GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



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Spring, John Rand, San Francisco, gift to the 

 public library of New buryport, Mass., $20,000. 



Stanford, Mrs. Leland, San Francisco, gift to 

 the Roman Catholic diocese of Sacramento, the 

 former family mansion in the latter city, for an 

 orphanage, and an endowment of $75,000. 



Stanford, Mary E., Montclair, X. J., bequest 

 to the Mountainside Hospital there, $6,000. 



Steel, Edward T., Philadelphia, daughters of 

 the late, gift to the new high school, a memorial 

 stained glass window, cost $15,000. 



Steele, A. B., Atlanta, Ga., gifts to the Meth- 

 odist Orphans' Home and Agnes Scott Institute, 

 both in Decatur, Ga., and the Home for the Friend- 

 less, in Atlanta, each $5,000. 



Steinert, Morris, New Haven, gift to Yale 

 University, his collection of musical instruments 

 and manuscripts, the former comprising about 500 

 separate pieces, many of them exceedingly rare. 



Stevens, Frank S., Swansea, Mass., bequest to 

 the town, a free public library, dedicated Sept. 19. 



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 admin- 

 istration, cost, $60,000. 



Sweetser, George D., New York, bequests to 

 the American Board, Home Missionary Society, 

 American Missionary Association, Congregational 

 Church Building Society, and the Broadway Taber- 

 nacle, each $20,000; and to 17 other institutions, 

 each $5,000. 



Symmes, Caleb F., Worcester, Mass., bequests 

 to twelve institutions, chiefly Congregational, each 

 $3,000. 



Talbot, Mrs. Emily, Boston, bequest to Massa- 

 chusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, $5,000. 



Talcott, James, and wife, gift to Mount Hoi- 

 yoke College, for an arboretum, $10,000. 



Tallman, William G., Brooklyn, N. Y., be- 

 quests, available on the death of his widow, to Re- 

 formed Protestant Dutch Church on the Heights, 

 $5,000 ; Bethany Chapel, $5,000 ; Memorial Chapel 

 of Bethany Chapel, $1,000; the Board of Foreign 

 Missions of the Reformed Church of America, 

 $5,000; the Board of Domestic Missions of the 

 same Church, $5,000; Faith Home for Incurables, 

 $5,000; Brooklyn Home for Consumptives, $5,000; 

 Brooklyn Home for Aged Men, $5,000; Brooklyn 

 Bureau of Charities, $1,000; Union for Christian 

 Work, $1,000; Brooklyn Association for improv- 

 ing the Condition of the Poor, $3,000; Brooklyn 

 Children's Aid Society, $1,000; Brooklyn Nursery, 

 $1,000; Brooklyn City Mission and Tract Society, 

 $2,000; and Brooklyn Society for the Relief of Re- 

 spectable Aged Indigent Females, $5,000. 



Thompson, Jonathan, Woburn, Mass., be- 

 quests to the Burbeen Free Lecture fund, $3,000; 

 to the city of Woburn for a free library, a plot 

 of ground and his residuary estate. 



Tilden, Dr. John Newell, Peekskill, N. Y., 

 gift to the village, the old Henry Ward Beecher 

 residence, fully equipped for a public library. 



Tilton, Mrs. Caroline Stannard, New Orleans, 

 gift to Tulane University, for a library building, 

 $50,000. 



Turner, Elisha, Torrington, Conn., bequests to 

 the Torrington Library Association, $100,000; 

 Third Congregational Church, $12,000; Young 

 Men's Christian Association, $10,000; Connecticut 

 Children's Aid Society and Congregational Home 

 Missionary Society, each $5,000; other institu- 

 tions, $9,000. 



Turner, Mary Ann, Brooklyn, N. Y., bequests 

 to ten institutions of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, $17,650. 



Tuskegee (Ala.) Normal and Industrial In- 

 stitute, gift from woman friend in Philadelphia, 

 name withheld, $5,000. 



Van Wickle, Augustus, Hazleton, Pa., be- 

 quests to Princeton University, $45,000; Brown 

 University, $45,000; Lafayette College, $30,000. 



Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., gift from 

 Boston alumnae, $25,000, securing proffered gift 

 of like amount, all for a biological laboratory. 



Villard, Henry, New York, bequests to New 

 York Infirmary for Women and Children and 

 German Hospital and Dispensary, each $10,000; 

 German Society of New York, New York Medical 

 College for Women, Dobb's Ferry Hospital, Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, and Metropoli- 

 tan Museum of Art, each $5,000; three other in- 

 stitutions in New York, each $2,500; and to Co- 

 lumbia and Harvard Universities, unrestricted, 

 each $50,000. 



Voorhees, Gov. Foster M., Trenton, N. J., gift 

 to the Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church 

 of America, $9,000. 



Voorhees, Randolph, Clinton, N. J., gift to 

 the Dutch Reformed Theological Seminary, New 

 Brunswick, N. J., $25,000. 



Wads worth, Herbert and William A., joint 

 gift to Harvard University, $26,500. 



Wain, Sally M., Philadelphia, bequests to the 

 Domestic and Foreign Missionary Societies of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church, Board of Missions 

 of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, Bishop White 

 Prayer Book Society, Union Benevolent Associa- 

 tion, and the Pennsylvania Training School for 

 Feeble-minded Children, each $5,000; the Penn- 

 sylvania Society for the Prevention of Crueltj- to 

 Animals, $6,000; and the Society for the Increase 

 of the Ministry, $3,000. 



Walker, George Leon, D.D., Hartford, Conn., 

 bequests to Connecticut church societies, $7,000. 



Walker, James, Wilmington, N. C., gift to the 

 city, a hospital building, cost $30,000. 



Wallace, Rodney, Fitchburg, Mass., gift to 

 Smith College, Northampton, Mass., $20,000. 



Warner, Ezra J., Chicago, gift .to Middlebury 

 (Vt.) College for a science hall, $20,000, supple- 

 menting a previous gift for the same purpose of 

 $50,000. 



Wellesley College, gifts from friends, names 

 withheld, for endowment of chair of Biblical His- 

 tory and Literatui'e and the Kimball professorship 

 of Art, each $50,000; to Gymnasium fund, $5,000. 



Wells, David Ames, Norwich, Conn, (died 

 1898), bequests made available by the death of his 

 son David Dwight Wells, to Harvard Univer- 

 sity, Williams 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 $6,500. 



Wharton, John, Newark, N. J., bequests to the 

 Mission Boards of the Reformed Church, each 

 $2,500. 



Whitin, Mrs. John C., Whitinsville, Mass., 

 gift to Wellesley College, a fully equipped astro- 

 nomical observatory. 



Whitney, David, Detroit, Mich., bequests to 

 Alma and Olivet Colleges, each $5,000. 



Whittington, Jacob Craft, formerly of Balti- 

 more, Md., bequest to Baltimore Association for 

 Improvement of the Poor, $40,000. 



Wickes, William W., New York, bequests to 

 the Boards of Home and Foreign Missions of the 

 Presbyterian Church, each $10,000: the Boards of 

 Education, Ministerial Relief, and Aid for Colleges 

 of that Church, American Female Guardian Soci- 

 ety, and Brooklyn Home for Aged Men, each 

 $5,000; other institutions, $8,000. 



