The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-17
A GATE CITY HOSPITAL.
PHYSICIANS URGE ITS SPEEDY
ESTABLISHMENT.

A Committee to Lay the Matter
Before the City Council-A Brake
man Falls From Car and Receives
Fatal Injuries-A Conductor Uses
a Club or Mans Head.
ATLANTA. GA. Feb. l6.-The physicians
of Atlanta held a meeting at the court
house tonight which was largely attended,
the object being to take steps in the direc-
tion of securing for Atlanta a commodious
and well appointed hospital TO be owned
and managed by the city. At present
Atlanta has no such institution and
is sadly in need Of one. DR..
j. S. Todd, presided with Dr.
H. T. Scott as secretary. Speeches in
advocacy Of the measure were made by II.
H. Tucker, DR.. Willis F. Westmoreland
DIR. H. P. Cooper and other citizens of At
lan;a, and DR. Griggs of West Point Drs
Powell and CASTOR offered the plan sug-
gested. The following resolutions offered
BY DR. j. c. O'Crushor was,passed by a vote
OF ~ to p the votes against 1t being cast by
Drs Powell and CASTOR:
WHEREAS, We hail with Joy this movement
looking 10 the establishment of a general hos
pita for the city of Atlanta, the want of which
In a city of this size has been long recognized
by the medical profession, the absence of which
is diScredit to city of 10000 inhabitants,
Therefore be il
Resolved, That we collectively and individual
ly pledge our hearty support and aid to the in
auguration OF city hospital, which shall be
non sectaran, but religious and medical in its
constitution, and which shall thus fulfill its mis-
sion as blessing to our common humanity, and
which in its free benevoleuce shall truly illus
trate the enterprise and progressive civilization
of this our Gate City or the South.
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man was authorized TO appoint a committee
of six physicians and three citizens to go
before the Relief Committee of the City
Council and present the views of the physi-
clans Of Atlanta with reference to a city
hospital, and also furnish the committee
with information as to the character of
the institution needed and all
Information bearing upon the subject. The
chairman appointed on the committee Drs.
Cooper. Durham, Nicholson, Logan and
Orme, and H. H. Tucker, Hugh Inman and
W. L. Calhoun. DR.. Cooper read a resolu-
ton passed by the fnculty of the Atlanta
Medical College indorsing in the strongest
terms the establishment Of city hospital.
RETURN OF THE TOURISTS.
A party of about fifty New England
tourists spent to-day here, returning from
New Orleans They are travelling on
special train of parlor cars.
Pacific read this morning and received in
juries that caused his death.
At o'clock this morning as a freight
train was approaching Douglasville John
Mabry (colored), a brakeman, while at
tempting TO step from the caboose
TO box car, slipped and fell
between them. His left leg was
horribly crushed. and it is probable that he
was severely injured internally. Mabry
was placed on a passenger train, and ar
rived at Atlanta this morning at $50
o'clock He was taken to the Ivy Street
Hospital, where his injuries were examined
and an amputation of the left leg was found
necessary. He was put under the influence
of ether and died before the operation could
be performed.
j. L. Johnson, whose son fed from town
few days ago with $500 belonging TO Paul
& Gullstt, to-day paid the shortage. Young
johnson has written his father that he is in
New Orleans and out of money. He will
not be prosecuted, as his father has settled
up for him.
ATTACKED WITH CLUB.
Tonight about II o'clock, while r. j.
Tillerv and q. A. Glass were standing in
the National Hotel Saloon, John B. Smith,
a freight conductor of the Central Rail
road, walked in with a large club in his
hand. Approaching Glass, he struck him a
heavy blow on the head with the club, cut
ting deep cash from which blood
flowed freely. Officer Aldridge ar
rested Smith aud the party
walked ont on the sidewalk. Smith..made a
dash at Hillery ana succeeded in scratching
his face and choking him badly before the
officer could pull him off. 1t is said that
Smiths attack is due 10 some trouble that
he had previously had with Glass