New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-07


TO begin the task Of providing for 81. Lakes Hos
pita enlarged Of usefulness. Its transition from
the old site TO tho new and to the spacious and
splendid structure which Will be It's habltaoD Is
the enforced and orderly result OF It's growth during
little more than one generation. II. Lukes Is, per
hap. the best known hospital I'm The land. Certainly
IL was among earliest OF the larger and properly
equipped hospitals OF time and country, While II
absolutely the earliest In respect Of Its character
is;ic idea and purpoc. TO mensure the good II has
DONE more. the good will do, Is Impossible
All hospitals In one way or another ana In varying
dcgrec good but St. Lukcs consciously aims at doing
good BY vital contact with certain convictions Of
Christian duty and certain sanctions OF Christian prn-
clp. Its work Is the outcome Indeed, OF Its science
and It's nursing but SIN more OF Its faith In Hun
who as the Life and Light OF the world. Is the
supreme Healer Of the Ills and bruises OF humanity
OF Dr. Muhlcnberg. the founder OF the hospital.
Bishop Ntejohn spoke IN euloey. His sympatSies,
convictions. aspirations. had divers embodlmenfs'
lie said this only one OF them. but Ii bore the
same impress. responded to the same warnings,
touched well nigh the chord in the heart
and reflected the same central, burning light OF the
Gro all the rest in varying form and degree"
Letters OF regret read from many members OF
the clergy. among whom were Bishop Williams. OF
Connecticut Bishop Coxc OF Western Ncw-fork;
Bishop scarborough OF New,Jersey Bishop Coleman,
OF Delaware Bishop whIpplc, OF Minnesota, and the
Rice also sent letters Of regret.
The services closed with a bcnedlctlon by Bishop
Potter.
The Committee Of Arrangements were AndDr c.
Zabrske, wadron p. Brown Moses Taylor Pyne.
Gustav II. Schwab, Hoffman Miller and Edward l..
Ticmann.
The trustees Of the hospital present were Samuel
d. Babcock, George Bagden, Waldron 2. Brown,
Hugh n. Camp, George A. Croker. Cmuncey NJ.
Depew, Bcnonl Lockwood, George N. Miller Hoffman
Mile, Gordon Norne. Henry A. Oakley. Henry Par
sh, Moses Taylor Pyne Charles Rowland Russell,
Gustav II. Schwab. william Alexander Smith, Cor
nelns Vanderbilt and Philip G. Weaver.
The site OF the hospital covers lot $50 feet
In One.hundred and thrteenthst., $50 feet IN one
hundredand- fourteenth-s and measures 200 feet In
MorpingsIde and Amsterdam At first, the
administration building and three paviions Will be
built The completed plans make provision for ten
buildings In ALL These buildings will be added as the
needs OF the hospital require them.
The new hospital will make provision at first for
about 800 beds, which, II Is expected Will cost
annually from $4,000 to $3.50. 900 to maintain. In
the present building there are 200 beds the yearly
Of these is about 100000. The proceeds Of the
sale Of the old site. after the debt Incurred on the
new has been settled will leave a permanent annual
Income OF about $4,000
With the Rev. DR.. william Augustus Muhlenberg
originated the idea OF establishing st. Lukes Hos
made the first appeal In his own church-the Church
Of the Holy Communion, Slxthave. aud Twentieth
st. That day he set aside 49, Onchalf OF the
onertory, the foundation for the hospital, which
was to be named st. Luke's. About this time the
hospital service m the city wretchcd. Besides
the general lack Of hospital accommodations there
had been epidemic of cholera and during the out
break public school buildings were turned into tenn
porary hospitals
This fact added weight 10 Dr. Mublenbcrg's ap
peal and soon aitcrward Mrs. Lndley Hoffman,
member Of the parish. gave 81 900 toward the fund
for the hospital. This gift was followed by check
Offering for his recovery from serious illness.
Gcnerous gifts began to pour In and the request
OF the clergy Of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Dr.
Muhlcnbere In 1e52, made address from the pulpit
proposing that there be built church hospital:
to. The central feature OF DR.. Muhlenberg's plan
that as hospital, received .nsr first impetus
Christian character lie asserted that the care OF
hospital was a special Junction Of the Church, and
therefore adopted AS motto for his hospital, Cor
The modest sum first asked for was 100000.
While the religious services and the managcmen, were
always Ia IN the Of The Protestant Episcopal
Church the bcnefaci0ns 81 the hospital were Ia b.
shared by all. without reference To color, or
The The hospital work began in rear building in
Of the Holy Communion. About 200 patients were
treated before the =, hosPt,i proper was
S %ss at o" frs. haSpcrcd by 'Is lack work
money. There were fifteen patients being cared for
when the building At Fiftb-ave and Fifty ourth-st.
building r' was enlarged. The methods adopted by
Il. Luke's TO raise money In its early days were
Interesting. one OF ines" wns ihc formation Of
ASSOCIATIONS IN the different parIsho, TO raise money
for the support Of the needy and sick.
In 1851 the plan OF endOwing beds begun.
The hospital has now 152 endowed beds. The
century fund composed ~ body OF 100 men.
who pledged themselves 10 mike up the deficit ncy
tha, sometimes existed when the years work was
reviewed.
The work done By the hospital since Its beginning
36OjO OF which 80 1-2 per cent connected with
the Protestant Eplsoops Church % per cent belonged
Roman Catholics, while only per cent were lIe-
brews, The training SCHOOL WHICH has been in opera