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THE DAWSON NEWS.
! By E. L. RAINEY.
ORMOUS POSTAL DEFICIT,
7,000,000 HOLE IN ONE OF UN
CLE SAM’'S POCKETS.
ral Delivery and Second Class Mail
the Cause. Long Haul of Maga
.. zines a Source of Great Loss.
' VASHINGTON, D. C.—Confronted
, a a deficit of $17,479,770, the
|esent administration of the post
fice department began its opera
yns. This was the largest deficit
the history of the postal service.
long as the deficit in the depart
ent aggregated only a few millions
dollars annually little attention
s paid to it; but when, in the last
ars, it leaped to upward of $lO,-
0,000, and finally, in 1909, exceed
sl7,ooo,ooo ‘“‘ordinary business
udence suggested that the causes
definitely located.”
These are statements in the annual
port of Postmaster General Frank
| Hitchcock concerning the resultsl
inquiries into the deficit. Thel
stmaster general says: 1
“Recent investigations have shown
at the two great sources of loss
the postal revenues are second
ass mail matter and rural delivery.
“The loss on second-class mail mat
r ha{s; been increasing for many
fars until it now amounts to $64,-
0,000.
| ““The loss from rural delivery, a
rv? begun hardly a dozen years
o ¥nd of unprecedented growth,}
aches as high as $28,000,000. ;
“The annual loss on third-class'
ail is something over $3,000,000.
he mail matter carried free under
yngressional franks costs the gov
rnment annually aboutAa half mil-
on lollars. A greater loss— about
ro and a quarter millions annually
results from the free handling of
cial mail for executive depart
ents other than the postoffice de
rtment. The annual cost of hand-j
ng the free official mail of the post
ffice department is estimated at
out $3,000,000. ‘
“The service now has about 325,-
00 employes, and these employes
andled during the last fiscal year
early fourteen billion pieces of mail.
“The number of postoffices in op
ration is 60,144, There are 26,652
omestic transportation routes, ag-|
regating 448,618 miles in length,
ith an annual travel of 542,151,-}
21 miles. A delivery service by car
jer is provided on 40,628 rural
utes and in 11,140 cities and towns.
rdinary postage stamps to the num
er of 8,712,007,031 were sold dur
g the year, and domestic money
rders to the value of $491,074,844
ere issued. The total receipts were
203,562,383.07, an increase of 6.31
er cent. over the receipts of the
revious year. The total expendi
ures amounted to $221,004,102.89,
n increase of 6.07 per cent.
Mr. Hitchcock recommends a pos
al note or check be adopted to less
n the custom of sending coins, bills
nd stamps through the mails.
He urges more liberal renumera
ion for mail carrying steamers to
ustralia and South America, in or
er that more American ships may
nd it possible to establish lines to
hese countries.
He recommends the establishment
Ef postal savings banks. Nearly
50,000,000 was paid railways dur
ng the last fiscal year for carrving
he mails, he states. In regard to
he rural free delivery service Mr.
itchcock says it has developed in
2 years to be ‘“‘one of the largest
hbranches of the postal establishment,
ith an annual expenditure exceed
ng $35,000,000. The postage on
matter mailed on rural routes is es
imated at about $7,000,000. The
mportance of this service to a large
umber of people is fully appreci-
F.ted. It brings the farms and vil
ages into closer communication with
rommercial and education centers.
t encourages the improvement of
ountry roads. By making rural life
nore attractive it stimulates agri
rulture. No doubt it is partly re
sponsible for the increase in farm
ralues.”’
BURIED IN EL PASO.
Remains of Thos. J. Black Were Not
Brought to Georgia.
The funeral of Mr. Thomas Black,
vho died Wednesday in El Paso, Tex.,
s supposed to have taken place there
yesterday, according to a telegram
sent to Americus Lodge No. 13, F.
and A. M. This lodge wired the lodge
it El Paso to send the remains to
Americus, but the telegram sent here
resterday stated that, through mis
inderstanding of this order, the fun
sral would take place there instead.
Vir. Black desired that his body rest
lere, in his old home, and there is
10 reason why the request was not
omplied with.—Americus Times-
Recorder.
UNCLE SAM’S MONEY HAS BEEN COUNT
ED; NOT A CENT IS FOUND MISSING
WASHINGTON, D. C.—To count,
he coins and securities in the
nited States treasury it has taken
committee of four persons, super
ising from thirty to forty counting
xperts, almost two months. Upon
he retirement of Charles H. Treat,
8 treasurer, it became necessary for
counting of the contents of the
aults to be made, and the incoming
reasurer, Lee McClung, give receipt
or all valuables. Monday Mr. Mec-
5 718 A CONVICT.
How Advice >« - Witzell to the
Pen. He Is Pardoned.
‘As “‘ignorant” is the way an offi
cial order in the executive office in
Atlanta granting him pardon from
further service in the penitentiary,
characterizes John C. Witzell, who
was sent up from Gilmer county for
four years for larceny.
Witzell has been in the peniten
tiary for two and a half years as the
result of a peculiar stroke of misfor
tune. He once undertook to do a
friend a kindness by lending him
$5O, and there is where his trouble
began. The time came around for
the payment of the debt, but the
friend failed to pay. Witzell begged
and importuned, but couldn’t get his
money.
Finally, acting upon the suggestion
of another friend, who told him to
go and give the debtor a licking and
then steal his horse, he stole the
horse, but the order fails to state
whether the suggested licking was
administered. -
At any rate, Witzell sold the horse
for $25, just half the debt; the for
mer friend had him arrested for
stealing it, and recovered his prop
erty, while the man who bought the
horse got back his $25; so Witzell
was still out the $5O and two years
and a half hard work in the peni
tentiary, all on account of his friends,
He will doubtless be careful in the
future as to what sort of friends he
makes.
SHELLMAN’S ‘PHONE SITUATION.
Raise in Rates Causing Some Fric
tion. Improvements Being Made.
The telephone situation in Shell
man is unsettled yet. The advance
in rates January Ist is expected
to be put in eftect by *ae owners of
the local exchange. In this case a
home company may be organized at
once, who will install an independ
ent system. Five thousand dollars
has been subscribed by Shellman citi
zens for this purpose. Dr. Dean,
president of the Cotton Belt Co., is
quoted as giving as the reason for
the proposed advance in rates that
the system was now being operated
at a loss, but when Shellman men
offered to buy the local plant he said
it was not for sale. In the mean
time the Cotton Belt Co. is putting
in improvements on the line here, a
number of young linemen, with Fore
man O’Farrell, putting in the new ca
ble service.—Shellman Sun.
NOW LYE STEWED PEACHES
Most of the Canneries Use Red-Hot
Caustic Soda to Cook Their .
Fruit. How to Tell It.
The pure food agitation, which has
been principally over the question of
benzoate of soda, has now taken a
new turn, and renewed interest will
doubtless be aroused over this ques
tion.
- It is said that in most of the can
neries of the country peaches are
stewed in red-hot caustic soda to eat
away the skins and thereby save the
cost of removing it, amounting to a
cent and a half or two cents per can.
In the process of this lye stewing
almost all the flavor of the peach
disappears, and doubtless a little
caustic soda is left on each piece of
fruit as a memento of its trip
through the cannery,
Caustic soda strong enough to eat
away the skin of an unripe peach
must be anything but soothing to the
inner man or child. The full signifi
cance of this is best understood in
connection with the fact that caus
tic soda is used in making many
kinds of soap; in fact, it is the dirt
eating part of soap.
It is said that the great majority
of the canneries use the lyve process
in place of the knife-peeling method.
Attempts have been made for some
time to get the department of ag
riculture to make a ruling on this
question, which would compel the
canners who use this method to say
S 0 on the labels of their goods. It
;looks now as if the question will be
‘hassed up to congress for a specific
law covering this phase of the pure
food agitation.
The use of caustic soda is impos
sible with ripe fruit, because it dis
colors a ripe peach so that it will
not pass muster with the users of
high-grade canned fruits. In conse
quence this process is possible only
with unripe fruit, and green fruit is
purposely gathered for canning.
Owing to the absence of any marks
on the cans to indicate the use of
caustic soda the only way the custo
mer can tell if he has purchased a
lye-process can of fruit is by taste.
Open a can of peaches, wash away
the syrup from a piece of the fruit.
Then taste it. If it is void of flavor,
woody and pulpy, and has a soapy
appearance, it is undoubtedly the lye
peeled variety.
Clung gave to Mr. Treat a receipt
for $1,259,001,756 32 2-3, the exact
contents of the treasury. Not a cent
was found to be missing from Uncle
Sam’s pocketbook.
It was the quickest count ever
made by the treasury, and was ab
solutely necessary before Mr. Treat
could be relieved of the responsibil
ity of the office. s
The count included 156,521,317
silver dollars.
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1910.
“SAM JONES” CAN'T HIDE HIS “RYE”
?lt Is Now Unlawful to Ship Liquor Without the Name
’ of the Consignee on the Package. T
Beginning January Ist a new law
went into effect, having more effect
in prohibition sections than else
where. It is now unlawful to ship
any whiskey, wines or distilled or
fermented liquors without plainly
stamping on the package the name
of the consignee and the character of
the contents. .
Heretofore it has been possible for
anyone to secure such goods without
having them marked at all as to con
tents, and in’ many cases fictitious
names have been used for such pur
poses.
For instance, a package sent to
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11 9
$20,000 FOR ** RED LICKER”
TIMES-RECORDER SAYS AMERI
CUS SPENT THAT SUM.
The Muckalee Town Had a Tremen
dous and Consuming Thirst
During Holidays.
There were evidences of a few
drams being taken in Dawson during
the Christmas holidays, but the thirst
here, judging by the following arti
cle from the Times-Recorder, was
nothing to compare with what it was
in Americus:
“Twenty thousand dollars, it is
conservatively estimated, was spent
in Americus for whiskey during the
holidays—or rather that amount of
good money was sent away from here
for booze, principally to Jackson
ville, which is about the wettest spot
on the map of the south now. :
‘““And Americus does a large part
towards keeping up the damp atmos
phere of the Florida metropolis,
where the money flows.
“Thousands of the familiar brown
packages have come through the of
fice of the Americus express compa
ny, which for three or four days past
has held a multitude of booze seek
ers in quest of thé Florida Santa
Claus. ”
“On a recent afternoon the front
of the express office looked like a
voting precinct, so densely crowded
was it, while the overflow of strug
gling, thirsty black humanity was
stacked up beyond the curbstone out
'side, all impatiently awaiting their
'turn at the booze counter. -
‘““And every negro—and scores of
whites as well—received their box
lOf ‘four full quarts, express prepaid,’
'and went away happy.
I ‘“lnside the building half the floor
| space was covered with packages of
lwhiskey. And this was not the case
for two or three days only, but rath
er covered a period of ten days or
two weeks before the holiday.
I “The Americus postoffice did an
'enormous business in the transmis
'sion of money orders sent for whis
ikey, while express checks and bank
checks probably swelled the grand
'total to the $20,000 point. A pretty
]good sum for a ‘dry’ town to spend
'in two weeks for ‘wet licker!’”
MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THE CORN.
Agent Rives Puts Springvale Booze
Buyers on Notice:
Mr. A. P. Rives the agent of the
Central railroad and Southern Ex
press Co. at Springvale, puts booze
buvers of that community on notice
that hereafter they must acknowl
edge their ‘“‘corn,” or do without it.
In the last issue of the Cuthbert
Leader he said:
“Section 238 of the penal code pre
scribes a penalty of five thousand dol
lars or two years in federal prison,
one or both, in discretion of the
court, for the delivery of any intoxi
cating liquor of any description to
any one save the bona fide consignee
by any common carrier, officer or
agent of said carrier (this includes
draymen.) Section 239 forbids any
one collecting the purchase price or
acting as agent of the seller in any
way save as a common carrier. Sec
tion 140 compels the seller or ship
per to plainly mark the contents on
the outside of the package.
“In passing, and without in any
way binding myself to support Con
gressman Griggs, I want to give him
the credit of doing all in his power
to place this law in the federal code.
“Also I wish to say to the patrons
of the Springvale express office that
I am not a writing expert, and know;
of but two signatures in the county,
Nick Weaver's and my own, that
can‘t be counterfeited; therefore all
of the ardent which comes to this
office will have to be called for by
the owner, from the confirmed toper
to the sanctified Jew lately in these
parts who was so good he never had
an evil thought.” i
THE INQUISITIVE JONES. i
What Was Said to Him Recalled By
a Proposed Investigation. !
The New York legislature pro-f
poses to inquire into the telephone- |
telegraph merger. Col. Watterson |
has the idea that the promoters of
that deal will answer the New York
legislature in the language of the
rural postmaster to Jones when he
asked, ‘‘ls there any mail for
Jones?” - ‘“Don’t be so d—— ln-!
guisitive,” said the postmaster. i
“Sam Jones” could be claimed by
“Charles Green” if he only had the
bill of lading, and there would be
nothing to indicate that he was re
ceiving liquor.
Now, however, that is no longer
existing, as both the shipper and the
railroad company are subjected to
heavy penalties under the provisions
of the new law.
The package must be marked with
the real name of the bona fide con- |
signee, and it must also be placard
ed so that he wuno runs may read
that this person is getting in a con
signment of barleycorn, or brew, as
the case may be. |
Gl R e E e
S TR SRR 0 N B NSRRI ST
GEORGIA TIES WITH TEXAS FOR
THE LARGEST NUMBER.
Greatest Number Country Has Known
Since. 1904. Eleven Whites and
| Fifty-Nine Negroes Victims.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Lynchings
in 1909 have numbered seventy, the
‘highest number recorded since 1904.
The victims numbered 11 whites and
559 negroes. The lynchings occurred
in twelve states and one territory—
iNew Mexico. As in previous years,
‘crimes or alleged crimes against
white women and murders have
caused most of these summary exe
cutions. One case, occurring in
'Cairo, 111., combined both causes and
resulted in the ‘placing of the city
under military control for several
days. The Cairo lynchings were the
only cases of the kind that occurred
north of the Ohio river during the
year. Several double lynchings oc
curred at various points in the south,
and Oklahoma furnished a quad
ruple lynching, with four cattlemen
as the victims.
In the following record the word
“lynching” has been held to apply
only to the summary punishment in
flicted by a mob or by any number
of citizens on a person alleged to
have ocmmitted a crime. By states
the seventy lynching cases here re
corded are classified as follows:
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MAKES MODELS OF BUGS.
ll’nique Occupation of a Sculptress
Employed by Uncle Sam.
No easy task is that which Mrs,
Otto Heidemann, a well-known sculp
tress in Washington, performs.
Hers is the novel occupation of mak
ing models of bugs for Uncle Sam’s
use in teaching agriculfurists and
“bugology’ students how to distin
lguish between insects that are harm
ful and those that are useful. All
Ithe skill of the sculptor is necessary
in the dexterous fashioning of the
queer-looking models, for although
they are made on a gigantic scale in
comparison to the life size of in
'sects a close microscopical study of
ithe subject and the ability to shape
' the different parts on identical lines
‘are details of Mrs. Heidemann's
work that must be followed each
'time she molds a reproduction.
| The models of insects cover vir
'tually every known form of life in
‘the world of bugs. They are a true
production, fantastic in some cases
'and hideous in others, and they fur
‘nish exceptional means for persons
interested in agriculture to study
‘both the insects that destroy crops
‘and the others that preserve agri
‘ al products. l
‘making her models for the gov
ent she uses wire, thread, wax,
celluloid, rubber, papier mache and
other materials, of which one is a
composition she discovered herself, |
and the secret of which she carefullyl
guards.
Millions of dollars’ worth of prop
erty are destroyed each year by de
structive insects. The fight which
the department of agriculture has
made to combat this destruction is
based, to a large extent, on the work |
which Mrs. Heidemann does for the!
government. ‘
“DIVINE” ORDER TO FAST FATAL
Rome Business Man Touched No
Food For Twenty-Four Days.
As a result of fasting twenty-tourl
days J. W. Tippin, a well to do bus-|
iness man of Rome, Ga., is dead. l
Several weeks ago Tippin informed
his family that it had been decreed
by the divine powers that he should
fast until ‘“God had bidden him eat.”
After he had fasted twenty-four
days he was induced by a ruse to
eat, but he was in such an exhausted’
condition that he could not recover.'
WATCH FOR HALLEY'S COMET.
It Will Be Visible to Naked Eye in
a Very Short Time.
Have you seen Halley's comet?
No?
Then keep a close watch upon the
heavens for the next few nights and
the phenomenon which Mr. Halley
discovered roaming through the
firmament many years ago will prob
ably reward your vigil with a clear
view of its scintillating brilliance.
For Halley's comet, speeding to
ward this mundane sphere at the
rate of several million miles per
minute, has already been sighted
by Professor Eastman of Columbia
university, in New York city, and
that with the naked eye.
When seen by Professor Eastman
the comet was in the northeast,
twenty degrees in length, and its
celestial altitude was about fifteen
degrees.
It is said by those who have bheen
studying the comet that it will be
visible to all in about two weeks,
and that it will be plainly seen for
several nights.
ATE THEIR MOCCASINS.
Bishop and Party Suffer in Wilds of
Vast Northwest,
Bishop Stringer, of the Church of
England, recently arrived at Daw
son, after a hard trip of 47 days from
Fort MacPherson, at the mouth of
Mackenzie river, bringing the first
news since summer from that region.
The bishop and Missionary Charles
Johnson started from Fort MacPher
son September Ist, hoping to cross
\to the head of the Porcupine river in
time to reach Yukon river last fall
with a canoe. The head of Bell river,
emptying into the Porcupine, was
partly frozen, so they had to walk
back to Fort MacPherson,
For 25 days they marched in blind
ing fogs with little food. Their sup
plies finally gave out and they ex
perienced hardship worse than those
of Peary. For a long time there was
lonly a handful of food for each man
daily.
| Finally the party were compelled
to take their moecasins and muck
llucks from their feet and eat them.
"They were able then to walk five Q@
'ten miles a day until they stumbled
into an Indian camp. Their mocca
sins and mucklucks had kept them
alive for five days. Each man had
lost 50 pounds in weight.
Johnson remained at Fort Mae-
Pherson. After the rivers froze the
bishop, with two Indians, started for
Dawson via Rampart, and came
through with no further difficulty.
i
'WIVES AGAINST HUSBANDS
IA Tangled Tale of Domestic Snarls.
Criminal Libel, Perjury and
Stolen Love Are Charged.
NEW YORK.—A remarkable tan
gle of domestic troubles was revealed
in New York today with the arrest
and arraignment on charges of crim
inal libel and perjury of Mrs. Jane
Humes Parker, wife of John Alley
Parker, a Wall street banker and
brokexj. Mrs. Parker was released in
$2,000 bail, and the hearing was ad
journed. :
Mrs. Edith Moser Ellis is the com
plainant. The alleged libel and per
jury was committed in affidavits made
by Mrs, Parker to support a motion
for proper counsel fees in defending
an action for divorce brought by her
husband.
Parker, in the divorce papers,
charged his wife with statutory of
fenses with a dashing Australian,
while Mrs. Parker was studying mu
sic in Vienna last year. Mrs. Parker
immediately filed a counter-suit for
divorce, naming Mrs. Ellis as co
respondent,
As a side issue to the divorce case
Mrs. Ellis’ husband, Samuel Diliplane
Ellis, who lives in Philadelphia, has
sued Parker for $200,000, charging
alienation of Mrs. Ellis’ affection and
Mrs. Parker, according to her coun
sel, is contemplating a suit against
Mrs. Ellis for the same amount and
on similar grounds.
The Parkers were married in Chat
tanooga, Tenn., in 1892,
| T e T e
| FIGURE THIS OUT.
}How Much Will Each Heir Get Out
} of This Estate.
~ There died in Camden, N. J., the
other day a man who left an estate
of $1,400. Already 322 heirs have
appeared to claim their interests.
These heirs have employed twenty
one lawyers. Now, if you are smart
at figures just take a pencil and
piece of paper and make a calcula
tion of what each heir will get byi
the time the lawyers are paid and the
court costs settled. J
THE SUM OF $141,250,000 WAS GIVEN TO
CHARITY DURING THE YEAR 1909
The total public benefactions in
the United States during the past
twelve months was $141,250,000, an
amount just $40,000,000 greater
than any previous year in the history
of the country, according to statistics
compiled by a New York newspaper.
The amount this year was twice as
large as was given away last year,
following the panic of 1907.
The principal benefactors in 1909
VOL. 28.--NO. 15.
1 9
LITTLE TIM” WEARS OUT
HIS DEATH LEAVES ALIVE BUT
ONE OF FAMOUS SULLIVANS.
s
Was a Power in New York Politics.
Fed the Poor and Gave Away
5,000 Pair of Shoes.
NEW YORK.—Timothy P. Sulli
van, the “Little Tim” of the Bowery
and a power in metropolitan polities,
died here tonight after an illness of
more than six months. Death re
sulted from Bright's disease and in
flammation of the heart.
Just when “little Tim” was born
history does ont lecord, but he died
in early middle life, worn out, say
his friends, by overwork. At the
time of his death he was chairman
of the finance committee of the board
of aldermen. Always active in poli
tics, he had at one time or another
been a member of the state legisla
ture and acting Mayor of the city.
“Big Tim,” Timothy D. Sullivan,
the state senator, is now the only one
of the famous Sullivans left. :
“‘Little Tim,” when he first started
to work as a mere boy. ‘“‘ran copy’”
for the newspaper men from the
Tombs police court to their offices.
Later he went into partnership with
“Big Tim” in a saloon.
The Funeral of “Little Tim.'
The funeral of "wuittle Tim’ Sulli
van attracted a large crowd at his
home and the church in East Twelfth
street. The funeral was attended by.
many notables in every walk of life,
from the highest public officials
down, the Bowery and the East Side
being particularly affected by the
death of ‘“Little Tim.” Of his fol
lowers he had more than 1,000 men
on the city payrolls, and he and his
cousin, “Big Tim” Sullivan, were
known as the most liberal dispen
sers of charity to the poor of the
Bowery district. “Little Tim” is
said to have left a fortune of about
$1,000,000 in his own name, besides
$500,000 which he had previously
divided between his wife and sister.
Got Their Usual Christmas.
On the East Side the same great
crowds who attended the funeral yes
terday of “Little Tim’ Sullivan, the
Tammany alderman, crowded the
Sullivan headquarters on the Bowery
today to find that “Little Tim’s”’ an
nual Christmas dinner had been pro
vided this year by his big cousin,
State Senator Timothy D. Sullivan,
better known as ‘“Big Tim.” Sevem
thousand East Siders ate their fill
and departed with a free pipe and
tobacco and a ticket for a new pair
of shoes. It had been ‘Little Tim’'s"
last request that thic Christmas char
ity be kept up by the “nmllivan family.
SENATOR CLAY A SICK MAN.
His Condition Is Such as to Cause
Uneasiness Among Friends.
| Senator A. 8. Clay has gone from
his home in Marietta to an Atlanta
sanitarium for treatment and rest.
Senator Clay has been in ill health
!for some time, and as he has not re
covered as rapidly as his family and
friends thought he should they be
came considerably worried about
him.
A reporter called at the sanitarium
and asked if Senator Clay could be
seen. Dr. Bowden, who answered,
replied that it was deemed best not
to let anyone see the senator for the -
present, as he is in need of absolute
rest, with which, he said, there 'is
no doubt he will be considerably
strengthened. v
{ It is said to be Senator Clay’s pur
‘pose to follow his rest in Atlanta
' with a course of treatm’ent at Johns
' Hopkins, and temporarlly give up
' his labors until his health ‘is better
E established.
} e s ettt e ettt
| SHOT OWN HEAD OFF.
’ Well-Known Randolph Citizen Found
} Dead Near His Home.
" A fatal accident that caused the
‘death of a good citizen in the Vilulah
‘neighborhood, this county, occurred
several days ago. We heard of it
too late for our last issue.
On the 18th Mr. R. A. Lindsey
took his gun and told some members
of his family that he was going hunt
ing, but would not be off long.
When he did not return by dark the
family became alarmed, and with the
neighbors began searching for him.
His lifeless body was found not far
from his home. A portion of his
head had been blown off by the dis
charge of his shotgun. Appearances
indicated that the gun had gone off
when he attempted to climb the
fence. .
Mr. Lindsey was well thought of,
and is survived by a wife and several
children, with whom many friends
sympathize in their great affliction.—
Cuthbert Leader.
have been the late John S. Kennedy,
of New York, $26,650,000; John D.
Rockefeller, $12,852,000, and An
drew Carnegie, $6,056,511.
Of the total amount given in 1809
over a third was given specifically for
educational work.
The total benefactions in the
United States reported in the publie
press in the last seventeen years add
up to no less than one bilion ‘one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
