The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-17
NOVEL WORK or CLEVER WOMEN.

The Princess of Wales hospital ship,
which is to carry the sick and wounded
soldiers back to England, is chartered
and equipped by the British Red Cross
committee with the balance Of the
money which was collected by the Prin-
cess of Wales branch of the National
Aid society at the time of the Egyptian
campaign in 1885, The Princess of
Wales, in addition to fitting out the ship
intends to expend $1,000 on luxuries and
comforts for the invaded soldiers. A
complete hospital train of seven car
riages with kitchen and all necessary
accessories, is being constructed at
Birmingham and 400 men are at work
upon it night and day. Sir John Farley
will be in charge of the train. Equip
ment for hospital train to be called
Princess Christian, has been sent out
to Durham Provision has been made by
the army nursing reserve to supply ad-
ditional trained nurses for the various
military hospitals. Twenty nurses nave
already sailed for the Cape from Lon
don. They will go to the front, but will
be appointed to the base hospitals,
which, as far as possible, will be sta
toned within short distance of the
scene of hostilities. More nurses Will,
naturally go later. Miss Garrick, super
intendent of the English army nursing
service, accompanied by her seven sis
tiers, all of whom are trained nurses,
were the first regular nurses to arrive
at the seat of war in South Africa.
Queen Victoria has given largely to the
Transvaal The women of the Midland
Counties Needlework guild have made
1900 garments, 1000 of which are on
their way to Africa, 200 have been sent
through the war office, direct to Dur
ban, 200 will go on the American
women's hospital ship, and $50 on the
Princess of Wales hospital ship.
Miss B. A. Mulroney of Pennsylvania
went to the Klondike a little more than
two years since, and has now become a
factor in the mining settlement. At first
she opened a grocery store at Dawson
City, but was obliged to close it, being
unable to obtain supplies. At the juno
ton of the Eldorado and Bonanza
creeks she located a building lot, and
put up a hotel, and around that has
grown the town of Grand Forks. She
extended her building operations, and
last spring she sold the hotel for $4,000.
In the summer she built the Fairview
hotel, in Dawson, then the largest
building in that town, with thirty
rooms, all electrically equipped. She was
the principal promoter of a telephone
company, which bought out rival con-
Germ, and now has it's lines connecting
Dawson. Grand Forks and Dominion, at
the mouth of Caribou Creek, and with
in a year expects to connect Sulphur
and Hunker creeks with Dawson. When
the need of a supply of drinking water
was felt in Dawson Miss Mulroney
aided in the establishment of the Hy-
geia Water company. This winter Miss
Mulroney will visit her family in Penn
svlvania. and she intends to go on to
England, where there are other mem
bers of the family, and to remain in
Europe for the Paris exposition next
year.
An interesting story is told OF a
widow. with two children to support,
who was housekeeper of an Indianapo-
lis hotel until her health failed. She
had at last to resign her position,