| Show women give away the millions men have havel fought 40 braht for I 1 1 fl N ff 6 0 IP EW YORK how Is the amer lean woman spending the tor for NEW tune which the american man Is amassing 7 9 how does the american wife A or daughter act as almoner tor for the american multimillionaire 7 writers there have been both amer lean ican and foreign who have declared that the american man a money went to create a nation of human butterflies but social history goes to prove that the average wife or daughter of the average american man of enormous fortune stops between butterfly flights in social realms to study the desires and find ambitions of husband and father as to the disposition of the millions he Is so industriously acquiring mrs leland stanford was the pioneer in executing the charitable de signs of her husband she spent 33 for the educational ad van cement of california at stanford university alone mrs russell sage is a close second with 65 at her command which she la Is dispensing at the rate of about 25 per day or about 25 in the three years following her husband a death russell sage gave 60 50 years of his life to acquire 65 at her present rate of expend ture mrs airs sage will spend it all in carrying out her husband husbands s plans for the betterment of the human race in five years she has endowed the work of the russell sage foundation whose mission is to better the condi aton of the poor through investigation and education she has lifted mort gages from churches and schools en dowed chairs of learning built and equipped industrial schools tor for p girls eirls lifted the debt from hospitals and shown interest in new york city to the extent of renovating the govern ors or s room in the city hall purchasing the oxbow tor for the metropolitan ali museum seum of art planting a mile of rhododendrons in central park and installing a window in the building bunding of the new york historical society work of miss helen gould miss helen gould comes third in the its list with more than 10 in gifts from the enormous fortune left by her father jay gould while her un ostentatious charities had always been a matter of interest it was nt until the war with spain that the na tion became widely interested in her gifts at that time she sent her check for to the united states gov to be applied to the general relief work among united states sol diers and within three months as a member of the women s relief asso elation she increased her gift by some 27 from that time on miss bliss gould a in terest in american soldiers and jack les has never flagged wherever the united states flag floats her name is cheered by the men who serve under it fhe naval Y M C A branch on sands street brooklyn was built at her expense as a memorial to her par ants later she met the expenses of building a large addition and the en tire output tor for this one institution iq 1 said to approach closely to 1 1000 to the naval Y AL C A at norfolk va she gave 25 the railroad men a 1 I 1 af C A next aroused her in terest and she gave to build a new home tor for the Y at C A at st louis mo this also a memorial to her father father among her gifts cited to show the breadth of her interests may be mentioned innumerable dona eions to the salvation army 5 given to the establishment of a uni versley hospital at charlottesville va 5 to the Y M C A at tarry town N Y 10 for the american college for girls at constantinople 10 to the evang evangelists lists who had been conducting tent meetings in varl ous parts of new york city and who were face to face with financial fail ure 9 for a club house at tarry town wio gymnasium and cooking school for the poor 40 to endow a chair of biblical bibi literature at mt holyoke college in memory of herl her mother 10 tor for a scholarship at vassar to be named for her mother helen day gould the endowment of a church for indians at guthrie okia okla gould millions well spent over 10 of jay gould goulds s leg acy to his daughter have gone tor for char ity and almost invariably as a memorial to father or mother miss gould la is assisted in her work by a staff of trained social workers mrs airs thomas F P ryan wife of the traction magnate comes neit next to miss gould in the size of her gilts gifts to churches and charities A devout catholic her gifts to the church have amounted to many million dollars nearly 1000 1 went to the building and furnishing of the cathedral of st peter at richmond va at washing ton D C she established a branch of the order of the perpetual adoration building for the orders use a chapel and convent five french nuns were installed there one of whom is al at ways engaged in prayer before the al tar the chapel cost and under its altar mrs ryan has buelto built crypt in which will rest the members of her family aside from her church charities mrs ryan Is particularly in te rested in the fight on the white plague and has en endowed doled sanitariums and consumptives colonies in arizona and the catskills A virginian by birth she has presented to her native state suitable monuments to mark the scenes of all battles fought in virginia in recognition of her gifts to the church pope pius X bestowed upon mrs airs ryan the title of countess but she has never availed herself of the privilege another gift at the hand of the vatican which she does use is the privilege of owning a traveling chapel which was installed in her private car pere marquette this is the only traveling chapel in america and arid there is only one other in ili the world the property of the queen dowager of spain mrs vandera it a char t es mrs william K vanderbilt former ly mrs rutherford hag has just given 1000 for the erection of model tenement houses for the use of city sufferers with tuberculosis these tenements will be built on plans e especially pe drawn for al s 8 vanderbilt VandeT bIlt and the scheme includes outside stair cases roofs arranged for the accod mod mo atlon dation of convalescents with log gias agias toilet rooms and a sun screen of glass balconies that can be trans formed into outdoor rooms and air passages from street to street insuring perfect ventilation these apartments will not be rent free they may even prove an interest paying in vestment for the Vander bilts but they will be under the patronage of the presbyterian hospital authorities who are making a tremendous fight on the white plague mrs airs vanderbilt ander Nander bilts bilt s smaller charities are also along the same lines she gave the presbyterian hospital its fresh air ward and she has paid the expenses of sending trained nurses into the tenements to look after the sick and to train mothers in the rals rats ing of children she also established a small hospital in pans paris under the direction of dr Gl glutzer tutler and when in the french capitti she visits this hospital dally daily ministering to the sick and lifting their financial burdens another section of the vanderbilt fortune is going into english social work the duchess of marlborough formerly consuelo vanderbilt has es in london a much needed home for the wives and children of prisoners serving long sentences she is also interested in the west rest ham hap hospital london and it Is whispered that under the influence of the church army she is becoming a most ab sobbed social worker among the poor and wrete wretched hed of london miss morgan in good work miss anne morgan daughter of J pierpont pont morgan is a typical social worker of today to day devoting her gifts and energies to the educational move ment tor for the working classes As a member of the national civic federa tion she investigated conditions under which women labor and she baa has donated much of the funds fund necessary r to establish clubs and restaurant restaurants for working people such as the new flub rooms and restaurant for street car employed emp loyes on third avenue and the restaurant tor for workers at the brook lyn navy yard where food Is sold at cost and men are made comfortable with baths and gymnasiums hiss miss morgan s idea Is to help the poor and those working on small salaries sal aies to help themselves to create better a con dillons not merely to alleviate two young new york women miss dorothy whitney who inherited a large portion of the william C whit ney fortune and miss mary harrt harri man daughter of the late railroad king are interested in the junior league ork among new york yorks s public school children and will donate the money to start dental clinics for poor children miss harriman tiar riman has recent ly equipped an old staten island ter fer ry boat and donated it to the red cross committee of brooklyn to be used in the fight on the white plague it will accommodate patients and three meals will be served dally daily on the floating hospital miss whitney has also given liberal ly to diet kitchens among the poor and Is interested in the equal suffrage movement interested in woman suffrage two new york matrons promise to spend goodly segments of their for tunes to adi advance arice the cause of votes for women these are mrs clarence mackay who has personally ass assumed luned the expenses of headquarters tor for the equal rr franchise anchise society of which she Is the founder on the twenty ninth floor of the metropolitan lite life bi belld ild ing and mrs 0 H P belmont aho vho ho as the leader of the equal suffrage party has assumed the responsibility of headquarters at fifth avenue mrs mackay before entering tipon her career as a leader in the franchise fight gave large sums to support long island charities char atles aties to the building of a new church for trinity episcopal parish at roslyn L I 1 and to its new parish house large sums she gave also tor for the betterment of the public schools of which she was a director and to aro ise patriotism in the minds of public school children in now york city and its erv environs irons mrs 0 H P belmont donated to the nassau h hospital I 1 ta I 1 at ap mineola L I 1 and has be been inter ested in diet kitchens among the poor of new york miss giulia Moro sint who inherited of infectious diseases with shortly after the death of her son jack from scarlet fever her interest 1 in the rockefeller institute tor for 1 med led leal ical research has also been very great but her individual charities are to her the most absolving th baptist church of which she la is f s member has been her chief bene and arid many a tired church work er and unappreciated pastor has re calved from her a check representing a long rest or a trip abroad mrs andrew carnegie is greatly in te rested in the fight on the whit WO plague and has given liberally to san particularly for children she also gives to orphanages and in du homes for girls and Is intel ested in young art students and ians tans in pittsburg the name of margaret carnegie is not unknown for in the name of his little daughter mr air car negie negle has endowed many social move ments including kingsley settlement house hospital beds etc Th eMargaret marrison carnegie school for women part of the carnegie institute scheme of education Is named for his mother and it Is generally thought that mar garet carnegie aged 12 years will be trained to carry out her fathers scheme of benefactions 00 0 CP 0 0 8 0 0 9 71 0 r 0 X paulw A avo rj eee 0 alc A ff the bulk of the many millions hi bi her father P morosini the new york banker who died a year ago spends large sums ply play ing the perpetual role of lady bounel ful for the benefit of needy ones am particularly children in the bron bronx and at christmas time she is lady santa claus distributing wagon loads of dolls and dollar bills and other gifts among the poor her donations to charitable and other worthy northy eions are large A young woman who Is making pittsburg sit up and take notice of her methods of spending money is miss bliss helen prick frick daughter of a multi millionaire father who is himself a most liberal giver miss alias prick frick a name is on the endowment list of kingsley settlement house and nearly every flourishing cli charity arity in pittsburg but it Is in individual cases that her lib shines most cl clearly early her loyalty to her native city from which she will not be lured by new york london or paris is a cause of rejoicing among pittsburg social workers fights infectious diseases the two american billionaires john 3 D rockefeller Kock eteller and andrew carnegie still order the management of the charities but their women folk are by no means idle mrs rockefeller has always been a home loving woman noman who left charities their investigation and relief to her husband but mrs harold F mccormick formerly edith rockefeller has her own methods of conducting charity work with her husband she endowed a new now journal |
