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

N brother Of Bradley Martin,
~l 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 Is fast passing"
Mr.. Martin speaks with authority
whenever he speaks. He Is quite
right, as a little research will show.
Some. like Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt, Sr,,
decline to make public any OF their
charities. Others. like Miss Helen
Gould and Miss Anne Morgan, fee In
despair II asked to say a 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. It is 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 clutches and braces to
little cr1pples; 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, If work
counts for anything. She gives large
ly, but Miss Gould and Mrs. Sage, be-
ing of larger wealth, contribute more
actual money. Mrs. Harriman's activi-
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 ct the women who must toll.
To further this end Mrs Hartman is
only too delighted to meet with labor
leaders of all kinds. At her splendid
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-
hvered 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 factory Inspector And
with her sister-in-law, Mrs. w. X. Van
derbilt, ST., she contributes $4,000 a
year for sending trained nurses into
ho homes ~ L.
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 1872 families in suites of
from two to five rooms, and they are
built to afford the maximum of light
and floor space. They are vermin-
proof and flreproof, and on the roofs
are loggias and open gardens.
They are not charity but a hui
name and philanthropic investment"
says Mrs. Vanderbilt who contributed
the necessary $1,000 900, "and I 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 is
one Of the patrons OF this movement,
which aims to, aid defective children
with the consent Of their parents and