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amounting to 500,000 marks a year up to 2 per 

 cent, on 1,000,000 marks or over. The law is ex- 

 pected to prevent the extension of the system of 

 department stores or to delay it until independent 

 shopkeepers and small tradesmen have time to 

 organize themselves better. Artisans and re- 

 tailers may preserve their independence by means 

 of a better technical and business education, by 

 placing their workshops where they can make use 

 of a common motor power, and thus employ arti- 

 ficial power more generally in their work by form- 

 ing co-operative associations for the granting of 

 credit and the purchase of raw materials, by deal- 

 ing as far as possible on a cash basis, and per- 

 haps by associating themselves together for the sale 

 of their wares and establishing shops owned in 

 common. The session of the Diet was opened on 

 Jan. 9 and closed on June 19, having been pro- 

 longed by the difficulty that Dr. Miquel, the Min- 

 ister of Finance, encountered in getting the con- 

 sent of the Chamber of Deputies to the imposition 

 of a special tax on the great retail stores having 

 various departments. 



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 1900. 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. It also excludes 

 the contributions for the relief of the famine in 

 British India, which exceeded $250,000, and the 

 cash gifts by individuals and corporations for the 

 relief of the flood sufferers in Galveston, Texas, 

 which, up to Nov. 10, were reported at $1,253.710 

 and included $27,907.02 contributed by the school 

 children of New York city to the school children 

 of Galveston. Beyond the specially, noteworthy 

 gifts, a striking feature of the benevolence of the 

 citizens of the United States during the year was 

 the large increase in the number of gifts and be- 

 quests. The known value of the gifts and bequests 

 here enumerated exceeds $47,500,000. 



Adams, Julius, Boston, bequests to the Carney 

 Hospital, $25,000 outright and one fourth of his 

 residuary estate conditionally. 



Albright, John J., Buffalo, N. Y., gift to Smith 

 College, Northampton, Mass., $10,000. 



Aldrich, J. B., Woonsocket, R. I., bequests to 

 the Woonsocket Hospital, $15,000; the Universal - 

 ist church there, $5,000. 



Ancrum, John L., Asheville, N. C., bequests 

 available on the death of his widow, to the Porter 

 Military Academy, Charleston, S. C., $15,000, and 

 the Charleston Society for the Prevention of 

 Cruelty to Animals, the residue of his estate, esti- 

 mated "at $25,000. 



Arnold, Olney, Pawtucket, R. I., bequest to 

 Tufts College, $5,000. 



Atwater, Mrs. Caroline Swift, Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y., gift to Vassar College for its infirmary, 

 $12,000, doubling her gift of 1899. 



Avery, Samuel Putnam, New York, gift to 

 the New York Public Library, a collection of 

 17,000 prints, etchings, lithographs, and photo- 

 graphs, representing the labor of more than thirty 

 years and a large expenditure of money. 



Banker, Henrietta, Essex County,' N. Y., be- 

 quests to the National American Woman's Suf- 

 frage Association and the town of Keene, in the 

 Adirondacks, her residuary estate, which yielded 

 each $8,000. 



Barber, O. C., Akron. Ohio, gift to the Akron 

 ty Hospital, to remove debt, $100,000. 



Barnard, Erastus A., Chicago, gift to the city 

 for a public park, land valued at $200.000. 



Bartlett, A. C., Chicago, gift to Chicago Uni- 

 versity, for a physical culture hall, $125,000. 



Bates, Elizabeth H., Port Chester, N. Y., be- 

 quest to the University of Michigan, as allowed by 

 surrogate, $86,688. See her name in the record 

 of 1899. 



Belmont, August, New York, gift to the 

 Cathedral of St. John the Divine, funds for a 

 chapel to cost between $150,000 and $200,000. 



Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., gilts from friends 

 for permanent endowment, $350,000. 



Bennett, Joseph M., Philadelphia, bequests to 

 the University of Pennsylvania and the Methodist 

 Orphanage, nearly all of an estate estimated at 

 $2,000,000. 



Bennett, Mrs. Margaret J., Baltimore, be- 

 quests to the Mount Vernon Place Methodist 

 Church, $30,000; Woman's College, Maryland Hos- 

 pital for Women, Home for the Aged of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Patterson 

 Memorial Association, each $25,000; other institu- 

 tions, $22,000; Boys' Home Society, $10,000; and 

 to trustees for the founding of a Bennett Home for 

 Deserving Women, $150,000. 



Billings, L. F., gift to Harvard University, 

 $5,000. 



Blackstone, Timothy B., Chicago, bequests to 

 the James Blackstone Memorial Library Associa- 

 tion, Branford, Conn., $100,000: and the Art In- 

 stitute, Passavarit Memorial Hospital, Chicago 

 Relief and Aid Society, Chicago Orphan Asylum, 

 Chicago Home for the Friendless, and St. Luke's 

 Hospital, each $25,000. 



Boardman, Mrs. Lucy, New Haven, gift to 

 Trinity Episcopal Church, property valued at 

 $65,000. 



Bo wen, Charles C., Detroit, bequest to Kala- 

 mazoo College for a Greek professorship, $50,000. 



Boyd, Edward, Cincinnati, bequest to St. 

 Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, $10,000. 



Boylston, Mrs. Josephine E., Newton, Mass., 

 bequests to religious and charitable institutions, 

 chiefly Congregational, an aggregate of $9,000. 



Bradford, George B., Gloucester, Mass., gift 

 to the local Young Men's Christian Association, 

 real estate valued at $18,000. 



Bradford, Prof. 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. 



Brenz, John D., Brooklyn, N. Y., bequests to 

 institutions in New York and Italy, $5,000; and 

 to his executors the residue of his estate, valued 

 at $500,000, on the death of his sister, the income 

 to be used to promote " charity or religion by the 

 Protestant faith only." 



Brigham, Robert Breck, Boston, bequests to 

 nearly every charitable institution in Boston, an 

 annuity of $1,000, and to trustees the residue of 

 his estate, estimated at $3,000,000 to $5,000,000, 

 for the erection of a Hospital for Incurables. 



Brodhead, Josephine, Washington, D. C., be- 

 quest to the town of South Newmarket, N. H., 

 for a public library, $10,000. 



Bromley, Mrs. Isaac H., Norwich, Conn., gift 

 to Y'ale University for a lectureship on public- 

 affairs, $5,000. 



Brookings, Robert S., and Samuel S. Cup- 

 pies, St. Louis, Mo., joint gift to Washington Uni- 

 versity, the business property known as Cupples 

 Station, paying nearly 10 per cent, on a stock 

 capital of $5,000,000. 



Brooklyn (N. Y.), Children's Aid Society 

 of, gift from two woman friends, names with- 



