The Irish standard., 1916-05-27

+ pensioned by the bill passed at that
= time, viz:
: Sister NJ. De Sales, Notre Dame,
Ind; Sister Mary De Chantal, Brook
Ign, N. Y; Sister Helen, Notre Dame,
Ind; Sister M. Matilda, Notre Dame,
!. Ind; Sister NJ. Passion, Notre Dame.
Ind; Sister M. Paula, Notre Dame,
Ind; Sister NJ. Victoria, Notre Dame,
Ind; Sister Mary Cephas, Baltimore,
Nd; Sister Ferdinand, Baltimore,
Nd; Sister Mary Stanislaus, Mt
Washington, Md; Sister Mary Veron-
lea, Baltimore, Md
The fact that they were pensioned
in accordance with the terms of the
omnibus pension bill is conclusive
proof that they were regularly en-
listed in the service.
| Under the Act of March 3, 1897.
army nurses, honorably discharged,
from their services as such, may be
buried i'll any national cemetery and,
II in destitute condition, free of
cost. The Secretary of War is author
lied to issue certificates to those army
nurses entitled to such burial.
Following this Act of March 3, 1897,
about 25 Civil War nurses. all females,
have been buried in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery.
| 1t is matter of record the hos
pitfalls the Sisters did service in, and
once when rations were low and the
War Department refused supplies to
the Sisters of Mercy the case was
placed before the President, who
wrote:
ITO all whom it may concern: On
application of the Sisters of Mercy of
Chicago, of the Military Hospital in
Washington, furnish such provisions
as they desire to purchase and charge
same to the War Department.
ABRAHAM LlNCOLN."
Mrs. Ellen Ryan Jolly, national
president of the Ladies' Auxiliary and
author of the bill for the erection Of
this memorial, has worked unceasing-
:! ~ WV LloI WV ycuIS, IIldC Jn0
memorial to the angels of the Bat
tlefleld" may rise in beautiful Ar
lington" among the memorials of
those who fought and fell in that men,
orable and epochal fray.
In closing her appeal to Secretary
Baker she says: I'VE respectfully di-
rect attention to the fact that the res
olution now pending before the Com
mttec on Library of the House, the
passage of which depends upon the
attitude of the War Department, is,
| in scope and purpose, in harmony with
the aims and ends intended when the
Arlington Cemetery was selected as a
site for burial purposes, that the cree
ton OF the proposed memorial will
not establish undesirable precedent.
because the law and the facts in the
case entirely justify the propositions;
that the service rendered by these
Sisters during the Civil War is SO
unique that 1t stands out in a class
by itself. and, on the testimony Of
the leaders in that great struggle and
of Abraham Lincoln himself, no paral-
lei can be presented to it; therefore
it is well nigh impossible to conceive
how any other orders or societies
throughout the country could present
similar case for recognition But if
the fear of establishing an undesir-
able precedent is the only obstacle in
the premises, we respectfully submit,
in addition to the argument already
offered, that Congress can always be
depended upon to safeguard the Ar
lington Ccmtery against any proposal
that would tend to alter or even modi-
fy the purposes for which this ma
tional cemetery was originally estab-
lished."
The erection of this memorial calls
up the reflection that public memor.
ials and statues of women are few,
ana yet Abraham Lincoln said: "If
all that has been said by orators and
poets since the creation of the world
in praise of women were applied to
the women of America, it would not
do them justice for their conduct dur
ing the war"
In Statuary Hall at the capitol there
is a marble statue of Frances l.. Will
lard, put there about 1906 by direction
Of the state of Illinois.
A statue Of Ann HutchisOn will
probably soon be set up in the vesti-
bule of the Boston Public Library,
as pendant to the Macmonnies heroic
statue of Sir Henry Vane.
In New Orleans is statue of a
woman-Margaret Haughery-erected
by the women of the city to the "or-
phan's friend"
In England there was recently erect
ed statue of Florence Nightingale,
called the "angel of the Crimea." 1t
stands in Waterloo Square.
1t is proposed to erect in Wash
ington memorial to Clara Barton
for which Congress will make the ap-
preparation, but, so far, as Cardinal
Gibbons says, mo monument pro.
claims the courage and devotion of