The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-19
THE TAYLOR HOSPITAL

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1t was learned from Deputy Attorney
General +. w. Fleitz, who returned
from Harrisburg last night that the
governor had vetoed the Taylor hos
pital appropriation of $4,000 for which
Representative James had so earnestly
worked The fact that practically
nothing had been done as yet to estab-
lish this hospital accounts for the gov
ernor's action.
Altogether the cuts amounted to s.
500, 600. LaCkawanna, according 10 Mr..
Fleitz, comparatively speaking, suffered
the least of any county in the state.
The fact that the Lackawanna hos
pital secures an appropria tion of $40 900
more than It did last year. and that st.
Joseph's Founding home and the Home
for the Friendless each come in for a
share of the states larsess. are the
particular items on which the LaCka-
wanna members are to be congratu-
lated. While there was some severe
cutting, it is still fact that Lacka-
wanna, this year, gets moro money
from the state for its charitable insti-
tutions than il ever did before.
The Lackawanna hospital appropri-
ton of $4,000 is made up of $4,000 for
maintenance and $4,000 for improve
ments. All of the West Side hospital
appropriation is 10 60 for maintenance.
The $1,000 cut was in the item for i'm
provements.
Rega riding the treatment LaCkaWan-
ma received at the hands of the appro-
priation committees and the governor,
Mr.. Fleitz had this to say:
"Not wit N hStaDdinC thaSe putS tbiS ;e
the largest amount of money, by far,
ever received by Lackawanna county
for its charitable institutions. The gov
ernor's only motive in making cuts at
all was to reduce the expenses to a
point justified by the revenues.
II especially regret the reductions in
the Hahnemann and West Side hospi-
tails appropriations and the votoing of
the Taylor hospital item.
This latter institution was vigorous
ly Championod by Hon. Edward James,
jr.. and it was no fault of his that il
failed. The failure was due wholly to
the untoward circumstances that the
hospital was not yet in existence and
that the revenues were not sufficient to
warrant an expenditure for an institu-
ton still in the air, more or less. a
good start, however, has been made
towards the ConsummatiOn of this pro-
ject.
THE RECOMPENSE.
For these disappointments we are
more than recompensed by the success
which attended the efforts of our sena-
ttor and representatives in having
Lackawanna hospital accepted as a
state institution. This means that the
local contributors will be relieved from
supporting it, and that the state ap-
propriation towards its support will nc
longer be charged up against Iacka-
wanna county. This will leave our
charitable people free to devote to other
institutions the donations that they
were wont to so generously make to the
hospital and it will mean that, in the
future, there will be one big institution
that will not have TO be cared for out
of the Lackawanna county allotment.
This was a tremendous underta king
and it's successful cOnsummation at.
tests the activity anl influence of oul
representatives in Harrisburg. The
securing of appropriations for st
Joseph's home and the Home for the
Friendless is another instance of this
Neither of these institutions ever re,
ceived state aid before. They were
about the only big new institutions tC
get on the appropriation bill. The fact
that Senator Vaughan was chairman
of the appropriations committee of the
senate and that Representative Scheuei
was one of the oldest and most intiuen,
tial members of the house appropria,
tions committee had more than a little
to do with the success of the Lecka,
wanna men"