Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-01

or her son was being made by noted
United States surgeons. At the end
of the three hours the physicians came
out of the consultation room and as
gently as they could told the mother
her son never would walk again.
Louise Home Fifty Years Old.
The Louise Home for Aged Women.
noted Washington institution, is
now just half century old. The
building is one of the landmarks of the
capital, standing at the intersection of
Massachusetts avenue and Fifteenth
street, with Thomas circle one block
away to the east and Scott circle one
block away to the west Massachu-
sets avenue is perhaps the finest resi-
dence thorougfare in the city of Wash
ington. The aged women who occupy
the Louise Home are treated as
guests and not as inmates" They
have their calling days, just as do 9th
er Massachusetts avenue residents,
and in every way are made to feel that
each individual is 'the mistress of the
manse."
The Louise home was founded by
William w. Corcoran fifty years ago.
The primary object of the home was
to provide for aged gentlewomen who
had lost their means of support by
reason of the war between the states.
The south suffered particularly in this
way, and virtually every inmate OF
the Louise home is a southern woman.
Not long ago daughter of a president
of the United States died at the
home. Her father was John Tyler.
She had been a guest at the home for
many years. Occasionally she would
leave it to attend some social affair
at the White House, in which she once
lived.
May Be Enlarged Soon.
There is now room in the Louise
home for forty women, but it is pos
sible that in short time the building
will be enlarged, although it has been
proposed that another structure be
erected in another part of the city.
1t is infrequently that vacancy oc-
ours at the home, except of course,
| through the coming of death. No
woman under fifty years of age is adj
yond the age of seventy years. There
is long list of applications for en-
| trance to the home. In fact the list
! is longer now than it has been at any
time since the home was founded. Mr..
Corcoran endowed it adequately. 1t is
considered an ideal form of social
service and the lines of management
laid down by Mr.. Corcoran have been
carried out faithfully.
General Greedy Is Popular.
Maj Gen. Adolphus W. Greedy, who
for some years was the chief of the
signal corps of the United States army,
lives in the city of Washington with
his family When General Greedy was
made a major general he relieved a
Kansas soldier Frederick Funston, as
commanding general of the Pacific di-
vision of the United States army. It
was then that General Greedy entered
upon the active command of troops of
the line for the first time in twenty
years, for the highest rank of line
command which he ever before held
was that of captain of cavalry.
At the West Point dinner the other
night General Greedy, who was a
graduate, was one of the guests of
honor. There was little feeling eX-
listing in the army when Greedy was
given high rank which some of the
officers felt ought to have been given
to another who had been with troops
actively in the field for the major part
of his service, but this feeling long
ago subsidized and the~general is an ex-
ceedingly popular officer with all
branches Of the service.
1t is known that General Greely's
transfer and promotion were given
him as reward for the hardships
which he underwent in the early
SOS while conducting a polar expedi-
ton. General Greedy was in Washing
ton during most of his service as a
signal officer, and for much of the
time his near neighbor was Rear Ad-
miral Winfield Scott Schley, who went
north and rescued Greedy and his
party when they were on the point Of
perishing.
Trying Position for Soldier.
General Greedy was once placed in
one of the most trying positions which
ever fell to the lot of a soldier, and
there are few men who would have
cared to undertake the responsibility,
which at that time Greedy, as a cap
tain, shouldered With his men he
was at the point of dying from starva-
ton in the arctic regions There was
left barely enough food to stave off
death for a week The rations per
man were cut down to little more than
a mouthful given out once every TWEEN
ty-four hours.
A soldier Of the command was
caught stealing food. In the hope of
saving his own life, he was willing
that his comrades should perish. The
situation was one requiring the stern
est measures. Greedy knew from his
own experience the awful temptation
under which the starving soldiers had
fallen, for the meager ration of the
men was the meager ration Of the
commanding officer.
Greedy walked apart from his men
into the solitudes. He came back and
ordered court-martial, in which the