The National tribune., 1893-03-23


| the enemies of the Union, who would perpetuste
| the principles to which this association stands
pledged, and who have attained the age OF IL years
shall be eligible 10 membership in the Woman
Relief Corps.
OUR ARMY NURSES.
! Instructions in Securing Pensions-The New
Record Book.
Past National President Annie Wittenmyer, Spec
ial Agent, W.R.C., to secure evidence and push
| the claims of Army Nurses, is gratfed with the
rulings which have been promulgated through the
Pension Office, n copy Of which has been furnished
her.
According to these rulings all Army Nurses who
can prove six months hospital service in tho care
of the sick and wounded soldiers, and inability to
earn q support, can secure pensions, whether they
were commissioned not. Everything depends
on proof; all testimony must be sworn to.
As President of the Board of Directors, National
W.R.C. Home, entrusted with the work Of COM
pleting an Army Nurse Record. to be placed in
Government keeping, Mrs. Wttenmyer has re.
ceived the Army Nurse Record Book. 1t is a beau
tiful book. a sample page before US indicates, a
large folio Of 1000 pages. and will be placed in the
War Department or Pension Office, at Washington.
as National Convention may direct.
PAGE IN MINIATURE.
Following Ia the form ana text Oh q page Oh Tue
Record Book:
Authenticated Army Nurse Roll. .........ls9.
Name.
Address.
Name when enrolled.
Address when enrolled.
Commissioned volunteer. 49,.
Commissioned by......
Appointed
Date Of entering service.
Entered service at.
Served in the following hospitals
Released from service
Date OF release ........day
Remarks...
The following Instructions to Army Nurses !"
and description of the Army Nurse Record Book,
with instructions, given by Mrs. Wit,ennyer to
aid Army Nurses in securing pensions and COM
petng their records.
INSTRUCTIONS TO ARMY NURSES
]. Any Army Nurse who rendered service in the
military hospitals for six months, more, in the
service by the records of the War Department. or
ON the evidence of those whose official position or
service Is matter Of record, and who Is unable to
earn her own support, !, entitled to q pension
Assistant Secretary OF the Interior.
2. All testimony must be sworn TO- and be def
mite. Old papers and letters of little value as
testimony, and no matter how valuable as keep
sakes viii! never be returned. A certified copy of q
valuable paper is acceptable in the Pension
Office the original document.
8. The application for pension, although sworn
to before two witnesses, Is only sworn deciara-
tioD and will be Of no value unless the statements
therein made are sustained by proper testimony.
There are many who have filed their appliea-
tons for pensions and nre hoping to secure them,
but there being no proof of service their claims will
not go through.
4. If a claimant has changed her name by marry
ing since the time of service, she must make proof
of marriage. Mortified copy of marriage certif-
oSnG fha ffr,nfrr INF
the minister who performed the ceremony, will be
accepted rs proof of identity.
5. Claimants should always put the numbers of
their claims the outside of the afIidavits they
send 10 the Pension Office. If they have them
They arc in much less danger of being lost.
Help and further instructions will be given If
desired.-Annie Wittenmyer, Saratoga, Pa.
ARMY NURSE RECORD BOOK.
The new Record Book In which the Army
Nurses are to have their names and work recorded
is a large and elegantly bound volume about half
bound in the best red Russian leather and the work
while in good taste, is so strong that the book will
bear handling for centuries.
The book contains 1000 pages, and each nurse
will be allowed one page in which TO represent
her work. None but those whose work is verified
will be recorded. Those who have failed and con-
tinue to fail in the matter of giving the place or
places of service, and the time of service Mt east
the month and year, will not be placed in the
book.
Many have omitted to give either time or place
of service. There is yet time to supply this de-
fciency, and those who do not do it will not go
into the book.
understood when IL is known that the names of
10000 women appear on the roll of the War
Department employed as nurses cooks and laun-
dresses during the war, all mixed up promiscu-
ously. Also, that most of the volunteer nurses
who rendered service without pay omitted
altogether.
Many of the nom commissioned nurses rendered
heroic service equal 10 those receiving pay from
the Government II Is due to all Of these that their
names and brief showing of their services should
be recorded and become permanent roll OF honor;
and il any, from the most hOnored to the lowlfest
worker in the hospitals. left out it will be their
own fault.
Those serving less than six months can be re-
corded in this book, but none but those who rem
dered actual service in hospitals battefields
will be recorded In looking over the record book
of the Office from which the new book will be made
up II Is found that not one-half have given name
Of their State and town and the hospital they
served
This is sample Of the records that
WILL NOT GO IN:
II was an army nurse; served year and half.
/ am entitled to go on the roll OF honor. did
faithful work for our soldiers from the Fall of 81
Such a record would not go in. We want TO
know i'm what hospitals she served, who the Sur
of her hospital experiences Each nurse is to have
q page. II will not look well blank. Let each try
to fill her page take some time to think, get
friends 10 help if necessary, and give to the world
a record of work that she viii be proud Of
Those who will not trouble themselves. after re-
ceiving oil kinds of notices. to send in their records
will be understood as not wishing to go In the
record book of army nurses.
FARRAGUT FLAGSHIP SOUVENIR.
From Past National President Elizabeth Darcy
Kline we have an interesting souvenir of the old
war days. which tells its story. This is piece
Of Farragut's flagship Hartford. bearing inscrip
ton beginning with Farraguts reply when told
there were torpedoes in the ships course. The in
scription follows:
Damn the torpedoes; go ahead!"
From one of the stanchions of the Hartford,
launched October. 1855 Boston, Mass.)
Farraguts Flagship Mt the engagement of Mobile
Bay,
Aug. 5, 1864.
DEPARTMENT GLEANINGS.
MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION.