Evening star., 1915-08-01
Civil War Organization Not to
Place Memorial in Red
Cross Building.
HOPED FOR A MONUMENT
TO MISS CLARA BARTON
Leader Says Structure Now Building
Was Intended for Loyal
Women of North"

Tns Woman's Relief Corps will not
place a memorial window or any other
memorial in the Red Cross building
now being erected in this city, accord
ing to announcement made last night
ny Mrs lisa bel Worrel Ball. past ma
;ional senior vice president of that or
cauization under authorization of Mrs.
Sarah r. Fulton, national president IL
had been reported in the press that the
Woman's Relief Corps would interest
itself in placing in the Red Cross build
ing A memorial to the heroic women of
the north.
According TO the statement made by
Mrs. Ball. at the request of Mrs. Full
ton. Mrs Fulton had never been ap-
preached on the subject of memorial
for the Red Cross building. IL she had
been so approached Mrs. Fulton would
have declined TO take any steps in the
matter. according to Mrs. Ball
The Woman's Relief Corps. Mrs. Ball
made il clear in the statement she gave
out. felt Inundated because no effort
had been made to place 4 memorial IN
the Red Cross building to Miss Clara
Barton founder nd of ahe the d nro%inent r5oin 1a
member of the Womans Relief Corps
The organization also felt affronted be
cause Congress. in providing for the
Red Cross building. had decided that II
should be erected to the patriotic Wom-
en- of both the north and the south.
Statement of Feeling.
The statement issued by Mrs. Ball as
spokesman for the organization, tells
extensively of the honors paid by the
Woman's Relief Corps to the memory
first
the international Red Cross. The
statement reads:
Mrs Fulton states that the Woman's
Relief Corps has already erected TO
the memory of Miss Clara Barton and
dedicated May 80 last magnlncent
Red Cross monument on the old Ander-
sonville stockade grounds at Ander-
sonville 1t was at the national ceme-
terry at Andersonville that Miss Barton
did her great work of Identifying ana
marking 1880 bodies of prisoners OF
war who had died while in prison, ana
who had been buried promiscuously in
long trenches. with all identification
marks hidden. Miss Barton pursued
her work during July and August.
1865, under the direction of the war
Department, and lost her health while
SO doing.
She went abroad TO recuperate, ana
the Franco-Prussian war broke out
before she could get back to her native
Of Baden and other members of royalty
to loan her aid and superior judgment
in the matter of caring for the wound
ed and dead of the Franco-Prusslan
war, and for these labors she received
many princely decorations. During her
services there she became very enthu-
siastic over the work of the Swiss Red
Cross organization, and when she re-
turned to the United States labored IN
defatigably to establish like organ
iZatiOn here, and did.
Miss Clara Barton's tremendous
work at Johnstown, Cuba, Galveston
and at other places where the Red
Cross saved thousands of lives is too
fresh in the minds of the people to be
forgotten.
Hopes for Monument Here.
"The national president of the Wom-
ans Relief Corps states that the cross
of red granite in Andersonville is only
a small tribute from the Woman's Re-
lief Corps to one of it's famous MEM
bers, and that she hopes to see erected
IN the city of Washington. where Miss
Barton labored so long with Congress
to have the government recognize the
Red Cross Associat ton, a fitting monu-
ment to one of the nations greatest
women, but that this monument can
not go with the consent of the Wom-
ans Relief Corps into the Red Cross
building, which is dedicated more
largely to the women of the south,
who would have destroyed rather
than cemented the Union which Miss
Clara Barton so dearly loved
Mrs. Fulton states that the inception
of the Red Cross building was by the
Loyal Legion and that they did not
embody in their resolution of tribute
any but loyal women of the north.
when Congress decided that the
building should be erected to patriotic
women, both north and south, people
who had been loyal to the flag believed
that this was subversive of the true
spirit of patriotism, and the Loyal
Legion withdrew from the compact.
The Woman's Relief Corps at no time
has indorsed the blanket idea of
loyalty.