New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-09
AMODEL HOME FOR CHARITY.
THE POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL scBooy.
AND HOSPITALS NEW BUILDING
ING YEsTERDAY-THE BABIES WERE IA
XORITES = ADMIRATION EOR THE


ING YEsTERDAY-rHE BABIES WERE IA.
voRITEs - ADMIRATION FOR THE
BEAUTIFUL. INSTITUTION
The formal opening of the new building OF thu
POSTGRADUATE Medical School and Hospital, at Sec.
ond-ave and Twentieth-st.. drew hundreds of me,
and women prominent In society to the place yes
terday afternoon and evening. Carriages were ar
irving and departing constantly and nearly every
room In the fine building was crowded during thu
hours set for the inspection. Strains Of music
fpated through the halls and mingled with the
n0rmur of voices Choice flowers were In every
nook and corner of tine place. The women wers
especially enthusiastic over the little ones in thu
babies wards on the fourth and fifth floors vho
looked as II they enjoying illness In the,,
beautiful surroundings. The children in the surgical
division all dressed in red frocks and the deco
ratons of the rooms were in different shades OF red
and pink while light blue was the prevailing colo,
in the medical division. The visitors frequently e.
pressed their satisfaction at the perfection Of the
appointments. the care which had been taken to &C.
cure the best possible light and ventilation and tha
spotless cleanliness everywhere.
THE MEMORIAL WARDS.
Most Of the rooms in the babies wards have
been fitted up special gifts or memorials The
surgical division includes the "Strol,ers' Wardn
lumba College used a reception ward; "Zaides
Ward" fitted up by Miss Cortlandt Palmer IN
memory OF Miss Zaldee Fulton. OF the Sunbeam
Committee: advent Angel Ward" by Mrs Ella
Conde Lamb. in memory OF baby son; the operat.
ng-room, fitted up by gifts from number OF per-
sons, and complete linen and Clothing rooms. In
the medical division are the Innocent Ward" taxi
ing its name from enc Of Luca Della Robbias
works which was brought from Florence and ss, In
sf,- nxy
Barbour; Good Cheer Ward" by Mrs. Anson
Phelps Stokes containing an ozone generator run
by electricity; Jamie Ward" by Mrs. W. 5. Pyle
in memory OF her litte boy, containing incu.
bator which attracted attention at the Worlds Fair
and the Sub Rosa Ward" fitted UP by the Sub
Rosa Society and designed for mothers with nursing
There are also diet kitchen fitted up in memory
Of Richard Jessup Morgan roof garden. fitted up
by Mrs. VI. L. Smith with greenhouse, cradles and
a tent: sunbeam p.ayroom, connecting with the
ceptIon-room in which children who are admitted to
the wards examined and have their clothing
changed. The door watch shuts OF the babltS
wards from the rest of the hospital is inciosed by
staned-gass partitions, given oy Mrs. Arthur Wood
run, In memory OF her lite daughter Irene
FORMAL EXERCISES n TIE EVENING.
In the evening there were formal opening exer-
cises In the reeding-room OF the building on the
first floor The Rev. Dr. Marvin r. Vincent offeAd
prayer. DR.. Clarence c. Rice read report Of
the hospital work. and addresses were made by
Dr. H. b. 81. John Rosa, the president OF the
institution; the Rev. Dr. William r. Huntington.
who spoke the babies wards. and 81. Clair Nc
KeIWay, who said, In part;
The doctors calling r. the grandest in the world
The theoogian has GAINED primacy, and the law
yer has claimed equality Tor his calling but the
ereatest - the Doctors The gospel OF help out
classes the gospel OF dogma. Medicine gives or
makes ths sound body which is the Necessary
temple 10 the sound mind, and then itself ministers
10 the mind diseased ana does what the dramatist
said could not be done 'pidcks from the memory
its rooted sorrows" The best title OF Him whom
we Worship. whether as Jehovah. Jove or Lord,
was and is that o. the Great Physician" Chief
OF His laws are HIS laws OF health which He has writ
ten I'M nature and In man. establishing complete cor
respondence between them. SO long az falhole hu-
mainly wanders amid the monuments or an incom-
pete civilization which 1t beters century by CEN
fury, so long will be needed the highest examples
~ medical skill and the grandes evidences Of medi-
cal instruction Such examples and such evidences
are institutions like these. May Coz roster ana
multiply them. everywhere and here.