The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-04
BY AMBULANCE.
Six Hundred Miles Through the
Apache Country.
Unusual Journey Made by Two Ladies in the
Interests Of the Women's National In
dian Association.

There arrived recently In the city two
ladies who left Philadelphia four months
ago for a journey which had objects and fea-
lures out of the common. The ladies are
Mrs. A. s. Quinton, President of the
Women's National Indian Association, and
Miss Emma Clark, member of the same
organization.
The association has for its object the i'm
provement of the condition of the Indians,
and especially devotes itself TO the founda-
ton and maintenance Of schools in districts
where the Government has not yet been
able to establish a needed school for Indians.
Its work is supplementary to the educa-
tional work of the Government, and is rec
ognized by the Indian Department as de-
cidedly useful and beneficial
The association was founded twelve years
ago in Philadelphia and has been gradually
extended till it now has branches 10 thirty
four States the strongholds being in Massa-
chusetts,. Connecticut. Rhode Island and
New York. 1t is unsectarian in character,
so completely SO that it has been in the
habit OF handing over any of its schools to
any denomination that is prepared 10 carry
on the work.
IN QUEST OF INFORMATION.
The present mission OF Mrs. Quinton and
Miss Clark was to travel through the
southern and Pacific States for the purpos
OF obtaining Information as to the most
pressing needs of the Indians in those sec
tons of the country. Want OF time will
PROBABLY make 1t necessary to abandon the
journey mapped out from here northward.
The ladies commenced their work in Flor
Ida, in the Seminole country, travelling from
there through the Southern States to Ell
Paso. thence through New Mexico and ARR
IONA to California. In the southern part of
this State they met with considerable sue
cess, and established branches of the soci-
ety at Los Angeles and six other prominent
points.
AT two points on the route none of the
ordinary means of communication were in
operation, and they had to make use Of the
army ambulance, camping out at night. Six
hundred miles of this primitive mode of
progression was through the Indian coun-
try OF Arizona, and Mrs. QuintOn and her
companion are among the few ladies who
have made this hazardous journey.
TRAVELLED BY AMBULANCE.
We left the railroad in Florida" Miss
Clark told CALL reporter last night, sat
its terminus at Punta Gorda. Then starting
from Fort Myers, frontier town Oh the
west coast, we travelled by the ambulance
fOr 200 miles through the Seminole country.
The Florida scenery was magnificent, and in
marked contrast TO what We saw in our
similar experience in Arizona. There the
sand and heat were very trying and the
country more uninteresting than any have
ever seen.
The ambulance makes twenty miles a
day ana the 600 miles from the Navajo and
MOqul reservations on the north to Wilcox,
where we took the railroad, took us, with
the stoppages, six weeks TO accomplish.
The Government furnished us with an
escort, an Indian scout, an Interpreter, ut
times two aud six men, under the command
of nm officer.
We had not the slightest trouble of any
kind, and the Indians always treated US
with great civility. There has been dis
turbanee in Northern Arizona since we
passed through there, but everything was
quiet enough at that time"
Mrs. Qninton Will speak here on the OBJ
lects OF the society.