The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-10-28

c(NoihSfs oiihli0 oASt
coffin, covered with Miss
Nlghtingale's white cashmere shawl,
was taken from South street and con
veyed to Waterloo. The coffin was
carried to the train by Grenadier,
CoidStream and Scots guards. The
procession reached East Wellow at
three O'clock. Rev. S. NJ. Watson and
Rev. T. G.. Gardiner otiiciated at the
grave. The mourners here were re-
stricted to relatives of Miss Nightin-
gale-Doctor and Mrs. Shore Nightin-
gale, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Shore Night
ingaie, Mr.. and Mrs. Vaughan Nash,
Sir Harry Verney, 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
tan era. Her Intelligence was insep-
arabic with an intense interest iii the
alienation of human suffering. This,
at the early age of twenty-one, lee her
to give attention to the condition Of
hospitals. Like John Howard before
her, she started pom a "circumnavi-
cation OF charity" visiting and in
specting the civil and military hos
pitfalls all owe 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 t.. raining seven years
later as q nurse in the institution of
Protestant Deaconesses at Kaisers-
werth. Returning to England, she put
into thorough working order the sana-
torium for g~oyerDesses in connection
with the London institution. The term
of apprenticeship, which thus served
as 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 or the banks Of the
R%osphorus. These were soon over
crowded and their unsanitary condi-
IIOll dS Sutu l1dl 1hC raw VI "OA
tally far exceeded that of the tiercest
and bloodiest battle itself.
1t was at this great crisis that Miss
Nightingale offered to organize at
scutari a nursing department upon he
latest sanitary basis. and Lord Her
bert, then of the wan office, gladly
ACCEPTED the offer. Within a week,
October 81, she actually was on the
way with her band OF nurses. and az
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
1900 patients. and during that criti-
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. This
grand woman stood for twenty hours
ont of the t%wenty-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
zCrimea% organizing the nursing Depart
Anent of the camp hospitals, her I'm
firing toll and underwriting labors
brought on a ~prostrating fever
Nevertheless, she refused to leave hel
post. Slowly recovering, she stayed
at Scutari until, in 1856, the British
evacuated Turkey on July %. She
saved not only the health but the lifs