The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-23
$4,000 FOR THE HOSPITAL
Il HANDSOME AND TIMELY GIET
JUST BESTOWED.
e. Hayes TrOwbridge and Mrs. Ezekiel
Trowbridge tho Donors-This Gift
Enables the Hospital management to
Complete the New Maternity Hospital
Building Now In Progress.

The New Haven hospital is rejoicing
over most welcome and much
needed gift of $4,000, an amount
which was imperatively required to
complete the new maternity hospital
building which is in process of erection
on the hospital grounds. The cost of
the building will be 100000. OF this sum
100000 had been provided for to a GER
tainty, but the remainder was lacking
and with the hundred other ways for
money absolutely necessary in the run
ming of so large and beneficent an in
stitution the management were much
puzzled. The news Of this gift Of $780,
900 was, therefore, most welcome indeed
and was most joyfully received. The
gift of $4,000 is the joint donation of
our townsman, e. Hayes Trowbridge,
and of his mother Mrs. Ezekiel H.
TroWbridge and it is gift which was
wholly spontaneous and unsolicited and
the outcome of a desire to assist q
noted and most useful New Haven i'm
stitutlon, which is greatly in need Of
funds, as half of it's work is an un-
adulterated, charitable and benevolent
work; from fully one-half of the pa
tients and cases treated at the institu-
ton, no revenue whatever being re-
ceived The management can now go
right on with the work at the mattel
nifty building and hope now to have 1t
completed by early spring. The hospi-
tai management feel greatly indebted to
the kind donors of this handsome and
timely gift. 1t was entirely by chance
that Mr. Trowbridge became aware
that the hospital was in need of funds
to complete the building. Ex-Lieuten-
ant Governor S. E. Merwin, president
of the hospital, and President Eli Whit
eny of the New Haven Water company
happened to meet short time ago on
Chapel street and fell into conversation
about the immediate and pressing need
of more money with which to
complete the erection of the mater
nifty hospital. Mr. Whitney is chairman
of the building committee e. Hayes
Trowbridge coming along at that time
joined the two above named gentlemen
and enquired what they had on their
minds or words to that effect. He
was told what the subject of CONVEX
sation was, and nothing more was said
on the subject and the three turned to
other topics. In a day or two, how
ever General Merwin received a request
from Mr.. Trowbridge to call at his Of
fee when convenient General Merwin
and at Mr. Trowbridge's
request information about the hospital
and particularly it's new building was
given to Mr.. Trowbridge. A few days
later the hospital management secured
the most gratifying announcement Of
the gift. The new building. as all who
have passed by the hospital grounds
If late, have seen is of handsome pro-
portions and a great credit to the in
and when completed and in
opera ton it will meet want long felt,
enabling the hospital to extend further
It's charitable and beneficent work,
while at the same time as regards pa
tents who are able to pay for services
'endered, it will prove to some extent
/ source of much needed revenue.