Cost $800,000.00—$400,000 by Congress; $400,000 by Friends of the Red Cross (Mrs. Russell Sage, $150,000, Rockefeller Foundation, $100,000, James A. Scrymser, $100,000, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, $50,000). One and one-half million of names were represented on the petition memorializing the 65th Congress to place a Clara Barton tablet in the new Red Cross Building at Washington, D. C.—CORRA BACON-FOSTER, author of _Clara Barton, Humanitarian_. Clara Barton, “Her character eternally crystallized at the base of an enduring foundation and an immortal American destiny—the greatest an American woman has yet produced.”—HON. HENRY BRECKENRIDGE, Acting Secretary of War, at the laying of the corner stone of the American Red Cross Building at Washington, D. C., March 15, 1915. ] XCII Honor any requisition Clara Barton makes; she outranks me. GENERAL B. F. BUTLER. The Jury passing on the prisoner’s life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. SHAKESPEARE. A felon’s cell— The fittest earthly type of hell. WHITTIER. Prison—the living grave of Crime. JOAQUIN MILLER. Prison—Young Crime’s finishing school. MRS. BULFOUR. Every penitentiary should be a real reformatory—the discipline of the average prison hardens and degrades—the criminal should be treated with kindness. R. G. INGERSOLL. Even the most obstinate yields to the rule of kindness, firmly and steadily administered. CLARA BARTON. SUPERINTENDENT OF WOMAN’S PRISON There is a woman’s prison, supported by the state at Sherborn, Massachusetts. Its condition had been unsatisfactory. Governor Ben F. Butler[11] sent for Miss Barton, and begged her to accept its superintendency. He said: “I ask it as a personal favor.” “But, if I accept, Governor, what would be required of me?” “Well, it will be necessary first for you to put up a ten thousand dollar bond.” “Would you accept a cash bond, Governor?” “Of course,” he replied. And she put up the bond. Footnote 11: At a public reception in honor of Miss Barton a few years after the Civil War, the wife of a Massachusetts Congressman, addressing General Benjamin F. Butler, said: “How wonderfully well Miss Barton looks in her evening dress! What beautiful arms and shoulders she has!” General Butler replied: “Yes, I have seen those arms red with human blood to the shoulders.”