Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-01
WHERE MISS HELEN GOULD PRO.
POSES TO LIVE.

viii Live for a Time in the Tenement
District of New York City-Wants
to See the True Conditions Of Life
Among the Poor-Maintains a
Home for Poor Children-other I'M
portant B%enefactions.
From one of the most luX%uriously
furnished homes in New York city to a
barely furnished East Side settlement
is a change that few fashionable wo-
men, however c%haritably inclined,
would care to make.
But such a change is contemplated
by Miss Helen Gould. who is consider
ing the question of leaving her Fifth
avenue residence, magnificently fur
nished by her father, the late Jay
Gould, to reside for some time in the
Gospel settlement, THE White Door of
the Ghetto" at No. 211 Clinton street.
Miss Gould has signified her desire
to study life among the poor by actual
contact, in a letter to Mrs. Sarah j.
Bird. founder of the settlement, but
she has not yet fixed a date for the pro
posed change.
Mrs. Bird said to-day she did not
hllOM at Will lllllG MISS GOulu WOhltl
take up her temporary abode at the
settlement house, but thought that il
would probably be when the Weather
became warmer. Then Miss Gould
would have a better advantage to see
the true conditions and life as it is in
that part of the city, when the push
cart wagons line up along the side
walks. crowds Of humanity throng the
thOroughfares and the stoops of the
tenements and houses are alive with
people.
In speaking of the work Mrs. Sarah
J.. Bird, the founder, said:
MY experience in rescue work has
shown me the great need of preventive
work, and nearly five years ago l
thought perhaps if l We're to live in
the midst Of this East Side world, |
might SOW some seed that would save
poor, homeless children. l rented two
rooms in a crowded tenement in Ed
ridge street. A young friend, who
taught the kindergarten in the Bow
cry mission, made her home with me.
We investigated the upper stories of
our house, and without delay invited
everybody of all sorts and conditions
into our little rOoms. I soon saw enough
to show me where my life should be
spent, and putting my Bible and Cos
pei songs on the little pine table, l said,
This shall be the beginning of a gos-
pei settlement Later, l took the house
at 211 Clinton street"
The reception room has been re-
served for Miss Gould.
Miss Gould has given bountifully to
charity. The calls hat are made upon
her from individual sources, as well as
from organized institutions, reach an
nually hundreds of thousands of dol
lars.
The requests by mail for assistance
IN n week, since January LIST,
amounted TO several million dollars.
-Four miles back Of Iryington-on-the-
Hudson Miss Gould maintains a home
for poor children, called Woody Crest,
At her country home at Tarrytown
she has for weeks at a time little tots
from the tenements as her guests.
The naval branch Of the Y. NJ. @. A.,
at the Brooklyn navy yard, was built
by Miss Gould at "A cost of Sab 600.
She also built the Hall Of Fame at the
New York University, To the School
Of Pedagogy she gave $4,000.
Miss Gould also maintains a school
where poor girls are taught to cook,
The last rose of summer is not so pa
thetic as the last flOur~fn the barrel.