Children Interested iter more than the
other patients, and if she hud continued
Recalls Her First Acci
dent Case and Many
Other Interesting In
cidents in Her Long
Career of Service
out'sing instead of taking' a supervising po
sition no doubt she wouid have carried this
preference into her profession.
"The only time I was ever reprimanded,"
she contimied. "was when I was nursing in
one of the wards at the City Hospital just
before I came here. It was the children's ward
and the little ones were playing with a rub
ber ball. The superintendent said they were
making too much noise and T had to stop
them. 1 hadn't noticed the noise at all. but
then I loved children and their laughter
didn't bother me at all."
In the closing years of the last century at
Gouverneur most of the patients were long
shoremen and truck drivers. The popula
tion then was principally Irish. Of all the
patients that were brought there in the old
horse ambulance Miss Ktowers remembers
\ividly one injured man who was carried in
in a dying condition. The doctors were
doing everything they could to relieve his
suffering and prolong his life, but his hours,
his minutes even, were numbered.
"I shall never forget the look in that
man's big brown eyes when he turned
toward me and begged, 'Oh, can't you do
something for me?' He was so appealing,
so frightenpd. He didn't want to die. <
was the first death I ever saw. And it made
a lasting impression."
First Hospital to Employ
A Woman for Ambulance Work
Gouverneur was the first hospital in the
city to employ a woman on the ambulance.
