Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — The Mrs. Garfleld Fund [ARTICLE]

The Mrs. Garfleld Fund

New York Tribune. Although no special effort hag been made by the promoters of the movement, the feeling of anxiety concerning the President has directed attention to the Garfield family fund,which, during the days of his supposed recovary, seemed to be slipping out of public notice. Some of the wealthiest men in the country have privately pledged themselves for the payment of a large sum in case of the President’s death, and there is no question in the minds of those who have been active in securing subscriptions, that if the end should come, which the Nation is dreading now, the amount of money which will voluntarily flow to the fund will greatly exceed in the aggregate the lare sum originally proposed. Thus far $156,767.62 has beei^subscribed, and all of this sum, except $5,000 (which came as a conditional subscription from Columbus, O.), has been paid to the United States Trust Company. Acting under the conditions of the trust, this company has purchased,and now holds for the fund, $125,030 of United States 10 per cent, registered bonds, on which the interest is $5,000 per annum. The bonds cost 26, and last night there was a cash balance with the Trust Company ot $6,176.40. Certificates for the $125,000 bonds have been placed in Mrs. Garfield’s hands through the PostmasterGeneral.