The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-19

VI cnurcn, noWevsg. there Will
pe CHAPEL on the same floor, il whic
funeral services and other form of worship
/ will be held
Oh tns second floor will be large sun
Gay scnool room capable OF seating 900
cniidren- Another room on the SAM Il Dor
VIII be for mothers' meeting. It will be a
orlSht, comfortable pacs where the poor
women OF tue parish caa spend a social
evening They will be provided with ma
1erialS Tor sewing. II they need the gar
tnenUS taey may take them away; If not
they may leave them for others VINO do. In
the same room during the week a sewing
schooi Tor children will be held. They will
De taught how to make their Owr. garments
a-d they will be also furnished with tbs ma
terlais necessary Tor that purpose. A kinder
garten Will also be held here for very young
children.
On the floor aHove will be a library and
reading room, fully equipped; boys club
room, class room and rooms for sOciA Al
meetings and Other purposes. Just how
Tar the matter of instruction will be carried
has not been fully decided upon as yet. 1t
Is probable, however, tnat the common
English branches, and one or two special
ties, such as stenography and typs-writing,
will be taught. On the fourth floor will be
a gymnasium for the use of the MAJ of
the mission. 1t will be supplied with
all the needed apparatus for healthful
exercise, and a competent instructor
will show the workman with STOPPING
shoulders how he can straighten and at the
same time strengthen his back: and the pun v
lll-fed, 1ll-pald and overworked clerk will
be introduced to an inexhaustibie supply of
new health and strength. The fifth floor
and all above viii be devoted to the use of
the clergy and the employees of the house.
No one will sleep on the premises
1t will be the aim of the institution to
assist any deserving person in ling en-
ployment in the city. In the workshop in
the basement work of some kind, not
saving wood, will be given to the un-
skilled, 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 probiematical,
! and even the promoters are unwilling 10
risk an estimate. With Mr.. Vanderbilt be-
hind it no better guarantee of the success
CT the undertaking is necessary.
The palace of the poorh is but another
of Cornelius ,eVanderbilt's liberal
charitable bequests under the thin guise of
improving the condition of the people, He
has spent like sum, or even more. in
building and fitting up club for the New
and Forty-sixth street. OF this club MIR.
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, 100000 on
the Vanderbilt University and the College
Of Physicians and Surgeons. Mrs. Elliott
F. Shepard gave $3.50, 900 toward build
a beautiful home for the Young
Women's Christian Association in lis
city. Cornelius Vanderbilt'S gratuities
during wear ran up well into the hun
dreds of thousands, and next to him George
Vanderbilt is said to be the most liberal OF
the family. 1t is inside the mark to say
that the family gives away $4,000 in
| charity every year. the Maternity hospital,
| one of the best equipped as well as most
needed of the institutions, cost Mrs Will
IAN d. Sloan, one of the Vanderbilt girls,
| not less than S500,000 Mrs. Sloan's Other
requests are also large. Mrs. H. NICK
Twombly. sister Of Mrs. Sloan, is also ex.
| ceedingly liberal in hei charities She prob
ably spends between S25, 900 and $4,000 in
this way every year.
But The Vanderbilts are not the only large
givers.
The Rockefelers are very liberal, espe-
| cially to institutions of the Baptist denomi-
nation. John ID. Rockefeller's recent gift
| of 81 500, 900 to establish Baptist theologi-
| cal seminary in the west is the most notable
| gift of the kind. Oswald Ottendorfer, edto.
( of the Stats Zeitung, distributes annually
| about S25, 900 in relieving the distress of the
| poor and needy. His late wife was inter-
| ested in good works of all kinds. The Me-
| mortal hospital will long stand as a monu-
ment to her generosity. The late Clinton
! B. Fisk gave away $25, 900 year in deeds
| OF benevolence Frederick G. Burnham'S
| gift of the Burnham Industrial Farm, con-
| sisting of a model farm of 800 acres in Co
| lumbia county, in this state, represent nearly
| $500
| Among others who take an active part in
! works of charity and give away large sums
| of money every year are Vice President
Morton. ex-Secretary Whitney, Arthur NJ.
Dodge, Howard Potter, Francis H. Weeks.
Robert B. Minturn, Mark Blu nenthal,
I Richard H Derby, NJ D., R. Duncan Hac-
ris, Charles S. Fairchild, J. Pierpont Nor
gan, Henry E. Pellew, Arson Phelps
Stokes, Rutherford Stuvesant. Joseph
Theron, Lucius Tuckerman. Henry Rice,
James K. Oracle, j.. Roosevelt. Mrs.
Chauncey M. Depew, Peter B. Olney,
Francis H. Leggett, Nicholas Fish,
LOGAN G. Murray, E. R. A. Seligman,
Charles w. Gould, E. B. Convers, George
| E. Doge, James J. Slocum, Charles E. Mer
rill, Mrs. W. B. Rice, Myer Stern, West
Pollock, Henry S.. Iselin, George P. Rowell,
Robert G. Cornell, William Greenongh,
Fred F. Thompso1, Stuyvesant F. Morris,
|
Forest, Cooper Hewitt Miss Kate Bond,
| Louis E. Binsse, Jesse Seligman, Isid )r
| Wormser, Frel H. Belts, B. w. Hitchcock,
Otto T. Barnard. W. Harmol Brown, S. V.
R. Townsend, Hugh D. Auchincloss, Ed
ward A. Treat.
New Workers are indebted
| to the Astor family for great
library andthe Cancer hospital
The library has cost them over 100000
and the hospital about 100000 Their
other requests are not particularly note
worthy. Wall street iiberality is well
represented by John D. Slayback and
Russell Sage's wife, who give away about
$4,000 a year each. A. H.
Hatch and Morris K. Jessup each
help the needy to the extent of
$4,000 or $40, 900 every year. j. NJ. Cor
nell, E. C. Shepherd aud ElbrIdge T. Gerry
are all liberal men and help the poor bv con
tributlng anywhere from $40, 900 to $4,000
year. New York spends annually on its
poor about S4,000.00J and sends nearly
another million to help convert the heathsn.
This certainly has not toe appearance OF
| penuriousness. DAVID WEcHSLER.
| Concerning Your Wants.
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