De grands américains et leurs actes nobles ; contenant la vie de presque cinquante de nos héros et héroïnes .. . L'hôpital, auquel sa femme avaient été soignées ; vingt mille pour les Sourds andDumb l'asile ; dix mille à l'Orphan Asylum ; dix mille à dix mille ; les écoles de Lancaster dans le but de fournir des thepoor à Philadelphie avec carburant ; dix mille t j la Société pour theRelief Sea-Captains en difficulté et leur famille ; vingt mille à la Grande Loge Maçonnique de New York, pour le soulagement des pauvres membres ; six mille pour l'établissement d'une école à P
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Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . Hospital, inwhich his wife had been cared for; twenty thousand to the Deaf andDumb Asylum; ten thousand to the Orphan Asylum; ten thousand tothe Lancaster schools; ten thousand for the purpose of providing thepoor in Philadelphia with free fuel; ten thousand t j the Society for theRelief of Distressed Sea-Captains and their Families; twenty thousand tothe Masonic Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, for the relief of poor members ;six thousand for the establishment of a free school in Passyunk, nearPhiladelphia: five hundred thousand dollars V the Corporation of Phila- 44 STEPHEN GIRARD. delpHia for certain improvements in tlie city; tliree liundred thousand tothe State of Pennsylvania for her canals; and aj portion of his valuableestates in Louisiana to New Orleans, for the improvements of that city. The remainder of his property, worth then about six millions ofdollars, he left to trustees for the erection and endowment of the nobleCollege for Orphans, in Philadelphia, which bears his name.. GIRARD COI^LEGE, PHILADELPHIA. Thus it will be seen that this man, who seemed steeled to resistappeals for private charity in life, in death gave all his money to thenoblest objects, and I am not surprised that persons who wished to honorhis memory set up a bronze statue of him on the west side of the CityHall in Philadelphia. QUESTIONS. How did Girard first come to visit Philadelphia ? Where was heborn and when ? What was his occupation in early life ? Whom did hemarry ? What were his prominent traits of character ? How did heprofit by the insurrection in St. Domingo? Why did he discharge one ofhis ship captains ? What singular bet did he make with his cashier andwho won it? Narrate what Girard did when the yellow fever visitedPhiladelphia. Repeat the story of Girard carr3dng a man to a carriageto get him to the hospital. What accident did he meet with and how didit af
