The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-01-22

beSlueS Delng Il railroad man Of the
highest reputation. Mr.. Shepard has
many other claims to distinction. He
Is an all around athlete. Today his
sports are chiefly golfng. tennis and
.owiny hut he has been in addition a
100 yard sprinter, baseball pitcher
and a football player. He is also
student as well as a practical man.
He is known to his friends as lover of
literature and as musician. and pos
sesses an unusually good baritone
voice.
Because Of her devotion to charity
and practical affairs. her distaste for
society and the attitude expressed on
! the subject Of marriage in her letters
and conversation. it was believed that
Miss Gould intended never to marry.
In one of her letters she said:
If had found Il suitable helpmate
might have spent my money in
way which might not have done as
much good as it has"
Miss GouId's Patriotism and Charity.
Before the question whether Miss
Gould would marry had ceased to il.
terest as subject Of speculation. Miss
Gould's friends had decided for her
that. if she should ever change her
mind and take a husband, he would be.
il self made man. and not member
Of the set in which she was born. And
those who described the kind of man
who might have the fortune to take
Miss Gould as wife seem to have
been justified in their predictions.
Miss Gould was a pioneer in philan-
thropy among American women of
great wealth. Her charities were prob
|ably on larger scale than those of
any other American woman before the
death Of Russell Sage led to the estab-
lishment Of the Sage Foundation by
his widow. Her greatest popularity
was reached during the days Of the
Spanish-American war, when her ef-
Iorrs m bena1r or American soru1efs
and sailors caused her to be ranked
with Florence Nightingale among pa
triotic women.
Miss Goulds formal entrance to so
ciety did not take place until she was
twenty-five years old. Her debut was
delayed by the deaths of her father
and mother. to whom Miss Gould wac
devoted After her debut in 1898, how
social affairs. When she came into
possession of the fortune left by heS
father, her time was taken up entirely
with the administration Of her prop
erty and her charitable activities.
Her method Of doing good was prac
tical. From the very beginning Of her
career her charitable work was per
sonal in it's character. 1t was not her
practice to send a check to this or that
society and then rest content. She
acted as a Sunday school worker and
as a volunteer parish worker and then.
the institutions and philanthropic pro-
iects which she founded we're all un-
der her personal direction.
1t was not until 1898 that the Ameri-
can public learned Of the extent Of the
work Miss Gould had done. The homes
she had established for the cure Of sick
children at WOodycrest and elsewhere.
her personal charge of philanthropic
institution in New York and the num-
berless gifts she had made to different
charities were all so unobtrusively
managed that they had remained COM
paratively unknown until the blaze Of
popularity burst upon her for her work
in behalf of the American sailors and
soldiers during the Spanish-American
war.
Her Care For the Sick and Wounded.
At the first call to arms she respond.
ed in the only way in which she then
thought she could be Of service to her
country-by giving 100000 to the gov
eminent for war expenses. Then she
became interested in the Red Cross
society and was active in the auXilia-
ries of that organization. She was an
honorary member of the Women's
War Relief association and donated
sums of money from time to time to
that body. But this did not satisfy
her
Her first really active participation
in the war relief work started with
her visit to the wounded and sick sol.
diers at the Marine hospital the Smith