The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-12
Mrs. Aearst's Work.



II the book of wealth now being COM
piled to impress the human race with
the riches Of nations were mainly de-
voted to h good done by money In the
hands Of good people. q conspicuous
name would be that Of Phoebe A. Hearst.
tnat American woman philapthropist,
whose Charity Of mind, heart and
purse has reached every corner Of her
native land. Mrs. Hearst IL broad and
catnoiic In her outlook In life. This
iact can no better be illustrated than
oy the mention of two educational in
situations in Washington to which she
mas recently contributed large sums Of
money. These are, respectively. the
american university. h great college
under the auspices OF the Methodist
Episcopal church, and a school for
girls under the control OF the Protes-
a n Episcopal. church. In h former
Mrs. Hearst subscribed to the school
OF American history. The college is CO.
educational. n Is to be quite the nm
est university in this country under the
auspices of the Methodist church. The
Phoebe Hearst school for girls Ia to be
built in the near future. as soon as the
site has been decided upon. Toward
this school its generous ~patroness con-
tributed 500. 900. Nor was her interest
80 ~ Rioi "a 20 "a AAsCAA
ing for while in Washington she. Of
fered to Its welfare much personal time
and attention.
II Mrs. Hearst can be said to have
any preference in the avenues through
which one may benefit her kind. that
preference lies in educational dirsc-
tons. A woman of a well-balancsd
and cultivated intellect herself, she mas
the sensible American idea Of giving
all those who want to learn every op-
p%ortunity for doing so.
Since its earliest beginning h has
been a contributor to the National Kin
dergarten fund, and she has estab-
lished many schools in he cities of
America. In Washington she has three
k~indergartens, the last one which she
opened-a kindergarten training school
being perhaps the most important of
all. This has its headquarters in one
of her handsome houses on X street,
and offers the very best opportunities
for young women to ft themselves for
kindergarten teachers at the lowest
possible cost. Each of the three schools
is under the charge Of a paid superin-
tendent. as are all Mrs. Hearst's char
tiles. for she is wise and business-like
In her good works, not an indiscrimi-
nate Lady Bountiful, whose charities
are as apt to do harm as good.
One of her many good works for the
education of youth Is to be found at the
Boys home In Washington, under the
direction of the Brothers of Nazareth
an Episcopal order, with its headquar-
tiers at Priory Farm, New York. This
home has accommodation for rs boys
and is beautifully furnished throughout
by its patroness. Another instance of
Mrs. Hearst's sagacity In educational
matters lies in the fact that she has the
boys attend the public school, where
they will learn more of the necessary
things about life and human nature by
contact with boys of the outside world
than they will be taught at home all to
themselves. The home is a home for
them in every sense; and when sum-
mer comes they are all taken to q big
country place which she has provided,
there to get rosy and strong by out
door exercise and work in the fields
and gardens. Among other Washing
ton charities to which Mrs. Hearst has
generously are to be named
the Little Sisters Of the Poor" an order
under h especial patronage Of the
French legation, the Old Woman's home,
the Associated Charities and many
others.
She is a contributor to the Ladies'
Decorative Art society, and has opened
her home, with its rare art treasures, for
and many other art clubs in the
Nitys "iltt " z 1oliCSlIoll VI PlCtulNS dIu
has ever been generously offered
for any art loan for charitable purposes.
Mrs. Hearst Is now in her country
les San Francisco, having gone
to California to reside during the erec-
ton and installation of the University
of California, in which she is deeply in
terested, and to which she has been a
large contributor. She is one Of the Is
chosen for the college, Inc has
the distinction of being the only woman
who has held that office In this or any
other country. 1t is said that the uni
when completed, will be the
in the world of it's kind, and
to its interests Mrs. Hearst is now CIV
ing much Of her personal aid and atten-
ton. With a view to securing the best
plans for the building, she has
an architect to travel through this
and Europe to forward a plan
If competition by which the architects of
the world may offer their plans for APP
The plan chosen will receive q
handsome prize, and. In order also that
meritorious work may 20 unreward-
ed, Mrs. Hearst will likewise pay rea-
sums for those plans that show
able architectural gifts. Among the uni
buildings to be erected will be
built. endowed and furnished en-
tirely by Mrs. Hearst herself. and this
having been chosen by her A
a memorial to her late husband. she has
appropriately decided to make q school
mining engineers.
Much of her charitable and educa-
tional work in San Francisco and other
Western cities is In the line Of that es-
tablished In Washington, and In San
Francisco she has also established
working girls clubs and lunch rooms.
while her personal charities to the poor
needy in that city are innumsrable.
The South has received from her many
beautiful kindnesses in individual cases. |
Her parents were born in Washington
county, Virginia. and her heritage Of
Southern blood has ever warmed her
,eart toward Southern people. There
ire hundreds Of young men and women
winning success to-day In their chosen
who can name her as bene-