The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-22

while the government detained them until
their transport papers could Se made out.
Miss Gould Instantly came to the rescue.
opened a house in Fifteenth street, put
physician and nurses in charge and COM
missioned a line of ambulances to bring
the soldiers from their lodging places.
A place out of town was needed where
the soldiers who lived at long distances
gather strength in the pure. country air
before starting on the trying journey
TO their homes. This emergency was also
met by Miss Gould Without moments
hesitation she secured and arranged for
this purpose an agreeable suburban head
quarters, perfectly comfortable and ac-
cessible.
Always from that time to this the SOL
diers. the sailors, the firemen and the
railway men have held a warm place in
! her regard.
The men of the active. fearless lives
appeal to her. and she has worked for
them and given TO them with a peculiar
sympathy and pleasure. 1t was because
of this feeling that she gave $125. coo to
found the Naval Branch of the Young
Mems Christian Association in Brooklyn.
and has given both care and money &c
equip the institution and to organize it
on such lines as to have rendered it one
CT the most successful institutions Of the
kind in the country. She has also given
$1,000 to the Fort Monroe Young Mems
Christian Association for building.
In October, 1902, she sent aid TO the
soldiers of Alaska. She sent Christmas
presents to the soldiers of the Philippines.
Every Young Mems Christian Associa
ton along the Missouri Pacific rail
road has received a library at her hands.
She gave the Peru Young Mems Chris
tan Association $500. and her gifts to
the branches of this association in all
parts of Uncle Sans possessions. especial
~ to those branches which help sailors
or soldiers, firemen or trainmen, have
been unceasing and unrecorded.
Her anti Mormon labors have also been
indicative of an interesting trait of char
acter Miss Gould has the old fashioned
generation of the homo, the family. the
domestic integrity. which has been to her
mind the foundation of the nation. She
has been deeply interested in the sup
preston of Mormonism ever since the
elder Roberts agitation.
Miss Goulds work for the crippled chill
dren at WoodycTest is among her best
known charities. Another charity in
which she has greatly engaged the last
year is the new Home of the Friendess,
for the erection of which she gave $50
900. She has also started during this
winter a club for the poor of Tarrytown,
near which her country place is situated,
and has erected a club house at a cost
of $4,000.
An interesting plan which she has been
considering recently is the purchase of a
tract Of land in Colorado on which
sanitariun for consumptives may be
erected and to which the poor children
Of New York may be sent Nothing defi-
mite has been done in this matter. how
ever. Her personal charities have grown
! enormously during the last year one
of the things which have become known
through the papers Is her effort to give
a. blind girl sight by securing for her the
best medical care and the hest nursing.
But for one case that has become known
n score have gone unnoticed. With all
these numbcrless calls upon her atten-
ton and pity there IS little wonder that
her physicians should order her to take
a rest.
In appearance Miss Gould is small.
round. dainty and excessively feminine
She has full. perfectly placid face. Her
/ expression IS extremely calm She has
not a line. a wrinkle or a sign o. care
She moves and speaks quietly. unob-
/ trusively. almost timidly.