The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-17
CLARE III. RuRLEIGH.
numbered $50

Improvements of the past year were the con-
nectiOn of the Seminary building, by an arcade,
with the Ohio Cottage, after it had been christ
ened Annie Wittenmyer Cottage. Another
building has been fitted up as hospital, and
named Invalids' Rest A speaking tube has
been placed between the Superintendent's
Office and kitchen, gift of Harriette l.. Reed, of
Dorchester, Mass, and Sarah NJ Alvord, of
Syracuse.
The purchase of five acres more Of land has
added fine garden facilities. The garden has
been very prolific and yielded abundant sup
plies for the table. Drs. Quayle and QuayIe
were very devoted in their care of the sick.
The Superintendent closed her report by
thanking Corps and Departments which had
remembered the Home with boxes Of supplies
canned fruits. and reading matter, but urged
upon all donors the importance OF paying ex-
pressagc and freight on all boxes sent.
Total cash receipts of the Home for the year
were SIl.9O4.70; expenditures. 81, 1891; ball
ance. $4,170.99
Chairman wittenmyer reported that, not
withstanding adverse rulings in the Pension
Office and other difficulties, So Army Nurses
had been placed on the roll the past year.
Total number secured under the Army Nurse
pension law. 500. Amount now going out
annually from the United States Treasury into
the homes of the heroic women nurses Of the
war, $7300S.
during my administration National Presi-
dent, the movement to establish Home was
inaugurated and carried through to success.
From that time to this it has had my best
thought and efforts. j have had the hearty,
united help of the Board Of Directors, and by
our watchful care we have run the institution
on q limited income without mourning debt;
supported large and helpless family; assisted
Army Nurses who could not come TO the Home;
secured the passage of the Army Nurse pension
law; obtained rulings that have made 10 gen.
orally effective; and have in these FIVE years
accumulated. according to my estimates. about
S65, 900 worth of property in lands, houses, ma
chinery, and furnishings.
mo money has come ont OF the National
Treasury to accomplish this except the 81. 600
appropriated in Detroit and the $357.S5 paid
by the National President TO help defray the
Army Nurse pension work. This is record
that any Board Of Directors may well be proud
OF. But for this new benefaction of four per
cent, our funds would now, however, be about
exhausted"
We quote from the annual
REPORT OF PUMA l.. cowLEs
these noticeable points, which all should re-
member who are interested in the grand work
that the Home is doing:
For admission to the Home, proper testi-
monials, in answer to questions sent, are re-
quired in each case, and physicians certificate
as TO their physical and mental condition. The
greatest care is taken that those admitted
should be worthy Of the sef-sacriieing support
and care of the National WR.C
"The Board do not consider that the Home
could be home, If it be refuge for those wine
have mind and body impaired by the use Of
opiates. Neither have they the funds for help
and appliances TO give proper care to those who
should be treated at sanitariums or hospitals.
Corps Endorsing applications will greatly assist
the committee by carefully considering these
points.
"Since the opening of the Home 81 appli.
cants have been approved; nine have died be-
fore coming to the Home, 70 have arrived and
been cared for. SO present during the past year,
and 43 inmates are now at the Home. All i'm
provements ordered by the Board have been
carried out fully. The new arcade is heated
and lighted. 1t is ready for floral gifts and
| plants that shall make it "a thing of beauty
| and Joy forever"
Only two graves have been added during the
past year One inmate died while absent oil a
| visit and was buried in her native town.
| When the severe Winter, the age and feeble
ness Of the mem bers of the Home family, and
| the severe epidemic of grippe, which pros
| trated every person, and nearly every person
the second time, during the Winter, is con-
sidered, the exemption from death is a COM
pliment to the excellent care and nursing all
| receive.
Mrs. Wittenmyer was accorded highest
praise by the Secretary and Chairman of the
Board of Directors for her labor, anxiety,
far-seeing wisdom, and watchfulness that no
| interests be neglected" Oh
| Superintendent Plympton was praised for
the answering fidelity and great ability u
with which she had discharged all the affairs
intrusted to her.
| When, owing to oyerwork and failing health
her resignation was offered to the Board, it was
received with great regret and every mark o.
appreciation for abors performed.
Past Department President Clare III. Bur
leigh, of Massachusetts, who was bereaved o.