The evening times., 1900-04-13
DEMANDS ON MISS GOULD.
Beggins Letters of Week Received
by the PhiIanthropist

NEW YORK, April 13.-Those members
Of the community, who write letters to
Miss Helen Gould. asking for money and
are astonished that they do not receive
checks by return mail, may better under
! stand the reason when they learn some
facts as to the enormous number Of de-
mands made upon Miss Gould. In one week
Miss Gould received 1903 letters asking
for charity The sum expected Of her was
about $4,000. 600 All the correspondents
did not name the cost of satisfying them
and the sum named is an estimate. Those
who asked for cash needed in all just 81,
54S, ,502
One writer wished a certified check fol-
81 900. 900 with which TO start colony N
/ Cuba. Others wanted COWS farms, trous-
seaus. lace. autographs, church organs.
pianos and so on. The following is the
classified list in part: One plaI to form
colony in Cuba amount asked for. 81 Co.,
00o: 231 requests for money q49 not nam
ing sumsy, $187. $50; 81 requests for loans
(16 not naming sum-. s156.203; 149 re-
quests TO raise mortgages a not naming
sum-. s77.575; 43 requests to aid churcle
(27 not naming sunni $56981: q re-
quests to aid educational institutions (22
not naming sum-, $50. 400: "a dOEatiOns 10
Libraries ga not naming sunni, SO, 900;
five requests TO buy places. 5000; one
anti-salOCn league of Idaho, $1,000; "a Ie-
quests to aid religious and charitable in
stitutions $50 not naming sum- So, 900;
one wishes TO sell farm. 81 500.
Four wish help toward trousseaus three
not naming sum, 81 .0C9, eleven requests
for pianos three not naming sunni, 81, AGO;
twelve requests to buy inventions tten not
naming sum- 81 2G0: one wishes TO sell
ring. 81 200; one wishes to sell brooch
S52j; one wishes donations TO patriotic
league, $500; one wishes TO sell Sevres
vase $500; one wishes monument TO pa
rents, $500; one wishes help to redeem jew
els $3.50; one church organ, $40: thirteen
treatment tcancer, morphine, Keeley. etc.J.
$3.50; one wishes passage to England SO:
one wishes 10 sell quilt, 500: one wishes
expenses betrayed 10 secure prison release
$50; one wishes to get goods from storage,
$50; one wishes help to public music, s25;
one wishes TO buy set of teeth Sl5: one
wishes help to get watch from pawn IS;
ten requests 20 aid church fairs 107
quests for aid presumably mOpey; thirty
four requests for old clothes. three re-
scholarships; seventeen requests for ad-
vice. fifteen requests for tickets or passes
one request to buy railroad stock. eighteen
requests TO have embroidery or lace work
sold. One wishes farm and three cows
one wishes TO sell hay claim and cows, one
wishes help to open photograph gallery
One wishes peddlng horse and cart one
wishes money to print 600 hymnals one
minister wishes horse and buggy. one
wishes house so that girl can marry at
once, one wishes money to enter Old Folks
Home, one wishes inyaid's chair. one
wishes place to get up time table sched-
ules. one wishes TO sell photographs of
Miss Gould for his own profit one wishes
air pillows furnished to regiment of SOL
diers, one wishes team Of Horses one wish
es 10 go shares on alfalfa in California:
126 personal letters. % newspapers mark
ed copies: almanacs. six books, 81 cat
alogues pamphlets etc and magazines.