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GERMANY. 



GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



ham. The report for Austria shows the wages 

 earned to average 77 cents, while the amount 

 of work done varies between eight and twelve 

 hours a day. A great many women are em- 

 ployed at the surface of the mines, their com- 

 pensation amounting to about 24 cents a day. 

 In Prance the annual wage for miners amounts 

 to about $233.53, or about 78 cents a day, while 

 surface workers earn about $174.07 annually, or 

 58 cents a day. In Germany the wages for 

 miners vary between $142.80 and $228.24 an- 

 nually, or between 48 and 76 cents daily. In 

 Belgium the wages vary between 49 and 54 

 cents a day for men, between 1 7 and 39 cents for 

 boys, and between 20 and 39 cents for women, 

 while the working hours vary from eight to thir- 

 teen a day. At the congress a resolution was 

 adopted approving the legislative restriction of 

 work in mines to eight hours a day, and also an 

 amendment to the above resolution extending the 

 eight-hour restriction to surface workers. The 

 resolution adopted in 1893 at Brussels prohibiting 

 female labor in all countries in and about mines 

 was reaffirmed unanimously. So far the proceed- 

 ings had been comparatively quiet, although all 

 through the sessions of the congress an under- 

 current of bad feeling on the part of the Conti- 

 nental miners against their English brethren 

 had been apparent. This had been brought 

 about by the fact that the representatives of 

 Great Britain had imposed their strict methods 

 of business upon the congress, and as the French 

 and German delegates showed great incapacity 

 to understand fixed rules and observe them a 

 great many interruptions occurred, which were 

 always decided in favor of the British delegates. 

 The standing orders of the congress provide that 

 the results of the divisions shall be decided by 

 the numbers of the miners represented, and not 

 by the number of the nationalities voting, and 

 inasmuch as the British delegates represented 

 045.000 miners, while the Continental delegates 

 combined only represented 463,000 miners, the 

 former had a comfortable working majority. A 

 resolution on employers' liability, making em- 

 ployers responsible for each and "every accident 

 occurring in their mines, was rejected by the 

 action of the British delegates in voting against 

 it. This started the storm, and when a resolu- 

 tion, introduced by a British delegate, " that 

 this congress believes that overproduction of 

 coal is due to the introduction of unskilled labor 

 in mines and the competition of middlemen, and 

 therefore agrees that all nationalities should use 

 every legitimate means to prevent overproduc- 

 tion of coal by limiting the output and by seek- 

 ing legal means to prevent such unskilled labor 

 entering the mines in the future, was adopted by 

 means of the solid British vote against that of 

 the Continental delegates, a scene of wild dis- 

 order ensued. The French delegates jumped 

 up on their seats and shouted that the whole pro- 

 ceeding was a farce, and that the British dele- 

 gates tried to force their views on the miners 

 of the Continent. Amid the disturbance the 

 British delegates declared that they would have 

 to leave for home the next day, and could not 

 attend any adjourned meeting. Two of the Brit- 

 ish delegates were prevailed upon to remain, and 

 on the following day Paris was selected as the 

 place of the next congress. 



GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. The following 

 list comprises the most notable gifts and bequests 

 for public purposes, of $5,000 each and upward 

 in amount or value, that were made, became op- 

 erative, or were completed in the United States 

 during 1894.. It excludes the ordinary denomi- 

 national contributions for educational and be- 

 nevolent purposes and State and municipal ap- 

 propriations to public and sectarian institutions. 

 Great praise is due to State,- municipal, and other 

 public authorities, to financial, commercial, and 

 social organizations, and to individuals who, to 

 relieve the poor and unemployed, made special 

 gifts that are beyond computation. The known 

 value of the gifts and bequests enumerated ex- 

 ceeds $32,000,000. 



Abbott, Mrs. Ellen Lambert, of Philadelphia, Pa., be- 

 quests to the Presbyterian Hospital and the Women's 

 Christian Association of that city, each $3,000 ; to the 

 latter her residuary estate. 



Alexander, J. A., of Woodford County, Ky., to the 

 Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, prop- 

 erty valued at $100,000 and yielding 6 per cent. 



Ames, Mrs. Sarah L., widow'of Oliver Ames, of North 

 Easton, Mass., bequests (which were distributed in 

 1894) to the American Unitarian Association and the 

 Free Hospital for Women, each $10,000; to the New 

 England Hospital for Women and Children, $5,000 ; 

 and to Unity Church, for music, the income of 

 $6,000. 



Andrews, Loring William, of New York city, gift to 

 Yale University, a collection of early printed "books 

 and rare MSS., including a Caxton valued at $1,000, 

 having an expert valuation of $10,000. 



Anonymous Friend, of New York city, gift to the trus- 

 tees of the Elizabeth (N. J.) Hospital, $25,000. 



Anonymous Friend, of New York city, gift to the 

 Church of the Transfiguration ("The Little Church 

 Around the Corner"), a plot of ground for enlarge- 

 ment of the church ana other purposes, valued at 

 $70,000. 



Anonymous Friend, gift to the General Theological 

 Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New 

 York city, for the fund for the support of the dean, 

 $20,000. 



Anonymous Friend, gift to St. Barnabas's Hospital, 

 Newark, N. J., $10,000. 



Anonymous Friend, gift to the College of the United 

 Brethren, at North Manchester, Ind., conditional on 

 an equal sum being raised within the donor's lifetime, 

 $1,000,000 If a like sum can not be raised, the money 

 will be paid at the donor's death. The object is to 

 found an institution for the education of poor yet 

 worthy young people who can not obtain it unaided, 

 to be conducted in the name of the Young People's 

 Christian Union of the United Brethren Church. 



Anonymous Friends, gifts to the American University 

 at Washington, 1). C. : (1) A woman of New York city, 

 for endowment of a professors]) i [), $100,750; ("2} a man 

 of Ohio, $100,000. Neither will allow the name to be 

 made public. 



Armour, Philip D., of Chicago, 111., gift to the public- 

 school department of San Francisco for a manual 

 training school for boys, to be managed by the school 

 department, and to be open to any one eligible to the 

 public schools, $500,000. 



Armour, S. B., of Kansas City, Kan., gift to the Chi 

 dren's Home of that city, $25,000. 



Aspinwall, Mrs. Jane M., of Messina, N. Y., bequests 

 to the Church of St. John the Evangelist at Harry- 

 town, N. Y., $10,000 direct, and to its "chapel ^ 

 in reversion. 



Astor, William Waldorf, of New York city and 

 don, England, gift to Trinity Church, New York <Mt 

 three bronze doors, as a memorial to his father. ''< ' 

 Jacob Astor. The work was begun in 1890, and 

 last door was put in place in August, 1894; estimated 

 cost, $100,000. 



