Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-29

the presiding officer of the children's
court. Further to inform herself about
youthful wrongdoers Mrs. Vanderbilt
has paid many visits to the children's
court to see for herself the youthful
offenders who may be saved from
growing up into full-fledged criminals.
In further support Mrs. Vanderbilt
has bought seven fine farms In Leban-
on township, New York, which will be
devoted to the care of youngsters from
the city. AS yet plans for an insti-
tuition are not completed, but 1t Is ex-
pected that upon her return from Eu-
rope Mrs. Vanderbilt's representatives
will make public what she intends to
do there.
Miss Helen Gould's many charities
are so widely known that it Is only
necessary to call passing attention to
few of them. Soldiers and sailors
are her hobby. She made possible the
fine clubhouse for sailors in Brook
Ign. During the Spanish war she was
the guardian angel for hundreds of
sick and wounded sailors She takes
little children to her beautiful home at
Irvington-on- the Hudson With her
friend, Mrs. Sage, who has given away
many of her husbands millions al
ready, she is active in every good
work. In fact, Miss Gould cares moth
ing for society, as do the rest of her
family, but devotes herself wholly to
good works.
Anne Morgan, PhiIanthropist.
1t Is only lately that Miss Anne Nor
gan, daughter of ]. P1erpont Morgan,
has come into the public eye. In the
navy yard, Brooklyn, she has estab-
lished splendid restaurant for the
workmen and sailors. She helped
found the club for the employees of the
Third Avenue railway, in which her
friend, Mrs. Charles Greenough, for
merly Miss Eleanor Whitridge, is so
interested. She goes out socially very
little except in the evenings, but de-
votes her energies to educational
movements among the working class
es. She is member of the National
Civic federation and she has donated
much of the money to make possible
clubs for working girls.
my idea," says Miss Morgan, lis to
help the poor to help themselves"
To that end she has planned a $780,
900 club for working women in Wash
ington; she has started a movement
In San Francisco toward unionizing
working girls; in Denver she has done
the same thing, and has studied the
children's court there; in Chicago she
Is interested in the stock yards settle
ment; in New York cigar shops and
printing establishments where women
are employed are her special hobby
and many are the improvements she
has forced upon unwilling employers.
She Is also one of the hardest work
ers in st. Georges church, where her
father is q warden. In the Society for
the Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals
Miss Morgan is one OF the leading
workers, and now she is learning par
liamentary law in a/class of 80 earn
est women in order that she may be
able to preside at some Of the meet
1ngs for charitable and educational
purposes in which she Is so inter-
ested.
Volumes could be written about the
charities of other society women, but
space forbids more than mere men
ton. The fresh-air movement of each
succeeding summer grows more and
more, and each year finds more soc.-
ETY. women giving Of their time and
money.
Mrs. Henry Trevor and Mrs. Sey-
mour Cromwell give their time to
thoughtful generosity where poor lit
! tie children are concerned. The mem
bers of the Arson Phelps Stokes fam
lily devote themselves to settlement
work. Mrs Robert Hunter, who was
Miss Caroline Stokes, lives herself
among her charges, though her family
owns a town and country mansion.
Mrs. Richard Irwin devotes herself to
many charities Of the ProCathedral.
and each year interests the debutantes
OF the season in helping her with her
classes of wellnigh homeless children.
The Junior league, an organization OF
the younger set, annually earns q large
sum for some worthy charity.
To Mrs. William D. Sloane. who was
Miss Vanderbilt. New " ewes the