Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-07-01
FOR RELIEF WORK
What the Daughters of the American
n Revolution are Authorized
to do.
mrs. Holley Points Out the Way that
Troops in the Field Can
be Helped.
Valencia Put on the Dry Dock for
Inspection and Our Boys May
Leave Thursday.
For Our Soldiers,

For Our Soldiers,
EDITOR TRIBUNE: The women Of our
land. in all states, are again showing the
same spirit of SIC" as do the men, and I
know that we of North Dakota will not
be lacking.
The "National Society of the Daught-
ers of the American Revolution" has
authorized charge of all hospital work
in both army and navy, 80 far as female
nurses are concerned. The organization
is designated the I'D. A. R. Hospital
Corps" The president general, Mrs.
Daniel Manning, is chairman of the war
committee.
Those who remember the work done
in the civil war must bear in mind that
the fields of action, nov, are beyond our
shores, the battles are to be fought in
foreign lands, the supplies furnished for
our brave men must be conveyed by
navy transports. These circumstances,
necessarily, render the methods some
what difficult, and also make a differ.
enc to a certain extent, in the kind and
quality of articles to be furnished by
the workers at home.
Surgeon General Geo. M. Sternberg,
u. S. army and Surgeon General w. r.
Van Reypen, U. S. navy, we'll under
standing the fact, have, with the cordial
support of President Mckinley, turned
the whole matter over to the hands of
our committee, sending all applica ions
for nurses to our headquarters. Quite a
number have already been sent to Key
West, although Surgeon Sternberg says,
it is not his attention to send any female
nurses with the troops into Cuba, but
desires a certain number for distribution
in the hospital wards for special diet.
AS a rule, he thinks the nurses should
not be less than thirty nor over fifty
years of age.
The compensation is $50 per month,
with board, lodging and transportation
from home, furnished by the govern
ment.. The following questions to be
answered by the applicant:
Name in full.
Address and telegraph station.
Desile appointment in army or navy.
How O o can you leave home?
Have you had yellow fever?
Are you a graduate of a training
school for nurses?
If so, what school and what year?
Have you nursed continuously since
graduating?
If not, what has been your occupa-
ton?
What experience have you had in in
valid cookery?
What is you age, date and place of
birth?
Color, height and weight?
Single, married or widowed?
Are you strong, healthy, have you
always been SO?
Been successfully %vaccinated, and
when?
Your legal residence?
The work at present is twofold, &C.
cording to the request of the surgeon
general. First, the examination Of all
applications for nurses, whether adj
dressed to the president or the secre.
taries of the war and navy surgeon gen
erals, or directly to our committee.
The other relates to the supplying
of army nurses with aprons, one dozen
each, furnishing the surgeon general of
the army with delicacies to supplement
the rations of the invalids, and suitable
clothing for immediate use in the hos
pitfalls. He has informed us that hun
dreds of pajamas, hospital shirts and
negligee shirts could be used at once to
great advantage. I shall soon receive
patterns, samples, etc., for our use, also
a list of the most desirable delicacies.
At the same time we are to help on
the war fund to aid any families of
soldiers now iu the field, according to
the localities. I most sincerely hope that
the home of Company A will not be be-
hind in any of these measures.
FRANCES q. HoLLEY,
State Regent and Member of War Com
mittee.
Bismarck, N. D., June %, 1898.
Estate papers please copy
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