“The practical demonstrations of the administrations of the American Amendment, which Miss Barton has had to lead in and carry on, are: First, in the relief work of the Michigan forest fires; second, in the overflow of the Mississippi River in 1882; third, in the cyclone of Louisiana in 1883, and the floods of the Ohio River in the same year; fifth, in the overflow of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1884. In the drought of Texas in 1886. In the Mount Vernon cyclone, Ill., in 1887. In the yellow fever pestilence of Florida. And in 1889, when the world received the shock of the Johnstown horror, we see this wonderful being, like some subtle, silent, force, appearing noiselessly on a scene of such horrors as a Dante never conceived, and by the power of her will and a remarkable endurance, as if by the hand of an enchantress, work order out of horror and chaos, restoring life and comfort where all was before desolation and death!
“These feeble words are all I can now say in this brief way of the work of Clara Barton—The Woman in the Red Cross!”
[220]. Statistics of 1887–88.
[221]. Statistics of 1887–88.
[222]. Statistics of 1887–88.
[223]. Statistics of 1887–88.
[224]. Statistics of 1886–87.
[225]. Statistics of 1887–88.
[226]. Colored.
[227]. Majority of the pupils are colored.