New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-24
HONOR MRS. SANGS1ER
CO-WorkerS Review Writer'S
Life in Memorial Meeting.
WAS THE W0MAN'S FRIEND
MANY Prominent Persons At
tend Services in Marble
Collegiate Church.

TAX about the women of to-day =,
Where is there one Of them VINO can
hope 70 be remembered after her death. in
the various capacities " reiehbor. friend.
professional woman oiuLwonan. Chris
tan. and the nelp and inspiration Of thou
sands who never looked upon her face:
Clubwomen anu professional women now
adays have no time 10 De ueishbors. and
hardly any woman has time 10 ae a Chris
tlau. But all these things and mo'c was
Mrs Margaret T. SaugSteT. according to
the testimony Of her friends and co-work-
crS who held Il memorial meeting for her
at the Marble Collegiate CnIrcH. -eth
street and Fifth avenue. yesterday aftei-
noon. the day after the severity fourth
anniversary OF her birth. Mrs Saugstec
died June .. le2.
Or. TalcOt Williams. dean OF the >cnool
Of Journalism Of Columbia University,
was chairman. and among those who gave
personal testimony concerning Mrs Sang
ster'S long life were Miss Elizabeth Jor-
dan. editor OF "Harpers Eazar." VITO
Ia hfN 81 vi Ts NaU1SlfF AS an .-tsi.'l o
Miss Susan HAYS Ward, OF the Wheaton
College club who told about Mrs Sang
ster rs Clubwoman"; Mrs William XIII
caid. of the WomanS Home Missio, IN
ION. who described Mrs. Sangster as q
Neishoor"; Or. y. II. Non Arsda'e. editor
Of The Christian lnt"lligencer. VINO
spoke or Mrs. Sangstef rs Literary Co
Worker" and the Rev Arthur RI. How
lard. OF The Christian Herald" who
talked of Mrs. Sansster as the Woman's
Friend"
Maybe It was the stories Miss jordan
told that best brought Mrs. Sa1gsteT' =
personality back to The heaters As cdi-
tor Of "Harper's Young People. Mrs.
SangsteI worked long ia Franklin Square.
ana Miss Jordan said it was remarkable
the way her memory fingered there.
We are so busy; life is such "a whirl.
she said that we don't have time to re-
member those VINO are gone; bat We re-
member Mrs Sangster, and here IS an
incident. one OF many. which ! think. eS-
plains why.
Living in the country. she made az
rangemcnts with an old cab driver to call
Ltilft ia ~ tis' hFtI.. ii4' vi. : Sii' '''-'
70 the city. and take her 10 the train
one stormy day he failed 20 appear, and,
having al engagement she cOuldn miss
she walked the four miles to the station
Hey clothes were soaked she caught
cold. and Was seriously III for fort
night. one day when she was recovering
] said 20 her:
BY the way did YOU ever find out why
tnat cab driver didn't come"
" Oh. yes she said serenely. 'te OK
planned 20 me that he didn't dare take his
horse out on such a wrctched day
81 gave my opinion OF that cabman. nut
when I had finished she said:
But don't YOU see his point Of view?
That horse represents his bread and but
ter
Miss Jordan said that. with all the
manuscripts Mrs Sangster mad occasion
10 return. mot one ever carried a heart
acne with IT, She always found time TO
write cheering word.
she saw every one who wanted 10 see
her. receiving all callers. She was great
lv interested in young writer's. And when
they had no gift for writing tactfully
she would set them going in some other
direction Perhaps some woman who
brought her poor little efforts 10 Mrs.
Saugster could bake sWeetmeats, though
she Couldn't write. Then would MIS-.
Sangster work around among the cluh-
women she knew until she got sufficient
orders for sweetmeats 70 give that
woman employment
Miss Ward said Mrs SaEgster was
'em!nently clubable. though not an
extensive clubwomsn belonging 20 but
two-the Meridian club and the Wheaton
College club But size always found time
10 help others, II was remarkabl. that
a woman so free from anxiety about
herself-never worried, never troubled
was vet 50 alive 10 the troubles Of
others"
Or. Van Arsdalc said Mrs. Sdngster 5
books though they numbered twenty,
were but a fraction OF her busy life"
Or. Williams spoke Of the influence Mrs.
Saugster welded through her writings 10
The Christian lniclligencer. pointing
out that her forty years OF service with
her pen compfehendcd the period when
woman became articulate when she re-
solved that she would share the mother
hood Of the state, as the men had long
shared the fathernoOd.
The pulpit was banked with flowers. III.
David James Burrell. pastor OF the
church made some remarks and Nine
Arckowska sang some Of AIRS Sangsters
poems set to music.