The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-04-28
has GIVEN MUCH
Charity Of Mrs. Ryan, Wife Of
the New York Millionaire,
Entails Systematic Work, to
Which She 10 Devoted.

more IMAM $2,50O,00O toward the ad-
vancelnent Of the various charities
maintained and controlled by the
Catholic Church in the United States.
besides contributions to other insti-
buttons. The exact amount of her
benefactions will probably never be
known outside Of the immediate mem-
bers of her family. Her gifts, how
ever, extend from North Dakota to
Texas and from New York to Wiz
gnia. Her latest charity is known
as the s1,ooo,ooo Easter gift, to ~,
new cathedral at Richmond, Va.
No gift is made until she has salts
fled herself personally of it's necessity
and once she determines to buill Il
church. !. school or a hospital ,lrlc-
date steps are taken to establish, an
endowment fund sufficient to insure lis
support for all time to come. lii ca, =
rying out this work Mrs. Ryan mas set
aside several rooms in her i''if,n av-
enue mansion as her office ;tul
spends from three to four hours each
day when in New York with her Sec
rotary and clerks in examining re-
ports. looking into requests for a,!e;i-
tional assistance and taking steps to
strengthen the financial support of ir-
situations already established.
Mrs. Ryan's rnunificence covers tho
building OF at least 100 new chupels.
schools churches, hospitals. homes fer
Sisters of Charity and homes for "s"G
and infirm. In addition to these til"r.
been increased in size, repaired or
endowed SO that they could not ne
abandoned altogether through Il lack
of support. From O'Clock every
morning until luncheon at / o'ciurl>
Mrs. Ryan gives her entire attention
to this work: Answering correspond
ence, regulating the management "f
institutions already established a!,i
suggesting new policies for them, cx~
aiming the reports which she rc.
qulres at regular intervals from all M
situations which receive assistance
from her and directing that the az :
Denses at this institution be cur
tailed OF that another be increased, az
cording to the figures submitted in
these reports.
Mrs. Ryan's first step in this line
was due to an accident one Sumnr!
near her summer home at Sufferr;. n.
Y. in which a trainman was injured
severely and the village physician; &c :
clared that if one of his legs cou'il be
amputated at once his life might !'o
saved. Suffern at that time lacked Il
hospital and it was necessary II 70
move him a considerable distance ~
a town with a hospital at which llc
operation could be performed. With
in Il short time after this she r,ir-
chased n building in the village bes:
adapted to hospital purposes, equip c!
it as q hospital and installed p.,ysi-
clans and nurses to care for the sir!
and injured.
After completing the hospital she
determined that, having provided fOl
the physical life, she would build {:
Catholic chapel in the village for tho
spiritual welfare of the residents. Tho
village had no Catholic church at that
time. Since then she has built schools
and other institutions for the use OF
her church in this town.
Not long after this. while on her
way to Mexico With Mr.. Ryan. while
passing through Texas the private car
II which they We're travelling was
overturned in a disastrous wreck, but
neither Mir. nor Mrs. Ryan was in
jurcd and. as an expression of hel
' gratitude for the preservation Of the
: lives of those in the party, she mme-
diately arranged to build Il church il
the city nearest the scene of the
wreck.
BY this time other demands were
I HciedSIllS tiil NiiS. 1NSbi uStci litiiS'
: . establish an office in her home AM
o employ the assistants necessary t.
, carry out her plans systematically SC
that the greatest good to the creates
i, number would result from her gifts
+, Since that time Il large chapel at Ho
Springs. Va. seating $50 persons; ;
q $4,000 church in Manchester. Va
q seating 400 persons; the Sacred Hear
school in Richmond. Va. with accom-
modations for 400 boys and girls;
sisters residence in Richmond:
school in Newport News. Va, accom-
modating 200 children; beautiful
% chapel at Covington, Ky, IL church a
Falls Church. Va, accommodating 40
e persons, and q hospital at Lynchbure
!, Va, with seventy beds for white an
q negro residents of the city, have al
!, been built and endowed by Mrs. Ryar
These, however, are only few L
the buildings she has built: in man
=, other cases only those in actual charg
of the work know the name of tn
person who is supplying the fund
necessary to establish and maintain i
= is probable also that Mrs. Ryan
: activity and enthusiasm in this lin
Of work are responsible for the gil