GREAT GIFTS
MILLIONAIRE BENEFACTIONS.
-Munificent benefactions by America's .wealthy -men; have , become .so common ; that they have almost set the standard > of good;form for ■millionaires.'' -. Recently two-men together gave 52,500,000 dollai-s 'to public purposes oil the same day. One tof them, George Eastman, who: makes ..the world's Kodak cameras, offered this. reasonable - explanation 'of "the million- 1 .;■ aire's philosophy of: giving :— "If a fman has wealth he. has .to make .a . choice, because, there is the.money heaping up. "He can keep it together in a bunch, and; leave -ifc-.'to; others to. administer alter he :is dead, or-.ho can get it into action, : and have fun while he is alive. . I pr - T :..fer getting., it: into action- and adapting .. it to human. jieeds.V.- .. : . The '.'Literary .Digest"' of New York is prompted by /these notable benefactions to compile - the following list of .great gifts made by America's rich men, .mostly, in the last".'ten years:—- ' ; > "-,■' '■■ '.' :■■■ ",-■■ ':' ; :.- V Dollars. .: John D. Rockefeller .„..'..:. -575,000000 Andrew Carhegio! : ..:.."..::■;.., 350,000,000 : Ueveland. Foundation (mis- '■ : - r'["- cellaneous}' ................"..;..', 150,000.,000 ■ Henry C. Freck ;.;..;......;;.., 85,000,000 • Milton S. Hershy ..-..........,• 60,000,000 George Eastman ................ 58,000,000 James B. Duke ............... : 41,500,000 .Mrs. Eussell Sago ...;..... : 40,000.000 ;Henry Phippa ..:.....^........ ■ 31,5CO;000 .Benjamin Altman: ............. 30.000,CC0 ; John Stewart;Kerinedy :-..:i.- 30^000000 John W. 1 -Sterling ..i...:..:..... 20,000,000 .Jidmund .0. -Converse ....... 20.000,000 !J. E. Do Lamar ..,.'........ 16^500,000 Mrs. ; StepJien V. Harkness 16,000,000 Augustus D., Jnilliard-.......' 15,000,000 Henry.: E.Huntington....... 15,000 000 GeorgevF.rßaker, ...;........; 12,000,000 P.-Morgan .........:........;. 10,000.000' Mrs. Elizabeth M. Anderson . 10.0C0',000 ;W. J.,and O.:H;. Mayo .... 8;000,OCOP. b....aud i T. O. da Pont... 8,000,000 J. 0gden.Arm0ur............. . (5,000,000 George .R. White -..;..;...... : S;000,000 : W.- A. -Wiebolt. 4,500,000 August Heckscher . '1,000,000 .John Jacob -Astor .......: 4,000,000 Lotta Grabtree ..;............ 4,000,0C0 ■ ? otal •-■■■;••■■•■••■••••.-.■..1,629,000,000/
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1925, Page 16
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269GREAT GIFTS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1925, Page 16
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