New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-04
SHE GIVES HALF A MILLION.
GENEROSITY OF MRS HENRY D. POLHE
MUS TO THE LONG ISLAND COL
LEGE HOSPITAL.
WITH ANOTHER s25OOoo AND CALLED THE
PoLHEMUs MEMORIAL DIsPENsARY
HONORING THE MEMORY OF


HER HUSBAND.
Mrs Caroline II. Polhemus. widow Of Henry
ID. Pohemus yesterday announced her intention
of building a $250.O0O dlspensary for the Long
Island College Hospital. and endowng 1t with
$3.50, 900, all az a memorial to her husband. who
died on February "A last, leaving a large for
tune This gift came a. great surprise. both
to the hospital and to the friends OF Mrs. Pol
hemus and many the expressions Of ad-
mration in brooklyn the generous act.
The building will be known the Polhemus
Memorial Dispensary. and will adjoln the col
lege buildings and Hoagland Labora tory at Henry
and Amity SITS.
Mrs Pohemus has purchased the three houses.
Nos 34s $50 and 352 Henry-st. at the south
west corner OF Amity and Henry SITS. The plot
has frontage Of sixty-seven feet on Henry-st.
and depth OF 1O2 feet on Amity-st Possession
of the property is promised by September l.
II Is Mrs Polhemus's intention to erect five
story building having a frontage Of about sixty
five feet by about eighty In depth. The lower
portion will be arranged for a dispensary. and
the upper portion for lecture-rooms classrooms,
dissecting- rooms. laboratories and janitors
quarters The building will have a most per-
feet and practical equipment for the pur-
pose Of carrying forward the work or the
dispcnsarv and the education OF the stu
dents of the Long Island College Medical School
II is the intention TO have the building In readiness
TO turn over To the hospital authorities in time Tor
the commencement OF the school year on october
1 1896 IL will be transferred with an iron-clad
stimulation that IL Is always to be known as the
Polhemus Memorial Dispensary. tn" income
from the endowment Of $25OOoo is designed as
n permanent maintenance fund and a perpetu-
alton Of the deep interest that Mr. Polhemus.
who was one Of the Board Of Regents OF the
hospital. took in the welfare OF the institution
Mrs. Polhemus believes that the part Of the city
In which the hospital is situated is likely to al
ways be densely populated with people needing
the medical service which well-arranged ana
literally endowed depensary can afford.
The news 81 the gift was most welcome to the
managers Of the hospital, as the institution is
often much overcrowded. The dispensary IL al
present receiving about three thousand visits
month and a portion of the dispensary buildings
Is necessarily occupied by the medical students
The new memorial dispensary wnl relieve the hos
pital besides increasing its capacity for the re-
ception u patients.
Mrs. Polhemus's project has been under con-
slderatlon since "A short time after her husbands
death by limited number II people who are natu-
husbands lawyer. was the one 10 whom she first
hroachei the idea Mr. Davenport consulted with
Dr skene president Of the college; DR.. Raymond,
81. former Health Commissioner. and DR.. Hoag-
land and doubtless they Will have much OF the d.
re.tion of the new dlspensary. The dispensary
attached to the college Is now located In the col
lego building Its removal 70 a building specially
prepared FOR It VII facilitate In many ways the
work IN the college. The houses now occupying
the site Of the Pohemus memorial building are
od-fashioned structures. three stories high 40
az WAS o,cupied for some time by the nurses ot
the hospital. but Is now vacant
DR. r. f. Shaw. superintendent OF the nos
pitaL was jubiant yesterday afternoon wheh
a Tribune reporter saw him He said the
efficiency of the institution would be largely
Increased. The hospital. aside from n nunpeI
OF gold medal prizes To be annually uiSrlpu''n
for mcritorious scholarship. had never peeh
favored with legacy before II has never
sought benefactions, and Mrs foihenius ''"'r
entirely unsOught.
Henry H. Polhcmus was one or the most
wholcsouled and popular men In brooklyn lie
left a large fortune and 10 children. lie was
president Of IN" Brooklyn 'iub ior Years, nt
ionged TO a number Of other clubs. loved leslu-
mate sports and was a friend OF the poor Ills
fortune amasscd through specuia,@"h @
When he died the family name died with MN
He was the last male In the seventh generation
dcsccndent from the Rev Thomas +. Polhemus.
who established the first Dutch church In the
old town Of atbush.
Mrs Polhemus who is still In the prime OF
M. and active In good works. was daughter
Of william :. Herreman. a member or an Ola
Rrooklyn family She keeps up the ola nome al
No IS Rensen-st.. and maintains ieadihs
place In Brooklyns beat society she was our
~ town Yesterday and missed large number
Of personal congratulations from public spirited
men and women OF BROOKLYN