Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1908 — HARRIMAN’S BENEFACTION [ARTICLE]

HARRIMAN’S BENEFACTION

If Materialized Will Provide a School Where Poor Young Men Can Mentally Equip Themselves. Middletown, N. Y., Sept. 11. —If a project contemplated by E. H Harriman is carried out worthy young men who are destitute of means to isecure an education will be enabled to equip themselves for occupations in life through rhe generosity of the railroad man. It is stated by friends of Harriman here that previous to bis departure for the west he signified the desire to build a school for the free education of boys. With this object in view he consulted some well known educators of the country concerning the best plan ts carry out the ideas whicti have beea for some tiqie in bis mind. As yet n« definite plans have been decided upon regarding the kind of school to be built or its location, but there is little doubt that it will be located in Orange county, probably at Arden, where the Harriman estates comprise many thousand acres.