Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-18
KIRBY GIVES $1,000
"A Public Spirited Citizen Makes
Contribution to the Charity
Hospital Fund.
Donation Of ST, 900 Made Without
Solicitation and Is Entirely
Voluntary.
One Quarter Of Desired Amount
Now Raised..Mr. Simmer
to Visit City.

Mr.. George r. Kirby is the first pub.
1 lic-spirited Marshalltown man to an
| nounce himself in hearty sympath.
with the charity hospital project, which
has been inaugurated by Rev. Fathe,
| NJ. c. Lehman. of st Mary's church
| following the announcement of the gift
OF the late Right Rev. T. NJ. Lehman
bishop of Cheyenne, Wyo. who, by his
will, left $1,000 toward the founding oil
a charity hospital fund. AS will be re.
membered Father Lehman immediately
announced his gift of $1,000 to the fund
las did also Archbishop John j. Keane
of Dubuque, and now Mr.. Kirby
equals the gifts of the latter and do
mates 81 900 more, making the fund S.,
600, or one-quarter of the amount de-
sired. Mr.. kirby's letter to Father
Lehman is as follows:
REV. NJ. G. Lenihan-My Dear Sir: ]
notice with gladness the effort which
you are making to establish charity
hospital in Marshalltown, and hereby
authorize you to subscribe $1,000 to the
fund for me. Wishing you all the sue
cess that SO worthy an object reserves,
remain very sincerely your friend,
GEORGE f. KIRBY"
Mr.. Kirbys generosity Wills be a
source of pleasure and pride to all Mar
shalltowrA and with similar donations
from others of Marshalltown's citizens
will assure the success for the new I'M
dertaklng. Father Lehman is especial
~ gratified over the generosity of Mr..
Kirby, more especially because of the
fact that he is non-Catholic.
The hospital is going to be built That
is an established fact. but the character
OF it's structure. and how well equipped
1t will be, rests entirely on the amount
of money that is given by the people.
Mother Catherine. OF the Mercy hos
pital, Of Dubuque, is still in the city and
is looking over several proposed sites
for the building. Six or seven available
sites have been investigated, but none
has been selected as yet.
Father Lehman is expecting that the
railroads OF the city will lend some as
sistance In the erection Of the building,
as all are more or less interested in a
place where employees who are sick or
injured may be cared for. The Sisters Of
Mercy of Dubuque. who are to have the
new hospital under their supervision,
and establish here training school for
nurses, are also going to assist in a
financial way, notwithstanding the fact
that they are making q donation of ST.
500 to the institution in Dubuque this
year.
Mr.. Abraham Simmer, of Waverly,
the well-known philanthropist who has
given thousands upon thousands to
hospital purposes, has advised Father
Lehman that he will be in the city next
week to have personal interview with
him concerning the hospital Eere, prior
to making donation.
The order of the Sistrs of Mercy, who
are doing grand work as nurses in
hospitals turnout the country has been
the object of praise in general way,
given by his eminence, Cardinal Gibb-
ons. who, in his address to the first
graduating class at the Baltimore City,
Training School for Nurses, similar to
the one to be established here by the
Sisters Of Mercy in connection with the
hospital, says:
My dear young ladies of the training
school, you have adopted career the,
most honorable and useful any young
woman could select. You put to shame
those fashionable women who are daily
at the shrine of idleness and
pleasure. 1t is true you can not, like
our blessed Redeemer, work miracles by
giving sight to the blind or strength to
the paralyzed limb, but you can work
of grace and mercy by relieving
the suffering of your fellow beings, and
never do you perform an act more pleas
ing to God than when you alleviate the
corporal affliction Of fellow creature"