The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-24
new HOSPITAL.
Finance Board Favors Buy
ing the Site Next the
Building.
APPROPRIATION PROBABLE
Police Comm .ssioners Then
Hope to Get 5000. 900 for
the Edifce.

The chances of securing new hospital
are excellent. The Police Board, urged
by .'The News" has been agitating the
question for several months. THE News
has given several detailed descriptions OF
the misery entailed by the condition of
the structure. The Board of Finance will
take the first steps in the right direction,
after the tax budget is cleared away, by
purchasing the big site adjoining the pres
ent buildings on Baldwin avenue, which
is now leased for $50 month from the
Provident institution for Savings. This
institution purchased the property at a
sale held a few years ago. A mortgage
was held by the institution against the
Cornelison estate and foreclosure proceed
ings were instituted.
The site is magnificent one for the
purpose. It contains about two acres or
ground and an old homestead still stands
in the centre of the plot. This old struc-
ture is now used by the employees of the
hospital, who were formerly obliged to
sleep in the basement of the hospital
buildings. The site is on the high Dluft
overlooking the lower part of the city.
At meeting of the Police Board held
on June 25, of this year, this resolution
was adopted
Resolved, That the honorable Board
. of Finance be requested to purchase
for the use of the City Hospital, the
grounds adjoining on the northwest,
at a price not to exceed Sl3,Voo.
This resolution was the outcome of an
agitation begun the first of the year.
Warden Osborne, in his report to the Po-
lice Board, called its attention to the de-
plorable condition of affairs then and now
existing in the male ward Huge cracks
are visible for the entire length of the
building, and when the wind blows from
the east in rain storm, the water soaks
through and vets the cots on that side of
the room. These cots are often meved to
the centre of the floor in order to protect
the patients from good soaking. The
structure is very damp and in cold
weather it is next to impossible to keep
the building heated to proper tempera-
ture.
The next matter that the Finance Board
may take up is that request for 100000
to build a new hospital on these grounds,
which was asked by the Board of Police
Commissioners.
Finance Commissioner Carnes said yes
-tefudE y rlt1tlAt Ne7 d pOSSAoAiieJSA AAAS
money being given to the Police Board
for the hospital.
.'Dr McGin made a very favorable i'm
preston on u.s. said the Commissioner,
when he was before the Board to plead
for more modern structure OF course
there sre ever so many questions to be
considered by US that involve pile of
money. We n.ust use discretion and go
very slowly
Police Commissioner Adolph Walter
stated, in an interview, that the plot ad-
Joining the hospital buildings would be
purchased, but he hardly thought that
the Board of Finance would appropriate
the funds for the erection of a much
needed building.
There is no question of the necessity
of new hospital" said he. This,
School Our city is increasing greatly
in its population and it is little less than
disgraceful for such buildings to be used
for hospital purposes"
Warden Osborne is hopeful of securing
new buildings in the very near future.
The members of the Finance Board are
heartily in favor of the new hospital, but
they state that the question of funds is
bothering them greatly. All of the city
boards have asked for very large
amounts of money for the coming fiscal
year and the Commissioners are racking
their brains to find means of satisfying all
hands. There will be big slices knocked
off the amounts asked.