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Show iBLli luLffnilll Miss Clara Barton Passes Away After a Long and Noble Life Washington, April 12 Miss Clara Barton, founder of tho American Red Cross society, died at her ,homo In Glen Echo, Md., today. The causo was chronic pneumonia wth which" sho was stricken about a year ago. Her brother, Stephen Barton of Bos-tou, Bos-tou, was with her. Miss Barton was born at Oxford Mass.. In 1821. Miss Barton had been confined to her home, "Red Crons" at Glen Echo, sinco last fall, whor she returned from a visit to Now England. It was thought her trip was beneficial but 60on afterward sho was taken seriously serious-ly ill. Sho celebrated hor ninetieth birthday anniversary Deqembor 25, The Florence Nightingale of America.- Miss Barton might properly bq called the Florence Nightingale of America Like her British prototype her works of mercy wore not confined con-fined to her native land but were carried car-ried even Into the Eastern Heml-rpherc. Heml-rpherc. Sho will bo written down in history as the founder of the Red Cross in America, but her powerful personalis also made an indelible impression on the international organization or-ganization itself through her .active participation In the periodical confer-enco confer-enco at Geneva, Carlsruho, Rome, Vienna and SL Petersburg. Miss Barton's War History-Miss History-Miss Barton was forty years of age when first sho turned her attention to the great works of humanity, which have made her namo famous. Tho Red Cross was established in America in 1SS1 and Miss Barton was ts president from that date until 1904 Bcforo that time sho had made a namo for herself by her services on battlefields, beginning in thQ Civil War and extending through the Francc-Prusslon war. Congress recognized rec-ognized her good offices in the first case by an appropriation. $15,000 to be disbursed by her In searching for missing men after tho various battles of the war. Her Work In Times of Peace Miss Barton's work became more extended with tho organization of the American Red Cross and covered the new field of catastrophes In timo of peace. Sho distributed relief to tho sufferers from the Johnstown flood and went to Russia in LP-92 tq carry succor to famine sufferors there In tho following car sho was ministering minister-ing to the destitute survbors of the tidal wave- which struck scuth Calo-Hn? Calo-Hn? and Florida In 1S9G sho was aiding the Armenian families decima ted bv tho Turks and. whon yellow fever appeared among the American troops In Cuba following the battles around Santiago, it was Clara Bar- I ton who at the request of President j McKInley, organized field hospitals and personally spent hor timo on the battle lines Her Part in the Galveston Flood Her last work of national prominence prom-inence was In connection with the great Galveston flood relief in 1900. In 1904. the Ted Cross was reorganized, reorgan-ized, president (then secrctaiy) Taft being chosen as president and Miss Barton, then far advanced lp age, and somewhat broken in health from exposu.-c and hardships, retired from active connection with tho organization. organiza-tion. She icslded for tho st' seven vears at hor homo at Glen Echo, Md . on the ban: s of the upper Potomac. Received Many Decorations During her lifetime she received msny decorations from foreign countries coun-tries in recognition of her services to humanity and hor varied experiences experi-ences have been recorded In permanent perman-ent form In her liberal ocntrlbutions to literature, mostly relating to the activities of the Red Cross. i |