The morning news., 1889-05-08
OPENING OF A HOSPITAL.
BALTIMORE CLAIMS THE FINEST
ONE IN THE WORLD.

The Institution Built and Equipped
Through the Munificence of the Late
Johns Hopkins Good Financiering
on the Part OF the Directors Largely
Increases the Fund.
BALTIMORE, May Johns Hopkins hos
pital, the largest, most richly endowed and
completely equipped institution Of the kind
in the world, was formally opened this
morning in the presence of distinguished
officials of the nation, state and city, and
members of the medical profession from
many parts of the country. There was no
lavish attempt at display of decora-
tons or flowers, but the ceremonies
were none the less impressive. The interior
Lf TIE central or administration building,
facing on Broadway, had been plainly deco
rated with the national cOlOrs a d evergreen
twined about the pillars. In the rotunda
stand the coats of arms of Maryland
These, with a few single flowers, complete
the display. The prog ANNE for the open
ing was simple and brief. Row. Dr. Joseph
I. Smith offered prayer, after which there
was soms excellent music, Francis t.
King, president OF the board of trustees,
made the opening address welcoming the
visitors
GOOD FINANCIERING.
In the course of his remarks he said:
Johns Hopkins did not leave hospital;
what he did leave was a complicated piece
of machinery ia the form of various invest
meuts capable of the evolving power re-
quired to construct aud maintain hospital.
When tell you that these seventeen build
ings have been Constructed and
furnished, a,d these fourteen aud
half acres lnclosed and bea1tifisd
as you see them to-day, not only without
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the hands of the trustees but vii b nm actual
increase of the endowment by judicious in
vestments by the sum Of SllS,000, | think
it may be justly claimed that the trustees
have not failed in this par Of their duty"
HIS GOOD JUDGMENT.
DR., John S. Billings, U. S. A., medical
advisor to the trustees, followed at great
length, conplimentiug tle good Judgment
of the late Johns Hopkins in his not tram
melIng with specific direction those whom
he had chosen TO carry out his plans.
DR.. Bill Is was followed by Prof. Dan
iel c. Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins
university, who gave history of the in
ception of the Johns Hopkins benevolent
institutions, and how they had been brought
to the present stage of practical working.
TO LAST FOR CENTURIES.
"Time, he said "may etface the person
ality of our founder, as it has effaced the
personality of Rahers, the founder of st.
Bartholomew, but the beneficence Of Johns
Hopkins will last for centuries; and graft
tude will cherish the memory
OF his broad views, his great
hberality, and his wise and ben-
eficent purposes" He outlined the sys-
TENS upon which The hospital will be con-
ducted and predicted great benefits to
humanity from it. Gov jackson then de
claret the hospital open to the people and
the visitors inspected the hospital.
AN EMERGENCY FUND.
President Gilman announced that an
emergency fu of 500, 900 for the benefit
of Johns Hopkins University had been con-
tributed by a number of persons, so that
during the next three years the university
viii go forward without contraction. He also
announced that a citizen of Baltimore, Ell
gune Levering, had offered $20,00) for the
construction of much-needed building
Besides, Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
II Baltimore, had endowed with $20,0J0 a
memorial lecture,hip Of poetry. The trus-
tees had determined to invite Prof. james
Russell Lowell to bo the first lecturer on
this foundation.