New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25
WORK OF PHOENIX WOMEN.
NEW AND COMMoDIOUs HOSPITAL
OPENED IN ARIZONA

Phoenix Ariz Feb. A-Not alone citizens here
but thousands Of strangers-health seekers-within
our gates facilitating themselves on the opening
OF a new and comm0diOus hospital made possible
through the efforts OF the women Of Phoenix.
Ever since that far-oT day in the fourth century
when the devout Lady Fabiola founded at Rome
the worlds first public hospital it has been women's
hands who have transmitted that charity until It
has overspread the world.
In Phoenix. as in few other places Of its
size. hospitals IN demand Each year several
thousand invalids with pulmonary troubles come
knocking at the gates OF the Salt River Valley
pleading last resort for the healing that is 70
be found IN IT'S dry pure air Until now there
has been but hospital there, aside from
the county house. and this. though well man
aged has been totally inadequate and was
finally removed. Various people have time and again
hired rooms and nurses for individual cases that
have appealed to them for succor. and private fam
flies have over and over again extended the hand OF
sympathy and assistance to those who had no
claims upon them. save the one claim OF universal
brotherhood and infinite need.
About two years ago. Mrs Julia A. Lount and
Mrs Agres Mealy took the initiative IN efforts for a
public hospital. which should be nOn-sectarian and
dominated by 10 society or nationality. The pIblic
spirited OF the city took up the project and
began raising money through various entertain
me1ts, and by private subscription
A desirable site with house already erected
found. Last month articles Of Incorporation
were made out and the new hoSplJal, although a.
most entirely unfurnished, threw open hospitable
doors TO its first patient, E. \. Lawson, a New
York man.
Now the association is rejoicing over the do
nation Of a complete furnishing for the hospital
from NEWCOMERS. The formal opening OF the
hospital took place last Tuesday
While charges viii be the same at other hos
pitfalls for those who able 20 pay, il is the aim
10 provide reduced and maintain several free
beds for those who are unable TO pay.
This, II IS hoped, Will be made possible until
such time the hospital becomes self-suDportins
by the generosity OF citizens and humanitarians
who will agree TO furnish 81 month each for that
purpose. There is at present mortgage on the
property Of $3.50, and some alterations, such as
building a kitchen and chimney, putting in dueS
| bathrooms and an elevator will be necessary. IL
IS thought that the claims OF this hospital, which
reaches out into all parts Of this country, viii be
considered and substantially remembered by those
] outside the territorial limits.
| The house, Of the old Spanish style, was one OF
the first houses erected IN the town, and cost its
builder the late Nj. SinviIl $4,000 II is OF brick
two-stOried, and with its walls three bricks thick
! There seven hundred feet of wide porch up
stairs, 10 which French windows lead al frequent
| intervals.
| Wide halls run across the house. and there are
| spacious corridors that can be utilized later fol
elevators and bath and store rooms. There ART
! eight large rooms, with unusually high ceilings