The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-04-14
THE STA T !. I
HOSPITALS
5rhc General Board II Quarterly
Session al Central Ill: Hospital, .is
ID Petersburg.
1.-THE new IMPROVEMENTS mi 70 e i: !.
New Home Of Petersburg Elks
Soon to Opct1-Young Lady !,
Missing Elopcd and Married. , /
ts,,e IN, 10 ,rl,e ,r,imes- Dispatch,

Ut Especial to Tlie ispatcn2
rETERsBURc. VA. April 1S ,- III y
General Hospital Board held Its quar-
tcrlv session at the Central State HOS,
ptal to-day. and transacted much bust
ness OF interest to the hospitals of VIZ irfs
Einia. There being four hospitals In LILO
s:ato, one meeting Of the general board
IS held at each institution once during
The scnr.
There were present: Colonel L. w.
Lane. Jr.. OF william burg, commission
er: julius straus, Of Richmond; Robert
8 Gillian, OF Petersburg; Q. =. Batchelor,
Of Newport News: S. IL Hans 1 O q ~ o.
Winchester; Captain ]. ?. Osborn OF
Montgomery county; Haynes Z. Morgan n,
or snyth county; II. y. Cole. of VIII
liarnsblrg: i. II Cloves. of Richmond.
and George G. Bland, Of King and Queen
county Tho absentees were Judge j lanes
IT, Tredwny. Of PIttsylvania. county; Col
o,.el II. S. Turk, Of Stanton, and Colo
ncl c. c.. Tolver, OF Roanoke.
IMPROVEMENTS
Other Improvements arc to be made at
q. tho Central State Hospital. A new farm
Of II ceres was recently purchased, max
.f1nc the hospital farm now about tD"
acres. The house on the new tract Is
+ In he used as the home for a colony oil
the dtlhst patients and to further re-
4 l,eye Tie crowded conditions. Tents VIII
be u sed for tho tubcr culous patients. Cot
tnpes for the acute and new cases VIII
tn erected and the? will also be USED
Z FOR the tuberculous ca SOS during the Win
ter si z. XII 355
industrial shops will soon be built and
R the dining room and chapel space en-
Iarged There are now lib patients IN
this hospital.
rher., are 6oe patients at The Eastern
< State Hospital ut williamsburg, and
61,o72 at the Western state Hospital, at
stanton. There are three male patients
= notwithstanding that have been confined
81, the hospital for SO. q and g years.
Ycsls.cttyely. This institution recently Sc
4. cured an apprnpria ton OF s., GOO Tor I'M
provcr1cnts. A new electric light sYs-
tenn is being installed at the Western
f,tatn Hospital, and the work OF wiring
for lights Is now we'll under way. The
report Of the Southwestern Hospital was
not In hand. being delayed in transmits 1
q sion, 5ss s
.af.er the board had completed their
Wo,k to-day, they drove to the Crater
4 and to many other historic points around
The Cockadc3 City. 35l IA t5s5 4@Ss. III. v q
" 3t5 J1LKS' NEW HOME
III Tho new home of tn, Petersburg Lodge
No. III, OF the Order OF Elks, will I've.
ready for occupancy by the loth OF MAY,
aud the moving OF the fraternity head
auarscrs will doubtless be celebrated by
Il INAPPROPRIATE ceremonies.
General Stlth Boiling is In receipt OF a
letter from Alexandra, Va. TO the ef-
feet that a negro man. supposed TO be
from Petersburg. had been found dead
on a toat- at that port. On the body OF
tho negro was found letter written by
Pauline Mason, Of this city, and this
led 10 his Identification.
WHY SHE LEFT.
Miss Effie May Hewitt disappeared from
her home. In Petersburg. several days
since. and nothing was known OF her
njiereabou.s until Monday, when her
marriage, In Manchester, 10 James f..
Precise was announced. The groom Is
employed by the Seward Trunk and Bag
Company.
Mrs. J. T. Mastin. whose husband Is
connected with the Virginia Conference
Orphenage, delivered an address tonight
& n, High street Methodist Church.
Or. Frederick Henry Sykes, Of Column
Tia. University. tonight delivered In Pc
tcrsburg the second Of a series of lee
tun,s on the Modern English Novel.