Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-05

and colleges. At first, perhaps, not
even Mrs Sage herself understood
precisely what the scope of the work
would be. That had to be developed.
It has been developed in the three
years since the Foundation got its
charter during which, to quote
trustee. its work has been partly prop
agandist and partly in the nature of
research work. Here in brief. are
the movements assisted financially by
the Foundation 70 date:
The anti tuberculosis campaign.
The movement for public recrea-
ton.
The placing out and management of
children in institutions.
The medical inspection Of schools.
The propaganda in behalf of chill
drens school gardens.
The propaganda for the prevention
Of blindness, especially among chill
dren.
The encouragement and extension
of charity organization.
In the field of research a careful
study has been made of workinsmen.s
and other forms of small insurance,
and studies have been conducted in
the fields OF the salary loan and the
chattel lean business and concerning
the feasibility of establishing an em-
ploymeat bureau in New York city.
What the Foundation considers
very important special line of re-
search is the Pittsburgh survey, rep
resenting an intensive study of social
and Industrial conditions III Pitts
burgh as typical American indus
trial city.
The Foundation has provided means
for the schools of philanthropy in
Boston. New York, Chicago and st.
Louis to establish departments for
tire training of workers in social in
vestigation, offering students Il two
and three years course.
1t IS investigating problems of com
mon school education, relating to the
progress of children throughout the
common schools, with a view to &C.
counting for the fact that tho rolls
Of our public schools include so many
backward children"
The Foundation contributes financ-
tally to the support of the National
Red Cross Society, the Presidents
Homes Commissions and the Child
Saving Congress in Washington.
The Foundation emphasizes the inn
portance of the housing problem in
the large cities and their suburbs. and
in this connection it has organized
recently the Sage Foundation Homes
Company at Forest Hills. J.. l. For
many years Mrs. Sage has been inn
pressed with the need of better, more
attractive housing facilities in the
suburbs for persons. Later on, the
directors say, the Foundation will
probably develop an equally attrae-
tive plan for the housing of the labor
ing man whose wages are small in
some nearby suburb.
These are not all the activities of
the Sage Foundation. The directors
say that a complete report Of them
has never been published.
They declare also that their pro-
gram Is not arbitrary, the fundamen-
tai idea of the foundation being to
place in the hands of qualified men
the income of its $10,000,000 endow-
ment to use as they think will best
improve social and living conditions.
Although the largest. the foundation
is only one of 50 or 60 gifts given by
Mrs. Sage since her husbands death
to help or to establish as many enter
prisas.
For instance. to universities and
colleges she has given:
New York University, to buy addi-
tiorai land on University Heights
about $500. coo.
Yale University. $e50,o0o To purchase
the Hillhouse property OF 30 acres.
lincoln TTuivereitV $40 Oun
Harvard University. new dormi-
tory, the cost of which is not yet
made public.
Mrs, Sage always has kept a tender
spot in her heart for Syracuse, where
she lived many years, and her larger
gifts 70 that city Include $t50,o00 to
the Syracuse University, S1o, 900 to the
Orondaga Hospital, $4,000 each TO the
Old Ladies Home and the Hospital Of
the Good shepherd. besides five or SIX
gifts to private charities of that city
ranging from $1,000 to $4,000.
To the Troy Female Seminary, of
which Mrs. Sage is graduate and
vince she taught before her mar
riage she has given $1,000 600, and to
the Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute
OF Troy $1,000. 0e0. other gifts include:
Idaho Industrial Institute. $4,000;
Lincoln Farm Association. $4,000. y
memorial chapel at Mortified Semi
nary and ii new dorlnitorY and tower
at Princeton University, the exact
cost of which is not estimated. That
her charities do not stay close ut
home Mrs. Sage has Illustrated by
giving $4,000 each TO a girls school i'll
Constantinople and to the Berry