New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-14
HER PUBLIC SPIRIT.
Mrs. LoDeTs Work for Charity and
CiUic BetternseTt.

- ross,htra shaw Lowell who died on
rzrrsdav at her home, TO. IS East 64th-sC-'
-.s interested In many lines of public WORK
-. e hest known, perhaps for the part she 1ooA
: ,ha movement that led to the organization
= The wcmen's Municipal League. AT the tiRhe
:. fra crest revolt against Tamnany Wh lc
-o.,,rte6 in the election Of Mayor Strong IN 1879
-. T7-v. DR.. Charles II. Parkhurst came 10 lhe
.-,,s.o1 that the reform forces could not Sue
- vyi+bout the assistance Of women de ap-
- - the women of the city, therefore, to
De- camnaien committee. and Mrs.
rs--.I vas the first TO respond 10 the call AS
~.,-4.5 with her were Mrs J G. Phelps Stokes,
80 Grace Dodge and many other prominent
Eozne1 -,,
- sqsinst the Tiger. A large campaign fuho
-sised Cor Mayor Low, and at Mrs LoWen
'...gestfon the city was flooded with the famous
svTon,an or Tiger pamphlets. These did much
- decide the issue Of the campaign
Ms I,oweII,s public life began with the death
= h.- husband forty-one years ago. He was
,.-no5 3, the civil war at the battle Of Cedar
en- and thereafter until the end of the war
-r-s Lowell devoted herself to army nursing
rven+v-trree years ago she founded the
-7a-i,v Organization Society. and almost up 10
-. +ir7e Of her death she took an active part
mil
o,rv few days before her death she wrote to
<-,-,s,5enr EXPRESSING regret that she could
,ot attend committee meetings during the wiz
- and indicating 8 desire 10 remain on the
central council.
Yer work in the formation Of this society. to-
rather with her services in connection with the
oIaci1E Of 1natrons in police stations, attracted
4he attention of Governor Samuel J. TlldeEl. ana
led hin TO appoint her one of the three COM
r,issione-s who constituted the state Boar1 OF
charities & position which she held for thirteen
years. from 1876 TO 1850
Ms. Lowell was instrumental in securing the
s.Dsration OF she sexes in prisons. and as
member of the Prison Association she became
+.-,risr with the condition Of prisons and re
forma1ories all over the State She was CRAFTY
interested in civil service and helped TO organiLs
tha Wornan's Auxiliary Of the Civ!! Serves Re-
form Association. She was believer IN worrsn
suffrage but devoted her time 70 what she
considered 10 he more urgent reforms her
book on Private Relief and Pubic ChaElIH IS
considered one Of the authorities on TINS SUD
fect and besides this she had published many
$50 and rarrrhIets on sociological subjects
including uaDer on Industrial Arbitration ana
nrrine the last two years Mrs. Lowell had
withdrawn gradually from the puoIic eye On a. a.
count Of her failing health during the last
sumner she had bean i'll the greater part or tne
time but when she returned on Wednesday win
her daughter. Miss CaTIotJa tSuSS@i1 Ao"ei''
+ror, her country home at Greenwich, Conn, no
one thought thar her illness was so serious.
w-s Lowell was sixty-rwo years OF age ana
VAS horn il West Roxbury. Mass, on December
ia 1913 Her father, Francis George shaw
was q descendant OF the Boston merchant OF
Revolutionary times. At the age Of twenty she
r-a--ied Charles Russell Lowell nephew OF
James Russell Lowell =.
Mrs I.oweITs funeral took place yesterday at
her home, the services being conducted by Ine
Pev d.. Huntington. Of Grace Church HeF
49, vii he Inferred in Mount Auburn Gene
terry. Mass. by the side OF her husnanq- +ta
The Charity Crganizatiou Society VIII pay the
+oIIo1ri-e tribute 10 Mrs. Lowell in the next
----71e- Of Charities" which comes out on No
ver1ber = , -
.e7ais is not the tine TO attempt catalogue Oh
Mrs I.oweITs actual achievements her IroIlu.
-ent is built in the constitution and statues u
New-York and other States, in cnarllaoIe anu
-ef0ruatory institutions. which except LOT heI
would not nave been established; IN the success
fuI fight for the merit system in the puphc ser
vice in an impress on the labor movement on
he social settlements, the new ideals OF ll4e
nenGendence In municipal affairs
InoIIrn the Iossncf one whose place cannot De
FIIed whose service viii never be forgotIoL
whose work wiz remain