Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-14
HOSPITAL FUND GROWS
Subscriptions to the Charity
Hospital Now Aggregate
Nearly $4,000.
George Whitton Gives $500 to the
Fund. and Henry Pappe
$500 More.
Mrs. Pappe to Furnish a Room-.
A Word Concerning Rights
OF Patients.


pital. TO be erected by the Sisters of
Mercy, is readily growing and the
conditions are gratifying indeed to
Rev. NJ. c. Lenihan, who is fathering
the project and expects to have built,
during the coming summer. one of the
finest hospital buildings in the state.
Father Lehman has not. as yet.
sought one penny for the institution,
and every week sees the fund growing,
the present week closing with the sum
close to the $4,000 mark.
The latest donors are Mr. George
Whitton and Mr.. Henry Pappe, who
have notified Father Lehman of their
subscriptions in the sums of $500 and
$500. respectively. With Mr.. Pappe's
donation is another from Mrs. Pappe.
who will furnish one of the hospital
rooms as lavishly as money and good
taste can make 1t.
Like number of other donations
to the fund the last two are from nom
Catholics, which shows the interest
that is manifested by public spirited
Marshalltown people In an enterprise
that has as its prime object the well
fare of the city.
Mr.. Whitton made known his de-
sires to assist the project by means
of the following letter:
Rev. Father Lehman, Marshalltown.
Ia, Dear sir:--I take great pleasure in
subscribing $500 to the fund for build
ing u Catholic hospital in Marshall
town. I have been raised Protestant.
but my reading and observation have
convinced me that the Catholic church
has always done a great and good
work in taking care of the poor and
suffering of all classes, not stopping
to find out If they were adherents
of their church or not. Whenever any
good organization in this city is ready
to build a hospital, l stand ready to
assist. Wishing you every success
in your good work, am. very truly
your friend. GEORGE WHITToN.''
Mr.. Whiton's letter is certainly of
the proper spirit and will undoubtedly
prove an incentive to others to assist
in the work of obtaining the hospital
fund. Mr.. Pappe's donation, and that
of his wife, will be equal in amount to
Mr.. Whitton's generous gift. and Mrs.
Pappe will have the honor of being the
first one to signify willingness to
furnish room. Many of the lodges
and club organizations are talking of
rooms, and the prospects
are that by the time the plans are
ready for submission to the public
there will not be a sufficient number
of rooms to satisfy the demands.
Having had the hospital project In
has investigated some Of the best hos
pitfalls in the country and is therefore
able to be good Judge of what mod
ern. up-to- date hospital should be. Al
ready he has rejected several sets of
PLANS that have been submitted for in
vestigation. but he Is In hopes of deter
the matter soon.
As to the site nothing has been set
tied upon as yet. Several sites have
been looked at and a number of them
would be desirable but Rev. Lehman Is
In hopes that some philanthropist or
of charitably- disposed persons
will donate a site and the money that
would be otherwise spent for land can
be put into the building. This. of
will mean better hospital, and
the best can be none too good to suit
the wishes of the promoter.
Father Lehman Is considerably
over report that reached him
yesterday to the effect that no Protest
ant minister would be allowed in the
hospital, and that a patient on his
deathbed, would be required to receive
from q priest. Such
state of affairs. Father Lenihan says,
can not exist In any hospital that is
under the supervision of the Sisters of
Mercy. They are required by their
order, to treat every patient as II he
were in hts own home. and accede to
his spiritual requests as he desires.
There Is absolutely no limitation to the
wishes of patients, and whether they
are paying for their treatment, or are
charity patients. they are
treated alike. in their spiritual welfare
as well as physical.