Congress 

 for various measures of relief. The most striking 

 feature of the gifts and bequests of the year is 

 the exceedingly large individual amounts. Mrs. 

 Leland Stanford consummated her long-planned 

 endowment of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, 

 which is now the wealthiest educational institu- 

 tion the world has ever known; Andrew Carnegie 

 gave to colleges and for public libraries more than 

 $31,000,000, and at the close of the year had con- 

 ditional offers pending of several millions more; 

 and J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, 

 Dr. Daniel K. Pearsons, Mrs. Emmons Elaine, 

 Helen M. Gould, and other men and women noted 

 for their philanthropy, continued to promote the 

 interests with which their names long have been 



identified. The known value of the gifts and be- 

 quests here enumerated exceeds $107,360,000. 



Adams, Benjamin, Derry, N. H., bequest to 

 the town for a public hall and library, $10,000. 



Adams, Mrs. Charles Kendall, Madison, Wis., 



fift to Madison Art Association, jewels valued at 

 10,000. 



Adams, Herbert Baxter, Baltimore, Md v be- 

 quests to Amherst College, $2,000; the American 

 Historical Association, $5,000; the town of Am- 

 herst, his residence and its contents; and Johns 

 Hopkins University, the residue of his estate. 



Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Quincy. See AGASSIZ, 

 ALEXANDER. 



Adelphi College, Brooklyn, N. Y., gift from a 

 friend to its endowment fund, $5,000. 



Agassiz, Alexander, Newport, R. I., gift to 

 the Cole School of Science, for scientific apparatus, 

 $5,000. 



Agassiz, Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Quincy 

 Adams, and Mrs. Henry L. Higginson, joint 

 gift to Harvard University for completion of mu- 

 seum, $100,000. 



Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., gift from a 

 friend to its endowment fund, $60,000, conditional 

 upon the raising of $140,000 additional within ten 

 months. 



Allen, Dr. C. R., New York, gift to the New 

 York Botanical Garden, a collection of stone- 

 worts said to be one of the most costly in the 

 world. 



Alms, Mrs. Frederick H., Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 gift to the University of Cincinnati for a inusic- 

 hall, $100,000. 



Amherst College, gift from friends to its en- 

 dowment fund, $50,000. 



Andrus, John E., Yonkers, N. Y., gift to 

 Wesleyan University, $25,000. 



Angus, James, West Farms, N. Y., gift to the 

 museum at Roger Williams Park, a collection of 

 corals, polished agates, and books, valued at $15,- 

 000. 



Appley, James L., Springfield, Mass., bequests 

 to the University of Pennsylvania, $6,000; Ameri- 

 can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 

 $1,000; Springfield Hospital, Home for Aged Wom- 

 en, Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, Oli- 

 vet Church, and the city of Springfield, each $500. 



Archbold, John D., New York, gift to endow- 

 ment of Syracuse University, $400,000, supple- 

 menting annual gifts of $40,000 to $60,000 for sev- 

 eral years. 



Armour, George A., Chicago, 111., gift to 

 Princeton University, for the maintenance and de- 

 velopment of the classical seminary, $2,500 a year 

 for five years. 



Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, 

 gift of a memorial window in memory of Philip 

 D. Armour, Jr., value $10,000. 



Armour, Mrs. Philip D., and son, J. Ogden 

 Armour, Chicago, 111., joint gift to Armour Insti- 

 tute, for a school of engineering and a model work- 

 shop, $1,000,000, subsequently increased, by $250,- 

 000. These gifts were in accordance with the 

 wishes of Philip D. Armour, who made no specific 

 bequest to the institute he had founded. 



Armstrong, George W., Boston, Mass., be- 

 quests to the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology and Bates College, each $5,000. 



Astor, John Jacob, New York, gift to the 

 Cathedral of St. John the Divine, a complete set 

 of chimes and mountings. 



Atwill, Cornelia A., New York, bequests to 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, 

 $10,000; Gallaudet Home for Deaf-Mutes, $5,000; 

 and the following to become operative at the 

 death of one of the heirs: Cathedral of St. John 



