The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06
NARKABE WOMAN HONORED FOR SERVICE TO HUMANITY
She Tells of the Work of the State Charities Aid Associa
ton, of Which She Was Founder and to Which
She Has Devoted Her Life

so lamcntably deficient in everything
else. in construction. equipment, man
agement?
Hooking beyond the clean floors
and ~bcdspreads into the faces of nurses
and orderlles. many of them brought
from the island az helpers. all of
them ignorant. many of them IL
graded: walking through those terrible
Kitchens and laundrics. at every turn
I found myself more and more de-
pressed. more and more hopcl SO.
What could be done for such a place?
what could the visitors do?
suddenly the answer came Ia me
We must have a training choOl for
nurses IN this hospital 1t is the only
thing. | said to myself, that car pos
slbly %rcgeneratc it: and the visiting
committce shall he organized with this
IN view. And so 1t was
This vas the first schoo, for trained
nurses ever undertaken in the United
states. In fact. at the time she took
this important step in development
Of hospital work V ry little was known
IN America about trained nurses who
were really trained Everybody knew
about Miss N~ightin"alc's work IN the
Crimca. of course. but few remembered
cv,n then tk-t vixen II was proposed
to erect "A statue or memorial arCh
in her honor Miss Nightinsal" asked
that the money might be- given to
found u training schco. FOR nurses in
-. ThumiS'S Hospital. London. which
was the very first of its kind. Miss
Schuyler. In formulating her plans
FOR Bc!ievu.. hoped that Ncw York
should have ono along the lines indi-
Gated by Miss Nightingale.
The visiting committee for Belle
yuc and other hospitals she sair.
"nuw expanded into the y YORK
r.ty visiting committee. was organized
T.. my fathers house. - West Thirty
first street. on January 20, 1872. with
Mrs. David Lane aS It's efficient chair
man. Miss Rosaiic Butler as secretary,
then and uat.l her death giving most
devoted service. and about sixty N!sl-
tors. owing to tho enthusiasm de-
cotton and ability Of leading members
7 Of this committee in fifteen months
the school actually opened its doors,
! AID from the Bellevue Training SChuu.
i,r Nurses. from this pioneer 81 oUr
country. have sprung | believe about
/ 100 other nurses training schools IN
every part IF the and.
Two Of the most devoted visitors
N those early days. their work con-
t!nuing unt.' death. were Mrs. I.ydi-
Hoyt and Miss. Josephine W.Src..
Later came uthCrs-MrS. CadWaiudri
Jones. Miss Helen G.. Butter. Mr.,
William II. Draper. Mrs. Grant La
large. Miss Johnson. Miss Mduran,
Miss Anna II. Evans. Frederick G.
Boynton, Miss Ruth Morgan. NJ
Tunis G. Bergen. Miss Emma ireland
Mrs. Frederick l.. CRAWFORD, Miss =
Is. Townsend AID our devoted v.>itn!
FOR the last fourteen years, Miss Ma
rion Tdher.
The State Charities Ala Association
vas organized on May II. l>12, ais
At II West T~hirty-hrst street, uI,
: a. divided into three standing com.
m!ttees-for children. for the sick. IN.
sane and aged, ard for Migrants
these corresponding with similar III
visions -f the county visiting commit;
tees that were being gradually form ,
throughout the state | cannot hu
mention some Of the members, a few
of them at any rate. Of the ceriri
association. iH those early days.
Among them We're Charles I.or
.Hg Brace. under Of the Chi.G-uu'
AID society. t. whom is due the prJ.
iicc and prcccpt of bringing toGetao
the child needing the home and o.
home needing the child Tbs. IT,
origin Of the placing out system, hl
bcea our guiding principle in all ,
our work for children. Thsn Their
, were proi. Theodore ". Dwight an
Charles O'Conor. who aided us VT.
=, their leg.l advice and drafted our hl
I Tor Us, Howard Potter, Thoodor
Roosevelt, u Wills James, Job.
!. Crosby Brown. William T.. Dodg
= Henry l., Tel,ew. Prof chandler. me-
zeal mon Ike Drs. William II. Drapoi
, jacob. stephen Smith, w. GIL W.
: the names come quickly to mind. 3D.
: does he devoted service rendered 10
each.
'Of the mon I think Of Mrs. j.
sephine shaw Lowell. and of Mr.