New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-14
ONE MOTHERS DEVOTION.
vps sCANrON's UNTIRING VIGIL AT
THE BEDSIDE OF HER SON

DAY AFTER DAY SHE ATTENDS HIM IN ST
PETERS HosrITAI.-DocroRs Owe no HOPE
FOR nrs RECOVERY CONDITION OF THE
OTHER WOUNDED MN.
one ~ tho most pathetic exhibitions 81 the
love Of a mother may be seen in St Peters HOS
pital by the bedside OF Jimmy" Scanion,
private Of the list Regiment He has the awfu
distinction Of being the worst wounded soldier
I'm the war Before Santiago n Mauser bullet
pierced his left lung. passed through MS hVer
and penetrated his intcstines. The surgeons IN
IN. field hospitals at Siboney said that he would
die in n few hours. Jimmy" was semi-con-
sc,ous but he reused up and said: Say. doc
tor. I'm not going to dic-just yet. l ran away
from home. and mother doesn't know where
am and I'm going to get home and see mother
before croak. and don't you forget 1t. Doctor
Sure enough. Jimmy lived. and when the
Relief lay off Clifton, Staten Island he sent
word tn his mother that he was on board. The
next day he was taken TO ST. Peters. and FOR
tho frat time i'm months mother and son met.
1t was n touching meeting. and perhaps It Is
inst as well to say nothing about It, 1t Is well.
however as the Sisters OF the hospital say, to
tell how this poor woman has revealed the
depths Of n mothers heart and her inexpressible
love and devotion. Ever since the middle OF
July Mrs Scanlon has sat. day after day and
hour by hour by the bedside OF her son. fan
ming him and aiding the Sisters in dressing his
terrible wounds, and. were the people OF this
city TO know what that entails. they would be
able adequately to realize something OF the
sufferngs OF Jimmy Scanlon the horrors Of
war and tho splendid loyalty of mother-love.
Mrs Scanlon is out. She Is old. She is
poor. She has neither Chick nor child" except
Jimmy" and married daughter and the
daughter by great sacrifices. gives her mother
not a living. but ar existence. That is all.
Now Jimmy" Scanlon is looking into an open
grave The doctors say Jimmy ia doomed
He is the picture Of death-thin. gray. CHASTITY
unconscious.
To a Tribune reporter yesterday she said: My
last prop is gong-is gone. Ny daughter is
poor, and I am poorer still / haven't a thing
in the world and don't know what to do"
She Is right. She is old and poor and doctors
and sisters and visitors agree In saying that the
great hearted public. when 1t comes to know OF
Olive Place with her daughter Mrs. Thomas
Gallagher, but Mrs. Scanlon is not at home
nowadays. She is at "Jmmy's" bedside in ST.
Peters Hospital.
Norman Orme. the Arizona Rough Rider. was
feeling better yesterday. He is not allowed to
talk to visitors. but be weakly whispered to a
Tribune reporter last evening: I'm glad my
brother Is mere II does n fellow good to see
Of his own. People have been kind. Good
by"
1t Is now thought that Orme will live. Cor
poral Parker the colored private whose leg was
amputated early In the week. Is In a serious
condition II Is feared that he cannot recover.
Sister Borromeo. Of st. Peters Hospital, said
last night that five of the soldiers had left for
home on furloughs. They are Privates Renke
Reilly Holmes. Douglas and Glynn.
The six Rough Riders who were taken to the
Norwegian Hospital on Friday night are i'm
proving. Two Of them are suffering from
typhoid fever in n mild form.