DELANO, JANE American nurse, was born at Townsend, N.Y., on March 12, 1862. She graduated from the Bellevue hospital school of nursing in 1886. In 1888 she was asked to take charge of a temporary hospital during the yellow fever epidemic in Jacksonville, Florida. After an experience as visiting nurse in Arizona, in the days of the still war-like Apache Indians, she was appointed superintendent of nurses at the University of Pennsylvania hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., and director of nursing at her alma mater in 1902. From 1909-12, she served as superintendent of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. During the latter part of this period she accepted the chairmanship of the National Committee on Red Cross Nurs ing Service and began the development of a nursing reserve. In 1909 there were but 95o nurses on the Red Cross records. A month after the outbreak of the World War, ten picked units from the 5,000, then on the rolls, sailed for Europe. Before the end of the war 20,000 Red Cross nurses served at home and abroad with the army, navy and the American Red Cross in its work among the civilian population. When in France on a tour of in spection she died at Savenay, on April 15, 1919, worn out by war work. After a military funeral overseas her body was brought home on a U.S. transport for interment at Arlington National cemetery, on Sept. 18, 192o. Her decorations included Japanese, Austrian and Pan-American medals, and her country's D.S.M. awarded posthumously for "extraordinary devotion to duty."