Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1914-07-17
Memorial To Clara Barton.

as a memorial to Clara Barton, are to b
started this fall at Red Cross Station. Gle
Echo. Md, where the organizer of tn
American Red Cross died in April, 1911
Funds for these buildings have been prac
tically completed through subscription
from personal friends and admirers of Mis-
Barton.
There is to be main memorial building
with frontage of 100 feet and deptl
of 1850 feet, which is to be big auditorium
for lectures, meetings of wOmen's club
and treasure house for the curios. deco
rations and certificates of honor conferred
upon Miss Barton. There also will be PLACED
a collection of gowns and bonnets worT
by Miss Barton at different notable stage,
of her relief work.
This memorial group is to occupy 6
beautiful 10-acre plot beyond Glen Echo
Park, where many notable chautauqus
lectures have been given, and the entire
tract is to be laid out by an Italian land
scape artist, so that at all seasons of the
year it may be physically attractive, as its
work and relics will bring humanitarians
and tourists from all parts of the world.
Mrs. Mabel Rawson Hirons. of Oxford
Mass. and DR.. Julian C. Hubbell are going
to start next month on trip to Europe tC
consult with architects there regarding
foundations and durable styles of build
ings.
The main auditorium building is to cost
100000. The plans are drawn by A. B.
Pierson a Washington architect, and it is
to be built by Norcross Brothers, of Wor-
cester. Mass. The First Aid Building and
the Nurses Home are to cost SIS, 900 and
$50, 900, respectively, and plans by Stephen
C. Earle. of Worcester. Mass, have been
tentatively agreed upon.
The main building is to be T-shaped,
the front 100 feet across and go feet deep.
Then 1t is to run back another 100 feet,
making the total depth 1850 feet. A strik-
ing feature Of this auditorium is to be a
recess in which large painting of the
Oiiy BittuiC CNCi VI SIdEu DdIlOli
while in actual battle field or hospital work
is to be placed. 1t is being painted from
small photograph made by a relative at
Havana in 1898. The rooms on the sec
ond floor in the rear are to contain the
Barton curios, and trophies and decora-
tons, most of which are now in a safe
deposit vault in Boston. These include 81
certificates Of honor from crowned heads
and States and cities which have been aided
by Miss Barton in times of great disaster.
The First Aid Building is to be equipped
with all latest appliances for surgical work
and in charge of surgeons who will have
in constant training teachers who will be
sent throughout the States to instil first
aid principles into the minds of the young.
The building is to be endowed.
The Nurses Home is to contain rest
rooms, library, reception hall, parlor, din.
ing room, kitchen and bedroom accommo-
dation for rs nurses.
Among the decorations and honors which
are to adorn the memorial building are (:
Iron cross of Prussia, presented by En-
perior William | and Empress Augusta.
1870-Gold cross of remembrance from
the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden.
| 1882-Medal of the international com
mittee of the Red Cross of Geneva, Swift
zerland.
1884-Red cross by the Queen of Servia
1884-Silver medal by the Empress Au
gusta of Germany.
l884-Flae voted by Congress of Berne
Switzerland.
1884 and l887-Jewels by the Gran,
Duchess of Baden.
l885-Diploma of honor from the Ger
man war veterans
1887-Jewels from the Queen of Prussia
1888-Diploma from the Red Cross o
Austria.
l896-Diploma and decorations by tn,
Sultan of Turkey.
1896-Diploma and decorations by the
Prince of Armenia
| 1899-Diploma and decorations by Spain
1899-Vote of thanks by the Cortez o
Spain.
l900-Vote of thanks by the Portuga
Red Cross.
1900-ResolutiOns by the Central Relic
Committee of Galveston.
190l-Vote of thanks by the Legislator,
Of the State of Texas.
| 1QnO naanratfnn Of ha 81 a.
Red Cross by the Car of Russia.
Miss Barton represented the United State,
Government at three International Rec
Cross Conferences In 1884 at Geneva
Switzerland in 1887 at Carlsruhe. Ger
many. and in 1890 at Rome, Italy.
Besides personally bearing the expense
during seven years of effort in securing
the adhesion Of the United States 10 the
Red Cross treaty, Miss Barton's home was
the headquarters since its adoption, in
1882, and had no other home until after
1897. when she resigned as active head
Of the organization, at the age of SO. and
became its honorary president. She then
organized the first aid.
Miss Barton's first Great work before she
went into Red Cross relief was pOpulariz.
ing the public school system. She was the
first woman clerk in the Government ser
vice in Washington. being employed in the
Patent Office. During the American Civil
War she met the Massachusetts Volunteers
in Washington on their arrival from the
Baltimore attack in 1861 and was after
ward on the following fields Of battle anC
relief: Cedar Mountain. Falmouth, Fort
Wayne Deep Bottom. Chantilly. Fredericks
burg. the Wilderness. Petersburg, second
Bull Run. Charlestown. SpOttsyvania
Richmond. Antietam, Morris Island. tn,
Mines and Annapolis.
In the summer of 1865 she was at An
Jacksonville identifying the $4,000 dead
and laying out the first national GENE
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