Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-14
AID FROM MILL MEN.
Plans of the Hospital Sunday Com
mittee to kaise Money.
APPEALING TO THE CHURCHES.
Contribution Boxes to be Put in Working
Establishments.
EXPECTED TO YIELD 100000 YEARLY

A circular has been issued by William
McCreery. Chairman, to the members of the
Hospital Sunday Committee, asking them
to attend meeting to further the objects of
the association, and to hear reports from the
various hospitals which were benefited
through the fund last year.
The Hospital Sunday fund has been in
partial operation in Pittsburg for three
wears. A committee was formed at that
time to lay before the churches the necessity
of devoting one Sunday annually to make
collections for the hospitals. The first
years collection through this channel was
s, 400 This sum was increased to So, 900
last year. Only three hospital treasures
received any money from the fund, namely,
the West Penn, Homeopathic and Allie
ghenY General.
The source from which the fund was de-
rived was very limited, the natural result
being that the money collected was insuti-
cient. No church outside the Protestant
denomination was asked to contribute to the
hospitals, and no hospital of a sectarlan
character, no matter what good it was ac-
complishing, received penny of the money.
THE CHURCHES TO HELP.
The committee in the future hope to
largely swell the fund by adopting a more
comprehensive plan. They intend to confer
with all the church authorities, to see II
some day can be set apart, to be named Hos
pital Sunday, when everyone In the city
will be given a chance to help to carry On
the various benehcent institutions, ire
snective of their religious proclivities. Then
the committee has under consideration the
advisability of comforting with represent
stiye workingmen's committee, to see II
some scheme can be devised so that the
workingmen can contribute to the hospitals
in a systematic way.
The idea which the committee think is
feasible to gain the practical support of
workingmen is to place in all the mills,
workshops, business houses, offices and
wherever men are employed hospital Sat
urday box. They will ask all the proprie-
tors of business establishments to nail on
their premises large box which they will
supply. so that the men NAV contribute
whenever they feel disposed. The box will
be marked Hospital Saturday"
OUGHT TO GIVE 100000.
By this new move on the part of the Hos
oItaI Committee, 1t is expected the fund will
Be largely increased. Superintendent
Cowen, of the West Penn, stated that the
churches anu tne HILLS OusH1 W neaP tne
hospitals every year to the tune Of $780, 900.
Mr. Cowen said further:
'sTbe system which we hope to inaugurste
has worked successfully in New York. In
England the hospital Sunday and Saturday
fund is great institution, and it accom-
plishes great good. If 1t works well there it
should do the same here. After we get
it fairly started we will enlarge the various
institutions, increase the stats and, generally
speaking, do more good.
According to the present arrangements
collection will be taken up in the various
churches of Pittsburg and Allegheny on
the second Sunday in January. There will
be an increase in the number of churches
that will devote their proceeds this year to
the fund. George L. Mccoy, Secretary of
the association, will furnish all particulars
concerning the object of the movement.