The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-06
RAPID COMPLETION
NOW CERTAINTY
Asbury Hospital Will Be at Once
Carried to Compile
ton. :.,,
THIRTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS NEEDED
Circulars Soliciting Financial Aid
from the Charitable Will Be
Mailed Tomorrow.

Md11Su O1uOIIOW.
IT is the intention to finish half the
ing on Elliot park at once. This will
cost 100000, and over half the amount
was subscribed Oct l.
Preparatory to the campaign for
funds, literature for circulation in the
two conference districts in Minnesota
is being printed. This will show what
great work has been done under adj
Verse conditions in the old building, in
itself furnishing the strongest kind of
an appeal for money to provide the
forty nlne private rooms and the sixty
ward beds which the new building will
contain when half completed.
Altho Methodist in its burdens, be.
by Methodists, it's internal affairs be-
ing directed by deaconesses, the hospi-
tai has been undenominational in it's
benefits, because patients have been re-
eelYed irrespective of creed, nationality
or condition of purse.
Work Of Asbury.
In twelve years service, ending Sept.
2, Asbury hospital, with the old build
ing, containing ffty-two beds, has cared
Tor L,o9o patients OF twenty nine ma
dlspensary. The services given by the
inside nurses for six and one-half years
IN which record has been kept have to-
tailed 428,327 hours
The hospital has expended $39,O96 in
charity. The deaconesses have made
oO,22o calis outside and have rendered
services to members Of all nationalities
and denominations as follows:
Garments, bedding, etc., distributed,
2o'66l pieces; baskets Of food, 1858
money contributed in small amounts to
the emergency fund.- judiciously expended
$9S7.65; Thanksgiving and Christmas din
ners distributed. 1,010; glasses of jelly,
canned trult and cans soup, 2s4: employ
ment found for 30 persoru,; Bibles mag
a1lnes and other literature distributed
t4'3o9 aggregate number Of children
taught in Sunday, industrial and mission
schools, 24e56: children gathered for out
1ngs, 41O; persons nursed in their own
homes 204; hours spent in nursing the
poor In their homes, 12a42
Chances for the Charitable.
Opportunities offered incident to the
completion and maintenance Of the new
hospital are many. The circular to be
issued contains suggestions as to
amounts for donations and their posi-
BILE application as follows:
The payment of $1,000 will entitle the
donor to place upon the door Of one pri-
Vate room IN the hospital the name of q
relative or friend in perpetuity. And like
wise, for S.. 900 ward may be named
gift of 81 will support a bed for one
week. $3O Will support a bed for one
month and every gift of 81, SIS, $40, ETC.,
means caring for the sick and poor for
that number Of days.
gift Of $4,000 will keep a deaconness
at work for all time, among the poor and
suffering, doing personal work for the do
ner.
bequest Of $4,000 will endow a bed
perpetually, and smaller amounts for a.
part Of each year perpetualy.
The sum of 5000 will endow and main
tain bed in the hospital for two weeks
In each and every year perpetually
Three hundred and sixty-fve dollars
Will endow and maintain q bed In the
hospital for one month in each and every
year perpetually.
For every additional sum of $685. the
ped Will be endowed and maintained for
an additional month In each and every
year perpetually.
When the sum of S. 900 shall have been
paid, the bed will be endowed and main
tanned perpetually.
The house officers are as follows:
Superintendent Of deaconess work,
Miss Sybil c. Palmer; superintendent of
hospital, Mrs Sarah H. Knight; assist
ant superintendent of hospital, Sybil c..
Palmer; experimenting nurse, Miss
Shardlow; resident physicians, w. G..
Richards, A. J. Movius.
The new corporate officers are:
President. Bishop I. w. Joyce; vice
president P. G. Hanson; second vice
president, P. D. Boutell; secretary, Henry
M. Farnam; treasurer, T. A. Jameson;
treasurer Of building fund.- DR.. j. F.
Force; chairman deaconess home COM
mittee Mrs. I. w. Joyce.
Those in Control.
\, The management of the finances and
the general supervision Of the work of
Asbury hospital Is to be in safe hands.
The new board Of directors contains in
its roster the names of some of the
leaders in Minnesota Methodism. cleri-
cal and lay. They are:
Minnesota Annual Conference Class
Term expiring 19O5.--Rev. F. M. Rule.
Peter Clare, R. N. Avison F. r. White
J. F. Stout, J. M. Bull, NJ. G. Shuman.
Northern Minnesota Conference Class
Term expiring 1905.-Revs. S. D. Hutsin-
piler, Robert Forbes, J. B. Hingelev.
James S. Montgomery, C. F. Sharpe, vii
liam Fielder, William Love.
Board Class-Term expiring 1905.-Dr.
F. A. Dunsmoor, Mrs I. w. Joyce. w, J.,
Dean, Levi Longfellow, Mrs. D. w. Long,
iSlAo"' Ii. d. w Ills, y. II. herrlCK, IL, o.
Roberts, H. Parsons, G. c. Taylor, Miss
Charlotte E. Bushnell, T. A. Jameson,
Z. c. Wyman Dugal Cree, Ralph Leach,
w. O. Zimmerman, F. P. Nicoll
Board Class-Term expiring 1906
M G. Norton B. F. Nelson, Mrs Marv
II. Robinson, DR.. M. P. Wander Horck, ].
H. Morton, Mrs. c. C. Taylor, M w.
Savage, E. P. Overmire, Henry M Far
nam.
Board Class-Term expiring 1eO7-Nrrs
Sarah H. Knight, Bishop Isaac w. joyce,
DR.. J. F. Force, P. D. Boutell, Professor
%. F. Mearkle Miss S. C. Palmer, F. A.
Chamberlain, president Security bank:
DIR. j. w. Little, P. G. Har%on, Mrs. Al
mira P. Harrison, j. T. Wyman, Colonel
Frank M Joyce, Mrs. James T. Wyman,
]. M. Hackney.