The age-herald., 1900-11-30
SPLENDID HOME FOR
 SUFFERING HUMANITY
Noble Sisters of Charity Throw Open the Doors of St. Vincent'S Hos
 pital---A Fine Institution

pie visited the hospital between 2 o'clock and o'clock. and not one amongst them all was not amazed and delighted wilh the unsurpassabls splendor of the general ef- feet and the marvellous thoroughness of de- tail in the hospitals furnishings and ap- pointments. Words of astonishment, excla- nations of wonder and delight, sprung from every fp. and the good sisters, bright in their sres happiIress, wore fairly over whelmed with congratulations.
 Seeing is Believing
 It was another instance of the old truism, seeing is believing. Yet thousands of vis- itors could scarcely believe what they saw. The dozens of magnificent rooms furnished by private or individual charity, some of them memorials to beloved dead, caused the greatest astonishment and delight. Those rooms are wonderfully rich and lux urious, fit for the occupation of Emperors; and in their furnishings the rarest of good taste has been abundantly displayed. There are oaken rooms, mahogany rooms, walnut rooms. yellow rooms, red rooms, green rooms, golden rooms, white rooms, blue rooms-section after section of bedrooms surpassingly rich; and each a monument to charity and love and goodness!
 Details Complete.
 The beautiful and dainty little chapel with its. exquisite altar; the pharmacy, with It's counter and pots and mortars all of clear glass; the amphitheatre, with its numerous seats and operating tables; the perfect water arrangements; the succession of white-bedded wards, including the dainty wards for children; the model laundry; the model kitchen; the pantry and the closets; the fre-extinguishing apparatus; the electric light plant, with its seven hun dred incandescent lights; the telephone ex- change, with all it's ramifcations; the store rooms and the cellars; the engine room, with the largest boiler in Birmingham; the various elevators; and so on-these are some of the things the thousands saw, and at which the thousands wondered. And the thousands are prepared to be- lieve now that there is perhaps not now in existence a more complete, more per fect1y appointed hospital than St. Vincents at Birmingham.
 Whilst it has been built under the direc- ton of ana will be conducted by the Sisters of Charity, it is the hospital of humanity of the broanest human charity, without re- gard to Breeds, Sects or denominations. The Sisters of Charity are simply what their name implies-workers in human charity. They are society within the Catholic church, but four out of five of the unfor- tunate human beings to whom they ad- minister in the name of charity are non- Catholics; and in so far as their minister ings go, the Sisters take no account of mere forms. of religion The Sisters are blessed angels of that blessed charity which covers the world and embraces all creeds and all lack of creeds,
 The Hospital.
 The Birmingham St. Vincent's Hospital, in Twenty-seventh street. south, which is practically completed, and which was yes terday opened to the universal public, is the thirty-sixth hospital which the Sisters of Charity have buided in the United States, and its opening serves alone to make yes- terday the most worthy, the most notable, the most historic Thanksgiving Day which has come to Birmingham or to Alabama in all the years.
 The hospital has been built by an expen- diture of more than two hundred thousand dollars for the magnificent building and its furnishings alone, and it stands today the most splendid structure in Alabama. It electric light plant best laundry plant, best general equipment in the south. In 1t are TOO electri. lights and 700 gaslights. From the lowest stone of it's foundation to the golden cross upon its tower it Is as perfectly constructed as science and skill could make it. Yesterday 1t was ope1red to the Birming-