New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-05
OUTCASTS OF SOCIETY.
Vork; Done for Cancerous Poor at
Rosary Hill Home.

rseautifu1 rpon the mountains stands the Rosary
III Home for IncurabIe Cancer Patients at Haw-
horne II is beautiful to the outward eye. with
IS surrounding circle OF guardian hills but more
-seutiful SUI. though house Of death to those
10 nave passed beyond It's portals and have seen
ne life that is lived within its walls For here
ne destitute and incurable cancer patient, the
leper Of the West" friendIess and abandoned even
y his nearest relatives finds refuge Here gentle
lands labor 10 relieve his bodily suffering and
-~entle voices soothe his mental anguish while his
feet go down slowly. but surely, to the Valley OF
he Shadow Of Death.
This Institution. with its allied house in New
York is doing q work which is unique. The
nc,rable and destitute cancer patient is the
outcast OF modern society, the iepers were
u old An homes for incurables reject them on
account Of the revolving and dangerous character
Of the disease and all hospitals refuse to take
hen except for operationeven the cancer hospital
having abandoned its incurable ward
All they ask IS place to die in. and this society
had almost frvaTab bly, denied them until. in 1895
Mrs Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. now known as
Mother Mary Alphonss, Of the Order Of St Domi-
nc. began her work
Tne Rosary Hill Home is the country branch Of
this charity. and It is three years and a half
s.nce Mother Alphonsa and her devoted band Of
sisters took possession Of it. They purchased the
property from a community Of French Dominican
monks who have moved down into the val
ley. with cash deposit Of $1,000 1t was a rash
thing TO do, but the spring air sweet and the
peach blossoms were SO beautiful and the contrast
between this vernaI loneliness and the crowded
city home Of the community, where the tired sis
tiers were sleeping tiers and the sufferers
were gasping for breath. was so great thu Mother
AIphonsa threw wisdom TO the winds and closed
The bargain She has never regretted 1t. she says.
bat sun. the former owners OF the property have
had 10 wait for their money. Not cent have they
ever obtained bat that first $1,000.
I'VE have imposed the fathers dreadfuily.'
says Mother Alphonsa ruefuily, but We depend
entirely on public kindness. and every cent that
mas not been needed for running expenses has gone
mo repairs. The place was admirably suited to
purpose IN way. because the cells gave US
Inc single rooms we needed for our patients
men can hardly be exDected to be good house,
keepers. ard nearly everything out Of repair
The time has now come. however. when the pa
dent fathers have to be paid In part at least,
and II is in the hope OF making impression
en- the debt that the OF lectures by DR.
lanes J. Walsh The Women of the Renais-
sance, which has been announced for Thursday
mornings IN Lent at the Carnegie Lyceum, has
been arranged
About thirty-fve patients have been sheltered
each year In the Rosary Hill Home since It was
opened and though al that could be done for
mem was TO ease their sufferings little their lot
uieFe seems Ike q paradise In comparison with
what II would have been had there been no such
institution Without il they would have been left
to de IN some dark tenement house or cellar amid
al the horrors OF poverty and neglect or perhaps
tAey might have been experimanted on in the In
EefeSts Of science for it is fact Mother Alphonsa
says that there are physicians so dead TO all sense
O. humanity that they regard these poor people as
80 much material, ike frogs"
N some ways the country home cannot do such
great work as the city institution It cannot
reach The floating poor or give timely aid TO cases
Which. If negleeted. may develop into cancer. But
for those who are past hope il does what the city
home cannot Go by bringing into their lives lit
tie pleasure and little. forgetfuiness Of the doom