Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-21
Mr.. SUMMERS PLANS
Philanthropist's Visit to the City
Postponed, But His Plans
Outlined.
Desires to Know What Citizens
Will Do Before Aiding
Hospital Project.
Building Plans Being Prepared
and Everything Is Encour.
aging.

Rev. Father NJ. c. Lehman, of ST
Mary's. whose plans for new charit.
hospital for the city were recently out
lined in these columns, is in receipt o
q letter from Mr.. Abraham Simmer, O.
Waverly, the philanthropist who ha.
given SO much of his wealth to hospital.
turnout the state, saying that it viii
be impossible for him to visit the cit,
this week. as he had planned. In his let.
ter, however. Mr.. Simmer conveys hi.
idea as to his giving, and states that he
has certain rules, which he Will outline
more fully later. after he visits the city
and looks into the plans for the project
here. Mr.. Simmer informs Father Len.
Than that he is willig to help him in
every way possible, but that he wants
to know definitely what the people OF
the city are going to do. What Mar
shalltown viii do in the matter of rails
ing the hospital fund will determine to
what extent Mr.. Simmer will assist.
He is not giving his money to hospitals
where the citizens themselves stand
back and wait for him, but instead he
notices the interest manifested and the
amounts subscribed, and then steps in
and lends his aid.
The plans for the building, which are
now being drawn in Dubuque, are ex-
pected to arrive In the city soon, after
which more definite idea can be gained
as to what Is expected. Since the hos
pital project has been outlined in the
press, people have begun to manifest an
interest. and number of individuals
have informed Father Lehman that
they are DESTROYS of furnishing and
maintaining rooms in the building. A
number of the lodges will probably fur
nish rooms and the travelling men Of
the city will likely take ROOM. A me-
mortal room for the late Bishop Leni-
han has been suggested by friends of
the dead bishop. These memorial rooms
are obtained at cost OF about 5000,
and entitle those who donate to the fund
the privilege of keeping at all times one
patient, free of cost, in the hospital.
Mother Catherine and Sister Stanis-
laus. of Mercy hospital, Dubuque, who
have been in the city for the past week
looking into sites for the new hospital.
returned Monday to their mother home
Mother Catherine expressed herself as
being well satisfied with her visit in
Aiarshalltown, and extremely SO as 1t re-
ferred to the hospital. the prospects for
which she considers bright indeed.
Mother Catherine, while here, investi-
gated six different sites. any one of
which is suitable for hospital purposes.
She says that from all that she could
learn she sees no reason whatever why
the new modern charity hospital here
can not eventually develop to be one of
the largest and most important in the
state, next to the mother house, In Du-
buque. She thinks that Marshalltown's
central location will draw a very large
outside patronage, and bring to Mar
shalltown the sick of neighboring towns,
whose patients now are sent either to
Chicago or Des Moines. She also says
that Marshalltown's physicians rank
higher. than they do in most cities In
the state. and compare favorably with
ell the larger cities.
While In the city Mother Catherine
met an old friend, now one of the WE'LL
known physicians of the city, who,
twenty years ago. while she was sta
toned at Iowa City, she nursed thru a
severe siege of the smallpox. The visit
after so many years Of separation was
enjoyable.