The morning call., 1890-10-19

m others meeting. 1t will be a bright,
comfortable place where the poor women of
the parish can spend social evening. They
Will be provided with materials for sew
ing. III they need the garments they may
take them away if not they may leave them
for others who do. In the same room dur
ing the week a sewing-schOOl for children
will be held. They will be taught how to
make their own garments and they will also
be supplied with the materials necessary for
that purpose. A kindergarten will also be
held here for very young children.
On the floor above will be library and
reading-ro0m, fully equipped; boys club
room, Classroom and rooms for social meet
lngs and other purposes. Just how far the
matter of instruction will be carried has not
been fully decided upon as yet 1t is
probable, however. that the common En-
glish branches and two specalties. such
as stenography and type-writing, viii be
taught. On the fourth floor will be
a gymnasium, for the use of the men of
the mission. 1t will be supplied with
all the needed apparatus for healthful
exercise, and competent instructor will
show the workman with STOPPING shoulders
how he can straighten and at the same time
strengthen the back; and the puny, ill-fed,
ill-paid and oyerworked clerk VIII be intro
duced 10 an mexhaustihle supply of new
health and strength. The fifth floor and all
above will be devoted to the use of the
clergy ana the employees OF the house. No
one VIII sleep on the premises.
1t viii be the aim of the institution to
assist any deserving person in finding en-
pl0yment in the city. In the workshop in
the basement work of some kind, not saw
ing wood, will be given to the unskiled,
but no provision has as yet been made for
giving immediate employment to mechanics
and skilled labOrers generally. Some
method of assisting them will no doubt be
found. How far the work will be carried
or what new features will be added is as yet
uncertain. Even the cost of maintaining
the institution is probiematcal, and even
the promoters are unwilling 10 risk an esti-
mate. With Mr.. Vanderbilt behind it no
better guarantee of the success of the under
taking is necessary.
The "palace of the poor" is but another of
Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbl's liberal charitable
requests under the thin guse of improving
the condition of the people. He has spent
like sum, or even more, in building and fit
ting up club for the New York Central
employees at Madison avenue and Forty
sixth street. OF this club Mr.. Depew has
said that it is the most complete of its kind
in the world, and he ought to know. The
family spent over 81 COO 600 on the Wander
bilt University and the College of Physicians
and Surgeons. Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard gave
S25Q0O0 toward building beautiful home for
the Young WOmen's Christian Association in
this city. Cornelius Vanderbilt's gratuities
during year ran up well into the hundreds
of thousands. and next to him George Van
derDilt is said to be the most liberal OF the
family. 1t is inside the mark to say that
the family gives away 100000 in charity
every year. The Maternity Hospital one
of the best equipped as well as the most
needed of the institutions, cost Mrs. Will
lam ID. Sloan, one of the Vanderblts, not
less than 100000. Mrs. SOan's other be-
quests are also large. Mrs. II. Mex. Twom-
bly,, sister of Mrs. Sloan, is also exceed
ingy liberal in her charities. She probably
spends between $4,000 and $4,000 in this
way every year.
But the Vanderbilts are not the only large
givers.
The Rockefelers are very liberal, es-
pecially to institutions Of the Baptist de-
nomination. Mr.. John D. RocLefeller's
recent gift of 81, 100000 to establish Baptist
theoioGical seminary in the West is the most
notable gift of the kind. Oswald Often
dorfer, editor of the Stats Zeitung
distributes annually about $4,000 in
relieving the distress of the poor