The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-28

don correspondent was an eX-~
ceedingly simple one. The
coffin, covered with Miss
Nightlngale's white cashmere shawl,
was taken from South street and con-
Veyed to Waterloo. The coffin was
carried to the train by Grenadier.
Coldstream and Scots guards The
procession reached East Wellow at
three O'Clock. Rev. S. NJ. Watson and
Rev. T. G. Gardiner officiated at the
grave The mourners here we're re-
stricted to relatives of Miss Nightin-
Bale-Doctor and Mrs. Shore Nightin-
gale, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Shore Night
ingale. Mr.. and Mrs. Vaughan Nash.
Sir Harry yerney, and one who bore
the honored name OF Arthur Hugh
Clough
The death Of this remarkable won.
an at the age OF ninety-seven marks
an era. Her intelligence was insep-
arabic with an intense interest in the
allevlation 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 a "circumnavi-
CATION of charity" visiting and In
specting the civil and military hos.
pitfalls all over Europe. With the Sis.
ters of Charity in Paris she studied
the system of nursing and manage
ment In the French hospitals, and her
self went into training seven years
later as a nurse in the institution of
Protestant Deaconesses at Kaisers-
werth. Returning to England. she put
into Thorough working order the sana-
toriumsfor governesses in connection
with the London institution. The term
of apprenticeship. which thus served
as an unconscious preparation for her
life woSk. extended over a decade OF
years.
When inGthe spring of 1854 war
was declared with Russia. British
army ofNwenty-flve thousand men en-
barked Cor the scene OF the conflict
The batde Of Alma was fought Sep
tember 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-
tlon was such that the rate Of NOR
tality far exceeded that OF the fiercest
and bloodiest battle itself.
It was at this great crisis that Miss
Nightingale. offered to organize at
Scutari a nursing department upon the
latest sanitary basis, and Lord Her.
bert, then Of the war office. gladly
accepted the offer. Within a week,
e October 81, she actually was on the
way with her band of nurses. and ar
rived in Constantinople November 4,
on the eve of Inkerman and at the be-
ginning of the famous and terrible
winter OF that disastrous campaign.
She found the wounded from that
second battle filling the wards with
2.300 patients. and during that criti.
cal period she exhibited a devotion
10 her work and to the comfort OF ths
sufferers that has passed into history
as one OF the most remarkable ex.
hibitions of self-oblivious love that
the world has ever recorded This
grand woman stood for twenty hours
out OF the twenty-four to see the
wounded and sick provided with
every accommodation and comfort
that was possible in their condition.
in the spring OF 1855. while in the
Erimea organizing the nursing depart
ment OF the camp hospitals, her un,
firing toll and underwriting labors
brought on prostrating fever
Nevertheless. she refused to leave her
post. Slowly recovering. she stayed
at Scutari until. in 1856, the British
evacuated Turkey on July 2S. She
saved not only the health but the life