New-York tribune., 1906-04-18

Readers of The Outlooe have not forgotten
Sea Breeze with it's hospital for crlppieus crlpps1tnn
dren and tho plea OF Miss Laura Wlnhns Wli g. 80 q
when she Law diving in ST Luke's Hospital Ioi q q
bigger institution that should repeat on q 4bore
times larger scale the success achieNedd obfId
with that terrible scourge of i'll nourlsls,i acau
hood bono tuberculosis And they VIII re- recds ~
the results that followed quickly; the N.@ Syo,sx-
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt 70 ~ Colsoy
Island and the raising of a largo sum or money
over night, IL seemed, 10 retl-!zs , 4NIs +bts
ningtons dream. She closed her eyes ph up ,yas
world with The knowledge that her WIS., Wis ,,.tIa.
granted OF the four or five thousand niue
cripples in New York's tenernents Win n -, 49,, e.
ment-hopeless unless the chance Is Summer
Of life in the open on the ssasno ss oS nature
and Winter until the healing forces ot draI -
have done their work-only one IN .n,I nuiib bos
could find shelter at Sea Breeze Inc . Ie .S.
pital was planned for at least ten times that
number The plans called for bulIdihg 70 9I1' -
quarter Of million of dollars :. tSo ntbar
half were raised before Spring came AGAIN Inc
thing 70 find a site.
1t proved not easy to get as had oeeh sup
posed. On Coney Island there was no rooln
For q while it seemed as II there were none
little sufferers had swept on and out OF slshI
leaving cold selhshness and the greed or prop
erty interests" in its place. Everywhere tne door
was slammed in the faces of the chiidrens S
friends No one wanted the cripples for neigh
bors. The seashore is for pleasuring, we heard;
they would contaminate ruin it. They did not
know. Could they have seen them and what ~
all meant they would never have let them pass
Verify, think they would have given them the
land for the asking. / know right wen they
would.
But they did not know. 1t became necessary
to take land by condemnation, and IL was re-
solved to kill two birds with one stone by hitch
ing the plan to two prime needs of the city,
viz, a great seashore playground for the people
and convalescent home for the sick and the
disabled poor who are daily crowded out Of
New York's hospitals by the tremendous press
ure upon them, although wholly unfit TO take up
the battle Of life again. The over
crowding OF hospitals has long cried aloud
for a convalescents home as an act of plain
humanity. These things speak for themselves
had sat down to speak for the little ones here,
when they came to plead their cause, all
unconscious Of their mission.
The children at Sea Breeze had heard that
| l. too, had been laid away in a hospital for a
| while to tame rebellious heart if 1 might and
| nothing would do but they must write 10 tell
brought me a batch Of their letters. I wonder
if that carrier knew how much of sunshine and
cheer his bag held Here is fve-year-old Max
Gross, child of poverty and want, all the days
of a long and weary year strapped to a frame
that holds his little body rigid because his back
is not like other children's. yet ever cheerful,
| ever hopeful. calling across the room TO the
doctor, 'I all betterl" Poor little chap.
Once. and only once, his tears fell; and when
his nurse went to him in alarm. he sobbed out
upon her sleeve that some one had said on the
| porch as he was carried by: Max will not get
| better" And don't want TO get dead and be
an angel" was the cry that wrung the nurses
heart; II want to get off my board and play
first" Hear his message TO me:
Dear Mr. RIis:
me? I got yellow pencil writing this
the pencil am writing all myself. only some cne Is
! holding the pencil too. Are you up?
big sy @ II a !. f 5P P E. RSfs Mss Gssass
She has on long veil 1t is made OF tissue paper
Maggie Brennan ts dressed too She is brides
maid Come down again and bring Mr.. Roosevelt.
would like TO see you again. Goodbye, with
your friend. MAX GROSS.
Max came from a slum tenement His parents
are poor Jews. But the some one who held the
pencil with him tells that he hesitated over
| Miss Roosevelt. He had meant TO say Alice.
WAS and aCf6 6a6
| that it was not The visit of the President to
Sea Breeze is the proud tradition of the children