The Jersey City news., 1903-01-22
WANT MORE
MONEY
New hospital Trustees Will
Ask the Legislature
for 100000 Ad-
ditional.
PROF. AAMIL'S ADVICE.
He Told Them That They
Gould Not Erect the
Building They Want
for $500. 900.
PROF. AAMIL'S ADVICE

Not satisfied with 100000, Mayor Fa-
gan's Board of City Hospital Trustees
are having bill for the issuance of
| $500, 600 worth of bonds to build new
City Hospital
Last year an act was passed by the
Legislature to issue bonds in the sum
| Of 100000. The building of new iCty
Hospital has been contemplated for sew
eral years back. When the Hospital Act
of last year was passed the Hospital
trustees had talk with Mayor Pagan
and Corporation Counsel George L. Rec
ord relative to the building of the new
| hospital. 1t was decided that more
money would be needed and that new
act should be prepared for passage this
| year. Mr.. Record was instructed to go
| ahead with it. He is at work ON it now.
This time $500,00O instead of 100000
| is asked.
Since it was learned that $500,000
would be asked for the question arose,
| What is the increase asked for?''
COL. SANS VIEWS.
A reporter for "The News called up
on Col. Samuel d. Dickinson, the Repub-
lican leader at the Dickinson Association
| Clubhouse, last evening for some infor-
nation concerning the new Hospital act.
Il don't know the first thing about it.,
was Col Dickinson's reply to the repor-
| ter.
.sOf course you have heard about it ?"
| said the reporter.
Not word" said the Colonel, and
with that the reporter departed.
DR.. J. J. Baumann, a member of the
Board of Hospital Trustees, was seen at
his home. No. 661 Jersey avenue, this
morning He admitted that the new act
was in course of preparation and talked
freely about it. When asked why it
had been proposed to ask for $5oo,OoO
he said:-
This was the advice of Prof. A. D.
| G. Hamlin, of Columbia College, an ex-
pert in architecture, who advised in the
drawing of plans for the present Free
Public Library Building at Jersey ave-
nue. and Montgomery street, and whose
services we were advised to get He
said that 100000 was insufficient to
build the kind of hospital we proposed
to erect. To carry out our contemplated
plans, he said, every penny of S500,0o0
would be used. We asked his advice
| in the matter of having plans drawn for
| the new hospital.
ARCHITECTS TO COMPETE.
He suggested a competition between
architects. We asked him how this ought
| to be done and he said:-.Issue invita-
| tions to the architects of this and other
cities to prepare rough drawings of a
| hospital in accordance with rules you
will insert in the body of the invitation.
| Take the drawings and select certain
number, say six or eight, and ask the
architects who prepared them to COM
set Of plans for the hospital. OF course
| these architects selected will have to be
| paid for their services.
We listened to him attentively and
concluded his advice was good and at a
meeting of our Board held a few days
later we adopted a resolution to engage
Professor Hamlin as advisory architect
and in the event of the passage of the
new hospital act to invite the competi-
tion he suggested. We concluded this
would be good plan and would do
away with any idea that person with
a political pull would get the work Of
| preparing the plans.
HAMLIN TO BE PAID.
s'Will Professor Hamlin be paid for
| his services?' DR.. Bauman was asked.
He will,'' was the doctors reply.
"Will the city pay him?"
| WELL said the doctor lin sort of
evasivc manner, Il suppose that will
/ be tho result. =
/ sWilI the new hospital be built on the
| present site?'
/ THAT has not been decided said DR.
/ Baumaiin I'VE have been thinking of
buying d site on the Boulevard near the
insection of Bergen avenue, in the Green
, vile district There is an excellent spot
there and l think itscould be purchased
reasonable
How much would you pay for a site
/ if a new one is decided upon?"
About $4,000 we thought would be
enough.
Yon see, continued DR.. Baumann
1--WE want to build Il hospital that can
be looked upon and pointed to with
pride. Professor IIalnlin has suggested
an administration building from which
/ will radiate the payillicns The admins
/ tration building will be about four stories
high. About six or eight javilEons are
to be built, each at cost Of about S25,-
000. II Is proposed to have 4 pavilion
| for consumptiye5; an alcoholic ward, IN