Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-22
Baroness Burdett- Coutts' Charity.

what IS really admirable IN the
muu,ticence of B,rcnt Is BurGett Couits
Is The constant personal care, the wise
and happi'y origi, II! tx' rcl>e Of indi-
vidnal Initiative which it hns inv ,lvej
She has rot been content with giving a
general order for tho relief of distress.
She has herself Investigated the claims
N Oh Der bounty of every kind, with HI
much vigilance as If, instead of being
the owner, she has been the stewar'lcss
of her fortune. Religion, education,
social utility, moral Improvement gen
orally, have alike ban. fl ed from her
bounty AID have bel, flied because
she has Insisted that her gifts should
be distributed in Der own way. LII our
Aus raliaD Colonies, in South Africa, in
Bntish Columbia, sh, has buit churches
aud endowed bisnoprIcs. At the Ea It
End of london she has planted schools
ant ealthy dwellings, on the site OF
pestiferous slums. In Il chester Row,
Westminster, is the monument of an
enterprise to which she addressed her
self thirty years ago, and which has
since yielded a rich harvest of social
good. The St. Stephens schools, church
hui tJNIcOuhS6 CDNb titS ID lIOucHS, 40
cordlng to the estim ate of writer 10
the current number of monthly maya
zine, between seventy aud eighty thou.
sand pounds. In Haubury street,
Spltaltielis, isanother institution found
ed by The same benefactrsss, afforIing
at once home and a workshop for a
hundred and fifty women anu some
hundred children. The Flower Girls
Mission, in ClerkeR wellclose, with its
loan fund and penny bank, the Art
Students Home in Brunswick Square,
the COlumti4 Market, and the Cnlum.
bia Dwellings, all owe their origin to
the Baroness. The two last named were
erected at a cost of nearly half mill
ion, aud the service they have rem.
derei can beet be estimated by compar
ing the old Nova Scotia Gardens WITH
the new Columbia Market AMI its sur
roun ings. These gardens we're one OF
the scandals and denominations of the
metropolis. Tsey We're the home of every
thing which was morally and PHYSICAL
detestable. They were fringed and
we're burrowed under by the dens of
III ewes and nuderers. Baroness Bur-
delt-Coutts bought the freehold of the
presidential area, and its aspect to day
its model dwellings, inhabited by two
or three thousand artisans end their
rniilies-is the best testimony to the
Transformation which it has expert
enced. Even thus, all that Baroness
Bnrdett Coutts lined at has not been
accomplished, for the Market, in spite
of every effort to ntlbze it, has not
answered the purposes for which it was
designed.
Night schools, industrial schools.
training ships for destitute boys, insti'
tutions for teachers, homes for the
fatherless and the uidow-tbese have
heen founded by Baroness Burdett-
Coutts whenever the opportunity for
their foundation has presented itself.
Nor is it England alone which has beer
The scene of her good deeds. At The
time Of bitter want and misery, sue
enabled the Inhabitants of the
poverty stricken and almost stsrvirg
town of GirvnH, in Scotland. to emu
CRATE to Australia. A little la,er she
placed the same mesrs of relief within
the reach of a multitude of Irish nj
Cape Clear, adding food, clothing ana
fishing boats. Nor must it be forgotten
that when our troops were in the sever
eat crisis of the Crimean war, it was the
Miss Rurdelt. Coutts Of those days who
took the initiative in the dispatch OF
supplies Of all kinds. 1t is also GER
tam that without her help the subjects
of II .jAh Brooke would have persisted
wholesale whom famine decended upon
Sar.uak opJ that tina natl raa Df fins
region are chiefly indebted to the les
SONS which they learned on her model
farm for the progress they have made
in agcriulture. Nor,sagain, will English
men soon forget that it was Baroness
Burdstt- Coutts whose timely assistance
at one disastrous memorable con unc
ture prevented DR.. Livingstone from
perisbing of disease or famine in the
deserts of Africa London standard.