The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-04
RUSSELL SAGE'S
WIDOW IS DEAD
Expires in Fifth Avenue Home
After Illness Of Four
Days.
WAS IN HER DIST YEAR
Fortune Estimated as High as
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
for PhilanthrOpies.
WAS IN HER DIST YEAR

Mrs. Russell Sage died at twenty
minutes past noon yesterday in her
home at 604 Fifth avenue. She had been
i'll for only four days. Death was due
to iniirmities OF age. complicated by
slight cold which quickly developed into
slight touch of pneumonia.
Mrs Sage was attended by DR..
George A Tuttle. Relatives said she
had been in extraordinary good health
recently and that unusual precautions
had been taken TO preserve her during
tho influenza epidemic. 1t could not be
learned definitely, however whether she
had been attacked by influenza.
Mrs. Sage was in her ninety first year
She is survived by her brother. Col. ]. j.
Slocum who with his family. were at
the bedside when she died.
Mrs. Sage was the late fnanciers 5
second wife. and she inherited from him
fortune estimated at approximately
! $4,000, 900.
| Mrs. Sage was Margaret Olivia Slo-
cum when she was married to Mr.. Sage
| 40 years ago, and had been close
friend OF Mr.. Sage's first wife. At the
! time OF Sage's death II was said that
! the first Mrs. Sage had often suggested
| TO her friend that no woman was so well
| fitted to be the second Mrs. Sage.
Mrs. Sage as girl was a pupil OF
Emma Willard and among her school
mates in Troy were Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Louise Chandler Moulton.
/ Mrs Sage was daughter of Joseph
! Slocum and Margaret Pierson Jermain.
Two OF Mrs, Sage's nephews. both OF
! whom are in the army and to whom
probably will go a considerable part OF
her estate, are Col. Herbert J. Slocum
and stephen LII. Slocum. s-uzs
Among Mrs. Sage's principa. gifts to
charity since the death OF her husband
are $1,000 900 to Emma Willard Sem
mary at Troy 81 100000 too Rensselaer,
| Polytechnic Institute, $10.000,0o0 to the
Sage Foundation, $3.50, 900 to the Young
Mems Christian Association of New
| York, sl50.00U to the American Seainen s
Friend Society, sl50,0O0 to the North
field Seminary, 100000 TO the Sage In
stitute OF Pathology on Blackwells Isl
and $250.O00 for a home for indigen'
women and $100 900 TO Syracuse Univer-
sty.
Mrs. Sage also always had shown
great interest in bird life and had ac-
quired the ownership of Marsh Island. II
the Gulf of Mexico. which has been dedi'
Gated as a home for wild birds. She
was the founder OF the Russell Sage
College of Practical Arts at Troy, y. y
Mrs. Sage also gave $4,000 to restore
the Governors Room in the City Hall
Her interest in the parks and park en-
ployees had been shown on many occa
sions. She spent 100000 in beautifyint
the West Drive of Central Park witt
I rhn
gave a gold piece TO each park employed
on Christmast.
Her biggest charity OF all. of course
was the famous Russell Sage Founda
tion in April, 1907 This foundation
was for the improvement OF social ant
living conditions in the United States
Among the movements assisted ma
terially by the foundation during tn
years that followed were the anti-tuber
culosis campaign. the movement for pub
lie recreation. the placing out and man
. agement Of children in institutions. tn
! medical inspection of schools the propa
ganda In behalf of children's schoo
gardens. the propaganda for the preven
5 ton OF blindness especially among chill
: dren. and the encouragement and cxten
I sion of charity organizations.
In the field of research a careful stud,
5 has been made of workingmen's an
OltltT Va '''N'S''N~'
! studies have been conducted In the field
1 of the salary loan and the chattel 'oa
s business and concerning the feasibilit
r of employment bureaus In New fori
q The Foundation has provided means 70
the schools OF philanthropy In BostoI
8 New York, Chicago and st, Louis to e'
= tablish departments for the training c
e workers in social investigation, offerin
: two and three year courses
= Mrs Sage spent the summer at he
Q country place. Cedar Croft. at Lawrence
o l.. l., and returned from there 10 he
d Fifth avenue residence some tipe ago.
3 rIEaTIoN NIGHT AT THE PLAZA.
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