Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-07-28
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.

SlAlO LAS OOlnCt bdlu THU
NN erick Townsend Martin,
GN brother of Bradley Martin,
ESE 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, ST.,
decline to make public any Of their
charities. Others, like Miss Helen
Gould and Miss, Anne Morgan, fee in
despair If asked to say a word about
the thousand and n 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 W 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, K%ingsland, 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 a 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. J. 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 a 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
leaders of all kinds. At her splendid
mansion, Uplands, at Mount Kisco
last summer she gave a dinner party
for mi 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 Ia interested in the public care
of children and In the Presbyterian
horptto1 Che hoe ,,o1,,yto ,i1xy aus,,rpaf
the duties of a factory inspector. And
with her sister-in-law, Mrs. w. K. Van
derbilt, Sr., she contributes $4,000 Q
year for sending trained nurses into
the homes of the poor. This fund IL
to be increased to $4,000 a 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
terin-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 o.
disease, the pest of the old-fashionet
tenements Of New York. Infthem will
be housed 1882 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 fireproof, and on the roofs
are loggias and open gardens.
"They are not a charity but a hu
name and philanthropic Investment
a y Mrs. Vanderbilt, who contributed
the necessary $1,000,0OO, "and l 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