MILLIONAIRE GIFTS
ART MUSEUM FOR PHILADELPHIA.
NEW YORK, April 8
Mr Peter Widener, a tramway magnate, offers two millions sterling to found an art museum at Philadelphia, on condition that the city provides and furnishes a site at Fairmount.
Mr Peter A. Widener le a native of Philadelphia. He is largely interested in street railways and many important corporations. He has already presented a building for the city's Free Public Library. The site suggested is presumably in Fairmount Park, some 30,000 acres in extent, in which the Centennial Exhibition was held in 1870.
A CARNEGIE DONATION.
MODERN ART TO BE FAVOURED
NEW YORK, April 7
Mr Andrew Carnegie has given a further £1,200,000 to the Carnegie Institute, for the purpose of , technical schools for sons and daughters of millowners.
Mr Carnegie directs the Art Department of tlic Institute not to purchase old masters, but modern paintings that are likely to become okl masters.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1831, 10 April 1907, Page 35
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153MILLIONAIRE GIFTS New Zealand Mail, Issue 1831, 10 April 1907, Page 35
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