The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-02-08
ATAnnY-Ho FOR GLEN ECHO.


tatives of the church and the army at her feet.
TALAY-Ho FOR GLEN ECHO.
Tho woman's Clinic Midwinter Picnic at
the National Chautauqua.
For some time past that new and most useful
organization, the Woman's Clinic, has been
looking about for permanent quarters 1t only
organized in October, 1890. 1t was designed
''an institution for the relief and practical
treatment by women physicians of women and
children under five years of age, without dis
tinction of race or creed, who need assistance,
and, by reason of limited means, are unable to
meet the ordinary charges for medical advice.
To this end a number of women physicians
promised their active assistance, and treat such
cases without remuneration. A small fee of
ten cents is charged PATIENTS but such sums are
devoted exclusively to the necessary expenses
of the institution, such as rent, drugs, ETC. This
small fee, while inadequate for the mainte
nance of the Clinic, prevents those applying
from considering themselves charity patients,
and losing thereby something of their self-re-
spect."
1t has board of directors as follows: Presi-
dent Mrs. H. L. Coolidge; Maj. w. b. Clapp,
DIR. d. S. Lamb, Mr.. Dan &. Lloyd, DR.. H. G.
Yarrow Mrs. e. E. Mason, DR.. Mary Parsons,
Mr.. f. j. Heiberger, DR.. j. II. Bryan, Dr.. D.
w. Prentiss, DR.. William Lee, DR.. Swami NJ.
Burnett. Mr.. A. S. Solomans and Professor
E. I. Fristoe; also the Clinical Staff Mrs. w.
| W. Heron and Mrs. e. B. Sheldon. Consul
ting Staff-Dr. j. Ford Thompson, Dr. II. c.
Yarrow, DR.. Mary Parsons, DR.. d. w. Prentiss,
DR.. William Lee, DIR. j. III. Bryan, DR.. ID. $.
Lamb, DR.. Mary D. Spackman, Dr., Swan Il.
Burnett, DR.. H. l.. E. Johnson, DR.. W. Il.
Hawkes., DR.. w. W. Johnston, and DR.. j. E.
Brackett Clinical staff-Dr. Ida j. Heiberger
Womans Medical College, Pennsylvania; Dr.
Amelia Erbach, Columbian University, city;
DR.. Julia L. Smith, Howard University, city;
! DIR. Clara Bliss Kinds, Columbian University,
city. 1t has since October II, 1890, treated 262
patients. But the clinic has no permanent
habitation.
There is always a way provided for everything
! that ought to be sustained, and the 'Clinic' re-
Gently received an offer looking to permanent
] location that resulted in mid-winter picnic on
! Friday last The board of managers OF Glen
! Echo Chautauqua (Which has come to stay
made the Woman's Clinic an offer Of enough
land on their grounds for suitable home for
this latest and one of the best OF helps for
comparatively helpless women and children.
A visit of inspection was arranged for Friday,
and it took the 'sTally-ho,' nothing else being
large enough, to carry some sixteen interested
individuals-mostly of the medical profession
to the ground. The cafe having recently been
burned, the ''picnic lunch" had to be carried in
the hamper of the coach. 1t was merry COM
pany who, wrapped in big overcoats and rugs,
took top or inside seats for the unique winter
picnic and started from 'Chautauqua head
quarters" 612 Fourteenth street.
The company consisted of Clara Barton, of
the Red Cross; DR.. William Lee, DR.. ID. s.
Lamb, DR.. j. b. Hubbell, DR.. M. ID. Spackman,
DR.. IdaJ. Heberger, Dr. L. p Hosford, Mr.. A. S.
Pratt, Mrs. d. S. Lamb, Mrs. H. l.. Coolidge,
president of the Womans' Clinic; Mrs E. E.
Mason, Miss e. G. Stoner, president OF the
Spinner Memorial Association; Mrs. Susie
Birch Jennings, secretary of the Glen Echo
Chautauqua; Mrs. Mary e. Mcpherson, and Mrs.
Emily l.. Sherwood, special correspondent for
Chautauqua of Glen Echo. After delightful
ride to the music of the echoing horn the party
arrived on the grounds at about 1:3O, when hot
coffee and lunch we're served. After that they
set forth to inspect the spot designated for
women's clinic and training school for nurses.
The ground selected is on high bluff over
looking the river, free from malaria, and slop-
ing away on three sides, thus affording not
only good prospect, but excellent drainage.
The doctors and accompanying guests were all
delighted with the proposed location, and there
is but little doubt that the 'Woman's Clinicn
will accept the offer of eight or ten acres of
land on which to locate permanent quarters for
cases requiring long treatment, where charming
scenery, good air, and comparative quiet all
tend to repose OF mind and health or body.
When the question of accepting location was
voted on there was no dissenting voice, and
when DIR. Lamb picked up discarded horse
shoe all felt that by that lucky token favor
able opinion was omened by the tates.
DR.. Lee said that Gen. Spinner formerly Wis
tied the Potomac at this very spot bringing
often invited guests-both ladies and gentle
men-WhO would camp out ana nsn Tor days,
as it was sport of which he was very fond.
/ Doctor Lee was on several occasions one of the
party Gen. Spinner, he said, was a great ad-
mirer of nature, and loved to be in the vicinity
! of the living creatures of the woods, streams,
and hillsides about Washington.
The writer had been on these grounds
little over two weeks before, and was much as
tonshed to see how Glen Echo Chautauqua is
beginning to materaze. The spot then pointed
out as the heamphitheatre grounds was untouched.
| To-day fourteen stone piers and rods of stone
wall already laid outline the immense central
building, and models of suspension bridges to
be hung above the yawning chasms, the Grecian
temple, the temple OF fine arts, and other neces-
sary accessories of the new idea are already
under way. Aladdins lamp seems to have
been rubbed to some purpose.
Workmen are everywhere on the grounds as
busy as beavers, building on those rugged hills
and preparing for the temples of educational
and healthful summer resorts. Under the
amphitheatre flows lovely stream of water,
leaping from rock to rock, and grotto is to be
built there, which will forever keep its beauties
available. Great brush-wood fires scattered
| about these hills lent a charm to the winter
landscape All the doctors, masculine and
feminine, of the party and the guests each
scrambled up hill and down through brake and
briar unweariedly. All pronounced this pros
pecting winter picnic one of the most enjoyable
| OF their experiences.
The board of directors of the Woman's Clinic
met Saturday, at 6 r NJ, in the rooms of the
| Women's Executive Committee of the National
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