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BIG GIFTS AND T1IEIK GIVERS.
According to estimates published in
the New York Sun, "the year just
closed is the greatest the world has ever
seen in regard to freehandedness in
public benefactions. The gifts that
have been recorded in the last year have
totaled $260,830,100. more than double
the amount given in 1910 and larger
by many millions than gifts in any other
one year. Thio tntnl of nmirno id r>om
pounded from the gifts that have been
made known; and the actual total of
the amounts given to churches, educational
institutions, charities and the
like, would be many millions more"The
amount is larger by $85,000,000
than any other amount given in a year.
It is almost four times the total of the
benefactions of 1908, and decidedly
BRADSTREETS 1
Agrlcultui
Yields,
1911
Corn, bushels 2,531.488,000
Winter wheat, bushels 430,656,000
Spring wheat, bushels 190,682,000
Total wheat, bushels 621,338,000
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Barley, bushels 160,240,000
Rye. bushels 33,119,000
Buckwheat, bushels 17,549,000
Total six cereals, 4,286,032,000
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Flaxseed, bushels 19,370,000
Potatoes, bushels 292,737,000
Hay, tons 47,444,000
Tobacco, pounds 905,109,000
Rice, bushels 22,934,000
Cotton, bales (estimated).. 15.500,000
Sugar, beet and cane. tons.
(estimated) 845,000
Agriculti
Vnlne,
1911.
Corn $1,565,258,000
Wheat 543,063.000
Oats 414,663,000
Barley 139.182,000
Rye 27.557,000
Buckwheat 12,735,000
Total six cereals $2,702,458,000
Flaxseed 35.272,000
Potatoes 233,778,000
Hay 694,570.000
Tobacco 85.210.000
Rice 18,274,000
Cotton, including seed . .. 775,000,000
Total value of agricultural
products $8,417,000,000
Value animal products 2,913,000,000
Value field crops 5,504,000,000
Flnnnce a
1911.
Rank clearings (estimated)
$157,000,000,000
Imports of merchandise
(estimated) 1,530,000.000
Flxports of merchandise
(estimated) 2,067,000,000
Total trade estimated.. 3,597,000,000
Circulation Dec. 1 3,270.582,753
Building expenditure .. 825,000,000
Mew York stock sales .. 130.000,000
.^ew lorK Dona saies .. ?u/,uuu,uou
Business failures, number
12,534
Failure liabilities 183,000,000
Pig-iron output, tons .. 24,000,000
Iron ore shipments, tons 32,130,411
Coal production, tons... 515.000,000
Anthracite shipments.
tons 70.000,000
Lake tonnage 78,000,000
Labor Strikes 255,000
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THE PRESBYTERI
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more than four times the amount given
In 1907. The banner year of record 1b
1909, when $175,000,000 was givenThen
follow the amounts given in the
last 10 years, making the enormous
total of more than $1,250,000,000.
1901 $124,000,000
1902 76.000.000
1903 100,000,000
1904 95,000,000
1905 65,000.000
1906 100,000,000
1907 52,000.000
1908 60.000.000
1909 175,000,000
1910 125,000,000
1911 260.000,000
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divisions may be made: the first, the
amouni given for individual purposes
911 STATISTICS.
nl Yields.
Change.
from 1910. Cast Records. Year.
Dec. 12.3 2,886,260.000 1910
Dec. .8 492,888.004 1906
Dec. 5.0 293,185,322 1899
Dec. 2.2 748,460,218 1901
Dec 21.8 1,180,513,000 1910
Dec. 7.8 178.916.484 1906
Dec. 5.3 33,630,592 1902
Dec. .2 22,791.839 1866
Dec. 13.0 ?.
Inc. 52.3 29,884,880 1902
Dec. 14.3 376,537,000 1909
Dec. 22.1 70.798.000 1908
Dec. 17.8 1,103,415,000 1910
Dec. 6.5 24,510,000 1910
Inc. 29.1 13,825,000 1908
Inc. 10.3 785,000 1909
iral Value*.
Change
from 1910 Past Hecords. Year.
Inc. 13.0 $1,521,105,000 1909
Dec. 3.2 676.517,000 1909
Inc. 2.0 407.887,000 1909
Inc. 38.5 100,426,000 1910
Inc. 10.4 24,953,000 1910
Inc. 9.4 16,812,000 1866
Inc. 8.5 $2,921,010,000 1909
Inc. 19.0 29.855,000 1909
Inc. 20.1 213,668.000 1909
Dec. 7.1 747,769.000 1910
Dec. 16.7 106,632,000 1909
Inc. 9.9 19.341,000 1909
Dec. 14.0 900.000,000 1910
Dec. 3.1 08.694,000,000 1910
Dec. 10.0 3,234,000.000 1910
Inc. .8 5,460,000,000 1910
nd Industry.
Change
from 1910. Past Records. Year.
Dec. 2.9 $164,300,860,342 1909
Dec. 2.0 1.662.807,612 1910
Inc. 11.0 1.923.426,205 1907
Inc. 6.0 3,427,218,892 1910
Inc. 2.4 3,192,615.314 1910
Dec. 2.0 864,530,532 1909
Dec. 20.0 283,662.848 1906
Inc. 43.0 1.311,874,700 1909
Inc. 8.0 15,508 1893
Dec. 1.0 383,700,000 1907
Dec. 12.0 27,303.567 1910
Dec. 24.0 42,620.206 1910
Inc. 2.7 501,000.000 1910
Inc. 7.0 67,100.393 . 1907
Dec- 10.0 86.732.316 1910
Dec. 53 0 650,000 1903
AN OF THE SOUTH
it Events
by individuals; second, educational
gifts, and third, gifts given generally
for general good. The first class received
during the year $160,000,000;
the second. $13,000,000, and the
third, $83,500,000. The rest of the
money given for public benefactions
cannot well be classified.
"Andrew Carnegie has again led all
the?phllanthropists in the total amount
given. For the year his total is $40,086.300.
bringing his grand total up to
$231,8S6,300. Rockefeller this year was
not even a runner up, giving publicly
but $3,320,000. This makes his grand
life total $178,531,000. Rockefeller is
sixth on the list for the year.
? 10 ?I m -
me m lurgcai givers ior uie year
are:
Andrew Carnegie $40,086,300
Dr. Samuel Balla 10,000,000
Mrs. Mary T. Chastian 5,000.000
Peter Brent Brigham 5,000,000
James A. Patten 4,000,000
John D. Rockefeller 3,820,000
Mitchel Valentine 2,559,514
John M. Burke 2,000,000
William P. Letchworth 2,000,000
Miss Katherine A. De Peyster 2,000,000
Joseph Pulitzer 2,000,000
Thomas N. Miller 2,000,000
"Mr. Carnegie's gift of $25,000,000 to
the Carnegie Corporation of New York,
which was recently announced leads
all other single gifts by far. The purpose
of this gift is to promote and
advance the diffusion of knowledge and
understanding among the people of the
United States, according to Mr. Carnegie's
announcement, and a corporation
was chartered to find the best
means to spend the interest on the endowment.
Like most of Mr. Carnegie's
gifts, this was in the form of 5 per cent,
gold bonds of the United States Steel
Corporation and was made in the par
value of the bonds. These have been
selling above par, so the actual monetary
value of his gifts has amounted to
more than the figures granted them.
"Mr. Carnegie in the last year established
and endowed the Carnegie Institution
at Washington, D. C. For this
purpose he gave $10,000,000. The Carnegie
foundation for life eavers 8n
Germany received $1,250,000. Dunfermline,
Scotland, Carnegie's birthplace, receives
$1,250,000 for philanthropies. The
Carnegie foundation for the pensioning
of college professors received $1,000,.
000 during the last year.
SENATE PEACE SENTIMENT.
Sentiment in favor of the ratification
of the peace treaties increased among
the senators during the holiday recess.
The treaty will probably be brought
forwrard for consideration at an early
date- From that time on the debate will
be in the open Senate Instead of in
executive session, and this plan will,
of course, greatly strengthen the hands
of the friends of the treaties. To the
opponents the announcement from
Chairman Cullom and others of the
committee that the treaties will probably
be formally taken up shortly, comes
as a disappointment. A great reluctance
exists among the opponents of the
treaties to taking any pronounced or
conspicuous stand against them and
that will be the strength of the administration
in Its efforts for ratification.
Ratification, however, will require
a two-thirds vote?62 to 30. The Senate
change of sentiment Is particularly noticeable
amonar the Democrats Thev
seem to be realizing that general policies
are not at Issue In the proposed
treaties. Senator Raynor, of Maryland,
a member of the committee on foreign
relations, filed a minority report declarlng
for the unamended treaties. He
declared questions of Immigration;
[January 10, 1912
policy and state debts to be outside tbe
scope of the treaties. Senator John
Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, has
come out with the same view and
strongly Indorsing the treaties as they
stand.
DUNN'S SUMMARY FOR 1911.
Bank Clearings, 1911. .$158,450,000,000
1910.. 162,914,100.000
Railroad Earnings, 1911 2,395.800,000
1910 2,423,400,000
uram crops (value).1911 2,702.458.000
1910 2,489,000.000
Cotton Crop (bales),1911 14.885,000
1910 11,609,000
Pig Iron (tons). 1911.. 23.850,000
1910.. 27,303,000
Exports 1911 1,867.605,000
1910 1,637.256.000
Imports, 1911 1,392.500,000
1910 1,426,200,000
Commercial Defaults,
1911 188,000.000
1910 201,757.000
GERMANS WIN ON TOTASH.
German and American potash Interests
have agreed upon terms of final
settlement according to a statement by
the International Corporation, the owner
of the Sollstedt mine in Germany.
The announcement said: "The only
foundation for previous reports that the
differences had been settled was that a
basis of compromise was tentatively
agreed upon. Adjustments have now
been confirmed by exchange of cables
with Berlin. These adjustments provide
for the withdrawal of all suits involving
liability for payment of the
potash tax levied by Germany; for the
assignment to the syndicate of
American contracts with the independent
mines; for new contracts with the
syndicate covering American potash requirements
on a price oasis practically
the same as that prevailing before the
low price contracts were obtained from *
the independent mines; and for the
re-entry or tne independent mines into
the syndicate."'
TRADE WITH RUSSIA.
Inquiry received by the department
of commerce and labor regarding the
commercial relations existing between
tbe United States and Russia has led
to the preparation of a statement upon
this subject by the bureau of statistics
of that department. In the fiscal year
1911 exports from this country to Russia
amounted approximately to $25,000,.
000 and imports from Russia to about
$12,000,000. Trade between tbe two
countries has practically doubled In
the last decade, the Increase occurring
in both imports and exports. Hides and
wools are the principal articles Imported
from Russia, and cotton, agricultural
implements, binding twine, manufactures
of Iron and steel and manufac.
tures of leather are the most important
of the exports to that country.
FOREIGNERS GET THE TROPHIES.
Te King of Sweden distributed the
Nobel prizes for the past year with the
usual ceremonial. Mme. Curie (chemistry),
Prof. William Wien (physics),
and Prof. Allvar Gullstrand (medicine)
were personally present to receive their
prizes. M. Maurice Maeterlinck, the
winner of the prize for literature, was
prevented from attending, and his prize
was handed over to M. Wauters, the
Belgian minister to Sweden. The peace
prize has been awarded, by the com
mlttee of the Norwegian Storthing to
M. T. M. Asser, a member of the Dutch
ministry, and to Herr A. H. Fried, editor
of the Vienna journal Frledens.
Warte.
Go to Europe at our Expense
of small partis. Writ.- today for plan and programs
Hol? Land Toors. Highest reference*. Extensive tiavel
sod good iucome.
REV. GEORGE NASON, Box J9, Wilmington. Do!.
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