The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-08-06
NOT ALL ARE
DRONES IN
LIFE
FEWER IDLE RICH"
Some Of the Many Activities Of
Busy Women of Social Prom
Inence That Are Too Often
Forgotten by the Sati-
ristS and DetractorS.

| TW erick Townsend Martin
o% brother of Bradley Martin
@I patron of the arts, society
| w. man and philanthropist
when the general public Is beginning
to realize that society people are not
all butterflies. The day of the idle
rich IL fast passing"
Mr.. Martin speaks with authority
whenever he speaks. He is quite
right, as little research will show.
Some, like Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt, ST.,
decline to make public any of their
charities. Others, like Miss Helen
Gould and Miss Anne Morgan, flee in
despair II asked to say word about
the thousand and one good works in
which they are interested.
And read some of the other New
York names of those women who de-
light in giving of their own goodly
wealth to those less fortunate than
they. 1t is a roster of society-Harri-
man, Sage, Trevor, Cromwell, Barnes.
Gray, Bell, Stokes, Irwin, Westing-
house, Bryce, Turnure, Choate. Par
sons, Sloane, Kingsland, Hoyt, Twom-
bly,, Jay, Belmont, King and scores Of
| other women all of indisputable social
! position and wealth.
They look for poor babies; they send
fruit and flowers to the sick; they
visit hospitals; they run day nurser-
les; they give crutches and braces to
little cripples; they try to do for the
| afflicted blind babies of the poor;
they manage guilds; they lessen the
| scourge of tuberculosis; they build
settlement houses; they get up fresh
air funds; they put floating hospitals
on the water-these and thousand
other good works are the results Of
the efforts of the women of New York
society.
| mo women in the world are more
| charitable" says Mr.. Martin.
Mrs. Harriman's Good Work.
Perhaps Mrs. ]. Borden Hartman
does more for charity than any other
woman in New York society, II work
counts for anything. She gives large
| ly, but Miss Gould and Mrs. Sage, be-
ing of larger wealth, contribute more
| ties would tax the strength of less
| resolute woman. To begin with, she
| Is chairman of the woman's depart
ment of the National Civic federation.
| Her especial work is to make lighter
| the lot of the women who must toll.
| To further this end Mrs. Hartman is
| only too delighted to meet with labor
of oil 1o A har
mansion, .Uplands. at Mount Kisco,
last summer she gave dinner party
| for one hundred workingmen.
Walters in the Hartman livery
served the sons Of toll; pretty society
| girls in costume. headed by Miss Edith
Hartman, entertained the guests with
songs and tableaux. and Mrs. Harri-
man, John Mitchell and Tim Healy de-
livered addresses.
To check the spread of tuberculosis
Is another of Mrs. Harriman's charita-
BILE endeavors. She got Governor
Hughes to address the Association Of
tuberculosis Clinics at the Waldorf.
| Astoria. She Interested John d.
Rockefeller and other men of vast
wealth.
She is interested in the public care
! of children and In the Presbyterian
hospital. She has voluntarily assumed
the duties of a factory inspector. And
| with her sister-in-law, Mrs. w. X. Van.
| derbilt, Sr., she contributes $4,000 q
year for sending trained nurses into
the homes of the poor. This fund is
to be increased to $4,000 year.
Much more is done for charity by
Mrs. Vanderbilt, too. than ever be-
comes public. In fact, Mrs. Wander
bilt fees from even the mere mention
| of her name. Besides the trained
nurse and tuberculosis work, In which
she plays an equal part with her sis
ter-in-law, Mrs. Vanderbilt Is especial
ly interested in model tenements.
Building Model Tenements.
There are building now at East Sew
enty-seventh street and Avenue A.
New York, four large model, sanitary
| tenement houses financed by Mrs. Van
derbilt. They are designed especially
to resist the breeding and spread of
disease. the pest Of the old-fashioned
tenements OF New York. In them will
be housed 3s2 families in suites Of
from two to Ave rooms. and they are
built to AFFORD the maximum Of light
and floor space. They are vermin-
proof and fireproof, and on the roofs
are loggias and open gardens.
"They are not charity but hui
name and philanthropic investment"
says Mrs. Vanderbilt, who contributed
the necessary 100000. land ! hope
to see them self-sustaining.'
Another pet project Of Mrs. Wander
bits is the curing of crime in chill
dren BY the use Of surgery. She IL
one Of the patrons Of this movement.
which aims to aid defective children
] With The consent Of their parents and