MILLIONAIRE GIFTS
ART MUSEUM FOR PHILADELPHIA. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. (Received April 8, 11.50 p.m.) 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 pro-, vides and furnishes a site at Fairmount. Mr Potor A. Widener is a native of Philadelphia, lie is largely interested in street railways and many important corporations. Ho has already presented a building for tho city’s Free Public Library. Tho site suggested is presumably in Fairmouut Park, some 30,000 acres in extent, in which tho Centennial Exhibition was hold in 1876. 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 tho purpose of technical schools for sons and daughters of millowners. Mr Carnegie directs tiro Art Department of the Institute not to purchase old masters, but modern paintings that 'are likely to become old masters.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6178, 9 April 1907, Page 5
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