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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 17, 30 April 1908, Page 35

It is said "ttiat Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan, wife of the New York millionaire, has so much charity work .on hand that she has a private office and stafi of clerks and stenographers. Here she spends every morning attenSSinig to the business" which she has made her- own. No charitable institutions are better managed than those which she has endowed, for she requires of them regular reports, and she watches them closely. She has given "away about four million dollars in >buil<d'ing hospitals, convents, schools, and churches, and before each gift has been made Mrs. Ryan has convinced herself of Its necessity.. i