Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-12
CLARA BARTON
DIED TODAY
President of American Red
Cross Society Succumbs
to Pneumonia
WAS SOLDIERS GOOD ANGEL
Began Her Work of Mercy in
Civil War Looking Fer
Missing Men.

tBy Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Washington. d. c., April 12.-Miss
cara Barton, founder of the American.
Red Cross Society, died at her home
in Glen Echo, Maryland, today. The
cause was chronic pneumonia with
which she was stricken about a year
ago. Her brother, Stephen Barton of
Boston was with her Miss Barton
was born at Oxford, Massachusetts, in
1921. She had been confined to her
home, Red Cross" at Glen Echo since
last fall when she returned from a
visit to New England. 1t was thought
her trip was beneficial. but soon af-
terWard she was taken seriously i'll.
She celebrated her ninetieth birthday
anniversary December % last.
A Second Florence Nightingale.
Miss Barton might properly be cal
led the Florence Nightingale of Amer
lea. Like her British prototype, her
works of mercy were not confined
to her native land, bue were carried
even into the Eastern Hemisphere.
She will be written down in history
as the founder of the Red Cross of
America, but her powerful personality
also made an indelible impression on
the International organization itself
through her active participation in the
periodical conference at Genoa, Carls-
bad, Rome, Vienna, and St. Peters
burg.
Miss Barton was 40 years of age
when she first turned her attention to
the great works of humanity which
have made her name famous. The
Red CroG was established in America
ii 1881 and Miss Barton was it's pre-
sident from that date until 1904.
The Soldiers Good Angel.
Before that time she had made a
name for herself by her service on
battlefields, beginning in the Civil
War and extending through the Fran
co-Prussian War. Congress recognized
her good offices in the first case by an
| appropriation of $4,000 to be disbur-
sed by her in searching for missing
men after the various battles of the
/ war.
Ministered in Peace and War.
! Miss Barton's work became more
extended with the organization of the
| American Red Cross and covered the
new field of catastrophes in time of
peace. She distributed relief to the
sufferers from the Johnstown Flood
and went to Russia in 1892 to carry
| food to the famine sufferers there.
In the following year she was minist-
ering to the destitute survivors of
| the tidal wave which struck South Ca
rolina and Florida. In 1896, she was
aiding the Armenian families deci-
mated by the Turks and when yellow
troops in Cuba, following the battles
around Santiago, it was Clara Barton
who, at the request of President Nc.
Kinley, organized field hospitals and
personally spent her time on the bat
tie lines. Her last work of national
prominence was in connection with
the Great Galveston flood in 1900.
In 1904 the Red Cross was re-orga
nized, President fhen secretary TAFT
being chosen as President and Miss
Barton somewhat broken in health
from exposure to hadrships retired
from active connection with the orga
nization. She retired for the last seven
years at her home at Glen Echo, Mary
land, on the banks of the Upper Pc
tomac.
During her lifetime she received
many decorations from foreign coun
tries in recognition of her services te
humanity and her varied experiences
have been recorded in permanent
form in her liberal contributions to Ii
terature, mostly relating to the acti
yities of the Red Cross.