New-York tribune., 1902-01-23
TO BUILD SANATORIUM
IN A SHORT TIME WORK WILL BEGIN
on STONY WOLD

The officers and board of managers elected at the
annual meeting Of the Stony Void sanatorium held
Yesterday morning at the home OF Mrs. George F.
Shrady. No. East Sixty-sixth-st were: Presi-
dent, Mrs. James Edward Newcomb; vice-presi-
dents. Mrs. George F. Shrady, Mrs. II. Walter
Mebo' Mrs Anson r. Flower and Miss Virginia
foUeri recording secretary. Mrs. John c. Coleman;
corresponding secretary, Mrs JohnaByron Taylor;
treasurer, Edgar l. Marston No 80 Wall-st.: as
sistant treasurer, Mrs Herbert L. satterIee and
directors Mrs William Hubert Burr, Mrs. Sylvan
Bier. Mrs Robert MaClay Bull, Mrs Howard Car
roll Mrs. William a. CauldweL. Mrs. Walter Geer
MIS- Charles II. Knight Mrs. Robert 5. Macarthur
Mrs. Henry H. Rogers, Mrs. Lorillard Spencer
Afs- Edgar Van Etten, Mrs. Albert H. Wheeler
Mrs. J. B. Taylor and Mrs. Howard Mott Potter
MRS Fltz-James Swinburne chairman of the
nominating committee.
In her annual address Mrs lanes Edward New
COMB president, said: The Stony Void Sana.
forum Corporation has been formed to provide a
suitable institution for the treatment Of incipient
tuberculosis occurring in working women and chill
uteh VINO are, for pecunary and other reasons.
able TO procure proper climatic treatment ONLY
patients In reduced circUmsla lanCes will be received
Inc Lake hushaqUa property which is the Ioca-
uoh that has been selected for the sanatoriun was
purchased on December L. 1851. II is in Franklin
county, n \. Among the buildings on The property
are several camps Three of are in ha bitabIe
condition and perhaps d fourth, it car be moved
from its present position. Ne hope 20 rent these
camps to patients who in comfortable circum-
stances, who wish be near sanatorium so as
to enjoy its medical advantages. These camps will
thus become source of income the institution"
OF the building she said The style OF archi-
lecture will be the that of the Massachu-
setts State Sanatorium which is considered the
best model of its kind in this country The plans
call for three story central structure the ad
ministration building, containing Offices assembly
and dining rooms. to which, either side. will
eventually be added four dormitories each two
stories high. containing twenty-five rooms and
connected with the administration building by
glass lhcIosed dormitoreS One of the dormitories
will be built first, and others will be added as
means are provided. until one hundred patients can
be accommodated. The erection of the buildings
Will begin AS soon as the frost is the ground
We hope TO have the administration building
and one dormitory ready for occupancy by Novem-
Der l, 1892. This however. will depend upon the
generosity Of our friends. we need 10000 more
70 accomplish this one of the most gratifying
results Of the years work is the moneys received
from working women. The working girls room
Will have the most honored place in the whole in
stitution"
Edgar l.. Marston. treasurer, sent a report In
which he said the cash receipts are 500 253 go dis
hursements. S2o96 go; assets $47477 g. and adding
the item Of general expenses there has been raised
In cash pledges, etc, SiS094 50 Not quite $1,000
as you had hoped for" wrote Mr.. Marston but I
thlnk we have sufficient money IN sight so that 1t
might be stated that by the time the books are
closed there will have been total amount of $4,000
raised"
The several auxiliaries. whose aggregate mem
bership numbers five hundred, gave encouraging re
ports 1t was said that there are ten OF these in
this city and five more. II is thought will be
formed here. There is auxiliary in Oswego and
It is expected that others will be organized through
the State.
Mrs. John {. Coleman, recording secretary when
Offering her yearly report said part referring to-
tuberculosis patients: Taking a very low es-i-
mate. there are twenty-siX thousand patients 10 be
provided for. The provisions for these patients are
actually less now than ten years ago when they
were admitted to all the private hospitals in the
State" 80
William Rhinelander Stewart president OF the
state Board OF Charities, expressed in a brief ad-
dress the most cordial approval OF the work and
voiced the opinion That there I'm this line
tor plenty more OF such organizations as Stony
The Rev. DR.. Donald Sage Mackay pastor Of the
Collegiate Church, expressed the opinion that this
work Is beginning TO write chapter the
sTelioration OF disease.
Dr.. George f. Shrady, who also addressed the
meeting briefly. said that IL is true there is no
hospitals This he attributed largely to scare
on this subject. The lowered vitality Of he poor
who live In the uufavorabe conditions that prevail
In tenement districts renders them susceptible
TO the disease than persons living under favOra bic
conditions.
Miss leary, Mrs J. W. Burden. Mrs. J. L Wether-
bee, Mrs. Robert Roosevelt Mrs. r ". Cotter.
Mrs Edwin Gould Mrs John Nrooman. Mrs Henry
Speers. Miss Adee. Miss Ethel Cram Mrs. Fred
erick Hashrouck Mrs. Clarence Burns and Mrs
Henry Siegel