The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-17
WOMEN OF WICHITA
Their Noble Effort a Grown of
Glory.
HELPING THE HOSPITAL
City Sets Pace of the State
For Public Generosity.
PING THE HOSPITAL

eaualled by their generosity. The most
magnificent county building in the state
of Kansas is the Sedgwick county court
house. The most splendid municipal hail
! in the state of Kansas and the costlest,
is the City Building of Wichita. The
| erandest Masonic temple in the state is
! in Wichita. The most capacious educa'
| tional eGifice in the state, the largest ana
most expensive, is in Wichita. The most
| beautiful Masonic Home in the west IS
| located in Wichita All these stand as
! permanent monuments to the enterprise
as well as to the generosity of Wichita
! people. as does her auditorium, and as
does many other public edihces- 1t now
happens through the generosity Of a
Wichita property owner, that the people
of this city are afforded an opportunity to
| possess and boast the largest municipal
charity Of any city in the state, a city
! hospital, eighty by one hundred feet
| ground dimensions, four stories high IN
| GLIDING basement, constructed of brick
and stone and iron and worth fifty thous-
and dollars, containing nearly one hum
dred rooms, water closets, baths, wards,
! etc, and accessible to the business center
of the town, and all conditioned upon the
expenditure of a few thousand additional
dollars, not as a purchase money but to
be expended in supplying the building
with steam heating, baths, elevator, oper-
ating room, dining hall and all the modern
hospital accessories and conveniences.
The women of Wichita have this enter
prise and promised permanent benificience
at heart. 1t is along the line of philan-
thropy for the unfortunate. out of SYM
pathy only, and aside from any city pride
or ambition, that the appeal of these wo-
men is made The donor farther stipu-
lates that the institution shall be nom
sectarian and one in which every school
of medicine shall have access and the
privilege of every other school to care
for its patients. That, in short, it shall
be a city hospital. in fact and in name.
This constitutes another purely human
tartan incentive.
What Wichita women want, her men
never deny What the mothers, wives and
sweethearts set their hearts upon is
granted in advance by the fathers, hus-
bands and lovers, else whence these
churches and parsonages, this ophan's
home and the likely, and the like.
The women whose hearts are set upon
the acquisition and the fitting up of this
proposed magnificent charitable institu-
ton would not, nor do they intend to
burthen their bread winners. They have
successfully devised a number of paying
little schemes which will be worth to the
patrons all that they individually cost,
but which will aggregate no insignificant
sum. But they have planned for one
grand demonstration in the direction of
an important occasion, wherein it is pro-
posed to bring all the swell people of
every society circle and church organiza-
ton together for an evening. The scheme
is a grand musical entertainment, big
vocal and instrumental concert, at the
Crawford opera house, under the manage
ment and direction of Mrs. Malvina Wal
den, who will enlist the best musical tai
ent obtainable for an evening of unalloyed
pastime. Manager Martling is to donate
the opera house. the electric company is
to donate the lights, and the professional
musicians, performers. virtuosos and
amatuer prima donas are TO contribute
their talents, with no expense or outlay
anywhere, and every seat and aisle is to
be filed with pay auditors and spectators.
A thousand dollars ought to be rounded
up in such a scheme and an enjoyable
evening for everybody, for everybody will
want to go. Certainly all the best people
of the town will buy tickets and be pres
emit
In the name of charity at a time when
there were many destitute in the city
and more than the local charity organiza-
tions could possibly take care of, for the
relief of furnishing mothers and their
starving little ones, Mrs. Walden got up,
a big concert by which she cleared be-
tween eight and nine hundred dollars,
every cent of which was turned over to
the relief officers. But this present pro-
posed musical entertainment is to be on
much more pretentious and artistic scale,
and those who occupy boxes and choice
seats will be privileged to pay all they
wish or all that they feel they can afford.
The hospital, completed, will be an in
stitution 10 be proud Of. All visitors TO
the Friends National University. and 10
the Masonic Nome, Will pass by It, Its
inmates will be safe from apprehension
of fire and be otherwise comfortable. 1t
will be as commodious as it will be at
tractive, with a capacity equal to the de-
mands of a city Of one hundred thousand.
once furnished and opened and Wichita
will not have to worry over place for
her unfortunstes, for years TO come.
And what VIII prove matter of par
tlcular pride and qualification Is 49, fact
that the institution viii be the work Of
the women OF Wichita. Outside of de-
nom!naconal influences. OF sectarian bias,
alone in the name OF humanity, a large
number Of representative ladies OF the
city. Of society leaders. literary stars, ma
steal prodcients and a host OF women
whose hearts ever SO out in sympathy and
in deeds OF charity for-the worlds un-
fortunate, have chivalrtcly united TO
make this Crowning benevoIence a proud
success. monument 10 q generous love
for the common veal. 'amicus hu-nsnl
generis.''
As for the concert, or musical enter
tainmeat and society so'ree, il Is proposed
% make II a conpanionabIs fesJivity and
ciubbab.e function such as was neysr
squalled il Crawford Grand. watch viii
be 6ecorat ed and hammered for TIE &C.
casi0a No young man or young woman
or spring girI can afford % miss L. Be-
sides every body Else Is 10 be there on
generaI principles. The date hasn't been
definitely fixed Yet because al the pos
sible musical adopts, siagi1s experts, IT,
strumeutal eonno!sures a,ad Ambassadors,
possible OF enlistment. haven't been seen
ana engaged for their specsaltes. But
Il viii be IN the very near future and
tickets may Re bought al any time To
say nothing OF The OBJECT i VII b wei
worth The money. = VIII Be Al Elijah.