New-York tribune., 1903-01-29
TUBERCULOSIS FIGHT.
Stony Void WorkerS Hold annual
Meeting-MrS. SiegfFs Gift

NO doubt Chcago's tuberculosis sufferers are
and needy ow,n said Dr.
Ernest NJ. Stires. of St Thomass Church, in an
address before the annual meeting of the Stony
Void Sanatorium in the Charities Building yes
terday afternoon but l. who so keeniy realize the
urgent necessities of community would
like to suggest to Mr.. Rockefeller apropos OF his
recent gift of S000 that that he save the freight
on his money and apply it here at home Now.
however. that Philadelphia has found its Phipps
and Chicago its Rockefeller may not hope
that New-York, where the number of deaths from
tuberculosis exceeds ten thousand annually Will
shortly find its friend in this dire need?
THE latest statistics show a slight decrease in
the tuberculosis death rate just enough to give
hope just enough to give inspiration for increased
effort. And let me say just here that we don't
want to be interested in and identified With such
great humanitarian movements this Stony Void
idea just to the point Of respectable connection
with ito attend meetings and give money when
IT is convenient We don't want just to possess
an interest in it. We want the absorbing, vital.
wide reaching interest Of the great work to pos
sees us. bodS and soul-and pocket. too.
1T is work in which all creeds. all schools of
medicine and schools OF thought unite. don't
believe that even cheerful friends of the faith
that denies to tuberculosis any substance other
than its could object to this scheme to pro-
vicr bright, cheerful home for those under the
bar &C this particular delusion.'
The erection of such building the Stony
WoId palace of peace in the mountains said
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House, will do more to counteract the poison or
class antagonism. the bitterness of financial bar
rters and the envy of the very poor than all the
honeyed words of all the vote gathering poll
ticans''
Miss Young said she represented especially the
locality lying between Twenty-third-st, on the
north, and Third-ave. the west, and spoke Tor
those who could not speak for themselves. Nearly
$500 has been raised during the last year by hum
BILE, hard working dwellers in that district to
svyeII he Vold md
You speak Of your in memoriam' gifts. con-
tinued Miss Young. Almost all the pennies and
nickels and dimes that go to make up this sum
are. alas only too sadly and truly in memoriam.'
In hundreds and hundreds of these families the
disease Of consumption is the very bane Of their
existence. and its dread lowers overs their hves
like pail. 1t is useless to try to fight 1t under
the conditions in which these lives must be lived
but hope is that with the help of Gods med1-
cines-clean air, pure water, sunshine rest and
wholesome food-we can, in Stony Void. inch oy
inch and day by day lessen its terrible hold on our
community
Every one of our hospitals and sanatoriums open
to consumptives.' said Frank Tucker. Of the New
York Association for Improving the Condition OF
the Poor lis filed to overhowing, and has long
waiting list. This is the condition that you earnest
workers have TO face and have to work to over
come Now that our best authorities have assured
US the disease is durable. loiter, can we
tarry with these thousands of helpless victims on
every side crying to US for the help they cannot
otherwise get?'
Mrs. James Edward Newconb. president Of the
board OF directors, reported provisional gift Of
$4,000 from Mrs Henry Siegel to equip twenty
hve room dornitory. One hundred thousand dolo
lars has been raised during the past year. sl.SO
since last "Wednesday. But 5000 is Immediately
necessary, and Mrs. Newcomb begged each one
present to take the matter home and to heart as
well as TO inportune friends. and leave no stone
unturned" so long as another stone needed in
the Stony Void building.
.For. Stony Void is no longer an air castle
said Mrs. Newcornb, but almost city In itself,
over whose entrance might be written, Now hope
embrace all We who enter here Reports were
read from nearly all of the seventeen auxiliary
societies. in all Of which the large audience which
filed the assembly hall seemed keenly interested.
AS enthusiastic visitor expressed II. What
than eight hundred women have set their
hearts on is bound to be accomplished. and we men
have got do share If we don't want to be
everlastingly ashamed of ourselves