H E AMERICAN.
OUR WOMEN IN WAIL
Hoicks of wives anooauoh.
TIRS ARE NOW HKANO.
fmmt l Jla tats mi a
mm A Mi f Aay kUI
Waaaa m UHk
Civil War.
Ths president sn serrstarr ef war
art receiving letters from patriotic
voDfg All over ths counlry en i loss to
Vs mustersd Into service.
A lMr received At ths Whit Hoes.
Aid addressed "Presides! McKieler.
CLARA BARTON.
Washington. D. C." reada: "I writs
easing If I would be of aa? uu to you
la this Cuba trouble. I Am only a
woman, but I ran nurae tbe tick and
wounded. I ouly wish I were a man.
I would go And volunteer to take ona of
onr unfortunate one' place who went
down with the Maine. If you need
women to nurae, or If In any way I can
be of service to you for my country'
Ake, please let me kaew. I am stroag.
rwsigh 150 pounda, hst feet Are
And one half Inches, age V yeara. And
good nurae. Hoping we of servlcs
to my God and my rwnwtry. I am at
your command."
Another aaya: "I waa one ot the
Iflrst volunteer nuraea during tbe war
s tbe rebellion; experience on trans
gtoria And In hospitals. If there la an
other war I am ready."
A Canadian woman, who aaya bar
brother fought for our Hag In the late
Avar, offer her services, and Adda In
ner letter to the president: "Falling
Ue position of nurae, I ahall be glad to
give my aervlrei In any other rapacity
where I may be of use."
From away down In Colorado Anoth
er woman, who Addreaae her letter
War Department," offera her aervloea
la theee worda: "Should there be a
wax between the United 8tata And
BpAln, would there be Any ahow for ua
to get transportation. We Are nuraea,
And strong, healthy women. There are
two of ua. aged 35 yeara."
Theee Are but severAl example! ot
the correspondence being received
from American women.
In the event ot an outbreak with
Spain positions In the Army will be
pen to many women, the number of
course depending upon the extent of
Che struggle. During the late war
fjundreds of women served In mnny
capacities with relation to the Array,
most of them as nurses.' Some as spies
and others as purveyors, laundresses,
tc.
Should a great war break out the
hospital corps of the area? would have
to employ a great nwsato of women
nurses. Secretary Alger would prob
ably appoint an experienced woman as
superintendent of nm-st. In 1861, At
the beginning of the ctvW war. Secre
tary of War Cameron appointed Miss
Dorothea Dlx for thla duty. She of
fered her services without compensa
tion, and nurses selected by her were
found upon every battlefield from Bull
Run to Appomattox. They were In
every Union hospital.
While the typical army nurse Is al
ways described by the Idealist as a
youthful, tender "angel of mercy," with
A beautiful face, it is Interesting to
know that generals in command of ar
UEUT.-GKN. PANDO.
(One of Spain's Military Leaders Ia
Cuba.)
xoles prefer middle-aged And homely
women tor such 'service. A circular
distributed by the superintendent of
nurses In 1861 read:
"No women under SO need apply. All
nurses are required to be very plain
looking women. Their dresses must
be either brown or black, with no bows,
no curls or Jewelry, and no hoop
Skirts."
The pay given to nurses In the late
-
. Mis? jfe
war waa fit a soonlh. but It is aaJd
that hundreds of women of sort! rank
sad position, without w siting to be
formally asustsrsd la. served without
nay or hope of reward. 8he who is
now volunteering to aid In a conflict
with Spain is not Ue "Aew woman,"
but the same patriotic creature who
offered herself to her Sag la 1M1.
Ooaerel Bhsrmaa railed "Mother
Bickerdyke," the celebrated nurse of
the civil war, one of his "beet gen
ersla." The tonus who would be the most
conspicuous of her set in a great war
between the United States and 8 pain la
Mtas Clara Barton, president of the
Americas Red Cross, who is now car
isg for the starving Cubans.
Should A wat break out with 8palA,
woman's most valuable military serv
ice will be done At home. As soon as
the first gun of the civil war waa Bred.
woman's work for both the Union and
Confederate causes began in earnest.
WlthlA A month After President Un
cut a called for the first Army of 75,000
volunteers, sn association of New York
women bad rboaen from hundreds of
candidates 100 competent nurses to be
trained by the physicians and surgeons
of the city. At the same time women
throughout the country organised sol
diers' aid societies, sewing circles, fairs
And entertainments of various sorts for
tbe purpose of furnishing the brave
boys both necessities and delicacies.
Trains running Into Washington were
weighed down with a tremendous ac
cumulation of freight for thla purpose.
Its distribution was finally turned over
to the sanitary commission, which co
operated during the war with women's
clubs and societies throughout the en-
tire North. After each battle agents
distributed the supplies as received.
Statistics show thst during the late
THE HARBOR Or HAVANA,
wat the women's organisations raised
Altogether $50,000,000 Among their so
cieties In the Northern states, the
amount recently appropriated by con
gress to put tbe nation upon an effect
ive defensive tooting. The little girls
of the North, by their miniature fairs
and handiwork, contributed $100,000.
Women might serve this government
as spies In a great war. That a woman
THE STEAMER OLIVETTE.
(In the Service of Uncle Sam Between
Havana and Key West)
csnnot keep a secret herself or 1st any
one else keep one is not borne out by
certain secret archives kept in a large
Ore-proof safe In the war department
One of the most active and reliable
Union spies In the late war waa a wo
man, who worked successfully for a
long period. Eventually, however, she
was caught by the enemy and hanged
to a tree. Martial law, which states
that "the Bpy la punishable by desth
by hanging by the neck," has no re
spect for sex.
Had the Hoath Woa.
We can measure the value of this
commemoration day If we reconsider
what would have been had trie con
federacy succeeded. Macaulay, In one
of those brilliant haphazard specula
tions with which he was wont to sup
plement what Providence had failed to
do In the making of the universe, saw
In the future of the United States a taAlf
dosen federations. England could
hold her empire by the power ot the
sword, but where waa the sword la a
deinocracy? Let us suppose, as Mae
uly seemed to anticipate, that the
United States should have accepted the
Southern Confederacy. It Independ
ence bad been conceded to the South
after Chancellorsvllle then the darkest
hour tor the North what thent The
lines ot separation would have been
drawn through West Virginia, with
the Rocky Mountains as a western bar
rier. The French would have held the
Rio Grande. Canada would have been
a neighbor In arms.
THIS SQUADRON AT HAMPTON ROADS.
The last was the fourth aeoidsal that
happened to Ue Maine. In AAgwst,
ISM, she tripped her anchor la awIaa
lag arouAd while At Key West, aad
drifted oa a reef aad beat tea plates
along the port keel.
Ia Iwbniary, 1MT. a ons-pound cart
ridge exploded duiisg target praetlee,
aad seriously Injured three men.
la July. 1M7. ahe was rammed late
an East River pier by her eajtala la
aa effort to Avoid striking a heavily
loaded etenrstoa boat. She sustained
only the loss of some bow paint this
time.
It Is a Navy yard tradltioa thAt tht
COMMODORE HOWELL.
(Commander of the Squadron at
Hampton Roada, Va.)
Maine waa hoodoed from her launch
ing day. Rear-Admiral Dralne, who
superintended her building and whose
pride ahe was, had obtained a bottle
of real American wine for her ehrlet
enlng. He was then superintendent ot
the Brooklyn navy yard, and he and
Mrs. Brains sent to Kelly's Island, In
Lake Erie, near tbe scene of Com-
SHOWING MORRO CASTLE.
mander Perry's famous whipping of the
British, and secured a quart of cham
pagne, made right there from Ameri
can grapes.
Miss Alice Wllmerding, a grand
daughter of Secretary ot the Navy Tra
cy, christened the big armored cruiser,
and brought with her a bottle of cham
pagne from the hills of France. She
used this, and it was a severe disap
pointment to Admiral Bratne. He has
his bottle ot American wine still In a
prominent place in his library, and win
wish now, more than ever, that It had
been the one to have been smashed
over the Maine's bow.
Besides her accidents the Maine has
twice come In for severe criticism as
to top weight and seaworthiness. Ia
September, 1896, It was found that she
could not carry on her decks the two
torpedo boats designed therefor, and
the boats, which cost $80,000, were sent
up to Newport for practice work at the
training station.
In February of last year Admiral
Bunco had to make to Assistant Secre
tary McAdoo, after his experience with
his squadron off Cape Hatteras in the
gale ot February 5 and 6, the follow
ing report:
"Tbe Maine's behavior at sea in
heavy weather is bad. Her pitching
and rolling is excessive, and is attribut
ed to faulty design 1n placing too much
heavy weight at her extremities, which
GUN AT WILLET'S POINT. N. T.
(Can Pierce Four-inch Armor at a Dis
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was Increased by attempting to correct
another error when she was commis
sioned. Her battery cannot be used aa
designed without destruction ot boats
and other fittings,' snd in some In
stances loss of lite, if the crews remain
at their guns. For this reason there
has been no attempt to make such ass
of the guns as Is contemplated In the
design of the ship and arrangement of
her batteries.'
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