The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-01-23
ANNUAL MEETING.
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| continued from page Four.)
| raised a warning voice I'm the press or
| in the pulpit against intemperance in
| eating? Ministering as IL does to people
| of the well-to-do class, Butler hospital
| sees many cases in which irrepsra bile
mischief has been wrought by high living
i'm the case of men who have been most
abstemious in the use of wines and
spirits. In the past decade or two. when
science has advanced by leaps and bounds
and the laboratory has come TO dominate
all medical thought and practice, one IS
apt 70 lose sight of what is locked up In
the dust-covered folios that our fathers
wrote aforetime.
Gifts have been numerous during the
year. and / record them with gratitude.
A paragraph I'm the trustees report
makes acknowledgement TO Colonel W.
II. Potter of Kingston. K. l.. for his deed
or real estate TO Butler hospital. But
that gentleman's benefactionswas preced-
ed by "A gift Of $3.50 TO be expended In
such way as 10 the trustees might seem
proper a like sum, and likewise unso-
licited. came from Mr. Albert l. Smith
as a generous contribution toward the
provision of a launch for patients As in
previous years trustees have put their
hands In their pockets with the old alac-
rity TO provide band concerts, and checks
were also received from Mrs T. Z. Shep.
ard and Mrs. +. f. Anthony of Provi-
dence and Mrs. G. F. Sprague OF Boston
for the same purpose, making fund
OF $40, out OF which eight feasts of mel
ody fed and refreshed n music-hungrv
people. Mrs Lucian Sharpe and Miss
Louisa u. Sharpe renewed their gifts OF
$50 each for trimming trees.
DR. James T.. Sullivan presented three
large and handsome pieces OF furniture
In Flemish oak for one of the reception
rooms. For a like purpose Mr. Isaac G.
Rates furnished a set of nine Nicholson
pictures, and this good friend placed the
hospital under a still further obligation
TO himself for artistic Braun photo
graphs ready for hanging with his own
willing hands IN the Weld House. Mrs
w. G. Weld presented a water color for
the house Of her name. There have been
books and magazines very many, from
Mrs James T.. Sullivan and Mrs T. T.
Shepard and from the latter lady bric-a-
brac that has flled many vacant niche
here and there. Similar contributions came
from Mrs Seth Brownell Mr.. NJ. 2. 7
Goddard sent three blooded Jersey calves
from his country seat. Mrs. William
Goddard very kindly presented the Iadv
patients with a clock putting set IL Is
salo that no gift Is really valuable Unless
itS acceptance involves some couuterac-
tivity on the part OF the beneficiary. In
our case that activity may at least ex-
press itself I'm singing right Justify a
Jubilate Dec. IN which many PATIENTS
voices swell the chorus of THANKSGIVING
At the close OF the superintendent's re.
port the following were proposed for
membership In the organization and
unanimously elected: Mrs William Cod
dard, Mrs. G.. Alden Blumer. sarah s.
DOYLE. Ellen u. Sharne. Mrs. Caroline y.
Iyon, Rev. Lester Bradner. Jr. phi ID
Thomas Shaw Safe. Zephaniak Brown
Rev. Thomas Y. Doran j. Edward stud
ley, Governor Charles n. KimbalI. Charles
a. Catlin, ~. g. Ostby. Darius l. Goff.
Nathan h. Barton. Robert T. Smith. ste
phen .. Edwards Walter T. Angel,
Henry ~. Goss. Prof. Albert u. Mead
The secretary then read the following
names OF deceased members: Henry n.
Barker. Moses H. BiXby. Thomas Durfee,
Rev. Frederick Denison. BENJAMIN r.
Eames. Addison -. Fisher, Samuel Fos-
ter. Earl Philip Mason.
The final business OF the afternoon was
the election of officers: Ex-Governor
Taft. chairman Of the nominating COM
mittee. presented the following board of
officers. and the same was unanimously
elected: President William Goddard.
vice-president. William Butler Duncan:
trustees. Royal &. Taft. Stephen RrownelL
stephen -. Metcalf Rathbone Gardner,
Charles ". Merrman. Isaac G. Bates,
John r Freeman. Edward T. Child. Will
liam Gammell. Theodore r. Green: treas
urcr. Moses V. l. Goddard: secretary,
Charles Morris Smith committee 90 audit
treasurer's account, Samuel r.. DorTauce,
George NJ Smith.