The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-09-10

solicitations of the Rev Father Althoff do all the good they could all the ways suggested by the love Of God and beneficence to humanity in struggling mining town The capital they brought trust in Providence and courage to undertake the work of nursing and teaching under untold privations and difficulties.
 The sisters met at the wharf by Father Atho and his good friends and helpers MT Augustus L-urphy and his sister Marion and conducted by the light of lantern up the steep and slippery hill. Cautionng the sisters to keep the panks-(wo laid side by side) as a false step would sink in mud-the rarty led them through brush and stumps to the building a of Fifth and Harris Streets which to be Juneau's first hospital.
 Without delay plans made for the fitting cut of five-bed ward the lower floor of the small and one-hal story building, medicine cabinet set up in the miniature paror lean- to kitchen made to serve well for laundry and dining room In order to hasten the work, Father Althoof and his guest, Father Heynan worked with the car peners and helped with the painting So well did everything advance that September 26 St. Ann's Hospital able to take in its first patient MT Daniel Foster. The work had begun.
 Though the sisters numbered only three that first year Sister Mary zeno already Superior and of the little hospital undertook the further duties of teacher and assembled the children of the village
 
 daily.
 Upon the foundations so humbly laid rests the fifty years of development which is evidenced by the present. hospital and parochial school.
 In each succeeding period of St. Anns Hospital rogress up to 1918 Sister Mary zeno the guiding spirit The first building totally inadequate even from the beginning and in the following year funds were solicited from the miners and mine owners of Jreadwel and the Basin to provide new accommoda- tons for the sick. This brought second unit to completion in 1888 In 1897 a third building rose under the capable hand of Sister Mary zeno making it possible for the sisters to open young ladies' boarding school and at the same time increase hos pita space This building had to be absorbed entirely for hospital purposes in 1911 and the school closed for three years
 In 1898 Sister Mary Zeno was transferred to St. Marys Dawson where the influx of gold seekers made the problem of disqualification serious but Juneau again claimed her in 1911 and in 1914 and 1916 she instrumental in rearing the frame parts of the structure. This her last work in Alaska Though she spent her declining years in the Motherhouse of the sisterhood at Lachne her heart like the mariners compass remained turned towards the north the land that bears the impress of her life work
 No written eulogy of this valiant pioneer sister can add aught to the honor given to her name in memory by Juneau od-ti timers During her thirty one years in the Northland she was friend and mother to all particularly to the poor disllusioned dseeker who came to her for advice consolation even for material help. For one she wrote letters home for another she banker-storing safely away his little hoard of precious gold dust yet another ruined in health or broken in spirits, she begged from his successful companions the money to take him back to his friends.
 It was particularly fitting that when friends united to celebrate the golden anniversary of the founding of St. Anns Hospital they should pay special tribute to Sister Mary zeno who gave herself so petey to the cause of Christian charity in great Northland.