The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-06
Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane
 AWorker for the Public Good

good works she herself had instituted which included the founding of the first public kindergarten and the first school of household science and of man. ual training in Kalamazoo.~ She had able aids among the best citizens, and especially among the women of Kala- mazoo. Measures sanitary, aesthetic, reformatory and educational vibrated over the community from the Peoples church as center. Each Sunday 1t and its magnetic and eloquent pastor drew a throng of people of all creeds and of no creed. What that church is like may be known from the feet that at the dedication. partly social, of the new meeting house everybody. from hodcarriers to organ builders. who had done any of the labor on it attended the house warming" and took part Iii the exercises
 In 1896 the pastor of the church was married to pr. A. Crane, a leading phy- sician of Kalamazoo, who Is in thor ough and helpful sympathy with all her work. '. One of the most notable of Mrs. Cranes achievements is the passage of the Michigan law for the inspection of slaughter houses and of butchers meat. In her, drives about Kalamazoo the woman preacher and her friends came sometimes upon localities sending forth fearsome smells. They came from slaughter houses and were so offensive and such a. meance to health that Mrs. Crane. determined to investigate them with a view of finding whether the places could not be improved and clean ed up. What this delicate, sensitive nerved woman saw and described seems enough to turn a human being forever away from meat eating.
 Mrs. Crane considered carefully the requirements of the situation. then with her own hands drafted an act providing for inspection and sanitation of slaugh- ter houses throughout Michigan. The bill was introduced into the legislature and defeated. Mrs. Crane heard ot the reverse In the morning before breakfast. In thirty minutes she was on a train bound for ,Lancing. There, without waiting for breakfast, she searched out the leading opponent Of the bill and persuaded him to move Its reconsideration. This had to be done within twenty-four hours of its defeat. It was again brought forward. and Mrs. Crane was allowed to speak in its favor before the legislatufe.' When it was put to vote again 1t passed by 6s to 19, splendid tribute to the woman preach er's eloquence.
 Her work was not yet done however. It was necessary for each city to pass an ordinance of its own to enforce the state law in that particular locality. Mrs. Crane drafted a model ordinance for the use of city authorities. The attention of state boards of health throughout the country has been drawn to the Michigan meat inspection law.
 Mrs. Crane is devoted to outdoor life and exercises of all kinds, summer and winter. A ten or twelve mile walk is nothing uncommon for her. She loves every object of natures great outdoors. Dr. and Mrs. Crane have summer home, Brownthrush, on the shore of Gull lake, Michigan, where they pass the warm months rowing, swimming and riding horseback.
 Not long ago Mrs. Crane gave ascol- lege commencement address entitled of I Were Twenty Again" Tn that speech she told her student audience what she would do if she were twenty again. It is hard for a mere outsider to perceive how Caroline Bartlett could improve much on her works accomplished even If she could begin over again at twen- ty. But one golden thought from the address is to be especially commended to those individuals who expect to Ire tire" and fossilize after fifty or sixty or eighty or ninety. as the case may be:
 Life is all the way. and not suspend ed animation"
 ELIZABETH LEE.