The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-30
In Philanthropies of Various Kinds.

There are other Jewish women III var
ous public activities that must be men
toned, Lillian d. Wald. formerly of
Rochester now OF New York is the
one Of the most active among the ma
TONS philanthropic workers. Mrs. Louis
Hertz and Mrs. Julius Kahn are Iecog~
nized leaders in San Francisco TIE lat
department OF the National Civic Fed
GRAFTON. Three members of the board OF
education OF New York are Jewish wom-
en- Miss Julia Schoenfeld is doing a
great service as field secretary OF tile
National Fairgrounds association.
Mrs Isaac L. Rice Is known from one
end OF the country 10 the other as the
founder and president of the Society for
tho Suppression of Unnecessary Noise.
and her work In the promotion for 4 sane
and safe Fourth Of July Mr.. Rice. hy
the way, is one OF the real masters cf
industry. He Is president OF thirteen
large manufacturing concerns. including
the Holland Submarine Boat company
and the Casein Company Of America.
and is chairman OF the. boards of direc-
tors OF other important companies. He
ls known wherever chess !s PLAYED (and
that means all parts of this planet. at
essD. the inventor Of the Rice gam
Before he went into big business he
founded the School OF Political Science
in Columbia university and was instruC-
tor In the Columbian School OF Law
~ PT.
Mrs. Sidney Dreyfus, are prominent in
the philanthroplc activities OF Boston.
Then there is Mrs. Frederick Nathan OF
New York, whose work for the general
uplift OF humanity Is great. but she prob
ably is best known on account OF her
long fight for the benefit of the purchas-
Ing public and of shop and factory girls
through the Consumers League OF New
York Of which she has been presid ent
since 1889, and the National Consumers
league, OF which she r. Vice president.
We are much surer OF getting honest
goods and Of being waited on by clerks
that are much better off as TO pay and
general working conditions than We were
before Mrs. Nathan and her co-crusad-
ers fought year after year to force laws
regulating factory employment and re-
tall stores through legislative bodies She
is also one OF the most prominent among
workers for woman suffrage.
The Jew as a Master Merchant
have said enough TO show what a
wonderful racial department store This
Jewish people Is, And the mention OF
and the Consumers Ieueue leads ,c
contemplation Of the fact that IL Is this
! fact that Il Is this race thar not only
| originated the actual department store
| hut has carried u TO perfection. Ey
cry city In the land has n notable H.
| lusfration OF this.
! The great FIlene store IN Boston, at
| the head OF which IS Edward A Filene
! developed the cooperative idea In the
1 relations OF employer and employee
Abraham Shumen. one of the lead
! ing merchants of Boston. has de-
voted a large part OF hts time and
! energies for twenty-five years or more ia
the upbulldlng OF the Boston City hos
pital, IL ls largely duo TO his palnstak-
| Ing and enthusiastic work that this in
stituiion has grown to be one OF the
largest and best equipped municipal hos
pitfalls in the world.
Among others who have achieved
notable success In Boston. not only In
business, but along philanthropic o. pub
lie service lines, are Bernard NJ Wolf
the Hechts, the Straus family and the
Conrads.
In Chicago, the first department store.
the Fair. now grown 10 immense proper
tions. IS presided over by Mrs. Augustus
Lehman. the founders widow, and the
active head OF another Of Chicago's vas;
department stores. covering citv block
and towering high the Boston store is
Mrs. Charles Nctcher. widow OF the
founder.
II would require pages 20 catalogue
even the successful Jewish ncrcha nj g.
Practically all hsd humble beginnings
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