St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-28

she has frequently fifteen and twenty
of the tenement children to spend a
week with her. Ponies and carts are
placed at their disposal, together
with an abundance of good food and
warm clothing.
Miss Gould is also interested with
her sister-in-law, Mrs Edith Kingdom
Gould, in the Potted Plant assecia-
ton. Mrs Gould devotes much of her
time to this enterprise, which was
formed mainly to cheer the sufferers
in the charity wards of the city hos
pitfalls. Flowers are distributed among
them every day, and although the
work of the association seems small
on the surface, it really gives a great
deal of pleasure to it's beneficiaries
DIR. DEPEW'S CHARITY.
During her lifetime Mrs. Chauncey
M. Depew took considerable interest
in the work of st. Luke's hospital,
which is just a few doors from her
late home on West Fifty-fourth
street. Mrs. Depew was accustomed
to make almost daily tours of the
wards, doing what she could in a
quiet, business-like way for the COM
fort Of the patients.
1t is not generally known that Mr..
DepeW continues this work as much
as he can, though his business affairs
give him but little time He visits
st. Luke's at least three times
week, and he is a liberal contributor
to the finances of the institution.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt also
takes lively interest in st. Luke's.
Several beds in the hospital have
been endowed by the Cornelius Van
derbilts. and all the longtime pa
tients there are on speaking terms
with both Mr.. and Mrs. Vanderbilt.
A SENSIBLE MISSION.
Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt is al
most the entire support of the mission
house at st. Bartholomew, in East
Forty-second street. This is the most
completely equipped mission in the
whole country. 1t does not only try
to reform the outcasts of respectable
society, but it does much to help and
educate the Woodworking people who
struggle along at the grindstone Of
poverty.
1t has bank called the Penny
Provident fund, where interest is
paid on deposits Of one cent and up
ward. 1t encourages poor people to
prepare for the proVerbia1 rainy day,
even if they only save few pennies
a week. 1t has night sewing, cooking
and reading classes for the young
girls and women who work all day in
the downtown factories and shops.
There are all kinds of amusements
to attract young men from the streets.
The mission is sensible in every
way. 1t appreciates the many OBJ
stacles in the path of the poor, and
it strives more to Tighten their burdens
and give them pleasure than to thrust
religion down their threats. 1t was
the originator of the pawnbroker
scheme, which makes loans at a 6
per cent rate, as against the % per
cent charged by the regular shops.
The mission people knew that the
pawnshop was a necessary evil, and
in times of distress a boon to the
poor, and it set about to make it's
conveniences as cheap as possible.
LOOKS AFTER STAGE FOLK.
Mrs. A. M. Palmer, the wife of the
theatrical manager, is one of the most
charitable women in New York Char
ity has always been a fad with her,
and her particular charges are the
poor, broken-down people of the stage.
An actor or actress worn out with age
or sickness has never applied to her in
vain. Many of them nave been placed
in costly hospitals at her solicitation