The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-07-15
Small Brother at The Foot The Stairs Hurry Up Sis and Fl
VISITS COUNTESS NICHOLAS
She and Or. Mary Walker Were MUIR
ses Together

Rutland, July 13.--Dr. Mary Walker
the venerable and celebrated pioneer
in the fight for woman's rights before
the American public and a dress re-
former who has always attracted
more or less attention by the original
ity of her views as we'll as her whoie
hearted earnstness, is in this city ana
this State for the first time IN ner
life. her reason for visiting Rutland
being to take back with her to her
private sanitarium at Oswego, N. "
the Countess Nicholas, local celeb
rity who is very Ill at her home on
West street. The two have been
friends for more than so years, since
thew were nurses together IN the
union army during the Civil war. Ut.
walker expects to leave Tuesday with
her patient and keep her until she
is better, which result the doctor Is
confident of securing.
The noted exponent of woman
rights, who was a regularly licensed
surgeon five years before the civil
War broke out, is wonderfully active
both mentally and physically for a
woman who has seen as much MIS-
tory in the making as she. The man
nish costume, which added to her
fame some years ago, is still in eVt-
dence and she wears it as if she had
been poured into it." A reception
was rendered to her tonight at the
home of DR.. John ID. Hanrahan OF
South Main street, at which Mayor
Henry C. Brislin and Mrs. Brislin ana
a number of the members OF the med
ical fraternity gathered to do honor
TO the famous woman surgeon VINO
had won the admiration and respect
of the boys in blue on many hard'
fought battlefield. There was musl-
cal program and refreshments were
served.
Countess Nicholas, who has been
resident of this city for about six
years, has to some extent outlived the
notoriety which was hers when her
story graced the front page OF the
leading newspapers of the country.
An English girl, the daughter of Sir
John Davidson of Liverpool, the cou-
sin of William E. Gladstone and an
intimate friend of many of the most
powerful families in her native coun-
try. she left that country at COM
paratively early age, and coming 10
America she engaged in Red Cross
work, though. 1t was not known as
such then, nursing the soldiers OF the
Civil War. II was then that she met
her more famous friend, who has re-
tanned a lifelong admiration for her.
She later married Mr.. Bishop,
New York business man, and the son
of this union, Washington Irving Bish
Cd, became one of the most famous
clairroyants of any time. The man.
ner of his death in New York many
years ago aroused much controversy.
After the death of her first hus-
band, Mrs. Bishop married Count Luz
cas- Nicholas, a Grecian nobleman,
and an heir or pretender to the
throne of Greece. He died here
some years ago. The claims of this
family to the throne to which they
declared they were entitled were kept
prominently before the people for
long time, but died with the count.
The countess has been very active
in charitable enterprises all her life
and particularly in devoting her very
considerable talents as a singer to
worthy causes. She has written
many newspaper articles and done
other literary work, and has lectured
until it became impossible for her to
do so any longer. Although the
countess has said to have devoted a
fortune to charity she is now penni-
less and since coming to Rutland has
received help from the city and yari-
Gus church societies.