644 PROMINENT LIVING GRADUATE MEMBERS-Continued. dent of William and Mary College; J. Harry Covington, Chief Justice District of Columbia. Lambda Chi Alpha.-Major Edwin T. Cole. Professor of Military Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Prof. Roy G. Blakey, Professor Cornell University; Elmer C. Hondlette. Engineer Massachusetts Harbor and Land Commission; Dr. Charles B. Bennett, Department of Physiology, University of California. Phi Delta Chi.-Caswell A. Mayo, editor of The American Druggist and President of American Pharmaceutical Association; Azor Thurston, State Chemist of Ohio; J. P. Remington, Dean of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; Dr. H. H. Rusby, Dean of College of Pharmacy Columbia University. Phi Delta Theta.-Duncan U. Fletcher, United States Senator from Florida; Ray Stannard Baker, author; Brigadier-General Fred. Funston, United States Army; N. C. Young, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of North Dakota; L. H. Bailey, Director of College of Agriculture. Cornell Tniversity; David F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture; J. C. McReynolds. Associate Justice United States Supreme Court; Thomas W. Hardwick, United States Senator from Georgia; Timothy S. Hogan, Attorney-General of Ohio. Phi Gamma Delta.-Thomas R. Marshall, Vice-President of the United States: Charles W. Fairbanks, ex-Vice-President of the United States; A. S. Burleson. Postmaster-General; George W. Guthrie. United States Ambassador to Japan; Thomas A. Sterling. United States Senator from North Dakota; S. S. McClure, publisher: O. H. Cheney, President of Pacific Bank, New York; William F. McDowell, Bishop of Methodist Episcopal Church; Newton D. Baker, Mayor of Cleveland; Christy Mathewson, baseball pitcher; Frederic C. Howe. Commissioner of Emigration, New York City; S. Christy Mead. Secretary of Merchants' Association, New York City. Phi Kappa Psi.-Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States; P. H. Dugro, Justice of the Supreme Court of New York; David H. Greer. Bishop of New York: Frank S. Monnett, ex-Attorney-General of Ohio; George E. Chamberlain, United States Senator from Oregon; Edgar F. Smith, Provost of University of Pennsylvania; James Whitcomb Riley, poet; Edwin James, President University of Illinois; Theodore P. Shonts, Street Railway Executive; J. Mitchell Palmer. Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania. Phi Kappa Sigma.-Henry A. du Pont. United States Senator from Delaware: E. A. Alderman, President of University of Virginia: Claude A. Swanson, United States Senator from Virginia: Horatio C. King, lawyer and author: Charles I. Wilson. BrigadierGeneral United States Army, retired: Colonel William Jay, of New York: Daniel S. Tuttle. Episcopal Bishop of Missouri; Robert Strange. Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina: Frank M. Bristol. Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Phi Sigma Kappa.--George B. Cortelyou, President of Consolidated Gas Company, New York: Charles S. Howe. President of the Case School of Applied Science; Melville Davison Post, author: Thomas Fell, Provost of University of Maryland: George H. Davis. electric railway financier: J. E. Root, M. D., surgeon; Robert F. Wagner, ex-Lieutenant-Governor of New York. Pi Kappa Alpha.-Oscar W. Underwood, United States Senator-elect from Alabama: William Alexander. Secretary of Equitable Life Assurance Society; St. George Tucker, President of St. Paul's College, Tokio, Japan; Dr. D. Asa Blackburn, Pastor of the Church of the Strangers, New York City; James Alston Cabell, lawyer and author: Dr. W. T. Howard, bacteriologist. Cleveland, Ohio; Edwin F. Swinney, capitalist: Robert M. Hughes, author: Dr. George Summey, editor; James Dickerson Haskins, Dean of University of Tennessee. Psi Upsilon.-William H. Taft, ex-President of the United States: Andrew D. White, ex-Ambassador to Germany; Chauncey M. Depew, ex-United States Senator from New York: Nicholas Murray Butler, President Columbia University; Cornelius Vanderbilt, capitalist: John B. Stanchfield, attorney; John K. Bangs, author: Simeon E. Baldwin, ex-Governor of Connecticut: Henry F. Lippitt, United States Senator from Rhode Island: Francis G. Newlands, United States Senator from Nevada; Robert Lansing, Assistant Secretary of United States State Department. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.-Philander C. Knox, ex-Secretary of States. J. M. Dickinson, ex-Secretary of War; John C. W. Beckham, ex-Governor of Kentucky: John G. Capers, United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue; James Neill, actor: Charles B. Howry. Justice United States Court of Claims; Thomas Watson, ex-Representative in Congress from Georgia: Kev Pittman, United States Senator from Nevada; Henry Sydnor Harrison and John Edward Russell, authors. Sigma Chi.-William E. Glasscock, ex-Governor of West Virginia: J. M. Hamilton, ex-Governor of Illinois; A. H. Longino, ex-Governor of Mississippi: Robert S. McCormick, ex-Ambassador to France; James Deering. President of International Harvester Company: George Ade, author: John M. Harris, President of Bucknell College: Booth Tarkington. author: Walter L. Fisher. ex-Secretary of Interior Department. Sigma Nu-Dr. Isadore Dyer, New Orleans, leprosy expert; H. D. Clayton, Federal Judge: Harvey Helm, Representative in Congress from Kentucky; Wade H. Ellis, ex-Assistant Attorney-General of United States; Walter J. Sears, litterateur. Columbus, Ohio; Rev. J. R. Sampey, D. D.. theologian; Lee Worsham, President of National Conservation Congress: Charles G. Edwards, Representative in Congress from Georgia. Sigma Phi-Eugene N. Foss, ex-Governor of Massachusetts: Elihu Root, ex-United States Senator from New York; Gerritt Smith, composer; Chester S. Lord, editor; Bradley Martin, capitalist: Montgomery Schuyler, journalist: John E. Parsons, lawyer: Robert W. Patterson, editor Chicago Tribune: W. A. Shanklin, President of Wesleyan University: George W. Hinman. President of Marietta College. Theta Chi-Charles F. Sayles, mechanical engineer: William R. Cutler, author and historian: George A. Converse, Rear-Admiral United States Navy; Charles H. Spooner, President of Norwich University: De Witt C. Webb, mechanical engineer: William R. Mead. architect: Burleigh F. Spalding, Chief Justice of North Dakota Supreme Court: Samuel W. Shattuck, Comptroller of University of Illinois; Major Edward A. Shuttleworth, United States Army. PROMINENT LIVING GRADUATE MEMBERS-Continued. Theta Delta Chi.-Right Rev. Cameron Mann, Episcopal Bishop of North Dakota; O. P. Baldwin, editor of Baltimore Sun; John A. Dix, ex-Governor of New York: Henry L. Wilson, ex-United States Ambassador to Mexico; F. W. Hamilton, President of Tufts College: Willis S. Paine, ex-New York State Banking Superintendent: John W. Griggs, ex-Attorney-General of the United States: John B. McPherson, United States District Judge; A. M. Randolph. Episcopal Bishop of Southern Virginia; Charles R. Miller, editor of the New York Times. Theta Xi.-Frederick H. Howland, editor Providence Tribune: Palmer C. Ricketts. Director Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; George Gibbs, electrical engineer: Henry Hodge, consulting bridge engineer: Onward Bates, ex-President of American Society of Civil Engineers; Butler Ames, Representative in Congress from Massachusetts: Mor decal T. Endicott, Rear-Admiral United States Navy, retired; William H. Wiley, civil engineer; H. M. Waite. City Manager, Dayton, Ohio; R. C. B. Thurston, President Sons of American Revolution. Zeta Beta Tau.-Mitchell May, ex-Secretary of State. New York; Julius H. Kahn, Representative in Congress from California; Prof. I. Leo Sharfman, University of Michigan; Hon. Isadore Sobel, ex-President of National Postmasters' Association. Zeta Psi.-Rev. Almon Gunnison, President of St. Lawrence University: Richard A. Ballinger, ex-Secretary of the Interior Department: Nelson Dingley, ex-Representative in Congress from Maine: George D. Robinson, ex-Governor of Massachusetts; Rodney Welch and William H. McElroy, journalists; George W. Pepper, attorney; Nicholas F. Brady, capitalist; William K. Field, editor. The French Academy is one of five academies, and the most eminent, constituting the Institute of France. It was founded in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, and reorganized in 1816. It is composed of 40 members, elected for life, after personal application and the submission of their nomination to the head of the state. It meets twice weekly, at the Palace Mazarin, 23 Quai Conti, Paris, and is the highest authority on everything appertaining to the niceties of the French language, to grammar, rhetoric, and poetry, and the publication of the French classics." The chief officer is the Secretary, who has a life tenure of his position. The office is at present vacant. A chair in the Academy is the highest ambition of most literary Frenchmen. The other academies of the Institute of France are: The Academy of Inscriptions and BellesLettres, with 40 members; Academy of Sciences, with 68 members; Academy of Fine Arts, with 40 members (as follows: Painting, 14; sculpture, 8; architecture, 8; engraving.4; musical composition, 6), and Academy of Moral and Political Science, with 40 members. All members are elected for life. Benefactions of 1914. THE benefactions during 1914 amounted to about $310,000,000. Gifts of donors under $10,000 are not included in the following list. Sir Julius Wernher, diamond merchant, of missioner for Canada, designated that $1,735,000 London, willed King Edward's Hospital Fund of his immense fortune was to go to educational $12,325,000, with an additional $1,000,000 later. Institutions. Yale University received half a F. H. Goff, originator of the Cleveland Founda-million dollars and the Royal Victor College, at tion, announced that $20,000,000 had been pledged for the purposes of the institution. The foundation was formed to provide for wealthy men a means of devoting during life or leaving at death a portion of their property for the public good. James Campbell willed his entire estate, valued at between $10,000,000 and $16,000,000, subject to his wife's and daughter's life interest, to the St. Louls University, the leading Jesuit college of the West, for its medical department. Among John D. Rockefeller's gifts, not including the money spent in the fitting up of the ship with provisions and clothing for the relief of the stricken families in the war zone, were $1,019,908 to the University of Chicago; $2,500,000 to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; $1,000,000 to the same institution for the study of animal diseases; $300,000 to the building fund of the Y. M. C. A., to be given in instalments; $225.000 for the purchase of the Grand Chenier tract of 85,000 acres of Louisiana, to be used as a refuge for wild fowl; $250,000 to Stevens Institute; $300,000 toward the erection in Washington of a memorial building to the women of the civil war, to be used as a headquarters of the American National Red Cross; 200 feet of hose to Rescue Hose Company of North Tarrytown, N. Y.; $7,000 to the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church; $10,000 a year for ten years for the support of the American Academy in Rome: $10,000 for the relief through the American Red Cross of suffering in Bulgaria due to the Balkan war; $11,000 to the Salvation Army for the sufferers of the Empress of Ireland disaster: $5,000 to the White Plains Y. M. C. A.; $50,000 to the Y. M. C. A. College at Springfield, Mass.: $5,000 to the Honor Roll Relief Fund of the Police Department; $25,000 to St. Vincent's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. Andrew Carnegie gave $1,000,000 to Vanderbilt University; $1,000,000 to Carnegie Institute of Technology: $2,000,000 for the cause of international peace; $100,000 to help raise the $300.000 endowment fund for the New York Association for the Blind; $100,000 to provide a foundation for a pension fund for the employés of the Zoological Park and the Aquarium; $2,000,000 to the Carnegie Institution at Pittsburgh: $25.000 to Stevens Institute of Technology: $750,000 to the medical department of Washington University at St. Louis, Mo.; $500 to the dispensary building fund of the Hospital for Deformities and Joint Diseases; $5,000 to the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, to help their fund of $100,000 which they are raising: $20,000 to Dover, N. J., for the erection of a public library on condition that the city maintain it; $40,000 to East Orange, N. J., for the improvement of its library building. Mrs. Carnegie gave $5,000 to the Babies' Hospital in New York to endow two beds in memory of her nephew. Francis A. Ogden of Texas willed his entire estate of several million dollars to the education of country children, especially those whose educational advantages are limited. Col. O. H. Payne gave $4,350,000 to Cornell University. Baron Basile der Schlichting, a Russian who lived in Paris, left his collection of paintings, bronzes, etc., valued at $2,000,000, to the Louvre in Paris. George H. Hermann of Houston, Tex., left nearly $3,000,000 for charitable purposes, among which were a hospital and two parks. Subscriptions of $2,200,000 in pledges were obtained by Wellesley College; $750,000 was from the Rockefeller Foundation. On the death of Mrs. Marie Eugenie Spencer, according to the will of her husband, William Augustus Spencer, half of his estate of $2,164,060 goes to the New York Public Library. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, High Com Montreal, $1,000,000. The other Institutions named were St. John's College, Cambridge, $50,000; University of Aberdeen, $25,000 for the creation of a chair of agriculture: Presbyterian College, Montreal, $60,000; Queen's University, Kingston, Ont., $100,000; $50,000 went to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, and $90,000 to various hospitals in England and Scotland. The fund for aged and infirm ministers of the Church of Scotland received $50,000. Delivery was made at Baltimore, Md., of securities valued at $1,500,000, which were presented by the General Education Board to the Medical School of Johns Hopkins University. The gift to be known as the Wm. H. Welch Endowment for Clinical Education and Research, Jane K. Sather of San Francisco, Cal., left $1,450,000 to the University of California, of which amount $700,000 was for chairs in history and classics. She also left a law endowment of $20,000. This will is being contested. The city of Berlin, Germany, received an anonymous gift of $1,250,000. The General Education Board granted $700.000 to Washington University, $500,000 to the Medical School of Yale, and $50,000 to the study of conditions in the rural schools in some fifteen Southern States. London charitable Institutions received $1,250,000 owing to the death of Geoffrey Ansili, whose father, a stock broker, designated that in case the boy died in his minority various hospitals and institutions would receive that amount. Miss Elizabeth S. Shippen of Philadelphia willed $1,046,000 for charities. Among them were: Pennsylvania Hospital and the Pottsville Hospital, $50,000 each; Bryn Mawr College, $10,000; twenty hospitals, churches, charitable and other institutions, $10,000 each; forty-one charities received $5,000 each, and fourteen others were given from $1,000 to $2,000 each. In addition, servants were remembered. An art collection, valued at $1,000,000, was given to the City Library Association of Springfield, Mass., by Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Theodore B. Basselin of Croghan, N. Y., willed $1,000,000 to the Catholic University of America, including $100,000 for the erection of a hall. He also gave $25,000 for a parochial school at Croghan and $100,000 in trust for its maintenance. Atlanta, Ga., will have a new university, which was made possible by a $1,000,000 gift from Asa Candler. In addition, sums and property given by others will bring the sum up another million. Liberty E. Holden of Cleveland, Ohio, left $1,000,000 to the Medical School of Western Reserve University for a foundation in memory of his son. The World Peace Foundation received $1,000,000 on the death of its founder, Edwin Ginn of Boston, Mass. $1,000,000 was given by R. A. Long of Kansas City, Mo., to a fund raised for the Disciples of Christ Church. James Deering of Chicago gave $1,000,000 to Wesley Hospital, Chicago, in memory of William Deering, father, and Mrs. Howe, sister, of the dopor. Mrs. Amelia Gertrude Cutter left $1,000,000 to the executors of her will to distribute among persons in need. It was reported that Mrs. Frank Leslie bequeathed $1,000,000 to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, to be used in furthering the cause of woman suffrage. The Marchioness Arconti-Visconte of Parts presented to the Louvre her entire collection of paintings, porcelains, furniture and other art objects, valued at $1,000,000. After the settlement of the estate of Asa M. Packer, Lehigh University received $800,000 and St. Luke's Hospital, South Bethlehem, Pa.. $82,000. A will to be contested in court is that of Ernest V. Cowell, who left the University of California $750,000 for scholarships and the erection of a stadium. $750,000 went to Yale University, as provided for in the will of Mary Hotchkiss of East River, Ct. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received $750,000 for a school for naval architecture and marine engineering from the estate of Charles H. Pratt of Boston, Mass. The gift was contested. Mrs. Mary A. Murray of New York left an estate of $600,000 to ten religious and charitable Institutions. They are the Women's Hospital, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Presbyterian Hospital, New York City Mission and Tract Society, Women's Branch of the New York City Mission and Tract Society, St. John's Guild, New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, and the Working Girls' Vacation Fund. Harris C. Fahnstock, the New York banker, left $540,000 to charity. Of this sum $100,000 went to the Charity Organization Society, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Presbyterian Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital, and the Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital; $25,000 to St. Thomas's Church; $10,000 to the Trustees of the Fund for Aged and Infirm Clergymen, and $5,000 to the Children's Aid Society. In addition, he set aside $10,000 to be distributed to employés of the bank of which he was President. Half a million dollars were given anonymously to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the alumni gave $211,000. The General Education Board distributed $100,000 to Washington and Lee University: $100,000 to Elmira College; $100,000 to Hendrix College: $100,000 to Wells College; $33.000 to Wofford College; $25,000 to Hampden Institute; $15,000 to Stelman Seminary: $10,000 to Tuskegee Institute; $15,000 for rural school work in Southern States: $33,750 to professors of secondary education in the South; $19,500 to Maine agricultural work; $10,000 to New Hampshire agricultural work. Morrill Wyman willed nearly $500,000 to Harvard University for medical research, in honor of his father; $50,000 for the "promoting of good citizenship" by the study of republican government, and $50,000 will revert to the institution upon the death of a cousin. Catholle educational work was benefited to the extent of from $200,000 to $500,000 by the will of Miss Eliza Andrews of Baltimore, Md., and $21,000 was given for charitable purposes. Frederick G. Bourne, prominent capitalist and manufacturer of Oakdale, L. I., gave $500,000 to the Trustees of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine for the Choir School and $5,000 to the New York Association for the Blind. The Metropolitan Museum of Art received the entire collection of paintings and other valuable works of art of Mrs. Mary Johnston, widow of Edward W. Scudder Johnston, a leading member of the New York Bar. $500,000 in stock was announced would be set aside by the National Carbon Co. for its employés. Public institutions, including Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, are conditional residuary legatees under the will of Gardiner M. Lane of Boston. The residuary bequests are $250,000 to Harvard University to establish the George Martin Lane fund, and $100,000 to Johns Hopkins University to establish a Basil Gildersleeve fund. The remainder is bequeathed to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, of which Mr. Lane was President. $500,000 was given to the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul at Mount St. Albans, near Washington, by Mrs. Archibald D. Russell of Princeton, N. J. Robert F. Crozer of Pennsylvania willed $100,000 in trust and $10,000 outright to Crozer Theological Seminary: $50,000 in trust and $10,000 outright each to the American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia, the American Baptist Missionary Union, Boston, and the American Baptist Home Mission Society in New York: $200,000 was also given for a hospital in Upland, near Chester, Pa., and amounts of from $5,000 to $50,000 went to several churches and societies. The will of Hugo Reisinger of St. Louis, Mo.. when filled, disclosed that $500,000 was left to charity for educational purposes. Columbia University came in for $100,000 and Harvard for $50,000. The residue of the estate goes to found a hospital in his native town of Wiesbaden, Germany, for the care of children under fourteen years old. J. K. L. Ross of Montreal gave $500,000 to the Government for military or naval purposes, or for a fund for soldiers' familles. Nearly $500,000 was willed to Newark, N. J., for a park by Miss Alice W. Hayes, who was a lineal descendant of Robert Treat, founder of that city. Miss Letitia Deniston of Pittsburgh, Pa., left $500,000 as follows: Presbyterian Board Foreign Missions, $150,000; Presbyterian Board Home Missions, $50,000; Y. W. C. A., $50,000; Humane Society, $50,000; Humane Society of Western Pennsylvania, $25,000; and the remainder, the residuary estate, to the first two named missions. Edwin Bradbury Smith of New York willed. $500,000 to Bowdoin College, from where he was graduated. $500,000 was given to Yale University to establish the Anthony N. Brady Memorial Foundation by the late financler's family. The Income to be given annually to the school for ten years to enable the University to declare operative at once the agreement with the General Hospital Society of Connecticut, and to conclude the alIlance between the Yale Medical School and the New Haven Hospital. The fund is to become the property of the University if the Institution receives within the ten-year period a total of $2,000,000 for the medical school, exclusive of gifts from the Brady family. Melville C. Day willed his residuary estate, $162,065, and $300,000 to Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. He also bequeathed $25,000 to the Wardell Home for Old Ladies at Saco, Me. Previous to his death he made gifts to the academy aggregating $260,000. Mrs. Archibald Douglas Russell of New York City gave $500,000 to erect the sanctuary of the National Cathedral of the Episcopal Church in Washington, D. C. $400,000 was left for a home for Ohlo school teachers, and $50,000 for a hospital at Vinton, Ia., by Mrs. Virginia Gay. Thomas S. Kirkwood of Chicago, Ill., willed $415,000 among the Chicago Home for the Friendless and the Chicago Lying-in, Presbyterian, St. Luke's and Passavant Hospitals. An anonymous gift of $155,000 was the largest single donation ever received by the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions. Altogether they received $410,000, most of which was anonymous. In memory of Mrs. George Lauder, $400,000 was given to Yale Medical School by the Lauder family of Pittsburgh. Alfred D. Hermance willed $400,000 to Cornell University for a scholarship fund for graduates of the Williamsport, Pa., high school. Mr. William Runkle of New Jersey bequeathed large sums to charitable purposes. Among them was $100,000 to Lafayette College. Others were the Presbyterian Board of Relief for disabled ministers and the widows and orphans of deceased ministers, $50,000; Home Missions Board of the Presbyterian Church, and to the College Board of that church, $25,000 each; St. Mary's Hospital, Orange, N. J., $25,000; Orange Free Library, $25,000; Orange Orphan Society, $25,000; Orange Memorial Hospital, $10,000; Children's Ald and Protective Society, $10,000; Orange Orthopedic Hospital, $10,000; American Sunday School Mission of New York, $25,000; Presbyterian Church, Asbury, N. J., $10,000; the cemetery of that church, $10,000. $300,000 was willed by A. McKay as follows: $100,000 to the Art Institute for the maintenance and enlargement of the Munger collection of paintings: $100,000 to the Home for Destitute and Crippled Children; and $100,000 to the Mary Thompson Hospital for Women and Children. The radium from 150 tons of ore, valued at about $350,000, was given to hospitals by A. I. du Pont of Delaware. Henry J. Braker gave $354,034 to Tufts College. Sir Robert Baden received $325,000 toward an endowment for the Boy Scouts movement. The will of Miss Harriet Otis Cruft, a Boston spinster, contained public bequests aggregating $325,000. The will of Miss Elizabeth Thompson divided $300,000 among the Children's Aid Society, New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, New York Historical Society, Society of the New York Hospital, Presbyterian Hospital, and Columbia University. Ground valued at $300,000 will become a free cemetery for the citizens of Port Chester, N. Y., after the donor's sister, Miss Emma Merritt, dies. Victor M. Osborne of New York left $300,000 to the S. P. C. A., whieh gift is being contested. Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., received $300,000 in trust by the will of Melville P. Day of New York, who resided for twenty years abroad. In case the academy trustees do not agree the legacy goes to Yale University. Mrs. Mary B. Pell of New York left $272,324 to Columbia University, and sums to several charitable and educational institutions. $265,420 will go to Princeton University on the death of Mrs. Emma Allyce Hartley, as stated in the will of her husband, Dr. Frank Hartley. Princeton also receives $5,000 cash. Bowdoin College came in for $15,000, and the Society of New York Hospital for $5,000. Mrs. Russell Sage agreed to give $25.000 to Leonard Hospital, Troy, N. Y., providing the citizens of that city raised an additional $40,000. Among her other gifts were $1,000 to the ambulance fund of the Southampton Hospital; funds for the State Museum to acquire a series of 106 Fuertes of Louis Agassiz bird paintings by Ithaca, N. Y.; $10,000 to the New York Zoological Park to add to the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund to protect Federal migratory birds; $25,000 for a teachers' rest at Tomkins Cove, N. Y. She is also a contributor to the American Society for Control of Cancer, and other charitable organizations. New York State received a gift of 350 acres of land west of Albany from Mrs. Emma Treadwell Thacher for a park. $250,000 was given anonymously to Wellesley College. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago gave $250,000 to He sent a check for the University of Chicago. $25,000 toward the erection of a building for negro men by the Y. M. C. A. He also agreed to provide money to erect rural schoolhouses for negroes in the South, and gave $4,015 to the Infant Welfare Fund in Chicago. William Waldorf Astor contributed $100,000 to the Red Cross Society, $125,000 to the Prince of Wales's National Relief Fund in London, and $25,000 to Queen Mary's Fund for providing work for women thrown out of employment by the war. Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden of New York bequeathed $250,000 to Yale. Mrs. George D. Farrar of New York bequeathed $250,000 to charity. Miss Emily Mathilda Easton of Felling, Durham, England, besides providing large sums for her servants in her will, left $250,000 to educational and charitable Institutions. David D. Stewart of St. Albans, Me., gave $230,000 to Institutions In Minneapolis, Minn. Eben S. Draper, who died in Massachusetts. as follows: set aside $234,000 to be divided Parish, Unitarian Hopedale $20,000 to the $100,000 and real estate adjoining to Milford to the Massachusetts InHospital, $100,000 American stitute of Technology, $10,000 to Unitarian Association, $4,000 to proprietors of Hopedale village cemetery, and several bequests to employés. Kenneth S. Walbank of Chicago willed $225,000 among the Chicago Charity Hospital, the Home for the Friendless, and the Chicago Home for Incurables. Mrs. Mathilda E. Webb, who died in Brooklyn, N. Y., left $10,000 to Plymouth Church, and $5,000 to the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hills, $200,000 is also to be used for church purposes. given among ten Institutions, namely, the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn Home for the Aged, Graham Home for Old Ladles, Brooklyn Orphan Asylum, Children's Ald Society, Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Brooklyn Home for Consumptives, Brooklyn Hospital, House of St. Giles the Cripple, and the Home for Friendless Women and Chil dren. Dr. Joseph D. Bryant of New York willed, in case of his wife's remarriage and anyhow at her New death, his estate of $200,000 as follows: York Academy of Medicine, one-seventh of residue; New York Medical College, one-seventh; the First Baptist Church of Norwich, Ct., oneforty-second, and the Norwich Hospital, five forty-seconds. A contingent bequest of $5,000 was willed to Bellevue Hospital's surgical ward, St. Joseph's Guild, the Bellevue Hospital Alumni Association, and the Old Women's Home of Norwich, Ct. In addition he provided $1,000 in trust for the establishment of a chair in the principles of ethics as practised by the American Medical Association. Gen. Charles Cleveland Dodge, the late philanthropist, set aside for charity all his interests in the Boston, Cape Cod and New York Canal Company, which amounted to over $200,000. the John L. Cadwalader of New York, at his death, bequeathed Princeton University $25,000, New York Public Library $100,000, the Metropolitan Museum of Art $25,000, the New York Zoological Society $20,000 for the purchase of animals, the Alumni Association of Harvard Law School $5,000, six months' salary to all emwho had been with him for five years. ployés of his law firm and his household servants Besides directing that the residue of her estate should go to the Hackley School, Mrs. Frances Hackley of White Plains, N. Y., gave the Congregational Church at Black Rock, Ct., and Archbald, Pa., $2,000 each; Society for Rellef of Destitute Blind, New York City, $5,000; Manassas Industrial School, Manassas, Va., Berean Pitt Dellingham School, College, Kentucky, Calhoun, Ala., Fort Valley Industrial School, Georgia, Kowallga Academy, Alabama, $5,000 each; Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, New York, $5,000 each; Church of the Messiah, New York City, $50,000; Pennsylvania Universalist Convention, $50,000, and a fund in trust for the John Raymond Memorial Church Universalist, Scranton, Pa., In memory of the testator's father, John Raymond. Byron L. Smith, late President of the Northern Trust Co., Chicago, Ill., left $100,000 to be distributed among long-time officers and employés of the company, $10,000 to the Chicago Home for to the Chleago Orphan Incurables, $10,000 Asylum, $10,000 to the Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, $10,000 to St. Luke's Hospital and in addition $500 a year toward the upkeep of the Solomon A. Smith ward, $10,000 to the Old People's Home of Chicago, $10,000 to the Art Institute. $10,000 to the visiting nurses, $5,000 to the Alice Home at Lake Forest, $25,000 to the James C. King Home for Old Men. Mrs. Hanna H. Abbe of New Bedford, Mass., Among the sums willed $191.000 to charity. were $50,000 to St. Luke's Hospital at New Bedford, $100,000 to the New Bedford Y. M. C. A.. $10,000 to the New Bedford Day Nursery, and $10,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An anonymous gift of $175,000 was made to the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions. Mrs. George S. Baldwin announced that she would build a $175,000 chapel In the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in memory of her husband. Herman C. von Post of New York willed $20,000 to the Sheltering Arms; $50,000 to the Church of the Holy Communion: $50,000 to St. Luke's Hospital; and $10,000 each to the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York, the American Geographical Society of New York City, the Society of St. Johnland, and the Home of Rest for Consumptives. John Eccles of Norwich, Ct., willed to religious Institutions, among them six churches, $166.000. Adrian Iselin, Jr., and his sister, Georgine |