New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-01
A WOMAN'S GENEROUS GIFT.
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL GETS $35o,OOO.
II COMES FROM MRS. A. A. ANDERSON TO BUILD
MEMORIAL PAVILION.

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MEMORIAL PAVILION.
The trustees Of Roosevelt Hospital have received
a gift Of $4,000 from Mrs Abram a Anderson, Of
No. Ea,! Thirty eishth-st.. with which to erect
medical pavilion to the memory Of her father and
mother. Mr. and Mrs jeremiah Mnbank The pa
vilion vii BE- called the Mllbank Memorial Medical
Pavilion The trustees were IN SESSION at their regu-
lar meeting on Tuesday evening when letter was
received by John Knox. the president OF the board.
Mr. Knox requested the secretary % read The letter.
and when the trustees had recovered from their sur
prise all routine business was laid aside and tie
meeting changed Into one Of jubilation.
The deed Of gift requested that DR.. Francis j.
Knnicutt OF NO. ~ West Thirty seventh.st, should
lie made head physician OF the pavilion, and that
the clinics held shOI1d be open TO the students
OF the College Of Physicians and surgeons, and that
upon the death or resignation OF DR.. Kinncutt the
head physician OF the pavilion should be named by
The faculty Of the College Of Physicians and Surgeons
subject to the approval OF the board of trustees Of
tie hospital.
James A. Roosevelt PRESIDENT Of the board Of
trustees said last night 70 a Tribune reporter: 1T
was a great surprise to us do not think one Of
The trustees knew of 1t except Dr.. MoIane. When
the secretary read the letter ut our regular monthly
meeting were Thunderstorm. We dropped all
other business and entered into informal discus
sion Of plans for using the gift. DE-. Francis
KinnIcutt was elected to be head physician Of the
new pavilion tia, Is to be built and he VIII have
charge OF the plans. The pavilion will be as com
plCc in it, way the syms Operating Theatre, and
viii be n magnificent addition TO the hospital
holdings
Mr.. Roosevelt added that while It was too carly
to formulate definite pars the building would prob
ably be about the same size as some OF the other
bindings attached TO the hospital. 37x17o feet.
\ prominent official of the hospital said that the
new structure would contain about sixty beds, and
ample provision would be made for the nurses and
house staff There would 30 every facility for the
clinics and everything that modern medical science
had shown to lie necessary for such pavilion would
be purchased. II tie desire OF Mrs. Anderson
to make II the most perfect institution Of It's Kind
in the country. 1t was not only TO be model hos
ptal pavilion but It intended that It should
furnish superior facilities FOR acquiring knowledge 20
tie students who attended the clinics. The build.
Ing would be made to harmonic with the other struc-
rurcs % the hospital and It thought that It would
T.. built west Of tie out patient department Plans
would be drawn Immediately and as they We're
approved tho building would Re erected.
Roosevelt Hospital founded b. the will OF
James H. Roosevelt. who left for that purpose about
81 100000 It was opened or November l, 1871,
and up 70 1891 had received ~ other eudowmcnts
than those # eleven free beds az 5000 each. The
first substantial siit was nadc through dr. JaIno, W
McLaue Of fhc Hoard of Trustees who cons ru'icd The
NcIanc Operating Room Hr The 'o ne Il ih'
gyua,col0Egl service IN memory oi Nt sou. NE
VA, followed by fhe en ~ Sijo.o'o by william ).
sym, for to construction Of the magnificent gyms
Operating Theatre which f. II The mot complete
ard perfectly appointed operating lrviIiois In tho
world Euror, ana America both bong drawn upon
f,r the lafcsf Improvements 300 n.trmcntS and
apparatus fr IT, PHYSICIANS. Tie building was opened
/ recently and almost every prominent Physician in
the city wa, present and admiNd The perfect APP
p0lntmcut, m >,
Vow this latest fit for the erection Of tho Mbank
Memorial Pavilion enables the trustees % erect a
building which in It. speciality will De fitting com
p,uon :, the sym, sr .ture and be- II great benefit
MT only a. q p,ianthr1fic. but also on educational
institution. II thought y'~ieriav that part
~ tho $4,000 would ~ devoted - tic ton 81
tie building and The rest to providing an income for
it, maintenance