The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-15

Surgeon General Ireland Miss
Jane A. Dclano was one of the great
women OF the country. Her death re-
moved a truly great patriot. Her life
has been spent IN relieving distress OF
others and making life more endur
able for these suffering from disease
and disability, Her great ability and
fine qualities of heart made her
leader among those with whom she
was associated in her splendid calling.
During all her career she was ever
ready to give up the comforts of an
easy life. which she might have en-
joyed. to volunteer for difficult tasks
where she could he benefit to human
ity This desire to render service sent
her to frontier camps, TO epidem les
which were threatening some locality,
and finally to the great work in which
she spent the last years of her life
When she was stricken with her
fatal illness she was in France, IN
speeding the results of her great effort
of the past two Years. 1t seems ap-
propriate her last days should have
have been spent there among the 10,
900 women who had been sent to
France through her la bors 10 care for
the sick and injured soldiers Of the
country she loved so wella And 1t is
fitting that she should rest with the
other hundred and ten nurses who
gave up their lives in France in the
service of their country"
DR.. Livingston Farrand: 4 can
not express the loss which the Ameri-
can Red Cross has suffered in The
death of Miss Jane A. Delano. direc-
tor general of he department of nurs-
ing Not only her long service both
before and during the war, but her
broad sympathy, her sincerity and
her Judgment made her one of the
most striking and valuable figures in
the entire histor~ OF the American
Red Cross. She cannot he replaced.
| need not add on behalf of the entire
personnel OF the American Red Cross.
the expression of personnel bereaNe-
ment which the thousands who have
worked win Miss Deiano feel at her
loss"
Henry p. Davison's tribute in part:
The value of what Miss Delano did
for our cause can never be measured
Appreciation of her individual services
will grow as the knowledge Of the
work done ny nurses during this war
becomes more known 10 the world.
She was beloved by all who knew her.
and of those who worked with her
it may be said that they learned quick
ly 10 respect her ability, 10 he inspired
by her fergor, and To realize that no
one was ever more truly animated
with spirit tf the Red Cross. ] am
sure IL can be said of Miss Delano
that her thought from beginning 10
end was never for herself. but was
for the service Of humanity"
-RFiFadief -GenAral Winter, the first
speaker. touching on Miss Delano's
fla rsigh tedness said:
Ix- fa Mt
1915. when made my customary
and usual call upon her. which was
never omitted. when I happened TO
visit Washington. she told me that
she had enrolled about 5000 nurses in
that service. Noy we not say that
she had a great vision and most
definite sense of the troubles to come
in the future in that she had carefully
scrutinized estimated and gotten to-
gether these women ready TO respond
to the cali of the country. in the time
of crisis?
Long before the war. can remem-
Der my saying to other officers in the
medical corps. that our dear Aunt
Jane" had IA. her ringer tips hundreds
of excellent wcmen in almost any
community in America, who would
respond to her appeal for help in
looking after the results of disaster.
Imagine what it all meant when the
service was further amplifed under
her galvanizing touch TO the point
that enabled us TO send across to tire
help of England, 400 splendid women
as the nurses of the six Base Hospital
units who sailed from New York in
May OF 1917, month before the
first elements Of the combat personnel
of the American Expeditionary forces
took to its ships and then what 1t
must have meant, to stand in one OF
the ports in France and see division
of troops come off. followed presently
by its splendid complement OF earnest,
capable nurses, in our Base hospitals.
where they proved their worth al
every turn Of the wheel OF fortune in
France.
II do not think that there has been
in our country an adequate emphasis