The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-18
Wealthy Women Who
 Work for Otherc

If men give most of the money for helpful public enterprises 1t Is certain that women do most of. the work there- in. And many a time women give the money and do the work, too.
 Miss Margaret Astor Chanler of New York is one who both gives and labors 4 direct descendant of old John Jacob Astor the first, who founded the great millionaire family in America, Miss come of $30.000 year. But Miss Cham Ter has both heart and brain. a brain large enough to grasp the opportunity that a rich woman has to help the race. She seemed to know instinctively that wealth is a trust to be administered for the real good of all.
 First. the general public came to know of her when, at the commence ment of the Spanish-American war.
 Margaret Astor Chanler took a course of instruction at a Red Cross training g school and then offered her services to the Government. She went to Porto Rico with a number of Red Cross nurses. In Ponce Miss Chanler hired a large house as a hospital for sick and wounded soldiers. She herself was su-
 perintendent and matron of the hos pital. General Miles asked her to join the regular corps of United States army nurses. which would bring her in closer relation with the military authorities and give her more power of action. She did this. The hospital was enlarged till it included two more houses. Miss Chanler presiding over them all. The expense of the whole establishment was paid by Miss Chanler and a few of her interested friends.
 Miss Chanler might have done all she did for soldiers in the Spanish war and not much would have been said of it had she not been a millionaire and a member of New York's fashionable set. But perhaps because 1t is unusual for a fashionable rich woman to do broadly useful things, comment was excited by Miss Chanler's work. In January, 1899, Congress passed a resolution bestow- ing on Tor a gold medal "1n recognition of her work for III and wounded sol diers in Porto Rico" The New York Legislature. in a beautifully engrossed resolution, likewise thanked the lady for her patriotism and humanity.
 Thus the Spanish American war in- cident in Miss Chanlers life closed. but 1t marked the beginning of her public usefulness. Some patriotic, public spirited women in New York had form ed the woman's Municipal League. a body organized for civic betterment in many directions Miss Chanler. a staunch advocate of progress and of rights for her own sex, including the right to vote. joined the league and be- came one of its officers and most active members.
 For the past two years she has shown the way in a charity in which her ex- ample might we'll be followed by the thousands of rich women who board up the doors and windows of their sumptuous city homes every spring and leave them empty and useless till winter returns. Miss Chambers town house is a spacious marble mansion on Riverside drive. overlooking the Hud- son River in upper New York city. Each summer the philanthropist owner re- moves the furniture from the two lower floors of her home and turns then into hospital for sick children of the poor.
 The cooling west breeze from the
 Hudson River sweeps through the
 wide windows of the large house,