St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-08
TO HEAL THE SICK.
One of st. Paups Institutions Where the
Sick and Injured May Always Find
Home.
A Brief Look Within St. Luke's Hospital
lis Doors Stand Open for All
Glasses.
Supported by the Episcopal Churches
of the City--Its History and
Work.
The Charity Ball Soon to Come for It's
it--Arrangements Fast
Being Perfected.

A little wicker door, opening from the
hall on the second floor of the three-story
brick building on Eighth street, near Rob-
ert, leads into the room where half dozen
cots constitute the principal articles of fur
niture. The sheets are of the whitest
linen and each is marked ''St. Luke'S Hos
pital." Very clean and neat the room ap-
peared the other day when GLOBE re-
porter pushed aside the wicket in search of
a friend who had been taken there a week
before. and who said he had never been
better treated i'll his life; in fact, he had
enjoyed himself. Over i'll one corner was a
small boy of a half dozen wears, and beside
him his brother. year or two younger ap-
parently, who was known by the other two
or three patients as the young doctor. -
from the fact that he brought the medicine
to them when the hour for their doses
came around. He had been sick,
with his brother, but was. he SAID,
''feeling too good to stay in bed" Two of
the little beds were empty. A little table
stood by one of them with a big bouquet
upon it. and you could smell the fragrance
of carnations, mixed with the usual apothe-
cary OdOrS that always seem natural in such
an institution. The sun Shone into one of
the windows and little fire in the stove on
one side of the room made it very comfort
able and pleasant. 1t was during the reg
ular hour for visitors and the bell kept ring
ing, and men and women kept going in and
coming out OF the little rooms that opened
from the Railways without. These were
the private rooms, fixed up a little finer
than the wards and occupied by such pa
tientS as were so seriously sick that they
could be better cared for by themselves. or
by those who preferred to be where they
Nnt ocirrl
THE HOSPITAL BUILDING
is not pretentiOus. OF yellow brick and
with balconies ON the second and third
floors in front, it would be put down as a
dwelling-house of some moderately we'll
TODD merchant or real estate man. if it'll
were not for the modest sign over the main
entrance and fronting the street, that
bears the name of the institution
On the first floor are a couple of sitting
rooms. or one sitting-room aud a Darlor. a
dining-room, kitchen and the ordinary
rooms necessary for the accommodation of
the matroG, Mrs. Bradbury, and her family.
When every bed is taken there are but
twenty-five patients there, and an examina-
ton OF its register shows that since its last
fiscal year began in March every bed has
nad more than seven changes of occupants.
Since that date this institution has cared for
$50 patients, larger number than ever be-
fore in its history for the same length of
time.
1t was twelve years ago that the hospital
began its work. At first it was the inten- |
ton to make its permanent quarters down
on old Fort street, some blocks beyond the
Seven corners but the property owners and |
residents objected and its present location
was selected. Hon. Il. H. Sibley, Judge
r. r. Nilsson. j. w. Bass. A. H. Cathcart
A. II. Wilder and William Dawson signed
its articles OF Incorporation on the 18th day
of March in 1878. and these articles an
nounced that it is under the direc- |
ton and auspices of the par
ishes of Christ's church and st. |
PaufS church." This, however, was
simply to allow to it certain necessary fran
chises for holding certain real estate not