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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



ants, are divided for purposes of administration 

 into the Eastern Carolines and the Western 

 ( anilines and Palaos. The local revenue for 11)03 

 was estimated at 33,100 marks and the expendi- 

 ture at 338,100 marks, the Imperial Government 

 contributing 305,000 marks. Copra is exported, 

 and from the Palaos tortoise-shell and mother-of- 

 pearl also. 



The total revenue of all the German protect- 

 orates for 1902 was estimated at 8,440,900 marks, 

 and the expenditures at 39.070,500 marks, leaving 

 a deficit of 30,635,000 marks to be covered by 

 imperial grants. The total recurring expenditure 

 i- -J4. 152.800 marks; non-recurring expenditure, 

 14.73(5,400 marks; reserve fund for emergencies, 

 ir,7.:t4(> marks. The increase in revenues over 

 1901 is 1,318.000 marks: increase in expenditure, 

 iM7:>,900 marks; increase in imperial grants, 

 l.i:>4.900 marks. 



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 1902. It 

 excludes the ordinary denominational contribu- 

 tions for education and benevolent purposes, all 

 State and municipal appropriations to public and 

 sectarian institutions, and the grants of Congress 

 for various measures of relief. As in the previous 

 year, large individual philanthropy was a stri- 

 king feature of the gifts and bequests. Besides 

 the instances noted, there were several of excep- 

 tional amounts that are excluded from the list 

 because they were propositions yet to be ful- 

 filled or were still in an indefinite shape. Among 

 these, which deserve notice as parts of the benev- 

 olent record of the year, are the following: 



John D. Rockefeller proposed to endow a cor- 

 poration, known as the General Education Board 

 and created by an act of Congress in 1902, with 

 a sum understood to be $10,000,000. The object 

 of the corporation, as set forth in the act, is " the 

 promotion of education within the United States 

 of America, without distinction of race, sex, or 

 creed," and the corporation is authorized " to 

 establish, maintain, or endow, or aid others to 

 establish, maintain, or endow, elementary or pri- 

 mary schools, industrial schools, technical schools, 

 normal schools, training-schools for teachers, or 

 schools of any grade, or higher institutions of 

 learning; to employ or aid others to employ 

 teachers and lecturers; to aid, cooperate with or 

 endow associations or other corporations engaged 

 in educational work within the United States of 

 America." The corporators' names in the bill are 

 William H. Baldwin, Jr., Jabez L. M. Curry, 

 Frederick T. Gates, Daniel C. Gilman, Morris K. 

 Jesup, Robert C. Ogden, Walter H. Page, George 

 Foster Peabody, and Albert Shaw. 



President William R. Harper, of the University 

 of Chicago, on Nov. 19 confirmed a report that 

 $8,000,000 had been secured for the consolidation 

 of Rush Medical College with the university, but 

 declined to make public the name of the donor. 



11 IMI ry C. Frick, of Pittsburg, was credited with 

 the intention of founding a university in that 

 ity which would lie a larger institution than the 

 Polytechnic School for which Andrew Carnegie 

 had set aside $5.000,000. Mr. Prick's plan com- 

 prised the furnishing of ground, buildings, and 

 an endowment of $2,500,000. 



J. Ogden Armour, of Chicago, on whose young 

 daughter Prof. Adolf Lorenz, of Vienna, had per- 

 formed an operation, was preparing plans at the 

 close of the year for the establishment in Chi- 

 cago of a Lolita Armour Institute of Bloodless 

 Surgery, providing ground, buildings, and an en- 



dowment of $3,000,000, the institution to be 

 under the charge of Dr. Frederick Mueller, Prof. 

 Lorenz's assistant. 



Toward the close of the year Mrs. Jane La- 

 throp Stanford, of San Francisco, ordered the 

 preparation of plans for a new r library building 

 for Leland Stanford Junior University, to be " the 

 handsomest and most costly structure of its kind 

 on this continent." 



Excluded also from the list are the contribu- 

 tions from various sources for the American 

 Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 

 aggregating $18,309,163; and also the contribu- 

 tions of the year to the Methodist Episcopal 

 Thank-offering Fund for the promotion of educa- 

 tion, which in the specified three years ending 

 Dec. 31, 1902, overlapped the $20,000,000 asked 

 for by more than $1,000,000. 



The known value of the gifts and bequests here 

 enumerated exceeds $94,000,000. 



Abraham, Abraham, Brooklyn, N. Y., gift to 

 Cornell University, the great Egyptological and 

 Assyriological library of the late Prof. August 

 Eisenlohr, of Heidelberg University. 



Adams, Charles Kendall, Madison, Wis., be- 

 quest to Wisconsin University, available on the 

 death of his widow, which occurred also in 1902, 

 15 fellowships of $10,000 each. See OBITUARIES, 

 AMERICAN. 



Adams, Prof. Herbert Baxter, Johns Hopkins 

 University (died in 1902), bequest to the uni- 

 versity, his residuary estate; paid in 1902, 

 amounting to $43,000. 



Adelphi College, Brooklyn, N. Y., gift from 

 friends to secure gift of $125,000 from John D. 

 Rockefeller, $125,000. 



Albinger, Joseph, Mount Vernon, N. Y., be- 

 quest to the Church of Our Lady of Victory there, 

 $25,000. 



Allegheny College, gift from friend, for en- 

 dowment fund, $300,000. 



American Unitarian Association, New York, 

 gift from a friend, for missionary work, $10,000. 



Ames, Mrs. Anna C., North Easton, Mass., 

 gift to the public high school there, a fully 

 equipped gymnasium, cost $10,000. 



Amherst College, gifts from friends for a 

 new observatory to contain the largest object- 

 glass in New England, $50,000. 



Anderson, Mrs. A. A., New York city, gift to 

 the Society for Improving the Condition of the 

 Poor, for public baths, $100,000. 



Andrews, Wallace C., New York city (died 

 April 7, 1899), bequest for the establishment of a 

 Girls' Industrial School at Willoughby, Ohio, a 

 part of his estate, which in 1902 amounted to 

 about $1,000,000, and was made available by an 

 act of the Ohio Legislature incorporating a trust 

 to manage the bequest. 



Anonymous resident of New York city, 

 gift for the establishment in Philadelphia of a 

 free clinic for the treatment of poor consump- 

 tives, to be under the charge of Dr. Lawrence F. 

 Flick, $600,000, and a pledge of a further sum 

 for a maintenance. 



Archbold, John D., New York city, gift to 

 Syracuse University toward endowment, '$400 ,000; 

 the New York Kindergarten Association, for en- 

 dowment of new kindergarten, $40,000; and with 

 his wife, gift to St. Christopher's Home, for a new 

 school building, $15,000. 



Arter, F. A., Cleveland, Ohio., gift to Al- 

 legheny College, Meadville, Pa., $60,000. 



A twill, Mrs. Cornelia A., New York, be- 

 quests to St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church 

 of Poughkeepsie, $10,000; and the Gallaudet 

 Home for Deaf-Mutes at New Hamburg, $5,000. 



