The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-04-13
BY Associated Press

Washington, April 12.-Miss Clara
Barton, founder of the American Red
Cross Society, died at her home in Glen
Echo. Md, at o'clock this morning.
The cause Of her death was chronic
pneumonia, with which she was strick-
en- about a year ago. Her brother,
Stephen Barton, of Boston, was with
her when she died.
Miss Barton was born at Oxford,
Mass, in 1921.
Miss Barton had been confined to
her home, Red Cross" at Glen Echo
since last fall, when she returned from
a visit to New England. It was thought
her trip was beneficial, but soon after
wards she was taken severely i'll.
She celebrated her ninetieth birth
day anniversary December 25, when
she received many messages Of con-
graduation from all parts of the world.
HER WORKS OF MERCY.
Clara Barton might properly be
called the Florence Nightingale Of
America. Like her British prototype.
her works Of mercy were not confined
to her native land, but were carried
even into the eastern hemisphere.
She will be written down in history
Is the founder of the Red Cross In
America, but her powerful personality
also made an indelible impression upon
the international organization itself
through her active participation In the
periodical conferences at Geneva, St
Petersburg, Vienna and Rome.
Miss Barton was 40 years OF asa
sw-k . - Arst tutN sf aef stybSont4o4I ma
| ~ icn OF ia CS@ss affairs. y
hat % sanitation was established in
Anperica IN 1881 and Miss Barton was
q : - - - xaTa
efore that time she had made q name
( or herself by her services on battle
fields beginning in the civil war and
extending through the Franco Prus-
sian war. Congress recognized her
GOOD Offices in the first case by an ap-
eroprtation Of $15,000.o00 to be dis
bursed by her in searching for missing
men after the various great battles Of
r-e war.
MORE EXTENSIVE WORK.
Bliss Bartons work became more
extended with the organization Of the
american Red Cross and covered the
aeys field of catastrophes in times of
-@eace. She distributed relief to the
nfferers from the Johnstown flood and
Vent to Russia in 1892 TO carry food
TT the famine sufferers there. In the
N9lowing year she was ministering TO
t5ie destitute survivors of the tidal wave
which struck South Carolina and Flor
Ida. In 1896 she was aiding the Ar
menian families decimated by the
Turks and when yellow fever appeared
among the American troops In Cuba
following the battles around Santiago
it was Clara Barton who, at the re-
quest Of President Mckinley, organ
ized field hospitals and personally
spent her time on the battle lines. Her
last work Of national importance was
in connection with the great Galveston
food relief IN 1900.
In 1904 the Red Cross was reorgan-
lied. President (then secretary Taft
being chosen as president and Miss
Barton, then far advanced In age and
| somewhat broken in health from ex.
posure and hardships, retired from ac-
| tive connection with the organization
She resided for the last seven years at
her home at Glen Echo, Nd, on the
banks Of the upper Potomac. Durina
her lifetime she received many deco
rations from foreign countries in recog
milton Of her services to humany an6
her varied experiences have been re.
corded in permanent form IN her lib
eral contributions 20 literature, most
relating TO the activities of the Red
Cross