The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-13
WHITE VELVET FALL AND WINTER HAT TRIMMED WITH
BLACK VELVET, SATIN AND BLACKBlRDS.

building in connection with the Brook
Ign navy yard Here United States sea-
men who are for a time in port or who
are on furlough may find the best of
food and brief lodging for a price sur
prisingly low, still enough to remove
from it the suggestion of charity. The
building is seven stories high and is
fitted with every convenience for clean
illness and comfort. Within its walls
the sailor will find every requisite for
civilized enjoyment, but no temptation
to make an animal of himself.
The Brooklyn naval Y. NJ. c. A. is
perhaps an outgrowth of an earlier
philanthropic scheme of Miss Could
the contributing of large sums to the
Y. III. c. a. organization maintained by
employees of the Gould railroads. When
Miss Helen found how much good her
benefactions there accomplished she
did likewise for the Y. NJ. c. A. of
the United States navy. II is hardly
to be wondered at that gallant Cen
eraI Joseph Wheeler caused to be intro
duced into congress resolution thank
ing Miss Gould for her patriotism and
ordering that a gold medal be made for
presentation TO her.
In one gift she turned over to the
University of New York 100000. She
was one of the early promoters of the
womans law class of the university. IT
is a class designed to teach women the
ordinary legal knowledge necessary TO
the management of property and the
successful transaction of business. A
regular course of study is laid down,
at the end of which a certificate OF
efficiency is given to the woman who
can pass examination in the branches
taught. Miss Gould herself is a grad
uate of the woman's law class and in
it she learned much concerning the
legal aspect of great property interests.
Helen Gould maintains a home for
crippled children at her farm. also a
cooking and housekeeping school for
girls. a scholarship at Mount Holyoke
and scores Of other steady charities. In
addition she has given d building to the
New York Home For the Friendless.
In recognition of Miss Goulds services
to this institution Mrs. Russell Sage
not long ago presented a beautiful
stained glass window 10 its chapel and
named il the Helen Gould window Miss
Mary Tillinghast made the window. so
il is woman's work all round. The
young philanthropist takes Mrs. Russell
Sage as rather a mother adviser in
many of her undertakings, which is a
guarantee that they viii not err on
the side of radicalism.
These are only the fewest OF Miss
Gould's good works. Most OF them
are not known to the public. She does
not desire them 10 be. largely for the
reason that every considerable donation
TO any worthy object straightway
brings down upon her thousands OF beg
ging letters nsgging her impudently.
many of them. demanding money in
sums anywhere from a million dollars
down. one weeks reckoning not long
since showed a list Of 1893 OF these
wretched letters. Some OF them were
actually from men OF considers bic
standing II society. whose names are
well known In the community. Not a
few claimed aims because they had
been friends OF her father-some even
asserting that they had been the max
ing Of Jay Gould in the day OF his i'm
pecuniosity. Human nature is not a
thing FOR angels; - be proud OF. - it7
Tie most notable letters. however.
from those not ashamed 10 stamp them
selves as raupers and descbeats IN
this land of plenty we're from women