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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



Bice, Mrs. Alice M., Worcester. Mass., be- 

 quests to Bowdoin College, $25,000; Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute, direct $5,000, in reversion 

 $5,0*00; Temporary Home and Day Nursery, direct 

 $10,000, in reversion $10,000; Church of the Unity, 

 $10,000; and the residue of her estate, estimated 

 at $500,000, to Worcester Polytechnic Institute 

 and Worcester Memorial Hospital in equal parts. 



Bicker, Joseph, Portland, Me., bequests to the 

 Maine Congregational Charitable Society, $30,000; 

 Mangor Theological Society and Maine Wesleyan 

 Society, each $25,000; Bowdoin College and Maine 

 General Hospital, each $20,000; Preacher's Aid So- 

 ciety, High Street Church, Portland, and Maine 

 Missionary Society, each $15,000; Home for Aged 

 Women, Portland, Bates College, Home for Aged 

 Men, Portland, and American Board of Cop-mis- 

 sioners for Foreign Missions, each $10,000; Bible 

 Society of Maine, Woman's Aid to American Mis- 

 sionary Association, Eye and Ear Infirmary, Port- 

 land, Martha Washington Society, Portland, Fe- 

 male Orphan Asylum, Portland, Portland Widows' 

 Wood Society, American Missionary Association, 

 Now York, Congregational Church Building So- 

 net y of New York, and Ancient Landmark Char- 

 ity Fund of Portland, each $5,000; Portland Sea- 

 men's Friend Society and Tuskegee (Ala.) Normal 

 and Industrial Institute, each $2,500; and other 

 bequests to local societies, bringing the total up to 

 about $300,000. 



Robinson, S., Boston, bequest to the town of 

 Gilmanton, N. H., for improvement of the public 

 roads, $40,000. 



Bochester Theological Seminary, gifts from 

 friends, securing a like amount from John D. 

 Rockefeller, $100,000. 



Bochester, (N. Y.), University of, gifts from 

 friends, to secure admission of woman students, 

 $50,000. 



Bockefeller, John D., New York, gifts to 

 Spellman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., $180,000; New- 

 ton (Mass) Theological Seminary, $150,000, con- 

 ditional 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; Welles- 

 ley College, $100,000 ; Baptist College, Des Moines, 

 Iowa, $50,000; Bucknell 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 promised to duplicate every gift up to 

 $2,000,000 that should be made by Jan. 1, 1900. 

 The carrying out of this pledge and his special 

 gifts during 1900 brought the total of his gifts 

 to the university up to $9,133,874. To Rochester 

 Theological Seminary, on subscription bv friends of 

 a like amount, $100,000. 



Rogers, Jacob C., Boston, bequests to the 

 Boarding House for Working Girls and the Groton 

 School, each $30,000; Massachusetts Society for 

 the Promotion of Agriculture and the Massachu- 

 setts Humane Society, each $25,000; Salem Fra- 

 ternity and the House of the Good Samaritan, 

 Boston, each $20,000; and the Temporary Home 

 for Working Women and the Widows' Home, both 

 in Boston, each $5,000. 



Roome, Eleanor, Plainfield, N. J.. bequests to 

 IS church and charitable institutions, a total of 

 $20,000. 



Bouss, Charles Broadway, New York, gift, 

 to city of Winchester, Va., for a city hall, $30,000; 

 to the city of New York, a bronze group repre- 

 senting Washington greeting Lafayette, by Bar- 

 tholdi. 



Royal, William C., Philadelphia, bequest to 



the Woman's Branch of the Pennsylvania Society 

 for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, $50,000. 



Byan, Mrs. Thomas F., New York, gift to the 

 Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration in Washington, 

 D. C., a convent building costing $100,000 on 

 ground given in 1899. 



Sarven, James D., Tarrytown, N. Y., bequests 

 to the Tarrytown Hospital Association, $3,000; 

 Young Men's Lyceum there, $1,000; and the Pres- 

 byterian Hospital, American Bible Society, St. 

 Luke's Hospital, and the American Tract Society, 

 each about $50,000. 



Sather, Mrs. Jane Krom, Oakland, Cal., gifts 

 to the University of California for a chair in Clas- 

 sical Literature, $75,000, and for a book fund for 

 the law library, property valued at $25,000. 



Sawyer, Philetus, Oshkosh, Wis., bequest to 

 the Ladies' Benevolent Society there, $10,000. 



Sayles, Frank A., Providence, R. I., gift to 

 Brown University, $50,000. 



Schell, Bobert, New York, bequests to the New 

 York Historical Society, the New York University, 

 and the Presbyterian Hospital, each $20,000; Rut- 

 gers College, $10,000; and the New York Eye and 

 Ear Infirmary, $5,000. 



Schermerhorn, William C., New York, gift to 

 New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, for a new 

 pavilion, $75,000. 



Schiff, Jacob J., New York, gift to Harvard 

 University, $10,000. 



Schlesinger, Barthold, Brookline, Mass., be- 

 quests to educational and charitable institutions, 

 an aggregate of $14,000. 



Schley, Mrs. Emma A., New York, bequests 

 to the Brookside Cemetery, Watertown. N. Y., 

 $50,000; New York Medical College for Women, 

 St. Thomas's Church, and the New York Protestant 

 Episcopal Society, each $10,000: and the Univer- 

 salist Church, Watertown, $6,000. 



Schoenneld, Max, formerly of Philadelphia, 

 now of Rorshach, Switzerland, gift to the Na- 

 tional Farm School, Doylestown, Pa., $10,000. 



Seibert, Samuel, Hagerstown, Md., bequests to 

 the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, 

 $8,000; Pennsylvania College, $4,000; other Lu- 

 theran institutions, $3,000; and the Susquchanna 

 Lutheran University, Selinsgrove, Pa., a residue 

 of about $10,000. 



Severance, Lewis H., New York, gift to Ober- 

 lin College for the chemical laboratory, $60,000. 



Sewall, Arthur, Bath, Me., sons of the late, 

 gift to the city for the poor, $10,000, and to Maine 

 General Hospital, $5,000. 



Sharpe, Andrew, Lawrence, Mass., bequests to 

 various Baptist institutions, an aggregate of 

 $13,000. 



Sherman, John, Mansfield, Ohio, bequests to 

 Kenyon and Oberlin Colleges and the Sherman- 

 Heineman Park in Mansfield, each $5,000. 



Skeel, Mrs. Ann, New York, bequest to the 

 American Unitarian Association of Boston,. SI 0,000. 



Smith, Charles E., Philadelphia, bequests to 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences, 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 

 iron, coal, general mining, railroads, and statistic*. 



Sound Beach, Conn., subscription of summer 

 residents for a public high school (to cost $12,000), 

 more than $5,000. 



Sprague, Joseph W., Louisville, Ky., bequest 

 to the United States Government for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, the remote reversion of 

 $250,000. 



Spreckels, Glaus, San Francisco, gift to the 

 citv, a public music stand in Golden Gate Park, 

 cost $100,000; dedicated Sept. 9. 



