The evening world., 1894-05-05
OF
HOPE and help.
New York Eye and Ear In
Urinary First Of Its
Kind in America.
RELIEVING HUMAN MISERY.
Twenty Thousand Suffering and
Toor People Treated in a
Single Year.
IT'S CLINIC WORLD RENOWNED.
Members Invented the 0phthaIma-
scope and Discovered the
Power OF Cocaine.
ITS CLINIC WORLD RENOWNED.

In 1920 the New York Eye and Ear
Infrmary wasfounded. To-day 1t is
world renowned. world admired. beauti-
full, permanent. and as proud Of Its rec
ord as a gentleman of his lineage.
For three score years and fourteen 1t
has needed with almost infinite pity the
infinite pathos of life's never ending
tragedies. Like a kindly light 1t has
led the afflicted poor out Of the valley
Of darkness. 1t has lent the ear of SYM
pathy to those in the soundless pit Of
deafening silence, and in restoring the
hapless breadwinner to his work, and
thus preventing pauperism, 1t has Illus
trated the efficiency. excellency and rea-
condolences of charity.
The infirmary, Second avenue and
Thirteenth street, is never closed. 1t OBJ
serves no Sunday, celebrates no holiday
and takes neither a night off nor a days
vacation from years end to years end.
Like the spirit watching over Israel:
at slumbers not nor sleeps"
At any hour of the twenty-four, any
day in the year.. any emergency case
can have immediate n skilled atten-
ton. The patient may hail from any
bpOl VI liz WlAdCi 1900 Va "AiA
all that science al do for him will be
done. and done quickly, for humanity's
SAX In the whole history of the In
Urinary. not a penny was ever known to
nave touched the and of a surgeon or
assistant surgeon.
This institution Is for the poor only.
There is absolutely nothing to pay, n
the brood OF misery crowd n another
so closely that there is no time even for
h exchange of that blessed currency
paid out of the hearts treasury.
e. Patients of All Sorts.
To this Temple of Hope and Help
comes every sort. kind and condition of
mantle college graduate. with, his
foolish head full Of learning, and no
matchmaker girl. the corset-steel cutter.
the stone-cutter, the machinist. and the
button-maker, with a piece of metal or
stone lodged in the delicate membrane;
oil under the cornea, the decomposition
of which may mean the loss of one or
both eyes: the babe not a week in the
world, and 1.-The cursed secretions of
heredity" consuming It's vitality; the
yellow little cigarette-maker, saturated
through n through with the fumes
that no moth can touch; bloodless seam
stresses. emaciated art students. poor lit
tie children from the crowded tenements
and the crowded asylumS, suffering from
s sSntagS G 1oraray "a ~ SsndRsTaSsefs
towels. wash-rags and pillows; godlike,
dim-eyed women who put off buying
glasses, in order to keep shoes on their
children; wrecks of manhood with wills.
key boiled and tobacco-burnt eyeballs
pretty girls and sweet-mannered boys
with fearful souvenirs of the fevers that
! dents. Of railroad and steamship disas'
tiers of cruelty, Of abuse. of fatality,
from all over the city. from every State
In the Union. from every country or
the continent, from every nation on the
surface of the EARTH, not one, nor a
age Of 200 every day Of the calenda,
year.
breathing Examples of Heroism.
The material for dramas or novels of
burning interest to be FOUND IN the
aiting-rooms OF this noble institution
by day of the seven could not be writ
IN in a lifetime. Among the studies
re Lying, breathing examples OF hero.
lsm, self-sacrifice and true nobility; oil
lvfui struggles between duty and de-
lir; sublime victories over self; STUB
phrn defiance and pathetic resignation
the ineyitable; and everywhere the
In the melancholy ranks you may stu
lind traces of a decorated soldier who
4 knew Napoleon ILL.,; of a one-time ia.
nous opera singer; of the once-stalwar
tatooed man brought from Athens by
the ubiquitous Barnum; Of the Amer.
lean Fly" who earned a large salary
walking on the selling OF a pretty "
an adorable circus clown. once the 100
OF the populace and the hero OF
many a boys fancy; of a .groggy ex.
by the house surgeon, presented a grimy
card, the only remnant, probably, OF
former greatness 90: of artists. inven'
tors. writers and dreamers, who have
q NHtfnd fiji 1D ftf nEC pn mn for their Ghlns
10 come in; of exilcd scholars, higf
priests, statesmen and noblemen; OF
gentlemen and gentlewomen. prominenl
IN me polite world of long ago, the very
mention of whose names would awaken
u myriad of recollections.
The report of the Infirmary, presented
N he beauty OF brevity, shows the eN'
ten 'and Importance of the d%ispcnsarS
work: OF the free patients treated II
we clinics last year there were In The:
Eye department ,,........"...................li.t2
'"o"' department loi
There were sixteen free beds, for TIL
eases requiring operations and hospita
treatment, where 3,Sl3 patients Ner'
cared Tor, free of expense. the time o
Ioeupa hGy varying from W. days t.
The new building, Just completed. pro
Vldes loo beds.
A Clinic Every Day.
There is a clinic every day from
,Sah5tlll = O'Clock. Tickets are given Out n
tEE,dO, ana the lrst Coners are served first
rne surgical stan Of the three depart
iments number ffty-four. and with al
average daily attendance of 200 the New
hork Eye and Ear Iniirmary has tn,
iargest clinic In America, and one of tn,
'aTTiest IA the scientific world.
mere Is scarcely an houT in the da,
Wnen ire general waiting-room is de
Srrted: Most Of the time II is the har
por otthe disabled, whose life under III
pest physical conditions is an intermi
tneanunie struggle for the means OF exis
Some are alone. others are factors O
nanNlous groups and some comprise en-
ddme tamiliss brought TO the verge o
SsS .raouon by the misfortune whicl