The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-10-26

gale. as described by a Lon
don correspondent. was an ex-
ceedingly simple one. The
comm, covered with Miss
Nishingale's white cashmere shawl.
vas taken from South street and con-
veyed to Waterloo. The conn was
carried to the train by Grenadier.
Coldstream and Scots guards. The
procession reached East Mellow AZ
three o'clock. Rev. 8. M. Watson and
Rev. T. @. Gardiner omciated at the
grave. The mourners here were re-
stricted to relatives Of Miss Nightin-
gale-Doctor and Mrs. Shore Nighttn-
gale. Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Shore Night
ingale. Mr.. and Mrs. Vaughan Nash.
Dir Harry verney. and one who bore
the honored name Of Arthur Hugh
Clough.
The death OF this remarkable wom-
an At the age of ninety-seven marks
an era Her intelligence was insep-
arabic with an intense interest In the
alienation Of human suffering. This.
at the early age OF twenty-one. led her
to give attention to the condition OF
hospitals. Like John Howard before
her. she started upon q "circumnavi-
cation Of charity" visiting and In
specting the civil and military hos
pitfalls all over Europe. With the Sis
tiers Of Charity in Paris she studied
the syAtem OF nursing and manage
ment in the French hospitals. and her
self went into training seven years
later a. . nurse in the institution OF
~ KofRAr1.
werth. Returning to England. she put
into thorough working order the sana
torium for governesses In connection
with the London institution. The term
Of Apprenticeship. which thus served
a. an unconscious preparation for her
life work. extended over a decade OF
years.
When in the spring OF 1854 war
was declared with Russia, a British
army of twenty-five thousand men en-
barked for the scene Of the conflict
The battle of Alma was fought Sep
TENDER 20, and the wounded and sick
were sent to the rude hospitals pre-
pared for them on the banks Of the
Bosphorus. These were soon over
crowded and their unsanitary condi
ton was such that the rate Of NOR
tally far exceeded that of the fiercest
and bloc, lest battle itself.
II was at this great crisis that Miss
Nightingale offered to organize at
Scutari nursing department upon the
latest sanitary basis, and Lord Her
bert, then Of the war ONCE. gladly
accepted the offer. Within week
- the
way with her band of nurses. and ar
rived in Constantinople November =,
on the eve Of Inkerman and at the be
thinning Of the famous and terrible
winter of that disastrous campaign.
She found the wounded from that
second battle Milling the wards with
$500 patients. and during that crit
cal period she exhibited a devotion
to her work and to the comfort Of the
sufferers that has passed into history
as one of the most remarkable ex
hibitions of self-oblivious love that
the world has ever recorded. Thia
grand woman stood for twenty houra
out Of the twenty-four to see ths
every accommodation and comfort
that was possible IN their condition.
In the spring of 1855. while in the
Crimea organizing the nursing depart
ment Of the camp hospitals. her un
tiring toll and underwriting labors
brought on a prostrating fever
Nevertheless. she refused to leave hei
posts Slowly recovering. she stayed
at seutari until, in 1856. the British
evacuated Turkey on July 20. She
saved not only the health but the life
of hundreds and thousands Of soldier
Mt the price OF the exposure Of her OWE
health in the severe physical. mental
and especially emotional strain te
which she had voluntarily subjected
herself And It ID not too much tt
say that the result was a permanent
breakdown in her own health She
became q chronic invalid.
Nevertheless. even in her sickroou
her mind and heart wsre still busy de
vising means for the permanent I'm
provement of the health Of the soldiel
and the diminution Of the awful ex
posures incident to war.
When the Crimean war closed Their.
was a public sense of the indebted
nsss not only of the British srmy .n'