The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-27

present condition, is positive reproach to
our good CITY,
Good? Good for-what? The city Of In
diaBapolis has never given the City Hospltai
mere money enough to make of it what 1t
ought TO be to keep IL as 1t should pe
kept. Crusts and candle ends have been the
portion. Why. even the simple virtue
cleanliness costs money!
What was found here just three days
after this visit of the Charity Board, that
when score of young lives were hurried
into death-and other scores of young men
the rose and expectancy of the state
were wounded? What wave or sorrow
and sympathy submerged the community
bearing all in sensibility to this hall of SUI
| fering What was found there?
physicians quick to save rushing TO the
scene nurses potent TO alleviate, instant IN
| all good offices. going and coming through
| the long lanes OF suffering found-four walls
| and roof, ct praeterea nihfl. Tne phy-
| sicians could get neither tools nor materials,
the nurses worked, in a deplorably literal
sense, with their bare hands. There was
| hardly more for this group of wounded than
/ is giv animals-a place to lie There
We're not mattresses enough to take the
place of the blood-drenched cots.
land do we know how and wherewtthal
| our. training school for nurses here OF which
We speak with such comfort and satisfac-
tioh does? After what manner these gentle
| women are housed and the facilities-em-
| phasis right there-that they have?
/ Enough-it physics the subject
| THE PEOPLES WORK.
| "And this, good people of Indianapolis, is
| your work. For a few hours following that
| October Saturday these good people
| thought of their hospital-and blushed for
it. But they have gone their way. have
| abandoned their hospital to the system.
and with hardly a Quickened sense that
even system in it's best estate shall be sup
| piled. The City Hospital.-oh!
| !" Rattle his bones the stones,
| He's only pauper whom nobody owns
| I'VE support the hospital by taxation-it
| Is the public'S business. But we do not; II
| Is not. Even In the sense OF support We
give It enough or SO little as to produce the
Ard IL We gave ii all In this way that 1t
| ought to haye-and surely we should've
| will do ii, will We not?-yet we could not
properly support It, The County Board of
Charities, whose report have read, goes on
to say:
Let the old building be put In as COM
| plete order as when it was built, and when
| the new wing is completed the entire prem
Uses will be in such perfect condition that
the City Hospital of Indianapolis Will be
$50 far so good. Give this hospital what
1t ought to have, but give it never so much
In this way, we shall never have a public
something else. We must give it the hu-
man care, the social care, the awakened
GOD, this new hospital that we Dedicate ea aos
|
day shall have
when the city shall have done all that
| 1t ought to do to remove the reproach that
our City Hospital is TO us now, II cannot
| insure the living potency of this institu-
ton without provision that shall enlist the
| interest of citizens; let us say visiting
| beard, of goodly number made up of men
and women from among those whose lives
adOrn our achievement. We do this with
oar city library; bodies are more than
books. new board each year. that shall
come hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder
with these physicians and nurses whose Lille
work is the administration of this trust.
1T should be written in the moral sense
aad conscience Of the time as 1t is written
III the legal establishment of this new hos
In the tender care of the whole community s
sympathy. Duty done is not everything.
So much work, so much pay illustrates
business. not Brotherhood. The public serV-
ants, the physicians. the nurses, need more
than the sense of self-conscious rectitude:
they need human interest, the encourage
nient of acknowledging the inspiration that
their day and generation is with them In
heart well hand.
land the poor sick-those that are about
to die-crave, with pitiful longing. the
slill may feel the human touch.
."In this memorable building. the pioneer
ia Indiana, may we not feel that moral
as we'll as material influence is established,
and that from ii may date richer charity
"a charity that. abating nothing of public
| obligation and losing nothing of the effec-
tiveness of organized ordering, shall
awaken a higher sense of individual re-
sponsibility engage a deeper feeling of per-
sonal sympathy, and give TO our general
and public work in this way the endow-
Inent of intimate interest and companion
ship. Such charity shall say both to agent
and patient that the link that binds them
to US all and makes what they do and suffer
cur concern, remains unbrokep"
THE NEW HOSPITAL.
The hospital complete will cost $4,000
OF this amount 5000 was from the Un-
known Donor" who, reading in the News
of the incurable cases in the care of the
Clover Mission. and the desire of the
women to build a hospital. gave the sum
! A like amount was subscribed by citizens
It was found that $1,000 would be needed
! 10 pay for the furnishing and few
extras.
Been furnished by A. n. Hadley, the Order
! of the Eastern Star; Mrs. Linton Cox, the
heirs of Mr. and Mrs. John NJ Wood; Mrs
q. T.. Evans and the Colored Women's
Club. There are eighteen single beds, and
: these have been furnished by Mrs. N A
siladding. Mrs. BENJAMIN Harrison, r
Mrs. F. w. Chislett. Mrs Joseph Haas
lin memory of Nathan Morris and Frank
Haas, Mrs John l.. Griffiths. Mrs. DAME
stewart, Mrs. s. =. Morss the &c, Ghrst lar
Occassia Club and the Topaz Club, a col
, | pred organization.
The hospital Is flooded with light, all
and heat. Every detail is modern and per
fectly sanitary, with iron beds, glass tables
, washable shades, etc.
At the charity day programme of the
little more than $i5 was taken in as a volun
tary contribution at the door The Matinee
Musicale expected to give its receipts fol
the day toward paying for the office furni
ture for the Flower Mission Hospital. The
estimate for the furniture was s45, and the
society will pay the entire bill.