New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-10
H. G. FAHNESTUCK'S BIG GIFT
NEW TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES AT
THE POSTGRADUATE.
TO BE ERECTED IN MEMORY OF THE CIV
ERS WIFE-IT WILL COST 800 900. AND
BE ONE OF THE MOST COM
PLETE OF IT'S KIND IN
THE COUNTRY.

THE COUNIR1.
The New-York POSTGRADUATE Hospital at
Second-ave. and Twentieth-st is to have new
training school for nurses The new school,
which Is to suppant the present one, the latter
being rather inadequate for the needs of the hos
pital. will cost 100000 It will be in many ways
the finest best equipped, most commodious ana
thoroughly useful school Of its kind In the coun-
try II is to be the gift OF Harris c. FahnestocK.
For years in fact ever since 1t was founded,
Mr. Fahnestock has been friend OF the New
York Post Graduate Hospital. and has shown
his appreciation Of the work done there IN SUD-
stantial ways but this present to the hospital
eclipses everything that he has done for the IN
stituton in the past. Announcement was maze
OF the gift by DR.. D. B. st. John Roosa' presl-
dent Of the corporation and faculty
The new school will be known as the Margaret
Fahnestock Training School for Nurses or the
New-York POSTGRADUATE Hospital Mr. Fame
stock is founding the school In memory OF HIS
wife and II is 70 bear her name the last dayS
Of Mrs Fahnestock's life were cheered ana
frightened by the tender care and ministrations
of two trained nurses Mr.. FahnestocK TOOK
deem interest In their work and realized how
much they had done TO make the last days OF
hls wife less of a burden and this gift Is
tribute 10 them ana tnelT CdlHs' an" III "'N'''''
of Mrs. Fahnestock.
The ground for the new school has already
been purchased. It consists OF three lots in East
Twentieth-s st. directly across from the entrance
to the Post-Ciraduate Hospital, having front
age Of forty-eight feet and a depth Of about one
hundred feet It is part Of the old stuyvesant
farm Work will be begun on the building al
once. and inside of the year it is expected that
Il will be completed. The new building Will
contain rooms for seventy or more nurses
Aside from these. there will be a diet Kitchen
lecture-rooms sitting rooms and other apart
nents Each nurse will have an individual
room This will he greatly appreciated. ana Is
not provded for in other schools of the KIND
here The nurses all serve a three years course
and when this IS completed they are judged
worthy TO undertake the work Of trained
nurse. In this hospital there is an average OF
about one hundred and sixty patients paples'
children and adults and so the nurses IN their
three years course get broad education; ana
then the field is widened by a term OF service al
the Manhattan Eye and Far Hospital the Ly-
ing-In Hospital and other institutions Inc
nresent training school. which was established
I'm 1854 is in a freproof building opposite the
hospital The lease on the present building runs
for a year yet so that the operation OF the
school will not be lnterfered with While the new
school is going up. ,..,,
This is the first really large and substantial
Gift that the New-York Post-Graduate Hosptal
has received and the members OF the corpora
ton arc deeply grstihed The hospital mas re-
/ ceived many small gifts in the past, but II Is
bouad that this will he the forerunner OF Othef
/ suostantial presents to the institution Inc
/ medical school the hospital and the new training
| school together are all modern and efficient but
/ the hospital sadly needs few improvements IN
| several directions. Perhaps the greatest need IS
for complete and well-equpped laboratory
The present laboratory Is well enough in Its way
| and meets all the present demands upon IT, put
| with the expenditure Of some money great I'M
/ movement would be achieved The laboratory
| does not begin to compare with such as the one
/ I'm the Johns Hopkins University. In baltimore
/ II a new laboratory could he secured IL WouId
| do away with a great deal OF oVercroWdlng ana
/ ovorvork The members Of the corporation reel
/ con fdent that in time compete laboratory VIII
! be provided. , - go
| Another thing that the hospital needs, ana one
| that would probably not require very great
! outlay Of money is an annex for lying IN
| ward Just at present the physicians or the
! bosnitaL accompanied by two graduates, make
/ visits I'm the neighborhood. and do all they can
! for the women who are in need OF their mlnistra-
/ tions Dr. Roosa said yesterday that such an
| annex would do an immense amount or good'