Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — ASKS AMERICAN AID. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ASKS AMERICAN AID.

Mrs. Adair’s Appeal m Behalf of tho Hospital Ship Maine. Mrs. Cornelia Adair, who is now in this country in the interests of the hospital ship Maine, which it may be remembered was provided by American women in England for the nursing of wonnded British soldiers in the Boer war, Is herself an American, being a daughter of the late Gen. Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y., who fell at the battle of the Wilderness. The idea of fitting out a hospital ship originated with a Mrs. Blow, an American, and she, with Lady Randolph

Churchill, formed a committee of American women in Iron cion to carry it out. The sum of $155,000 was raised in a short time. At this juncture B. N. Baker of Baltimore, Md., president of the Atlantn Transport Company, offered the steamship Maine and its crew to the committee, to be used as a hospital ship as long as the war lasted. This gift represented an outlay of between $15,000 and $20,000 n month. To equip the vessel the committee expended $125,000, and as it costs some $15,000 a month to keep

the ship in service, Mrs. Adair, who la the. absence of Lady Randolph Churchill is the head of the committee, comes here to interest' Americans in the work. Mrs. Adair is well known in the fashionable society of New York and Newport. Her first husband was a Mr. Ritchie of Boston. In 1867 she married the late John Adair, who was one of the great land magnates of Ireland and high sheriff of the County Donegal. She is very wealthy in her own right.

MRS. CORNELIA ADAIR.