The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-27
new ST. VINCENTS.
Hospital Is About
Ready For Occu-
pancy.
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A BAZAR HELD THIS WEEK.
Opportunity Given to Visit
the Building on YER.
non Street.
A BAzAR HELD THIS WEEK.

The public will be granted an oppor-
tunity of visiting the new St. Vincent
hospital on Vernon street, today and
until Friday evening, when a bazar will
be held under the auspices of the ladies
of the Hospital Aid association.
Between $4,000 and $1,000 will be needed
to properly equip the magnificent insti-
tuition which the Sisters of Providence
have erected at cost of over $4,000.
In the front ward on the main floor
will be a booth for the sale of plain
and fancy articles. This will bein charge
Of Chairman Mrs. Henry Crane, Mrs N.
@. Daily, Mrs Dennis Lynch, Mrs. T. J..
Cahill, Miss Nellie Barrett, Miss Maud
Chase, Mrs. w c. Gale and Miss Anna
Callahan. At the south end of the main
floor, in an alcove, will be china and
art souvenir booth in charge of Chair
man Mrs. NJ. F. Fallon, Miss Catherine
O'Neil, Miss Grace Kelly, Miss Lizzie
Mullins and Mrs. M. P. McGrath.
Refreshments will be served in what
is to be used as the hospital dining
room by Mrs Daniel Kelly, Mrs. M. j.
| O'Meara, Mrs. Patrick Finneran, Miss
Margaret Cunningham and Miss Nellie
Courtney. The candy table will be in
charge of Miss Anna Ryan and several
assistants. A fortune telling booth in
which Miss Nellie O'Meara will preside,
will be- one Of the features For the
children there will be a grab bag in
charge of Mrs. D. J. Kelly and Miss
Mary Barnett.
Peter Baker of Vernon street has dom
ated a large bell to the hospital which
will he ovbfhitad Tho hell IVaiphS hOUt
TOO pounds and was manufactured for
the hospital by the Meneely Bell COM
pany of Troy N. Y. 1t will be- hung in
the tower and blessed on the day the
hospital is dedicated. No date has yet
been decided upon for the dedication
ceremonies.
During the bazaar an orchestra, direct
ed by James E. Halpin, will be stationed
in the main corridor. M. w. Handlia
and John F. Mccartney vocalists, will
give concert each evening in the
chapel on the first floor. Forty:-two
ushers have been selected from the sew
en- Catholic parishes of the city.
st. Vincent hospital is a non-sectarian
institution and the kind and sympathe-
tic hand of the sisters Is felt as tender
ly by the Protestant patient as by the
Catholic. During the last year 436 pa
rs Of these were treated absolutely
without charge.
The new building is a fulfillment of
the promises made by the builders be-
fore ground was broken for its founda-
ton. The five stories are of brick,
with the main entrance on Vernon
street. The assembly room for the %
sisters at the institution is at the left
Of the entrance, the dining room at the
ha bakery
in separate wooden buildings in the
rear.
The pharmacy is on the ground floor,
there being no basement, and at the
north end is a receiving room for pa
tients requiring surgical attendance. On
| the next floor is the reception room and
business office. The chapel is directly
off the main hall. Private patients are
to be quartered on this floor, and wards
for 10 or IL patients are on the first,
second and third floors.
The floor above is patterned after the
second or main floor, and in place of the
chapel are private rooms and suites,
with bath rooms attached. The third
floor Is modelled after the floor below,
and the upper story has been fitted as a
dormitory for the sisters.
The operating room Is located in a
separate building connected by long,
covered corridor from the second story.
The room is two stories high, well
lighted, and has gallery from which
nurses may watch operations. The
| furnishings are Of white marble, and
| the flooring of the rooms in this de-
Ipartment, the consultation, sterilizing,
| instrument, wash rooms and sur
geons' laboratory, is of terrazo.
The new building is one of the finest
structures of it's kind in this section
of the state. After the dedication of
the new hospital, the building now oc-
cupied will be used as home for aged
couples and for incurables unable to
get admission into the hospital.
Next Friday afternoon, the day de-
voted by the children Of the city to
contributing their little mite for the
benefit of st. Vincent's hospital, one of
the chief features will be the guessing
of the name of a doll to be named by
Mrs. Dodge, the wife of the mayor.
NJ. Steinert & Sons will furnish spe-
cial music for the children.