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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



association of political societies except upon impos- 

 sible conditions. The Saxon and Bavarian Diets 

 passed measures withdrawing all restrictions to 

 such union, and permitting women to join politi- 

 cal societies, but not minors. Count Posadowsky 

 sent a letter to the various German governments re- 

 garding the necessity of limiting the right of coali- 

 tion so as to prevent picketing and intimidation by 

 Socialist strike committees. This confidential cir- 

 cular was, as usual, intercepted by the Social Demo- 

 crats and published in their organ, "Vorwfirts." 

 The epidemic of prosecutions for leze majesty cul- 

 minr.tod in the arrest and condemnation of Johan- 

 nes Trojan, the veteran editor of the Berlin "Klad- 

 deradatseh," for publishing a cartoon ridiculing the 

 Emperor Wilhelm's assertion, in an address to re- 

 cruits, that only good Christians make brave sol- 

 diers. 



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 operative, 

 or were completed in the United States during 1898. 

 It excludes the ordinary denominational contribu- 

 tions for educational and benevolent purposes, all 

 State and municipal appropriations to public and 

 sectarian institutions, and the grants of Congress 

 for the relief of suffering in Cuba. The known 

 value of the gifts and bequests here enumerated 

 exceeds $38,000,000. This amount is less than that 

 of 1897, but it comprises a much larger number of 

 items. It would be a pleasure, if it were possible, 

 to record individually the grand outpouring of gifts 

 for the benefit of our soldiers and sailors, in camp, 

 on shipboard, and in hospital. A few examples are 

 included here because they have an exceptionally 

 broad interest. The State of Massachusetts is de- 

 serving of special mention for having provided for 

 the national navy a swift and commodious hospital 

 ship, which the women of that State furnished with 

 every necessity and convenience for its humane 

 mission, and which the Government afterward pur- 

 chased for $100,000. It is fair to assume that the 

 gifts of the year that were diverted from benevolent 

 and educational institutions found their way to the 

 altar of patriotism. 



Abendroth, William P.. Port Chester, N. Y., 

 bequest to the local Ladies' Hospital Association, 



Akin, Albert J.. New York city, gift to Pawl- 

 ing, N. Y., a library building that cost $50,000, with 

 an endowment of $10,000. 



Alexander, James B., bequests to the public 

 schools, $8.000, and the Methodist and Baptist 

 churches, each $2,000, all in Deny, N. H. 



Allen, Judge Charles, Supreme Court of Massa- 

 chusetts, gift to Franklin County Hospital, $10,000. 



Allen, Henry B., Waterloo, Iowa, gift to the 

 city for a public hospital, his homestead, valued at 

 $15,000. 



Alms, Mrs. Frederick, Cincinnati, Ohio, gifts to 

 charitable and educational institutions, an aggre- 

 gate of $100,000, the bequests in her husband's un- 

 signed will. 



Altnian, B., New York, gift toward a fund of 

 $1,000,000 for Hebrew educational purposes In New 

 York, $20,000. 



American Board of Commissioners for For- 

 eign Missions, bequests from friends, $187,729. 



America! National Red Cross Relief Com- 

 mittee, gifts to, for relief of sick and wounded 

 soldiers and sailors of the war with Spain, $305,229. 

 besides garment.*, cots, comforts, and some luxuries 

 of an approximate value of $80,000. 



American University.atWashington.D. C., gifts 

 from friends through Bishops Hurst and McCabe, 

 $50,000. 



Ames, George L., Salem., Mass., bequests to the 

 local Young Men's Christian Association, an estate 

 valued at $40,000; Calvary Baptist Church, $5,000 ; 

 South Congregational Church, $3,500. 



Anderson, Mrs. A. A., New York, gift to Bar- 

 nard College, $25,000. 



Armour, George A., Princeton, N. J., gift to- 

 Princeton University to found a classical depart- 

 ment in the library, $10,000. He also pledged 

 $2,700 per annum for three years to support it. 



Armour, Herman 0-, New York, gift to Whit- 

 worth College, Sumner, Wash., cash and real estate 

 valued at $20,000. 



Armour, Philip D., Chicago, gift to Armour In- 

 stitute of Technology, for additional endowment,. 

 $500,000. 



Astor, John Jacob, New York city, gift to the 

 United States Government, a thoroughly equipped 

 mountain battery of 6 12-pounder Hotctikiss rapid- 

 fire guns, cost $75,000. The battery was sent to 

 Manila. 



Austin, Edward, Boston, Mass., bequests to Har- 

 vard University, $500,000; Massachusetts Institute; 

 of Technology, $400,000 ; Radcliffe College,$30,000 ; 

 Roanoke College, $30,000 ; and Tuskegee Normal 

 Hind Industrial School, $30,000 in each case inter- 

 est to be used to aid needy and meritorious students 

 and teachers; Harvard Bacteriological Laboratory. 

 $10,000 ; and for needy aged persons who have seei; 

 better days, a trust fund of $100,000. 



Averell, Mrs. Anna B., Chicago, gift to Presby- 

 terian Hospital in that city, $50,000. 



Ayer, Frederick F., New York city, gift to 

 Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, $25,000. 



Ayer, Josephine Mellin Sonthwick, Lowell, 

 Mass., bequests to Ayer Home for Women and Chil- 

 dren, in Lowell, $100,000 ; to Pennsylvania Hospital, 

 in Philadelphia, for a clinical laboratory, $50,000. 



Banigan, Joseph, Providence, R. I., bequests to 

 Rhode Island Catholic Orphan Asylum. Home for 

 Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Pawtucket, 

 St. Joseph's Hospital, Infant Asylum of St. Vincent 

 de Paul, and the St. Maria Society, each $25,000 ; 

 Rhode.Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 

 to Children and Providence Lying- in Hospital, each 

 $10,000 ; and for St. Francis's Cemetery, an ultimate 

 sum of $100,000. 



Barlow, George, Brooklyn, N. Y., bequests to- 

 local Methodist Episcopal and other. charitable in- 

 stitutions, an aggregate of more than $100.000. 



Barnard Colleg'e, New York, friends of, gifts 

 that wiped out a debt of $124,000 and insured ai 

 endowment of $100,000 from a person whose namo 

 was withheld. 



Barnard, Mary A., Arnesbury, Mass., bequest*, 

 to the public library, $10,000 ; to educational, mis- 

 sionary, and charitable institutions, $9,000. 



Bates, Elizabeth H., M. D., Port Chester, N. Y.. 

 bequest to medical department of the University <>f 

 Michigan, personal and real property valued" at 

 $135,000. 



Batterman, Henry, Brooklyn, N. Y., gift to 

 Bushwick and East Brooklyn Dispensary, $25,000. 



Bayard, Thomas Francis, Wilmington, Del., be- 

 quest to the famous Old Swedes' Church, in Wilm- 

 ington, $5,000. 



Beardsley, Bronson B., Bridgeport, Conn., be- 

 quests to charitable and missionary organizations, 

 $22.000. 



Bedell. Julia, New York city, bequests to the 



and College, $20,000; and to the American 

 Society and the Domestic and Foreign Society of 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church, the reversion o!' 

 $20,000 in equal parts. 



