New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-23
THE FIGHT OFF FOR A TIME.
a TRUCE BETWEEN CITY AND STATE
AUTHORITIES
TEMPORARY ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE RECEP-
. LAND PENDING THE DECISION ON
, THE APPEAL FROM JUSTICE
MACLEAN'S MANDAMJJS

rhe Board Of Managers Of the Manhattan
s4ate Hospital and the Commissioners OF Char-
ties have a. last patched up truce In the con-
<royersy that has for soma time BEEN pending
between them with reference to the clothing
necessary for insane patients before they would
be received ut the Wards Island insane asylum.
The following statement. which given out
late last night, explains the temporary arrange
ment at which the dsputants have arrived
A conference was held this evening between Dr..
Carlos F, Macdonald president OF the state Com
president %sSI Of the Manhattan State Hospital Dr.
& Macdonald superintendent OF the hospital: Cor;
Eisssibu-gh E and Barton n Harrison. also repre-
sentins the Attorney General The purpose Of the
specns the care Of the dependent insans nov undf,
AFFAIRS was intolerable After a eonsu.tauo over
ss dsssrminsiion Of the appeal from Judge Mscissns
ssoad nFnh cos for
persons delivered 70 the Manhattan State Hospital
Sursed for the cost Of such coth1g II Judge Msc s.
Deputy Acknowledgement agreeing to s'ipulate that
the action Of the city authorities in furnishing such
clothing should in no wise prejudice tho citys po-
sition in the litigation pending The managers
Of the Manhattan State Hospital will in the mean
on the undsrs,anding @ that the city Charities Con-
miSRO1erS possible,
factory clothing fer them.
This arrangement was made with the express
understanding that the officers Of the Manhattan
State Hospital should be the judges Of the fitness
OF the clothing furnished 10 the patients which
means. OF course, that the patients who shall be
transferred from Bellevue to Wards Island will
have to be supplied with new clothing.
OF the sixteen women who were left at Wards
Island unceremoniously Saturday morning by
DR.. Russell. six. according 70 Dr. F. II. Cole, the
woman physician. were In extremely uncleany
condition. while tie clothes OF only two could be
called In fair condition, and the clothes Of only
fhree were good One Of them wore thin
wrapper, which was given her nine months ago.
when she left Bellevue Hospital the first time.
while others wore clothing that had already
been condemned by the city authorities them
selves.
Yesterday as on Saturday, the Sates-ot Belle
vue Hospital were shut and guarded by attend
ants by whom nobody could pass Withoutundergo-
Ing an examination TO his business. The river
wall was still, patroed and astriCr watch was
kept on the pier Of the Aurora. the Wards Island
boat, to see that among her passengers were
none Of the sixteen women patients whom DE-
Russell dropped on Wards Island Saturday
morning.
On Wards Island matters were also un-
changed. The sixteen women continued TO Do
housed and cared for by the State authorities,
although, as they were very careful to say, the
women were not formally received their names
and their histories being left unnvestigated. They
were cared for only because the Wards Island
people would not permit them 70 suffer from
cold and hunger on the wharf where they "ere
As result Of the truce between city and State
authorities. the guards at Bellevue Hospital
were withdrawn early this morning.