New-York tribune., 1899-01-15
NEW RED CROSS HOSPITAL.
CEREMONIES AT THE OPENING OF THE
QUARTERS IN WEST NINETY
THIRD-ST

The reopening OF the New-york Red Cross Hos
pa yesterday NJ it's new quarters No. 25s West
Ninety-thi the occasion Of large
gathering Of the friends of the institution glad TO
inspect the building and extend congratulations to
the president and trustees of the hospital The
house which was thrown open from 70 p. m.
filed TO It's utmost capacity. and was greatly
admired for It's dainty and complete appointments
Under the guidance OF the blue-gowned white
capped nurses the various wards. operating rooms
kitchens and storerOOms visited and all ap-
proved. While the building seems admirably suited
to its present purpose the organization hopes an
other year TO have building OF Its own. The nos
ptal has been receiving patients for the last Two
weeks and there eight beds occupied
There are thirty beds In all. together with com
plete hospital outfit wholly new including an eiaoo-
rately appointed operating-room. In store are all
appliances and surgical apparatus ready at mo-
ments notice 20 for ten thousand, either IN
Of war or great calamity.
On the wall above twenty-seyen Of the beds are
flags OF different nations including all In the hed
Cross and some that not Under the nag OF
ireland yesterday calmly repoeed an Enghshhah
while a Cuban occupied the Spanish bed
The other three beds are surmounted by American
flags and are set apart especially for the use OF
National Guardsmen. Each room is completely fur-
nished and appointed. and there are ten SISTERS
to care for patients, four OF them having oeeh
with DR. and Mrs. Lesser at the front
rect patronage of the Red Cross
At o'clock the visitors gathered in the recep-
tlon-roonns where they listened 20 addresses Dy
President Wardwel Miss Clara Barton. Mr. YOUNG
OF the list Regiment Stephen f. Barton Dr. Les
ser Or. Lloyd and DR.. Campbell.
President Wardwe told OF the necessity OF the
institution as a trainng-school reviewed the re-
suits of practical training as evidence In the war
with Spain and referred to the fact that the medi
cal treatment in the institution was invariably nom
alcoholic Miss Barton gave a short history OF the
Nev.york Red Cross Hospital "the child Of the
National Red Cross" and what Il had been abie
to achieve when the war clouds gathered. sne
said and men rushed the field 10 suffer ana
die for country. II need be. where was our Red
Cross child? No longer weak and toddlng' pu'
with hands outstretched 10 help. whose ha''s
were those red in the arst blood OF war? Whose
were the forms bending low over victims VINO
caught the last words OF blessing as they leli
from dying lips? In all the world there Is out one
answer to the quoston-the Red cross Sisters Vi
the New-York Hospital"
stephen +. Barton told the story or the s'anu
taken against Red Cross nurses by the Medical De-
nartment OF the Army and said that at the cio7e
the war these officials had doubtless unieie''
opinion regarding women nurses from that the!
had entertained at the beginning nv t1uhhau
Among others who were present sen VIZ W. 40 ard Mrs
Wardven Mr. and Mrs. Dr. George +. nan snrSuS Nrs
Mary Louise & Palmer q smith nit and Judge % George Bar
ret Letters Of regret from the secretarg g-eHet of
NE me " WICK Colonel 4 l. Mills. the supeN
infendent m West Point and Bishop Potter wer, Sr,
read This dispatch was received from r'79'ue"'
The courteous invitation which you haVe =, ofS tbe
good enough 10 extend 70 ne to pe presen d. & S' is
-aonenns OF the hospital has been received, anu
very gratifying to me. regret tnat ihe preN % tn3 g
nubllc duty precludes my being with you Oh tin ~,
ppccasion md taStfynC in person my aPpreciatl
~ the service Of your hospital recently shoNn ".'
sncb consuicuols pa trotsm and sucn spiehllq tS
s,Its in this work You are entitled TO- ana ., az, q
suro will receive the announcement OF our pops s
In the evening George G. Boldt gave d u''ii'e' '''
uss Parton al the WadOrf-AstOrla-