The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-10-02


IA lean woman spending the for
tune which the American man
Is amassing?
How does the American wife
- or daughter act as almoner
Tor the American multi-millionaire?
Writers there have been, both Amer
ican and foreign, who have declared
that the American mans money went
10 create nation of human butterflies.
But social history goes to prove that
the average wife or daughter of the
average American man of enormous
fortune stops between butterfly flights
IN social realms to study the desires
and ambitions of husband and father
as to the disposition of the millions he
Is so industriously acquiring.
Mrs. Leland Stanford was the pio-
neer in executing the charitable de-
signs Of her husband. She spent
s33,0O0,O00 for the educational ad-
yancement OF California at Stanford
Lpiy9ynity alone.
Mrs. Russell Sage is close second,
nth $S5, 100000 at her command,
which she Is dispensing at the rate OF
about $4,000 per day, or about $685.
600 900 In the three years following her
husbands death. Russell Sage gave
80 years OF his life to acquire $65, 000.-
600 At her present rate of expendi-
ture Mrs. Sage will spend 1t all In
carrying out her husbands plans for
the betterment of the human race in
ave years. She has endowed the
work OF the Russell Sage Foundation,
whose mission is to better the condi-
tion of the poor through investigation
and education. She has lifted mort
cages from churches and schools, en-
iowed chairs of learning. built and
equipped Industrial schools for girls,
hfted the debt from hospitals and
shown interest in New York city to
me extent of renovating the govern
or's room in the city hall, purchasing
The Oxbow" for the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, planting mile OF
Thododendrons in Central park and
installing Tillinghast window in the
building of the New York Historical
society.
Work Of Miss Helen Gould.
Miss Helen Gould comes third in the
list, with more than $10.000,000 in gifts
from the enormous fortune left by
her father, Jay Gould. While her un.
ostentatious charities had always
been matter of interest, 1t was not
until the war with Spain that the ma
ton became widely interested in her
gifts. At that time she sent her check
for 100000 to the United States gov
eminent to be applied to the general
relief work among United States SOL
diers, and within three months, as
member of the Women's Relief asso-
citation, she increased her gift by some
$4,000.
From that time on Miss Gould's in
terest in American soldiers and jack
ies has never tagged. Wherever the
United States flag floats her name Is
cheered by the men who serve under
II. The Naval Y. M. G. A. branch on
Sands street, Brooklyn, was built at
her expense as memorial to her par
snts. alter she met the expenses of
building a large addition, and the en-
tire output for this one institution is
said to approach closely to $1,000. 900.
To the hawai- Y. M. c. A.. at Norfolk,
Va, she gave $4,000. The railroad
mems Y. M. G. A. next aroused her in
terest, and she gave $4,000 to build
Q new home for the Y. M. G. A., at
st. Louis. Mo-. this also a memorial
70 her father. Among her gifts, cited
10 show the breadth OF her interests,
may be mentioned innumerable dona-
lions to the Salvation Army, $1,000
given TO the establishment of Uni
versity hospital at Charlottesville. Va;
$4,000 to the Y. M. C. A. at larry
town, NJ r.; $4,000 for the American
College for Girls at Constantinople;
$4,000 to the evangelists who had
been conducting tent meetings In vari-
Gus parts OF New York city and who
we're face to face with financial fall
IRE: 1880 for club house at larry
town, with gymnasium and cooking
school for the poor; $4,000 to endow
chair Of biblical literature ct Mt
Iso'yoke college. In memory OF hss