Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1910 — An Ingenious Philanthropist. [ARTICLE]

An Ingenious Philanthropist.

After the Civil War ( many freedmen were sent from the Southerk states to the North to find employment, and exactly how to aid them was often quite a difficult problem. In one case, for example, a Boston clergyman found himself responsible for the welfare of thirty negro women, coming by boat from Virginia. Time, was passing, and he did not know where he could put them. On the day before the steamer was due he chanced to meet the late Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale on the steeet To him he told his story. Dr. Hale looked puzzled. “I’m sure I don’t know what to suggest,” he said. "I could give you five dollars, but that wouldn’t do much good. Let me think.” Finally this scheme was evolved. It was decided to insert an advertisement in one of the local newspapers to the effect that thirty cooks were coming from Virginia. Dr. Hale, who doubtless was aware of the domestic troubles of the Boston ladies, went away smiling, and the other posted off to the office of the Transcript. The next day Mr. Hale left town foe his summer vacation, and it was not till fair that he heard the outcome of his experiment. On his return he found a letter from the clergyman awaiting him. “Thirty carriages came to the wharf when the boat came in,” it said, “and all the cooks are satisfactory.”