The magazine of American history with notes and queries . he disbursed money liberally. Hewas prominent in charities; he helped to build churches; he was an enthu-siastic supporter of the Young Mens Christian Association, and of cityand other missions; he was one of the Executive Committee of the LongIsland Historical Society, contributing generously to its library fund, and ALFRED SMITH BARNES 369 to the new building itself; he lent material aid in erecting the Academyof Music and the Mercantile Library, and in perfecting many other enter-prises of an educational character. When he settled in
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . he disbursed money liberally. Hewas prominent in charities; he helped to build churches; he was an enthu-siastic supporter of the Young Mens Christian Association, and of cityand other missions; he was one of the Executive Committee of the LongIsland Historical Society, contributing generously to its library fund, and ALFRED SMITH BARNES 369 to the new building itself; he lent material aid in erecting the Academyof Music and the Mercantile Library, and in perfecting many other enter-prises of an educational character. When he settled in Garden Street theChurch of the Pilgrims had just been completed, and Rev. Dr. Storrs wasinstalled in its pulpit within a very short period. He joined this churchby letter, as did also Mrs. Barnes, and their second son was the first childbaptized in the new church edifice. For a year or more after they removedto their home in Clinton Avenue they continued to attend Dr. Storrs Sun-day services, but owing to the distance, finally transferred their church. SUMMER COTTAGE OF ALFRED S. BARNES, COTTAGE CITY, MARTHA S VINEYARD. relations to the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, to which Rev. was called in 1855. In his varied schemes of Christian andpractical philanthropy Mr. Barnes always found in his wife a judicious andsympathetic counselor. She was herself an active worker in many chari-ties, notably the Old Ladies Home, of which she was treasurer, and the Home for the Friendless, on Concord Street, of which she was presidentfor several years prior to her death in 1881. Dr. Storrs, in a glowing trib-ute to the memory of her noble and well-rounded life, said : Empires godown, dynasties disappear; but the asylum, the hospital, the home for thesick, the institutions in which the blind are made to see and the dumb to 370 ALFRED SMITH BARNES speak—these continue. So she has linked her life with those which are totestify of her in the future time. All good things last
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