Women (Jive Away
. ... the Millions Men
Have Fought For
N'EW YORK.—How is the Amer
ican woman spending the for
tune which the American man
is amassing?
How does the American wife
or daughter act as almoner
lor the American multi-millionaire?
Writers there have been, both Amer
ican and foreign, who have declared
that the American man's money went
to create a nation of human butterflies.
But social history goes to prove that
'the average wife or daughter of the
average American man of enormous
fortune stops between butterfly flights
in social realms to study the desires
and ambitions of husband and father
as to the disposition of the millions he
is so industriously acquiring.
Mrs. Leland Stanford was the pio
neer in executing the charitable de
signs of her husbandi She spent
$33,000,000 for the ’ educational ad
vancement of California at Stanford
university alone.
Mrs. Russell Sage is a close second,
with $65,000,000 at her command,
which she is dispensing at the rate of
about $25,000 per day, or about $25,
000,000 in the three years following her
husband's death. Russell Sage gave
50 years of his life to acquire $65,000,
000. At her present rate of expendi
ture Mrs. Sage will spend it all in
carrying out her husband's plans for
the betterment of the human race in
five years. She has endowed the
work of the Russell Sage Foundation,
whose mission is to better the condi
tion of the poor through investigation
and education. She has lifted mort
gages from churches and schools, en
dowed chairs of learning, built and
equipped industrial schools for girls,
lifted the debt from hospitals and
shown interest in New York city to
the extent of renovating the govern
or’s room in the city hall, purchasing
“The tlxbow'’ for the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, planting a mile of
rhododendrons in Central park and
installing a Tillinghast window in the
building of the New York Historical
society.
Work of Miss Helen Gould.
Miss Helen Gould comes third in the
list, with more than $10,000,000 in gifts
from the enormous fortune left by
her father. Jay Gould. While her un
ostentatious charities had always
been a matter of interest, it was not
until the war with Spain that the na
tion became widely interested in her
gifts. At that time she sent her check
for $100,000 to the United States gov
ernment to be applied to the general
relief work among United States sol
diers, and within three months, as a
member of the Women's Relief asso
ciation, she increased her gift by some
$27,000. '
From that time on Miss Gould's in
terest in American soldiers and jack
ies has never flagged. Wherever the
United States flag floats her name is
cheered by the men who serve under
it. The Naval Y. M. C. A. branch on
Sands street. Brooklyn, was built at
her expense as a memorial to her par
ents. Hater she met the expenses of
building a Large addition, and the en
tire output for this one institution is
said to approach closely to $1,000,000.
To the naval Y. M. C. A., at Norfolk,
Va., she gave $25,000. The railroad
men's Y. M. C. A. next aroused her in
terest. and she gave $150,000 to build
a aew home for the Y. M. C. A., at
St. j^puis, Mo., this also a memorial
to her father. Among her gifts, cited
to show the breadth of her interests.
may be mentioned innumerable dona
tions to the Salvation Army, $5,000
given to the establishment of a Uni
versity hospital at Charlottesville, Va.;
$15,000 to the Y. M. C. A. at Tarry
town, N. Y.; $10,000 for the American
College for Girls at Constantinople;
$10,000 to the evangelists who had
been conducting tent meetings in vari
ous parts of New York city and who
were face to face with financial fail
ure; $9,500 for a club house at Tarry
town, with gymnasium and cooking
school for the poor; $40,000 to endow'
a chair of biblical literature at Mt.
Holyoke college, in memory of her
mother; $10,000 for a scholarship at
Vassar to be named for her mother,
Helen Day Gould; the endowment of a
church for Indians at Guthrie, Okla.
Gould Millions Well Spent.
Over $10,000,000 of Jay Gould’s leg
acy to his daughter have gone for chs.r
ity, and almost invariably as a memo
rial *to father or mother. Miss Gould
is assisted in her work by a staff of
trained social workers.
Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan, wife of the
traction magnate, comes next to Miss
Gould in the size of her gifts to
churches and charities. A devout
Catholic, her gifts to the church have
amounted to many million dollars.
Nearly $1,000,000 went to the building
and furnishing of the Cathedral of St.
Peter at Richmond, Va. At Washing
ton, D. C., she established a branch of
the order of the Perpetual Adoration,
building for the order’s use a chapel
and convent. Five French nuns wore
installed there, one of whom is al
ways engaged in prayer before the al
tar. The chapel cost $200,000, and
under its altar Mrs. Ryan has built a
crypt in which will rest the members
of her family. Aside from her church
charities Mrs. Ryan is particularly in
terested in the fight on the white
plague and has endowed sanitariums
and consumptives' colonies in Arizona
and the Catskills. A Virginian by
birth, she has presented to her native
state suitable monuments to mark
the scenes of all battles fought in
Virginia.
In recognition of her gifts to the
church Pope Pius X. bestowed upon
Mrs. Ryan the title of "Countess," but
she has never availed herself of the
privilege. Another gift at the hand of
the Vatican, which she does use, is the
privilege of owning a traveling chapel,
which was installed in her private car,
"Pere Marquette." This is the only
traveling chapel in America, and there
is only one other in the world, the
property of the queen dowager of
Spain.
Mrs. Vanderbilt’s Charities.
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, former
ly Mrs. Rutherford, has just given
$1,000,000 for the erection of model
tenement houses for the use of city
sufferers with tuberculosis. These
tenements will be built on plans espe
cially drawn for Mrs. Vanderbilt and
the scheme includes outside stair
cases, roofs arranged for the accom
modation of convalescents, with log
gias, toilet rooms and a sun screen of
glass: balconies that can be trans
formed into outdoor sleeping rooms
and air passages from street to street,
insuring perfect ventilation. These
apartments will not be rent-free. They
may even prove an interest-paying in
vestment for the Vanderbilts, but they
will be under the patronage of the
Presbyterian hospital authorities, who
are making a tremendous fight on the
l White Plague.
AROUND THE BIG ARC LIGHT
Beetles Attracted by Its Glare Stir
the Naturalist to Give In
formation.
The moonlit sea roared, but louder
was the clatter of the myriad beetles
above the arc light on the board walk.
“Amazing things, beetles,'' the nat
uralist said. “There's a bombardier
beetle, you know, that carries a gun
of IS charges. Eighteen times, if
pursued, this beetle can shoot; under
cover of the noise and smoke he es
capes.
“There's a living beetle that catches
fish. He has a natural diving suit tjiat
enables him to breathe under water.
He will plunge down 14 or 20 feet aft
er a minnow of young shad.
“The sexton beetle spends its life
burying dead animals. It lays 20 eggs
in each carcass, and thus the young,
on hatching, have an abundance of
juicy and high meat to feed on. Sex
tpn beetles, working together, have
been known to bury a rabbit.
“The skunk beetle is so called not
without reason. Dare to come near
him in a garden, and. rising on his
hind legs, he will wave his antennae
furiously and discharge the vilest odor
at you. The common kitchen roa.ch
has this skunk-like gift, also. Hence.
I don t advise you to make a pet of
him."
Ill-Kept Highways and Illiteracy.
Two hundred and fifty million col
lars a year are wasted on bad roads
in the United States, writes Agnes G.
Laut in Collier's. Added to loss on
haul, the storage and extra food rates
make the total expense one billion dol
lars a year. This means a tax of
$12.50 on every man, woman and child
in the country. Corners in the grain
markets are frequently the direct re
sult of bad roads. In four bad-road
states 375,000 people out of 7,000,000
cannot read or write; in four good
road states out of 6,000,000 population
there are 20,000 illiterates.
Best Apple Cider.
Best quality cider can only be made
by selecting best apples. Worm juice
may be more nutritious, but we
wouldn’t care to drink it.
ji^^wHWPPi_i_
are also along the same lines. She
gave the Presbyterian hospital its
fresh air ward and she has paid the
1 expenses of sending trained nurse3
' into the tenements to look after the
sick and to train mothers in the rais
ing of children. She also established
a small hospital in Paris, under the
direction of Dr. Gautier, and when
in the French capital she visits this
hospital daily, ministering to the sick
and lifting their financial burdens.
Another section of the Vanderbilt
fortune Is going into English social
work. The duchess of Marlborough,
formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt, lias es
tablished in London a much needed
home for the wives and children of
prisoners serving long sentences. She
is also interested in the West Ham
hospital, London, and it is whispered
that under the influence of the Church
Army she is becoming a most ab
sorbed social worker among the poor
and wretched of London.
Miss Morgan in Good Work.
Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of J.
Pierpont Morgan, is a typical social
worker of to-day, devoting her gifts
and energies to the educational move
ment for the working classes. As a
member of the National Civic Federa
tion she investigates conditions under
which women labor, and she has do
nated much of the funds necessary to
establish clubs and restaurants for
working people, such as the new club
rooms and restaurant for street car
employes on Third avenue and the
restaurant for workers at the Brook
lyn navy yard, where food is sold at
cost and men are made comfortable
with baths and gymnasiums. Miss
Morgan's idea is to help the poor and
those working on small salaries to
help themselves, to create better con
ditions, not merely to alleviate.
Two young New York women. Miss
Dorothy Whitney, who inherited a
large portion of the William C. Whit
ney fortune, and Miss Mary Harri
man, daughter of the late railroad
king, are interested in the Junior
league work among New York's public
school children, and will donate the
money to start dental clinics for poor
children. Miss Harriman has recent
ly equipped an old Staten Island fer
ry boat and donated it to the Red
Cross committee of Brooklyn to be
used in the fight* on the White Plague.
It will accommodate 100 patients and
three meals will be served daily on
the floating hospital.
Miss Whitney has also given liberal
ly to diet kitchens among the poor
and is interested in the equal suffrage
movement.
Interested in Woman Suffrage.
Two Newr York matrons promise to
spend goodly segments of their for
tunes to advance the cause of votes
lor women. These are Mrs. Clarence
Mackay, who has personally assumed
the expenses of headquarters for the
Equal Franchise society, of which she
is the founder, on the twenty-ninth
floor of the Metropolitan Life build
ing; and Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, who,
as the leader of the Equal Suffrage
party, has assumed the responsibility
of headquarters at 505 Fifth avenue.
Mrs. Mackay. before entering upon
her career as a leader in the franchise
fight, gave large sums to support
Long Island charaties, to the building
of a new church for Trinity Episcopal
parish at Roslyn, L. I„ and to its new
parish house. Large sums she gave
also for the betterment of the public
schools of which she was a director
and to arouse patriotism in the minds
of public school children in New
York city and its environs.
$100,000 to the Nassau hospital at
Mineola, L. ]., and has been inter
! ested in diet kitchens among the poor
of New York.
Miss Giulia Morosini, who inherited
the bulk of the many millions accumu* j
lated by her father, Giovanni P. Mo
rosini, the New York banker who died
a year ago, spends large sums play
ing the perpetual role of Lady Bounti
ful for the benefit of needy ones, and
particularly children in the Bronx.
And at Christmas time she is Lady j
Santa Claus, distributing wagon loads j
of dolls and dollar bills and other gift3
among the poor. Her donations to |
charitable and other worthy institu- ;
tions are large.
A young woman who is making j
Pittsburg sit up and take notice of :
her methods of spending money is I
Miss Helen Fl ick, daughter of a multi- j
millionaire father, who is himself a j
most liberal giver. Miss Frick's name
is on the endowment list of Kingsley i
Settlement House and nearly every :
flourishing charity in Pittsburg, but i
it is in individual cases that her lib
eraltiy shines most clearly. Her j
loyalty to her native city, from which
she will not be lured by New York,
London or Paris, is a cause of rejoic
ing among Pittsburg social workers.
Fights Infectious Diseases.
The two American billionaires, John
D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie,
still order the management of the
charities, but their women folk are by
no means idle. Mrs. Rockefeller has
always been a home-loving woman
who left charities, their investigation
and relief, to her husband, but Mrs.
Harold F. McCormick, formerly Edith
Rockefeller, has her own methods of
conducting charity work. With her
husband sne endowed a new ' Journal
of Infectious Diseases” with $125,000,
shortly after the death of her son.
Jack, from scarlet fever. Her interest
in the Rockefeller Institute for Med
ical Research has also been very
great. But her individual charities
are to her the most absorbing. The
Baptist church, of which she is a
member, has been her chief bene
ficiary and many a tired church work
er and unappreciated pastor lias re
ceived from her a check representing
a long rest or a trip abroad.
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie is greatly in
terested in the fight on the White
Plague and has given liberally to san
itariums. particularly for children.
She also gives to orphanages and in
dustrial homes for girls and is inter
ested in young art students and music
ians.
| In Pittsburg the name of Margaret
Carnegie is not unknown, for in the
name of his little daughter Mr. Car
negie has endowed many social move
ments. including Kingsley Settlement
House, hospital beds. etc. The Margaret
Marrison Carnegie School for Women,
part of the Carnegie institute scheme
of education, is named for his mother
and it is generally thought that Mar
garet Carnegie, aged 12 years, will be
trained to carry out her father's i
scheme of benefactions.
American Consul in Siberia.
Omsk. Siberia, now has an American
consulate, with Adolph F. Reinecke. in
charge. Heretofore there has been
no American consular representation
in the extensive Russian region be
tween Moscow and Vladivostok, over
5,000 miles apart, nl this territory
are many large cities, and the coun
try is showing rapid agricultural de
velopment. Last fall 5,000 Russian
immigrants passed through Omsk
each 24 hours.
WINNEBAGOS WANT BEAMS
Not the Boston Kind, But Mescal from
the Mexican Border for Queer
Purpose.
Congressman J. P. Latta of Nebraska
demands that the Winnebago Indians
of his state be given back the privilege
of chewing mescal beans which the
government ruthlessly deprived them
of some years ago.
The mescal bean grows down on the
Mexican border, and the Indian ex
perts say that its narcotic quality
makes it as dangerous to the noble
red man as whisky, chloral, morphine
or any other drug.
The noble red men, however, most
indignantly deny the allegation, and
declare that it is a part of the Winne
bago religion to chew these beans and
thus hold direct communication with
the Great Spirit.
Congressman Latta, occupying a
middle ground on the question, ar
gues that they are not so bad, and
that the Winnebago Indians were just
as well behaved when they had the
habit as they are now when a pater
nal government forbids it.—Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Charles Shukers.
Charles Shukers, assistant attorney
general, was one time a school teach
er. Qne day he was very busily en
gaged in trying to teach the meaning
of the word “smell" to a primary
class. He was not making a great
deal of headway and finally asked:
“Well, now, what do you use your
nose for?”
The class was very quiet for a mo
ment, when up shot the hand of a
small boy.
“Well, Johnny,” said Mr. Shukers,
encouragingly;
“Wliy," shouted the youngster tri
umphantly, just as « he had made «
great discovery, “we wipe ’em.”—To
peka Capital.
Offspring of Arab Horse.
What is known as the California
horse or mustang is in his ancestry
and essential qualities an Arab.
Four minutes, 45 hi seconds is the
“under water record."
uix 'DticaNAtiAiTa 3iArr ur niuifcjKd
Pitcher Sallee is one of the numerous twirlers on the roster of the St.
Louis National league club. He was recently suspended indefinitely by
Manager Sresnahan for taking a ten-days’ leave of absence without per
mission.
GIBSON SETS NEW RECORD
Pittsburg Backstop Exceeds Charley
Zimmer’s Old Mark for Con
secutive Work.
Catcher “Hack” Gibson of the Pitts
burg Pirates has exceeded the wonder
ful record made by Charley Zimmer,
who caught 111 consecutive games
during the season of 1890.
It is much harder now to make I
such a record than ever before, as the j
game has changed and the wear and
tear on a catcher is harder, especially
when one considers the fact that the :
team he has been catching for has j
been in the lead for so long.
It was on May 5 that Gibson took a j
rest, just for one day, when O’Connor j
relieved him. He then started in to j
work again, and every day since he j
has been seen behind the bat for the !
Pirates.
The nearest any catcher has ever
come to these two records is that of
Flint, who caught 120 out of 121 games j
while a member of the Chicago team j
in 1S77. McGuire, now managing !
Cleveland, caught 132 games during !
the season of 1896, while Kling of the
champion Cubs caught the same num
ber as Flint in 1903. This leaves Gib
son with the record in major leagues
with 140 games which he caught last
season.
The greatest number of games ever
caught during one season was made
by Berry, who caught 175 games while
a member of the San Francisco team
of the Pacific Coast league.
PITCHES FOR MILWAUKEE
Frank Schneiberg, one of the slab
artists of Manager McCloskey of the
Milwaukee American association team.
Luck of the Tigers.
Baseball scouts assert that Detroit
had a lot of luck in securing Pitcher
Browning from the San Francisco
club, over the draft route. Besides
Detroit, the Chicago Cubs. Cincinnati,
St. Louis Nationals and Pittsburg
put in drafts for him. The club
owners drew for the player and Frank
Navin of the Tigers was fortunate
enough to win him. He has won 15
gHr:es out of 17 pitched.
PHILADELPHIA GUTFIELDEF
The above is a photograph ol.' John
W. Bates, the clever outfielder recent
ly traded by the Boston Natlona
league club to the Philadelphia team
Bates was born in Steubenville, O.
27 years ago. He learned to play the
game in that town and made his pro
fessional debut in 1905 with the home
club, then a member of the Ohio
Pennsylvania league. In his first year
he made a reputation as a hard long
distance hitter, and in the fall the
Boston Nationals drafted him at the
suggestion of Tom Needham, the Chi
cago catcher, who was then with Bos
ton. In the spring of 1906 he went
South with the Bostons and earned
a place on the team which he has held
ever since. Bates has been playing
the best game in his career this year
and his sale to Philadelphia was a
great surprise.
Johnson’s Injuries Serious
Walter Johnson, Washington's pre
mier pitcher, and one of the star
twirlers of the American league, may
never pitch another major league
game. Because of an injury to his
shoulder, Johnson was forced to leave
the team in Chicago and return to
Washington for rest and treatment.
The pitcher hurt his arm during a re
cent game at Cleveland. He said then
that his condition was such that he
could not play another game this sea
son. It is feared that one of the liga
ments of Johnson's arm is torn, and
in that event there is only slight
chance for the complete restoration of
the arm. Johnson has pitched 40
games this year and has shown splen
did form.
Demontereville Quits Game.
The other day marked the retire
ment from baseball for good of Kugene
Demontreville, infielder of the Chicago
National league team in the nineties,
and for three years a member of the
Toledo club. Demontreville played
his last game with the New Orleans
team of the Southern league, from
which organization he has just pur
chased his release to go into business
Demont, as he came to be known ip
baseball, has accepted the secretary
ship of a fair association in Birming
ham, Ala., in which city he played
ball after leaving Toledo, and where
he was popular. Demont fielded well
in his last season on the diamond, but
his batting was only fair.
Houston Heads Texas League.
The Texas league finished its cham
pionship season with Houston In pos
session of its first pennant. More
than a dozen players were drafted
or purchased by the major leagues,
and several will report at once.
A Miserly King.
One of the most inveterate hoard
ers on record was George IV.* Not
only was he averse to destroying
books and papers, but he preserved
everything that could possibly be kept.
When he died all the suits of clothes
he had worn for 20 years were discov
ered and sold by public auction. His
executors also found secreted in vari
ous desks, drawers and cupboards
numerous purses and pocketbooks
crammed full of money, to the extent,
it is said, of £20.000. together with
more sentimental treasures in the
form of locks of hair from the tresses
of forgotten beauties of the court.—
London Chronicle.
Use for Titanium.
Titanium is said to be the only
metal suitable for the bearings and
axles of certain modern gasoline mo
tors, which run at speeds as high as
3,000 revolutions a minute. The metal
is obtained from rutile, or titanium di
oxide, a mineral of little commercial
importance heretofore.
iv hull rmumiit rnuimut.
Major Elvin R. Heiberg of the Island
Scouts Is Appointed Governor of
Cotabata, in Mindanao.
Minneapolis, Minn.—Elwin Rong
vold Heiberg, a major of the Philip
pine scouts, formerly captain of Troop
A, Sixth United States cavalry, has
been appointed governor of Cotabata
province, Mindanao, Philippine Is
lands.
It was only a few months ago that
the promotion of Mr. Heiberg to. be
major of the Philippine scouts was re
corded and news of the recent honor
Major Elvin P. Heiberg.
conferred upon the young army officer
was received with pleasure by his
friends in this state.
Mr. Heiberg was born in Rushford
Minn., 34 years, ago. He received
his education in the common and high
schools of La Crosse, Wis., Following
his graduation there he took the com
petitive examination for entrance to
the Military Academy at West Point,
passing with highest honors, and was
appointed a cadet in 1892. During his
four years’ course in the academy he
stood well in his classes, and was
made corporal, sergeant, captain and
finally adjutant of the cadet corps—a
coveted honor among the cadets.
On graduation from West Point in
1896 he was assigned as second lieu
tenant of the Sixth cavalry, but after
ward was transferred to the Third
cavalry, with which regiment he re
mained one year. He was transferred
later to the Sixth and was with Uncle
Sam’s famous cavalry regiment until
he was promoted to the position of
major of the scouts stationed on Cor
regidor island in the Philippines.
Mr. Heiberg has seen service in the
Boxer campaign in Chind, the Porto
Rican campaign during the Spanish
American war, the miners’ troubles in
Idaho, and he commanded a detach
ment of cavalry in Wyoming when the
Ute Indians left their reservation sev
eral years ago.
The governor’s wife, who was Miss
Anna Howell Dodge of Washington,
and their three children, returned
from the Philippines last fall because
tue climate of the tropics was too try
ing on them.
FAMOUS SONG’S BIRTHPLACE
Austin House at Warren, O., Where
Stephen C. Foster Write
"Suwanee River.”
Warren, O.—Within the next few
weeks Col. W. W. Dunnevant of this
city, the owner of the Austin house,
will begin extensive repairs on the
same that will bring the old structure
up to a better standard of appearance
and cleanliness, but almost all of the
lines of the original building will re
main unchanged.
This is not only one of the oldest
buildings in the city, at one time the
The Austin House.
finest hotel between Pittsburg and
Cleveland, but is also famous as the
home of Stephen C. Foster at the
time that he wrote “Way Down Upon
the Suwanee River,” by far the most
popular of the many songs that he
wrote.
There are many people in Warren
who recall the sight of the man in the
streets, and not a few who knew him
personally and had been at his rooms
in the Austin house to hear him play
on the violin and sing during a visit to
this city with his daughter, Marion.
He had come here from New York
city to visit his sister, the mother of
Miss Henrietta Crossman, the actress.
Sunflower Philosophy.
Every boy wonders why a girl's hair
doesn’t become hopelessly tangled.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned dog that had sore ears from
fighting?
It makes no difference when a man
comes home, his wife involuntarily
looks at the clock.
The lion and the lamb lie down to
gether about as often as dentists pull
teeth without pain.
A girl who has at any time taken
part in an amateur show, can't even
wash the dishes without assuming a
tragical air.
We can look at the knot of hair on
the back of any woman's head and
tell whether she is married or single
So long as a woman is in perfect
health she has only her preacher to
rave about, but after she has a doctor
her praise service is divided.—Atcb.
Ison (Kan.) Globe. *