The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06

there came into the view OF
the world last week a woman
who has been steadily, intelli-
gently, ccaselcssly at work FOR the
good of humanity during almost sixty
years. This revealing of n remarkable
personality was made when Columbia
University conferred on Miss Louisa
Lee Schuyler the degree Of doctor OF
laws. the highest honor which Column
bia could bostow.
OF course the men and women who
know their New York intimately, who
keep informed about It's deeper affairs,
who are familiar with what is going
on for its permanent bctterment, have
been aware of the fact that since Miss
SCHUYLER was a girl of ~ she has been
devoting her mind and though, and
time and energy to the study and the
solution of some of the graVest prob
lens connected with philanthropy.
Daughter of the late George Lee
Schuyler and Eliza Hamilton Schuyler,
Observation-Disclosures of Gen. Philip
Schuyler of the American Revolution
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of Alexander
Hamilton, she had as "A young girl
every incentive tn lead a life Ike that
OF other girls who were members OF
families Of established social position
and fortune. Miss schuyler, however.
realized that she might be able to he
Of service to the public in her own
field, and she commenced by Volun-
teering as a teacher in one CT the
Children's Aid Society schools-this
In 1856.
At the outbreak OF the civil war she
needed the call for volunteers 20 aid
the United States Sanitary Commits
sion and was one of the chief workers
in the New York branch from 1851 10
1865. She was only "a when she took
up this task. and she threw herself
into it so completely that when the
war closed her health was impaired
and she found IT advisable to spend
several years travelling in Europe.
Then home Miss Schuyler came in
1871 and commenced a series OF care
full. pa~instaking inspections ot poor
houses and hospitals supported ny the
State of New York. with the result
that she founded the state Charities
Aid Association. a volunteer body of
men and women receiving TO financial
aid from the state, which since then
has proved a potent force in reforming
the public charitable institutions Of
the State. To this association she has
given up by far the larger part of
her life. The way In which h saw
the opportunity for great and lasting
service to suffering and dependent hui
manity was recently recalled in remi-
niscent words. which THE SUNDAY SrN
IL permitted to repeat for its readers.
at was nearly sixty years ago"
Miss Schuyler said. in the late EOS
and in an old house on the banks Of the
Hudson about twenty miles from New
York-a house my grandfather. James
Hamilton. had built in 1885, and called
Nevis after the island where his father,
Alexander Hamilton. was born. We
loved thai old homestead, We four
grandchildren-my brother fhil!p,
my sister and myself, and our cousin,
George Bowdoln.
Little We cared for it's historic
belongings, for the portraits in the
hall, the 'WashinCton.' by Gilbert
Stuart, or the Hamilton, by Trumbul,
We were young people in those days,
full Of fun and frol!c, ready at any
time for the dances. the games. the
merrymaking. which went on in that
old house-the Nevis skating parties
In winter. and in summer the riding
sailing. swimming. What more could
we ask, with Washington Irving prosi-
dent OF our archery club and presidine
genius. as well. of our picnics in Sleepy
Hollow. where Katrina Van Tassel