New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-20
: MAGNIFICENT REQUEST.
poosEvrIr HOSPITALS GOOD LUCK


.v.,s WIS III ssso.ooo 70 BUILD AND
,ynow SURGICAL OPERATING THEATRE
-, ..st interesting Request In the viii Of William
SO vhloh vas filed with Probate Clerk Tinney
..s.dsy q tina. Of $4,000 TO Roosevelt Hospital
:. .,eei,on ind msintenancc OF the william J.
sxr. l,ueratsns Theatre OF Roosevelt HospisaL' OF
,s amount $4,000, or less at the discretion OF TIE
.r,,.,cs Is 70 be expended in the erection Of oud-
- he used fol the purposes Of tho operating thea
..s :, TIA est ed Of the hospital ground The rest
~ ~ money is be invested, and the INCOME Is 10
~ ,s.d for the maintenance of the new institution
=, charles Mckinney, attending surgeon at the hos
,s,sI Is to take entire charge Of the theatre.
Ann mailing numerous other requests, the testator
ves che residue OF his estate TO his wfo, Catharine
xlen gyms She and Samuel r. syms. brother ana
Charles McBurng and Harry c. Tinker are maue
executors. Mr. Syms, who was wealthy renfed
manufacturer Of Guns, gives TO his wife bis house, NO.
at Ffth-ave., $4,000 each 10 his brothers, samuel
r. and John G. Suns, and his sister, Mary E. Serrel;
and he establishes trust of 100000 for tho benefit
Of his adopted daughter Frances Mary syms the IN
come Of which b to be expended for her education
until she becomes twenty-one years Old, Wnen sne s
to receive the accumulated interest She is 70 nave
the income for IT, The win Is dated November y,
1885,
Dr. MoBurne. gave additional information con-
corning the beqtest 20 the Roosevelt Hospita 10
TflDane rep0rteI VINO Dunu nun az "'S 'oi0t ave- Nv
West Th,rty-sixtl-st, last evening. He SAID;
aThe operating theatre IS to have all the appliances
for conducting surgical operations and is to be
rengsd that students Of medicine and surgery can
look on. snch operating theatres are found every
where In some shape or other, but herc is mono 80
complete as this one viii be. Tbs requirements for
modern surgery d the way Of rooms and appointments
arc something enormous, This bequest win enable
the hospital to erset building for the purpose named
fully equal 10 snyn the world, and the endowment viii
maintain II forever About $4,000 viii probably be
expended on the building and the remaining $500 900
wal be the persnanent endowment fund.
@such baiidhg as is required win be pretty ex-
tonsive thing There win be the main
operating room, with seats for 800 or
400 students sooms for etheriEing, lavatorics,
instrument roopB, rooms for the preparation of
surgical dressings and smaller operating rooms All
that is essential In operating surgery viii be there.
1t not expected that there win be any contest over
the VII As sooa as the money comes Into the hands
Of the trustees Of the hospital the work of erecting
the building win 60 IT viii be az the northwest
corner Of Enth-aye and Fifty ninth-st, directly
nected with me hospital and opposite the College Of
Physicians and Surgeons, whose students viii only
have TO step the street In order to witness the
surgical operations It win be about 100 feet square,
Of brick and stone. There will be very deep base
nent and very high story containing the theatre
lighted nom above, with rooms on cither side OF 1t.
The win prescrbes that the theatre building shall
giving OF surgical Instruction TO students and others
under the direction Of the attending surgeon sur
Sudns ss b erected and soupped secor raI.
plans approved by The trustees Of the hospital,
INTO whose hands the Request VIII come. are James NJ
Brown. Benjamin h. Field, Charles c. Savage, Robert
). Hone, John NJ Knox, John Fl. Abeel, James A.
Roosevelt, W. Irving Clark and Merritt Tr4mble1