The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-25

the services of the modest little woman
I'm behalf of the American army. All
the rival associations admit her claims.
She did more for the sick, wounded and
homeless soldiers than any other indi-
Vidual and spent as much for the re-
lief from her own purse as was raised
by the Red Cross societies.
Miss Chanler is another young woman
of great wealth. member of the As
tor family, who, with Miss Anna Bou-
lingny, established a hospital for Off :
GERS at Ponce and another afterward
at San Juan at her own expense. She
still supports them, although she has
returned home and left them in charge
of the army surgeons.
Miss Annie Wheeler showed great de-
votion and herOism as a volunteer
nurse at Santiago. and afterward at
Montauk Point. Her application for
employment in the regular hospital
corps was rejected by the surgeon gen
eral and the Red Cross because she
was not a trained nurse and had had
no experience, but she accompanied her
father on the Santiago expedition, and
when he went to the front she re-
mained in the rear and took care of the
unteers did equally heroic and valuable
service. notably Mrs. Lesser, Mrs.
Trumbull White, correspondent of the
Chicago Record on the Red Cross ship,
and Miss Janet Jennings. another
newspaper correspondent. Mrs. How
land came all the way from Los An
geles and paid her own expenses for
the privilege of serving her country;
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learn, came from Salt Lake City under
similar circumstances.
The daughter OF Secretary Long and
three of her fellow-students at Johns
Hopkins Medical college spent their
vacations nursing the sick and wound
ed. Mrs. Ennis, a colored woman from
the Freedman's hospital at Washing
ton. went to Santiago with the army
and has been there ever since nursing
the colored soldiers. She is one of the
humble heroines of the war and is just
as much entitled to the thanks of con-
gress and a medal as Miss Barton or
Miss Gould.
And what compensation is there for
Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth, of New
York, who not only faced disease and
death in the hospitals of Fort Monroe
and Montauk Point all summer, but
gave her only daughter, a beautiful
girl of nineteen, who was more precious
to her than all of Miss Gould's mill
ions? The National Society of the
Daughters of the Revolution will erect
a monument to commemorate the hero
ism and sacrifice of Rublna Walworth.
Her mother was one of the three found
ers of that order and she was the
grandchild of the late Chancellor Wal
worth. Of New York.
Who will erect Il monument or pro-
vide a gold medal in honor of Sister
Mary Larkin, a sweet nun from En-
mitsburg, Md, who died of yellow
fever, or offer a similar tribute to the
heroism of another brave volunteer
nurse who died at Chickamauga?
Fifteen hundred contract nurses were
employed by the medical corps during
the war and there were about $50 vol
unteers. The exact number Is not
known. because their names We're not
upon the rolls. Twelve Of the contract
nurses sacrificed their lives and the
three volunteers / have referred to died
in the harness. This is a remarka bly,
small percentage. only fifteen out OF a
total OF $50 who endured the climate
the hardships and exposure TO con-
tagious diseases. but among the living
as we'll as the dead are many vet un-
honored and unsung whose services de.
serve special recognition.