The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-19
TO COMPLETE THE FUND
WILL ASK SUBSCRIBERS TO
 HOSPITAL TO PAY UP.
Treasurer Rice Has $7,32S on De- posit and Sisters of Charity Have Expended $2s,OOO
 Contract to Be Awarded.

l The Secretary of the Advisory Board
 which had in charge the raising of $lO,Oo) | to purchase a lot flor the hospital to De
 built by the Sisters of Charity. will today | send out circular letters urging subsciib- CTS who have thus far failed to pay their | subscriptions to do so at once. IL was
 learned yesterday that of the Sl05Oo sub- scribed to this fund $I,S2S has been paid to the Treasurer, Alex Rice. It will be remembered that last June when the Sisters of Charity proposed to
 build a hospital in Montgomery to cost not less than $50,000 if citizens of Mont gomery would subscribe $1O,OO to pur- chase lot, an Advisory Board was
 named to have charge of the fund. This
 Board consists of the following we'll | known Montgomerians: Phares Cole-
 man, Chairman; F. F. Glass, pr. J. B.
 Gaston, E. A. Graham, R. E. Steiner, J.
 M. Falkner,. Horace Hood. Tennent Lo-
 max, J. P. Ferrall T. H. Carr, J. P.
 Kohn, James Mcintyre. Alex Rice and William B. Jones.
 Without much solicitation $10,50O was subscribed to the fund, the understanding
 being that the money was to be paid to the Sisters of Charity when contracts
 were awarded for the building.
 From time to time small amounts have been paid to the Treasurer of the Board.
 
 for the hospital has been purchased at an outlay of $23,000 and a contract has
 been awarded for the improvement of the old Watts residence on the lot at an out
 lay of about $6.000. Within a few days the contract for the construction of the
 hospital proper will be awarded and the
 members of the Advisory Board feel that
 the subscriptions should now be forth coming With this idea in view, they will ta ha atfhS In amounts to Treasurer Rice at the earliest possible moment
 Monday was the last day for bids for the construction of the hospital to be re- ceived, and these bids are now in the hands of James R. Wads, Superintendent of Construction of the Sisters of Charity. They have not yet been opened. but MT.
 Wade says he has estimated that when the hospital is completed 1t will involve an outlay of $121, 800. This is far greater sum than 1t was intended should be ex- pended in Montgomery, but building will be constructed Tn keeping with the fu- ture outlook for the growth Of Montgom- cry, The new hospital building alone will cost $6O, ,0O0
 John Robertson, foreman of construc- tion for the Sisters of Charity, Is now engaged irh remodelling the old Watts residence. He has a force of workmen employed and they are fitting 1t to meet the immediate requirements of the Sis ters of Charity pending the construction of the hospital proper.
 It Is expected that the contract for constructing the hospital proper Will be awarded just as soon as it is approved by Sister Chrysostom Superioress of St. Vincent's Hospital, Birmingham, who is the direct representative of the Council of the Sisters of Charity. As soon as the bid is approved and awarded the work will begin. The hospital will be complet- ed within one year after ground is broken