Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-02

lean woman spending the Tor
tune which the American man
vi is amassing?
How does the American wife
- or daughter act as almoner
for the American multi.millionaire?
Writer'S there have been, both Amer
lean and foreign, who have declared
that the American mans money went
to create a 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
$33,000,000 for the educational ad-
vancement of California at Stanford
university alone.
Mrs. Russell Sage is a close second,
with $65,000,000 at her command.
which she is dispensing at the rate OF
about $4,000 per day, or about $685.
100000 in the three years following her
husbands death. Russell Sage gave
80 years of his life to acquire $6j, ,000,-
600. At her present rate of eXpendi-
ture Mrs. Sage will spend IT all in
carrying out her husbands plans for
the betterment of the human race in
five 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-
dowed chairs of learning, built and
equipped industrial schools for girls
lifted the debt from hospitals and
shown interest in New York city tC
the extent of renovating the govern
ors room in the city hall. purchasing
"The Oxbow" for the metropolitan
Museum of Art, planting a mile oI
rhododendrons in Central park anC
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 $10,000,009 in gifts
from the enormous fortune left b,
her father, Jay Gould While her un
ostentatious charities had always
been a matter of interest, 1t was no
until the war with Spain that the ma
tion became widely interested in he
gifts. At that time she sent her checl
for 100000 to the United States gov
ernment to be applied to the genera
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 som
$4,000.
From that time on Miss Gould's in
terest in American soldiers and jack
les has never tagged. Wherever tn
United States flag floats her name
cheered by the m"n who serve unde
it. The Naval Y. M. C. A. branch o
Sands street, Brooklyn, was built a
her expense as a memorial TO her pal
ents. Later she met the expenses c
building a large addition, and the eI
tire output for this one institution
said to approach closely to 81 1.00O,00'
To the naval Y. NJ. &. A., at Norfoll
Va. she gave $4,000. The railroa
mems Y. NJ. C. A. next aroused her IL
terest. and she gave sl50,000 to bull
new home for the Y. NJ. 6. A.. 9
st. Louis, Mo-, this also memorii
to her father. Among her gifts, cite
to show the breadth of her interest
may be mentioned innumerable dom
tions to the Salvation Army. $500
given to the establishment OF I'm
versity hospital at Charlottesville, Va
$4,000 TO the Y. NJ. c. A. at Tarr
town, n. Y; $4,000 for the America
College for Girls at Constantinoplt
$4,000 to the evangelists who hs
been conducting tent meetings in val
GUS parts of New York city and wi
were face TO face with financial fa
ure; $500 for a club house at Tarr
town. with gymnasium and ccokir
school for the poor; $4,000 to endo
a chair OF biblical literature at M
Holyoke college, in memory OF h