Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-13
GROUND TO BE BROKEN
Preparations for the Building of an Addi-
ton to Slbley Hospital
Rust HILL to Become Memorial to
Ardent Methodist
Worker.

Thursday next ground will be broken for
the construction Of Rust Hall and for an
addition to Sibley Hospital. near the cor
rer of North Capitol and Pierce streets.
The new structures it is understood. will,
when completed. be the headquarters for
deaconesS and hospital work of the We
mans Home Missionary Society of the Bal
timOre conference, VI e. Church. Some
years ago Mr.. Ephraim Nash. through Mrs.
Jane Bancroft Robinson. presented TO the
then just organized Lucy Webb Hayes
Bible and Training School his residence, No
11io North capitol street. for the purpose
Of aiding ii in the work undertaken Sub
scquentIy the late Mr.. Wm. ]. Sihey built
and presented to the same organization the
hospital a memorial to his wife.
These gifts. it j. said. have attracted
students from all parts Of the country. who
come here to prepare themselves for church
and deaCOneSs work. The need of addition
al buildings has long been felt. but it is
only recently that the society felt itself
able 70 undertake the expense necessary
to meet prospective demands. The cost Of
Rust Han is estimated at $4,000, and the
addition to Sblcy Hospital between $1,000
and $1,000.
The ceremonies incident to starting the
two enterprises will be in charge of Rev.
Dr. y. II. AmoS. president of the school,
and Rev. Dr. l.. b. Wilson, presiding elder
prominent men have promised to take part
in the exercises: Bishop Hurst, Bishop
Andrews. Bishop Ninde. Bishop Merrill.
Bishop Vincent and Bishop McCab". and
Rev DR. ]. NJ Buckley. editor of the New
York Christian Advocate. The Womans
Home Missionary Society Will he repre-
scented by some of its national officers,
among them Mrs. Clinton &. Fisk, Mrs.
Jane Bancroft Robinson. Mrs. Anna Kent
and others.
Reception Proposed.
The formal ceremonies will be followed
with a reception by local members of the
missionary society to the friends of the
tive institutions in the parlors of the home.
Rust Hall is to he 50 named a memorial
to the late Mrs. r. s. Rust. one of the
founders Of the Woman's Home Mission
airy Society, who died in Cincinnati last
month, after long Illness. y Washington
minister who was we'll acquainted with
Mrs. Rust said her lahorS in connection
with the Woman's Home Missionary So
cietY, of which she WAS n leading founder
have not only been a great blessing to
the many thousands who have been direct
" or Indirectly the bene1ciaries of its
benevolence. but have made her one of the
best-known women in the NJ. +. Church.
1t is said that there was probably not
one minister of prominence in all the con-
nectlon whom she did not personally know.
Her relation to bishops, general secre-
tarfes and leaders Of the NJ T. Church was
that Of personal acquaintance and friend
ship.
''tAs a leader not all could follow her
rapid pace, and few were sometimes
alarmed at the vfgor with which she
pushed her enterprises She was great as
an organizer. She knew how to rally to
her help ana set IN motion all available
agencies
Hers was a marked life, and the death
Of no woman in Methodism would be sin
cerely mourned by more persons than will
that Of Elizabeth Lownes Rust"