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MILLIONS FOR EDUCATION

MRS. LELAND STANFORD AND MR. CAR-
NEGIE GIVE LARGELY TO THE CAUSE

Property Valued at 30 Millions Deeded to the
Leland Stanford, Jr., University by the
Senator's Widow — Ten Millions
for University Extension

San Francisco, Dec. 10. — Mrs. Jane L.
Stanford has tranferred to the Leland
Stanford jr., university property worth ap-
proximately 30 million dollars. Eighteen
million dollars are in stocks and bonds, all
gilt-edge securities, bringing enormous
revenue, while the remaining 12 million dol-
lars are in real estate, comprising almost
a million acres.

The new gift really amounts to about 20
million dollars. Seven millions had been
given before to the university by the late
Senator Stanford. The deeds were found to
be illegal and the estate was tied up.

Among the most important items in the
real estate transfer are the great Vina ranch
of 50,000 acres, another tract of more than
30,000 acres and the home ranch at Palo
Alto, which constitutes the university cam-
pus. The real estate lies in twenty-six
counties in this state.

The securities Mrs. Stanford gives to the
university consist of income bearing stocks
and bonds. Most of these are the paper
of California water companies, street rail-
ways and municipal bonds. All the bonds
are first mortgage, and all are paying good
rates of interest.

Mrs. Stanford has proved herself a
splendid financier, as most of her invest-
ments have proved highly profitable. By
a separate deed Mrs. Stanford gives her
home in this city, estimated to be worth
not less than $400,000, which will be con-
verted into a museum and art gallery. In
spite of these big gifts, Mrs. Stanford still
retains several million dollars with which
to care for many pet charities and for her
own private uses.

Leland Stanford, jr., university was
founded as a memorial to Senator Stan-
ford's son and it has been understood that
the greater part of the family wealth would
go to it. The transfer is the carrying out
of this plan. The university is a little more
than ten years old. Leland Stanford, jr.,died in Italy.

A 10 MILLION DOLLAR GIFT BY CARNEGIE

Washington, Dec. 10. — Andrew Carnegie is
to give 10 million dollars to the cause of
university extension in the United States.
Mr. Carnegie has thought best to create
a national board to handle this benefaction.
President Roosevelt will probably name
the board for Mr. Carnegie, or at least set
in motion the machinery which shall
lead to a national organization.

According to the plans prepared by Mr.
Carnegie and his advisers the national or-
ganization is to have its headquarters in
Washington, but its operations are to ex-
tend throughout the United States, the
work to be carried on in co-operation with
universities everywhere.

If Mr. Carnegie gives the 10 millions to
university extension his total gifts will have
reached nearly 50 million dollars. Of these
the largest were made this year — 10 million
dollars to Scotch universities and $5,200,000
for branch libraries in New York. Pittsburg
has received about 10 million dollars for
several purposes, and, it is expected, will
be given about 5 million dollars for a school
of technology.

The university extension movement was
inaugurated in the United States in 1887 by
educators connected with Johns Hopkins
university and the first practical work was
done by Edward W. Bemis, who gave
twelve lectures in Buffalo on economic
questions. In 1890, the first American so-
ciety was organized with the society at
Oxford, England, as a model.

The object of university extension is to
utilize the collected knowledge in educa-
tional centers for the benefit of the public
which cannot attend institutions of higher
learning. W. T. Stead calls it "a uni-
versity on wheels."

In the United States in the last ten years
2,000 courses of six lectures each on litera-
ture, history, civics, economics, ethics, re-
ligion, music and art have been given in
398 centers and were attended by 300,000 per-
sons. The cost is estimated at about ½
million dollars. Some of the educators who
have supported the movement are Dr. Al-
bert Shaw, Dr. James Angell, Prof. Henry
B. Adams, Prof. George Francis James
and President Taylor of Vassar. It is the