The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-07
AN ARISTOCRATIC NURSE.
Miss Margaret orion ChanIer, and
Her Work In Porto Rico.

Her Work In Porto Rico.
From the New York Journal
Miss Margaret Aston Chanler is ill at
Ponce, in Porto Rico. The assiduous Ia
Dor that her hospital for soldiers exacts
proved too much for her strength. She
founded the hospital and she is a nurse of
the Red Cross in it. Only one person, a
gentlewoman like herself, aids her. Miss
Margaret Astor Chanler must remain at
her post, even if her illness be grave.
Her friends, who are not in Ponce, urge
her to leave her patients FOR month or
a week. She needs rest and a change of
air. they say. She should cease to worry.
But Miss Margaret Aston Chanier remains.
Nurses elsewhere have no duties more
arduous than hers. She is at the bedside
of every one i'll, at any ones command.
and there is no complaint so terrible that
she may not take care of it in person in
cessantly. Yet the path in life that was
made for her was measurably pleasant
and sweet.
She has an income of $4,000 a year.
The gray stone mansion at No, 3H West
Seventy fourth street, that every one ad-
mires Is hers She has an ancestral coun-
try seat at Rokeby, near Barrytown, N.
Y. The Erevoorts, Win'hroDs, Ruther-
furds StuyVesants, Livingstons are her
relatives.
She is the great eat-granddaughter of
the original John Jacob Aston. She is the
great-granddaughter of William b. Astor.
William Waldorf Astor, John Jacob Aston,
+. Marion crawford, Mrs Haig, Mrs. Orme
Wilson, Miss Van Allen, Miss Marian Lang
don Miss Maude Howe Elliot and Col.
Delaney Kane are her cousins.
She is the granddaughter of Sam Ward,
who had wit, classical learning and eX-
quisite taste. She is the grandnieces OF
Julia Ward Howe of Terry, the sculptor.
John Armstrong Chanler and William As
tor Chanler are her brothers.
Miss Chanler attended the HOSPITAL at
No 299 West One Hundredth street to
gain experience as nurse She went TO
the lectures and aided in the operations.
Sister Eva the head nurse there, said
at the time: Miss Margaret Chanler
seems to me to be one of the most promis-
ing Of all the society girls who are join
ing the Order of the Red Cross. II
had the privilege to select one among
them to work under me l would select
her without a moment of hesitation There
is not a trace of frivolity in her. She is
reserved, self-contained and very woman
Nv. She has a strong, sympathetic face.
she has d face TO cheer and inspire an in
valid Yesterday the recruits witnessed
q very difficult operation. l was i'm
pressed by the admirable way in which
Miss Chanler endured it, She flushed Mt
first at the sickening sight, but she never
finched We can rely upon her composure
under the most trying circumstances.
DR. A None Lesser, the surgeon In
chief, who performed that operation, in
the last days of April, commented upon
Miss CHAMBERS vocation as nurse in
similar manner? At her home she receiv-
ed Miss Pennington and Miss Cronleim of
New Haven. before their departure for
Cuba, and they describe her character
there to Miss Barton as one of unusual
strength, allied with a great deal of sweet
ness They said that she was self-reliant,
without arrogance.
Jack Iselln, who was treated at her hos
pital, said on his return here; Il thank
God that Miss Chanler was there. 1 never
saw fearless devotion comparable to hers"
Gen. Miles, recognizing the value of her
service, made of her a part of the regu-
lar army medical corps. Mr. and Mrs
Alexander Van Rensselaer, brought to her
on their yacht, the May, a great quantity