Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1914 — GIVE $80,135,476 TO CHARITY [ARTICLE]

GIVE $80,135,476 TO CHARITY

Donations in U. S. for the Past Year Show $2.91 a Second Wii Contributed.

New York. —Charitable gifts in the United States during the laßt 12 months amount to $80,135,476, or at the rate of $2.91 for every tick of thd clock, according to a compilation published here. The bequest, of Benjamin Altman, valued at $15,430,000 to the Metropolitan museum of New York heads the list and the gift of $10,000,000 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to put an end to “white slavery” is second. The gift of