The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

Rich WOmen-The GOulds Lead the Millionaire Class in Christmas Civ ing-Poor of Garrison, N. Y., Profit by Generosity of Mrs. stuyvesant Hearts of Working Girls On Christi mas Day.
 The rapidly growing millionaire | class in New York is as extravagant in | its charities as in its coalitions and its | jewels. All the year around almoners | of the very rich distribute gratuities l but at Christmas time silken and gold en purses open even wider than usual and there is prodigality about these gifts which insures a Christmas dinner | if not a merry Christmas to all the poor of a city whose poverty has been unquestionably over-estimated. | All of the Christmas givers do not belong to the same class There are
 those VITO give because they love the | christmas season. and they sympathize with the poor who benefit by their charities. and there are women, nota- | bly, those who are anxious for social recognition, who rack their brains for
 original ways to benefit the poor and | the sick, and incidentally to get their l names in the newspapers. | Some of the most admirable women give so quietly that news of their | bounty never finds its way into public | print. Other women send typewriter accounts of their donations to city edi- | tors Many women famed for their generosity have pet charities and real ly weary their friends by asking for | Shop Girls" or The Settlement for
 World Weary Seamstresses."
 The simplest solution of the problem
 is to contribute toward the public din- | ners Scores of millionaires give glad | ly to those Christmas dinners, and the
 East Side Halls are always rented for
 this day Admission is by ticket and a
 few days in advance the poor of the
 neighborhood are invited to make ap- plication. No questions are asked. and often a youth with a boundless appe- tite collects three Christmas dinners in one day. These dinners are usually
 under private auspices and the names | of the donors are never known.
 | Of all the wives of millionaires, the | women of the house of Gould do the greatest amount of charity, and Miss
 Helen Gould is known all over the | land as a thoroughly philanthropic wo- man. Miss Gould has under her espec- l ial charge the Robins Nest Home in
 Tarrytown. where hundreds of crippled
 children are yearly nursed back to N
 for these little sufferers, and in the cozy parlor a huge tree stands, laden l with toys and books and goodies" for
 Miss Gould's protegees. Mrs, Edwin | Gould and Mrs Frank Gould assist at these Christmas festivities. To mention all the protegees of Miss Gould would
 be impossible. She visits the Y. M c.
 A houses regularly and always pro-
 vides some sort of entertainment for ~ frIa hal m ma a
 Mrs George Jay Gould believes that
 charity begins at home" and her regi- ment of servants at Georgian Court in Lakewood have the most delightful Christmas parties The Goulds have a dozen or more house guests, and the
 friends and the servants mingle at a grand ball, which Mrs. Gould usually
 leads with the butler. Then come games of snap dragon and hide aud
 seek. and for one day absolute equality
 is maintained. Mrs. Gould gives muni-
 ficently to the poor of Lakewood. and
 at the little hospital there is usually ar especial dinner for the patients. sr-. Hampstead. Westbury and RoslyT in Long Island, are blessed by a char
 itable group of millionaires, ant Christmas Is observed by dinners anC
 entertainments for the poor. The fol lowing women always arrange { Christmas entertainment for the pa
 tients in the Nassau hospital in Mineo
 la: Mrs. Foxhall Keene, Mrs William K. Vanderbilt. Jr., Mrs. Van Rennselael
 Kennedy, Mrs. A. Butler Duncan ant
 Mrs. Clarence H. Mckay. Only recently
 Mrs. Mackay opened her splendid es-
 tate. "Harbor Hnl." for the benefit oi
 this hospital and cleared up $1O,OOO
 She and her friends waited on the rus
 tic folk of Long Island and served them
 with tea and less temperate drinks al
 extortionate prices
 Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont is espec-
 ially interested in poor children. and
 on Christmas all the ragged boys and , girls of Hampstead are invited to hei great white country mansion where. 2 ! wonderful dinner is served by Frencf chef and his assistants. In the after