J.D.B. News Letter

(By our London Correspondent)

Bernhard Baron, whose previous benefactions to charities amount to more than a million and a quarter pounds, has transferred the sum of £575,000 four per cent. consolidated loan to trustees, creating “The Bernhard Baron Charitable Trust for Hospitals and Asylums for Orphans and Crippled Children.” During a period of twenty years from the present time the trustees shall in every year apply such part of the capital and income of the fund as they shall think fit for the benefit of the instiutions described–namely, hospitals of various kinds and homes or institutions established for the care of orphaned or crippled children. The trust fund is so arranged that during the next twenty years the total amount available for distribution shall be approximately the same each year. The annual distribution is to take place on December 5, each year, this date being the anniversary of the birth of Mr. Baron.

Mr. Baron stipulates under the trust deed that the moneys available for distribution shall be applied in the proportion of seventy-five per cent among Christian and undenominational hospitals, homes and asylums, and twenty-five per cent, among similar institutions under Jewish control.

The administration of the trust is entrusted to the Marquis of Reading who is to be chairman of the trustees; Mr. Baron’s son, Louis B. Baron, who is the vice chairman; Albert I. Belisha, a director of the Metropolitan Railway and a prominent figure in connection with Jewish charities; W. H. Louden, and Edward S. Baron, directors of Carreras, Ltd. and H. W. Danbury, secretary of Carreras, Ltd., Mr. Baron’s firm. The first distribution of moneys will take place on December 5 next. when Mr. Baron will attain the age of seventy-eight years.

The offices of the trust will be located in London in the new building recently erected by Carreras, Ltd. It is requested that no appeals should be addressed to Mr. Baron personally, either to his business or home address, as owing to his advanced age he finds it impossible to attend to them.

It was authoritatively estimated lately that Mr. Baron had given to charity more than £1,250,000, so that the present gift probably brings the total close to £2,000,000.

He gave £15,000 last July towards the cost of rebuilding the premises of the Bernhard Baron St. George’s Jewish Settlement, the gift being supplementary to one of £50,000 for the same purpose last November, making a total of £65,000. His other benefactions include £11,500 to the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London, £10,000 to the London Jewish Hospital, £10,000 to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, £7,000 to the London Jewish Hospital and Orphan Asylum, £5,000 to the Balfour Forest Fund, £2,500 to the London Jewish Maternity Home, £35,000 to the London Hospital for the Bernhard Baron Pathological Institute, £10,000 each to the Middlesex Hospital, Royal Sussex County Hospital and Royal Westminister Ophthalmic Hospital, £4,500 to the Mansion House Fund for the Relief of Miners’ Families, £2,500 each to the Hove Hospital and King’s College Hospital, and £2,000 each to Guy’s Hospital. St. Thomas’s Hospital and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

For several years past Mr. Baron has celebrated his birthday by making generous gifts to hospitals, orphanages, and other charities, and he has said that he finds the greatest happiness in life in using his wealth in an endeavor to relieve suffering and bring brightness and cheer into the lives of the less fortunate.

He gave, to celebrate his seventy-seventh birthday last year, an extra week’s salary to each of his employees, and presented more than £32,000 to 200 philanthropic institutions.

CORRECTION

The signature of Mr. S. Cohen. New York, was erroneously omitted from the Communication to the Editor in yesterday’s Bulletin under the headline. “Irresponsibility Rebuked.”

Sumuel Temkin, well known Providence attorney, was selected as the Republican candidate for State Senator from Providence, R. I. He will oppose Senator Maurice Robinson, Democrat, present incumbent.

Dr. Alfred Kahn. New York nose and throat surgeon, died of heart disease in Atlantic City the day before his marriage to Miss Maybelle Shopleigh of New York was to have taken place. He was 46.

Dr. Kahn was a well-known nose and throat specialist and had been assistant surgeon of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary for several years. He was a fellow of the American Medical Association and of the Academy of Medicine of New York and a member of the New York State Medical Society and the New York County Medical Society.