The Starkville news., 1908-11-06

others when cash was needed and sAA
could not give and would not explain
why. Her lack of command of money
went to almost incredible extents at
times. An old member of the Emma
Willard Alumnae association recalls
an incident at a meeting which took
place at Mrs. Sage's home years ago,
with Mrs. Sage presiding. The asso-
citation was obliged to count every
penny, and when some committee
member made a request for some post
age stamps to send out in letters there
was discussion as to whether or not
the stamps should be sent. The
amount asked for was only 38 cents
worth, but Mrs. Sage let the discus
sion go on till finally a self-supporting
woman arose and said: please don't
let us waste any more time over this.
l will pay for the stamps"
~ NE woman who knew Mrs. Sage
~ we'll in the years when she lived
at No. SOC Fifth avenue declares that
she never had more than $50 week
to run that house and pay all her own
expenses. Some of her earliest expen-
ditures of money after she became
widow are rather pathetic to one who
can read between the lines. One OF
them was to remove the remains OF
her grandparents on her fathers side
from their almost forgotten burial
place on a farm near Troy to the fam
lily burial plot in Troy. Another was
to repair the tombstones of her mater
nal grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Pierson, at Sag Harbor, and frame
them in granite to keep them from
falling and crumbling away. One Of
her few personal indulgences has been
to buy an automobile, thing that Mr..
Sage never owned The difference in
giving to the things in which she al
ways was interested is very apparent.
The million to the Emma Willard
school has been mentioned. She has
given $125,O00 to the Home for Aged
Women at Amsterdam avenue and
One Hundred and Fourth street.
TO THE cynic who sneers that great
/ wealth is burden easily gotten
rid of it may be responded that Mrs.
Sage is getting rid of hers as fast as
she can reasonably be expected to.
Following is list of her benefactions
to date:
Autumn of 1906, School building.
fund of Sag Harbor .............$ 200
Autumn of 1906, New York uni
versity ...................... 10000
tute ......:............... 1000, 900
1907, Emma willard School , for '
girls ....................... 1,OOo, 900
1907 Sage foundation ............... 10, 900, 900
1907, American Seamen's Friend
1907. Syrian Protestant college at -
1907 Building for international ~
Y. W. c. a. ...................... $50. 900
Harbor. additional ..............: $4,000
1907, Bed in Syracuse hospital..... 5000
1907, Y. M. c. A. naval branch, ~
1907 9loHnsyf Institute OF Pathology at ''''
New York City hospital ........ 100000
1907 Home for Aged and INDECENT
1907 Teachers college University
1907, 1907 7. NJ. G. A.. Long Island - ~
city ........................ 100000
1907, Restoration Of Governors
room in New York city hall -. 200
1905 Princeton university ........ 250,0O0
1905 American Bible society (con-
amounD ....................... 10000
1908, Rhodendron garden to Cen
tTdi PARK oV,ooV
1905 United Hebrew Charities,
emergency fund for unemployed 5000
1905 First Presbyterian church at
Sag Harbor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Zo,OOV
19OS Constitution island for Unit
ed States Military Preparatory
Total $15 100. 900