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Show TO HEAD ANOTHER PrilLANTHROPIC MOVEMENT . EDWIN BROWN, DENVER MILLIONAIRE. MILLION-AIRE. IS ACTIVE. He Is Interested In Creation of National Na-tional Park In Colorado Where Soldiers Sol-diers and Sailors May Recuperate. New York, Feb. 24. EJwLn A. Brown, the Denver millionaire, who was recently reported as Investigating conditions of the uuemployed by -personal tours in Chicago In the slums and lodging houses, is now in New.. York continuing his research work. He Is staying at the Waldorf-Astoria here, but nightly, he dons rouh, working work-ing clothes and journeys to the east side. When he has sufficient daU. Mr. Brown will return to Demrer in the interest of a movement which he has started there to establish municipal mu-nicipal lodging houses. Ho is a cowein of W. C Brown, the now president ot ) the New York Central railroad. Aside from his plan to estahlim municipal lodging houses. Mr. Brown is interested in the creation of a national na-tional park In the White riTer forest reservation In Colorado. In tho Inter, est of this project ho called on Prosl-dnt-elect Taft here yesterday. will soon go to Washington to lay the matter before congress. Speaklns or the plan he said: My first thought in regard t establishing estab-lishing the White river national parK was a philanthropic one and I have thought for a long time what a grand place it would he to build a sanltar urn for our Indigent soldiers and Bailors and also for a recuperating statlon-ror malaria-stricken soldiers rom tno Philippines and elsewhere." |