New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-27
THE GOOD THAT BARONESS BURDETT
COU1TS Has DONE.
From TIE London Standard.

What ia really admirable in the munificence OF
Baroness Burdett-Coutts is tho constant persona
care the wise and happily original exercise OF indl-
vidual initiative which 1t has involved. one mas
not been content with giving general order TOT the
relief Of distress; She has herself lVestigated tne
claims upon her bounty of every kind. with as much
vigilance as IT, instead Of being the owner she had
been the stewardess of her fortune. Religion, edn-
cation social utility. moral Improvement. generally
have alike benefited from her bounty-apd have
benefited because she has insisted that her gifts
should be distributed in her own way In our Ausral
asian Colonies in South Africa, in British Columbia,
she has built churches and endowed bishoprcs. AT
the East End of London she has planted schools ana
healthy dwellings OH the site of pestiferous slums:
In Rochester Row, Westminster, Is the monument
of an enterprise to which she addressed herseh
thirty years ago. and which has since yielded rch
harvest of social good. The St. Stephens schools.
Church and Parsonage cost the Baroness, according
to the estimate of of writer in the current number
of monthly Magazine. between seventy and
eighty thousand pounds In hanbq fGyyHdsd SPIT IT.
the same benefactress affordIng at once home and
q workshop for o hundred and fifty women and
some hundred children. The Flower Girls Mission,
in Clerkenwelclose, with its loan fund and penny
bank the Art Students Home in Brunswick-square,
the Columbia Market, and the Columbia Dwellings,
named were erected at a cost of nearly half anil
lon and the service which they have rendered can
best be estimated BY comparing the od Nova sSSta
and it's surroundings. These gardens were
one of the scandals and denominations, Of
the metropolis They were the home OF eyerytTmhn n
were fringed and were burrowed under by the dens
of thieves and murderers. Baroness Burdett-COutts
bought the freehold of the residential area and IT'S
aspect to-day-its model dwellings. inhabited BY
two or three thousand artisans and their families
is the best testimony to the transformation which IL
has experienced. Even thus, all that Baroness Bur
dett Coutts aimed at has not been accomplished for
the Market III spite OF every effort to utIize It, has
not answered the purposes for which II was de-
signed.
Night Schools. Industrial Schools, Training Ships
for Destitute Boys Institutions for Teachers, Homes
for the Fatherless and the WIdOw--these have been
founded by Baroness Burdett- Coutts whenever the
| opportunity for their foundation has presented
| ITSELF Nor is it England alone which has been the
| scene OF her good deeds AT time of bitter want
| and misery, she enabled tue inhabitants OF the
| poverty-strckeD and almost starving town OF
Girvan, in Scotland, to eInigrate to Australia. A
| little later she placed the same means OF relief
| within the reach of a multitude of Irish at Cape
| Clear, adding food, clothing, and fishing boats
| Nor must 1t be forgotten that when OIL
| troops were in the severest crisis of the Crimear
war it was the Miss Burdett-Coutts Of those day.
who took the initiative in the dispatch OF supplies o.
all lands 1t is also crtain that without her hell
| the subjects of Rajah Brooke would have persisted
| wholesale when famine descended upon Sarawak
and that the natives of this region are chiefly in
| debted to the lessons which they learned on he
model farm for the progress they have made In agri
| culture. Nor, again, will Engllshmen soon forge
that it was Baroness Burdctt-Coutts whose timely
| assistance at one disastrous memorable conjunctur
prevented DR.. Livingstone from pershing OF diseas
| on famine i'm the deserts of Africa.