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mother; $4,000 for a scholarship at
Vassar to be named for her mother
Helen Day Gould; the endowment of d
church for Indians at Guthrie, Okla.
Gould Millions Well Spent.
Over $lOO0O,OOO of Jay Gould's leg
acy to his daughter have gone for char
lty, and almost invariably as memo
rial to father or mother. Miss Gould
is assisted in her work by 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 $1,O00,000 went to the building
and furnishing of the Cathedral Of st.
Peter at Richmond, Va. At Washing
ton, D. c., she established branch of
the order Of the Perpetual Alteration,
building for the orders use 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 availed 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
ho
cases, roofs arranged for the accom-
mediation of cQnvalescents, with log
giaS, toilet rooms and 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 it's
4 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 DR.. 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 much needed
home for the wives and children of
prisoners serving long sentences. She
: is also interested In the West Ham
i hospital, London, and it is whispered
that under the influence of the Church
Army she is becoming most alb.
: sorbed social worker among the poor
, and wretched of London.
1 Miss Morgan In Good Work.
: Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of J.
|; Pierpont Morgan, is typical social
( yorker of to-day, deyoting her gifts
4 and energies to the educational move
!. | Ynent for the working classes Az q