people afflicted with cancer, and took up a course of study of this disease and its
treatment at the Bellevue Hospital, New York. She worked among the poor and labored assiduously in their homes and in the hospitals. On the death of her husband she established in a house on Cherry street, New York City, a small hospital for these poor unfortunate creatures, who were turned out of other hospitals as incurable, or because they were too poor to pay for treatment. In addition to this, she established a home at Hawthorne, in Westchester County, and an order was formed to aid her in her work under a rule of the Third Order of St. Dominic. This charity is for those who are pronounced incurable, and is known as St. Rose's Free Cancer Hospital, with the country house in Westchester County. To this work Mrs. Lathrop consecrated her life, and entered the order and became its head, under the name of Mother Alphonsa. She has written some poems under the title "Along the Shore," and, with her husband, was the
author of "Memories of Hawthorne" and "A Story of Courage."
MRS. GEORGE BLISS.
Is the daughter of Henry H. Casey and Anais Blanchet Casey. She married Mr. George Bliss, a distinguished Catholic lawyer, who was legal adviser of the late Archbishop Corrigan. He was knighted by Pope Leo XIII. In 1897 Mr. Bliss died. Mrs. Bliss* greatest work has been the establishment with other interested persons of the Free Day School and Creche for French children, located at 69 Washington Square, New York. This school is entirely dependent on the voluntary contributions, receiving no aid from the city treasury. She is vice-president of this association, and is president of the Tabernacle Society, whose headquarters is in the Convent of Perpetual Adoration, in Washington, D. C.
HARRIET L. CRAMER.
Was born in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, in 1848; is president and publisher of the Evening Wisconsin, which was founded by her hsuband, Hon. William E. Cramer, and of which he was editor until his death. She is the donor of the granite columns in the interior of the Church of Gesu, in Milwaukee, said to be the only columns of this kind in the country, and were placed there at a cost of $20,000. She, with her husband, gave forty acres of ground in Milwaukee County, upon which the house and school of the Good Shepherd are situated. To this institution Mr. Cramer left a large sum of money at his death, and Mrs. Cramer has been constantly adding to this. She is one of the most philanthropic, generous women in the charitable world of America.
MARY L. GILMAN.
Was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, William Lynch, was a wealthy man of North End. In 1870 she married John E. Gilman, a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and at one time department commander of Massachusetts. Mrs. Gilman is prominent in women's relief corps
