Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-04-03
OPEN-AIR CURE.
Plans for the Proposed Maine State
Sanitarium,

Rams Tor the Proposed Maine State
sanitarium.
DIR. A. G Young, secretary of the Maine
board of health and OF the recently or
gained Maine sanitarium, sends out the
following appeal for aid for the proposed
plan:
December IS. 1900. at a meeting of the citizens
OF the State interested In the matter, the Maine
State sanitarium association was legally or
ganized and Incorporated under the general
laws Of the State. The objects of the associa.
ton. as stated in the constitution, are ito es.
taolish and maintain public institution, or in
stitutions, for the isolation, treatment and cure
OF persons affected with pulmonary disease,
and to exert It's Influence toward the essening
OF the prevalence of tuberculosis"
This is corporation in which there are no
shareholders and in which there will be no div
idends. The officers give their services free Of
charge The sole aim of the association is the
furnishing of temporary help and treatment to
persons the most of whom must prematurely
die unless helping hand is extended to them
The following are the officers of the associa
ton: President, Gov. John F. Hill. Augusta:
Vice president ex.Gov. Selden Conner, Au.
gusta; secretary, DR.. A. G. Young, Augusta;
treasurer, Trehy johnson, Augusta; trustees,
Dr. f. C. Thayer, waterville; P. o. yickery,
Augusta; Hiram W. Kicker, Poland Springs;
A. w. Hall. Caribou; F c. whitehouse, Tops
ham; #. o. Beal, Bangor; Waldo Pettengill,
Rumford Falls; DIR. s. Ii. Weeks, Portland;
George Bliss waldoboro.
The nf ha noapct.t a,,l o.Ao.
affairs of the association is vested in the trus-
tees To anyone who knows the business men
of this State, not word is needed to convince
him that any money or other property put in
the care Of these trustees for the use of the as.
ISOLATION will De properly safeguarded and ju.
diciously expended
10 the present time, more than 200 persons
have become members of the association. The
annual contributions or fees from the members
constitute mere drop in the bucket. Unless
persons of means will nobly come to the rescue,
there must be disheartening delay and the un.
necessary waste of valuable human lives must
go on.
The special and present urgent need of the
association is a fund to enable it to build and
equip a sanitarium for the cure of consumptives,
and second need, hardly more remote, is an
utmost usefulness of the institution. While it
may not be BEST to offer free board and treat.
ment to all classes of patients, the desire of the
trustees is that needy persons in the early and
durable stage of consumption may not be turned
from the door of the santarium simply be-
cause they are poor.
VIII the reader of this think moment of the
svital Importance of the work which the Maine
Gtata Gan{ h.
and of its need of help? More than one thou
sand of us here in the State of Maine are every
year dying of pestience which is not an in
durable one large percentage of these per
sons might be cured right here near their own
homes. Is there anything which should more
quickly appeal to our sympathies than this
work? And is there any good cause to the sup
port of which we should more promptly rally.
whether spare one dollar or thousands?
Aside from the immediate want of funds is
the need of a large membership of men and
women in all parts of the State. win the reader
of this kindly receive 1t as an invitation to be-
come member of the association? By so doing,
his influence will be a help and an encourage
ment which will be highly appreciated. If more
is done than to pay the annual membership fee
so long as he chooses to remain member. it
will be entirely voluntary on his part. The
annual membership fee, contribution in aid of
the proposed sanitarium, is 81.
This appeal is sent out by the secretary of the
association with feeling of confidence that
those persons who are able to do SO will gener-
ously help a cause which is so worthy, and for
which help is SO urgently needed.
The Maine State Sanitarium association,
under the authority of a recent act of the egls-
lature, ais authorized and empowered, for the
purposes of the organization. to receive, take
and hold by deed, devise, bequest or otherwise,
property. personal and real, in any amount
without limit"