Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-10-02

mother; $4,000 for scholarship at
Vassar to be named for her mother,
Helen Day Gould; the endowment of
church for Indians at Guthrie, Okla
Gould Millions Well Spent.
Over $4,000, 900 of Jay Gould's leg
acy to his daughter have gone for char
ity, and almost invariably as a memo
rial to father or mother. Miss Gould
is assisted in her work by a staff of
trained social workers
Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan, wife of the
traction magnate, comes next to Miss
Gould in the size of her gifts to
churches and charities. A devout
Catholic, her gifts to the church have
amounted to many million dollars.
Nearly S1,000,000 went to the building
and furnishing of the Cathedral of St
Peter at Richmond, Va. At Washing
ton, D. c., she established a branch of
the order of the Perpetual Alteration,
building for the orders use a chapel
and convent. Five French nuns were
installed there, one of whom is al
ways engaged in prayer before the al
tar. The chapel cost 100000, and
under its altar Mrs. Ryan has built a
crypt in which will rest the members
of her family. Aside from her church
charities Mrs. Ryan is particularly in
terested in the fight on the white
plague and has endowed sanitariums
and consumptiveS colonies in Arizona
and the Catskills. a Virginian by
birth, she has presented to her native
state suitable monuments to mark
the scenes of all battles fought in
Virginia.
In recognition of her gifts to the
church Pope Plus x. bestowed upon
Mrs Ryan the title of Countess" but
she has never awaited herself of the
privilege. Another gift at the hand of
the Vatican, which she does use, is the
privilege of owning a travelling chapel
which was installed in her private car,
-Pere Marquette. This is the only
travelling chapel in America, and there
is only one other in the world. the
property of the queen dowager of
Spain.
Mrs VanderbiIt's Charities.
Mrs. William K Vanderbilt, former
ly Mrs. Rutherford, has just given
100000 for the erection of model
tenement houses for the use of city
sufferers with tuberculosis These
tenements will be built on plans espe-
cially drawn for Mrs. Vanderbilt and
the scheme includes outside stair
cases, roofs arranged for the accom-
mediation of convalescents, with log
gias, toilet rooms and a sun screen of
glass; balconies that can be trans
formed into outdoor sleeping rooms
and air passages from street to street,
insuring perfect ventilation. These
apartments will not be rent-free. They
may even prove an interest-paying in
vestment for the Vanderbilts, but they
will be under the patronage of the
Presbyterian hospital authorities, who
are making a tremendous fight on the
White Plague.
Mrs. Vanderbilt's smaller charities
are also along the same lines She
gave the Presbyterian hospital its
fresh air ward and she has paid the
expenses of sending trained nurses
into the tenements to look after the
sick and to train mothers in the rails
ing of children. She also established
small hospital in Paris, under the
direction of DIR. Gautier, and when
in the French capital she visits this
hospital daily, ministering to the sick
and lifting their financial burdens
Another section of the Vanderbilt
fortune is going into English social
work The duchess of Marlborough,
formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt, has es-
tabiished in London a much needed
home for the wives and children of
prisoners serving long sentences She
is also interested in the West Ham
hospital, London. and it is whispered
that under the influence of the Church
Army she is becoming a most abb
sorbed social worker among the poor
and Uretcbed 0f london
Miss Morgan in Good Work.
Miss Anne Morgan. daughter of ].
Pierpont Morgan, is a typical social
worker of to-day, devoting her gifts
and energies to the educational move
ment for the working classes An q