The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-12
TaE FRIENDS OF TIE SICK.
Ground Pur chascd for the sire OF New
Sisters Hosp tai.

sisters Hosp tai.
The Sisters OF the Sorrowful Mother
have purchased a site for a new hospital
on North Fourth avenue, and work on the
building will he commenced when the
spring opens.
Right Rev. J. J. Heunessy, bishop Of
this diocese, closed the deal for the ground
with Charlie Smythe, Tuesday. The site
has frontage OF 80 fee; on North Fourth
avenue, and the price paid was 5000.
Their present hospital, the 81. Francis,
Will be Immediately improved and reno
waited, the stairways will be enlarged and
other important improvements made,
When the new hospital is built the present
St. Francis building will be used by the
sisters themselves as a residence aud may
be also used as a training school
for Catholic young girls who de-
sire to prepare themselves for
the noble, generous and humane
undertaking OF caring for the sick. These
sisters are said to have the best equipped
hospital in the world in Wisconsin. 1t was
recently built and it Is said that the archl-
tect who designed It visited the best hos
pitfalls in the country aud included their
most valuable features in it. II so far as
the funds viii permit the hospital to be
built here will be copied after It. the idea
of the sisters is TO build an lu-
siituiioa exclusively with vie"
to tue comforts and convenience
of the sick: one that will have every fsclii-
ty for the nursing of the Aft c;ei back to
health. Everybody will be delighted over
this good news and especially those who
know the inside life OF these poor creatures
who couteuted themselves with worse
than pauDer fare during the years they
have been here 50 that they might main
tain their purpose OF caring for the SICK,
TO which they have devoted their lives and
for which they have given up the very
Joys aud pleasures OF the world itself.
The sisters Of the sorrowfui mother
formed their organization in the eternal
city OF Rome where the mother house now
is within a stones throw of the Vatican
They have been recruited from every walk
IN life. the ranks having been filled by re-
cruits from some OF the uobiest families IL
Europe. The sisters WHO are here came
direct from Rome where they went
through that rigid system OF education IN
nursing for which the ordeI
is noted all over the world
They enter this institution from all parts
of the world, and when they leave it They
are AS liable to be assigned to the choiera
infect ed regions of Russia as anywhere
else. The most stout-heaUted man trembie:
at the idea Of being within hundred
miles of the cholera, buI these tendel
women 90 into its midst as cheertu!ly a.
they would 90 ID their vespers on Sunday
evening Ia their education they are moi
/ only required to learn the details of nurs-
/ ing bus they learn medicine as well, aHC
many OF the SISTERS at tot
! -. Francis hospital know tIt
science OF medicine far better than mani
/ doctors. They know enough about It L
select the best doctors they can find for tb'
/ medical staff. Wichita IS 10 be congraJu
+ lated in 81 assured institution that vii
will be OF such iucalculable value TO affiict
| ed humanity.
The details must be postpoH.d till som
time in the future on account Of lack 0
STAGE in this issue.