Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-15

Mrs George Gould, like most other
rich women. has her special fads in
charity: she is interested in little chill
dren and has each year helped hum
dreds Of needy or suffering little ones
she founded and supplied the funds for
the Gould free kindergarten and kept
it up until it was merged into the great
free kindergarten system Of New York
city. She was interested in the Potted
Plant Association. organized for the
purpose of distributing flowers to the
poor in tenements. Mrs. Gould not only
gives her money literally. but she takes
a personal interest in helping many
worthy individual cases. She likes to
assist talent that is battling in obscur-
ity and poverty to obtain recognition
and uses not only her checkbook, but
her personal influence to bring this
about.
In Catholic charitable circles no name
is more beloved than that OF Miss Anne
Leary. Miss Leary is a member of the
most exclusive circle Of the so called
One Hundred and Fifty and belongs to
an old New York family which amassed
the foundation of its millions through
the money made in commerce in the
early days Of the republic. She lives in
a quaint, old fashioned house on lower
Fifth avenue. On her at home days one
will as likely as not find her dispensing
hospitality to one or more of the digni-
taries of the church as we'll as to men,
bers OF the haut monde. 1t was Miss
Leary who donated the money for the
handsome Catholic chapel at Bellevue
hospital, New York. in honor Of ner
brother, who died few years ago. She
is the mainstay Of many struggling
Catholic charity in the poorer parts of
New York city. She gives literally to
all Catholic institutions and many Pro-
testant ones, too, but is par excellence
the lady bountiful of the Catholic char
tiles in New York. Now and then she
undertakes the management Of some
bazaar or other entertainment in be-
half of some worthy cause, and on
such occasions so popular is she
socially that the One Hundred and
Fifty turn out to member to spend
their dollars and give the eclat of their
presence to the affair, because it
pleases Miss Leary. you know"
On the other side of the ocean, in
France particularly. where the Fau-
bourg St. German is not cordial to
Americans, Miss Leary's position is
probably better known than that Of any
other American woman, even than
many who have married titles. There
are in New York converts and sister
hoods many Frenchwomen of noble
birth, and through the relatives of these
religious ladies, not to mention Miss
Leary's own personal friends and ac-
quaintances in European high society.
when she goes abroad she probably en-
joys more social attention from the ex-
elusive circles in the Latin countries
where the Catholic church is the church
of the fashionables than any other
woman On this side of the Atlantic.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose re-
cent bereavement is still fresh in the
public mind, is also a member OF fash
ionable New York society who gives
literally and unostentatiously to the
poor. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney Is
in this much like the gentle lady who
is her mother. Mrs. Vanderbilt, like
her husband, gave much to organized
charity with the understanding that
her benefactions should not be made
known. She keeps in touch with the
world and through many friends, whose
opportunities for observation are better
than her own, she has done much good
in a quiet way for members Of her own
sex.
Mrs. William Aston is too much the
grande dame not to remember the OBJ
legation of noblesse oblige. Mrs Aston
is a woman Of the old fashioned type,
and her church and the various beneVo-