Further Endowment for Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses London, Jan. 7
It is proposed that the national memorial to the late Queen Alexandre shall take the form of a further endowment of Queen Victori Jubilee Institute for Nurses, which misters to the sick and poor in their own homes. An appeal for subscriptions for this object is made to-day in a letter to the press signed by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Mayor of London, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, Dr. Hertz, Chief Babi, ud other distinguished personalities, Tt is recalled that the Institute] was founded by Queen Victoria with an offering made by women on the occasion of her Jubilee in 1887, that it reesived further additions to its fands at Queen Victoria's Dia-nond Jubilee in 1897 and that the women's memorial to Queen Victoria at her death in 1901 was devoted te the same purpose, Queen Alexandre succeeded Queen Vietorin as ratton of the Institute and from the first day of King Edward's reign until the last days of her lif, Her Majesty showed. affectionate" and abiding interest in its work.
The letter states in conclusion:
"We feel sure that this work for the suffering poor presided over first by Queen Victoria and then by Queen Reuter. Alexandra and now by our present Gracious Queen will appeal to our
a splendid and appropriate object countrymen and coantrywomen 88] of memorial of the nation's for Queen Alexandra,"—British Wireless through Reuter.
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