GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



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Phelps, Miss Caroline, gift to Smith College, 

 Northampton, Mass., for a scholarship, $5,000. 



Phillips, Mrs. Frederick T., Lawrence, Long 

 Island, gift to Harvard University, $5,000. 



Pillsbury, Mrs. George A., Minneapolis, gift 

 to the Calvary Baptist Church of that city, 

 $5,000. 



Pillsbury, ex-Gov. John S., and wife, Minne- 

 apolis, Minn., gift to the Minneapolis Home for 

 Children and Aged Women, for a permanent main- 

 tenance fund, $100,000. 



Pitcairn, John, Philadelphia, gift to the 

 Church of the New Jerusalem, $400,000 ; gift made 

 more than two years ago, but only became 

 public at the general convention of the Church 

 in 1899. 



Plankington, Elizabeth, Milwaukee, condi- 

 tional gift to the Young Women's Christian As- 

 sociation of that city, for a building, $100,000. 



Platt, Caroline, Waterbury, Conn., gift to the 

 Bronson Free Library in that city, $20,000. 



Plattdeutsche Volksfest Verein of New 

 York and New Jersey, gift for aged and indi- 

 gent Germans, the Fritz Reuter Alten Heim, at 

 Union Hill, N. J., cost $45,000. 



Pomeroy, Martha S., bequests to Wellesley 

 College, $60,000, and, after payment of other lega- 

 cies, the remainder of her estate. 



Poole, Robert, Baltimore, gift to the Enoch 

 Pratt Free Library, ground and building for an 

 additional branch. 



Pratt, Mrs. Charles M., Brooklyn, N. Y., class 

 of '80, and Mrs. W. R. Thompson, Pittsburg, Pa., 

 class of 77, joint gift to Vassar College, funds 

 for erection and equipment of a chapel, amount 

 not stated. 



Prendergast, Richard, Chicago, bequest, for 

 the establishment of St. Winifred's Rest (a rest 

 cure for persons suffering from insomnia and 

 nervous troubles), his summer estate at Whea- 

 ton, 111. 



Presbyterian Board of Missions, Friends 

 of, gifts to remove debt, $262,000. 



Price, Mrs. Thankful A., Cortland, N. Y., be- 

 quest to Syracuse University, a valuable farm and 

 $5,000. 



Princeton University, gifts from friends, 

 names withheld, for the department of history, 

 $800,000; for a Murray chair of English Litera- 

 ture, $100,000; and for a chair of Politics, $100,- 

 000. See also individual names in this article. 



Pringle, Samuel Milligan, New York, be- 

 quest to found a Pringle Memorial Home for 

 needy men, particularly educated and literary 

 men, his entire estate. On contest the will was 

 sustained. His sister, Margaret' Pringle Fen- 

 ton, also bequeathed her estate to the proposed 

 home. The combined estates amounted to 

 $125,000. 



Proctor, Thomas R. and Frederick I., Utica, 

 N. Y., gift to the city for public library site, a 

 plot of ground that cost $35,000. 



Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York, 

 gift from friends, a new St. Luke's Home for Aged 

 and Indigent Christian Women, and a chapel for 

 a memorial to the Rev. Isaac H. Tuttle, D. D., 

 who founded the home in 1852; both buildings 

 completely equipped. 



Proudflt, Alexander Moncrief, New York, 

 bequests to Columbia University for fellowships 

 in letters and medicine, each $15,000; St. Luke's 

 Hospital and Samuel R. Smith Infirmary, each 

 $16,000; New York Cancer Hospital, $11,000; 

 Loomis Sanitarium for Consumptives and New 

 York Public and New York Free Circulating 

 Libraries, each $10,000; trustees of town of Sa- 

 lem, N. Y., and the Samaritan Home for the 



Aged, each $7,000; St. Mary's Free Hospital for 

 Children, $6,000; Presbyterian Hospital, Work- 

 ing Girls' Vacation Society, and Washington 

 Academy in Salem, each $5,000; and seven other 

 institutions, $8,500. 



Pulitzer, Joseph, New York, gift to Barnard 

 College for a memorial scholarship, $10,000. 



Quaker Boarding School, Westtown, Chester 

 County, Pennsylvania, centennial gift of West- 

 town Old Scholars' Association, $100,000. 



Quintard, James W., Portchester, N. Y., be- 

 quest to Christ Church at Rye, $10,000. 



Reid, Mrs. Simon, Lake Forest, 111., gift to 

 Lake Forest University, funds for the erection 

 of a chapel and a library building. She previously 

 built Reid Hall. 



Riley, Mrs. C. E. Grossman, Brooklyn bor- 

 ough, N. Y., gift to the Brooklyn Home for Aged 

 Men and Couples, improved property valued at 

 $12,600. 



Rockefeller, John D., New York, gifts to the 

 city of Cleveland, Ohio, for the improvement of 

 Gordon and Rockefeller Parks, $225,000; Brown 

 University, $250,000; Denison University, $100,- 

 000; Columbia University, for a chair of Psychol- 

 ogy, $100,000; new Horace Mann School, New 

 York, $50,000; and Tuskegee Normal and Indus- 

 trial Institute, $10,000. He also offered the Chi- 

 cago University to duplicate all gifts made to 

 it during the year up to an aggregate of $2,000,- 

 000, the Rochester (N. Y.) Theological Seminary 

 a duplication of $150,000 in gifts, and the city 

 of Cleveland, improved property valued at $500,- 

 000, for an additional public park. 



Rogers, William A., Buffalo, N. Y., gift to 

 the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, 

 $5,000. 



Ropes, John Codman, Boston, bequests to the 

 Massachusetts Military Historical Society, the 

 memorabilia of the Napoleonic regime. See 

 OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



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

 Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration in Washington, 

 D. C., half a block of ground in that city for a 

 site for the Convent of the Blessed Sacrament. 



Sage, Russell, New York, gift to new building 

 fund of Woman's Hospital, $50,000. 



St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy, gift from a 

 friend, name withheld, $10,000. 



St. Luke's Hospital, New York, gifts from 

 friends to endowment fund, $227,750. 



Sargent, Mrs. Winthrop, Boston, memorial 

 gift to Emmanuel Church, a reredos of Caen 

 stone and altar of marble, cost about $8,000. 



Schieren, Charles A., Brooklyn, N. Y., gift to- 

 ward erection of Christ English Evangelical Luth- 

 eran Church in that borough, dedicated Oct. 1, 

 $30,000. 



Schiff, Jacob H., New York, gifts to Harvard 

 University, for a Semitic museum, $50,000, and 

 to endowment of the National Academy of De- 

 sign, $5,000. 



Schurz, Carl, New York, friends of, gift to 

 Columbia University, for two foundations to bear 

 his name, $20,000. 



Scranton, Mary E., New Haven, Conn., gift to 

 Madison, Conn., a public library building as a 

 memorial to her father, Erastus C. Scranton. 



Scribner, Charles, New York, gift to Prince- 

 ton University for a fellowship in English litera- 

 ture, $12,000. 



Searles, Edward F., San Francisco, gift to the 

 directors of the Hopkins Art Institute, given by 

 him to the public, funds for an additional picture 

 gallery, cost between $15,000 and $18,000. 



Sessions, John H., Bristol, Conn., bequest to 

 Wesleyan University, $25,000. 



