Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-08-23
Female philanthr0nisfs.

Who has not heard of worthy ArE.
Fry, the Quakeress, who led the van in
the noble work of reforming both pIis-
oners and prisons?-a work so ably car
ried on by Mary Carpenter, who eX-
tended her philanthropic efforts to India,
in the interests of education and prison
discipline. Elizabeth Fry, surnamed
''the Female Howard" was q daughter
of John Gurney, of Earlham, and sister
TO Joseph John Quincy and Lady Bux-
ton She began to preach in 1910, and
three years later commenced her work
as prison reformer. She effected much
improvement in Newgate, and in all
parts OF the United Kingdom, and then
she proceeded on mission to the COnti-
nent, which occupied her during severaI
years She died at Ramsgate IN 1855,
having been the mother of large fam
lily. Mary Carpenter comes next on our
ist-the friend of the miserable and out
cast-who labored not only for their re-
form IN this country, but, as we have
remarked, in India likewise. Three
times she visited that country, and on
ner return after her first visit, in 1866,
she published two volumes on the sub
ject. She took part in the conferences
at Birmingham in 1S5l-52-5S, and was
called upon to give evidence 70 the COM
mittee of the House of Commons which,
IN 1928, inquired into the condition of
criminal and destitute children. Miss
Carpenter was born in 1907, at Exeter,
the daughter of a Unitarian minister,
and died on the 10th of June last. Her
decease took place in the "Red Lodge
Reformatory," which she had herseiI
instituted, and where she had labored
many years. The third great female
philanthrOpist was Caroline Chisholm,
the daughter of welI-to-do yeoman in
Northamptonshire, a good and actively
benevolent man. Her mother, early
widow, gave her an exceptionally thor
ough education, turned well to account,
in after life. Having married Christian
Chisholm, of her Majesty Indian Army,
she went out to Madras, where she
founded the School of Industry" for
the daughters of soldiers; in which ru-
dimentary instruction of many kinds is
still being given, including those of the
various duties connected with the house
hold. She was little more than twenty
when she opened the school, and in 1889
she and her husband removed to Aus
tralia and settled at Sydney. There she
established home for the protection of
young girls, whose peril was great on
landing IN new and very rough coun-
try-as it was some thirty or forty years
ago. Expeditions into the country were
then undertaken by this brave and gen.
erous woman, for the purpose of escOr-
ting sometimes as many as eighty young
women, to be. left here and there IN the
scattered tarm-houses, paying all ex.
penses herself. On one occasion she
took in charge the whole emigrant i'm,
portatlon from one ship, consisting of
sixty-four girls, possessing but fourteen
shillings between them. Paying for all,
she took them up the country, and in
two years they were nearly all married,
and, thanks to her selection of homes,
all had preserved good characters. But
her work did not end here she opened
money-market for immigration at
Sydney, and advanced no less than
$4,000. of which she lost but E10 in
return for her generous confidence. At
last after much uphill labor, the colo
nists began to subscribe to her work.
Through the Colonial Secretary, she in,
dueed the English Government to send
out the wives and families of "ticket-of-
leave" eonvicts. One shipful, collected
from most of the unions in the country,
she brought out in person. She also
effected important reforms In the regu-
lation Of emigrant ships. On the Occa-
sion of her leaving, the colonists pre-
sented their benefactor with 8 purse of
money and an address; and her invalu-
able work was publicly acknowledged
both by Lord Derby and Mr.. Lowe. The
valuable life of this exemplary woman
terminated March 25. 1877.