New-York tribune., 1906-07-03
$4,000 RAISED.
Sum Required to Redeem Mr. Book
efellers Pledge Completed.

The last chapter Of one os the most beautiful
stories Jacob Riis ever heard was written yester-
day, when the last dollar ot tie $4,000 that
hacking Saturday In order 70 secure John D.
Hospital soy Crippled Children. his pet philan-
rro9ys raised largely as the re ult OF an ap-
peal published in The Tribune on Saturday.
The Angel % the Lord came down on Saturday.
SAID Mr.. Riis 70 the reporters who hurried 10 the
Offices OF the Association for Improving the Con-
c1tlon of the Poor yesterday afternoon 90 hear all
about the good news. 'and he telephoned Mr. Allen
The associations secretary, from away up the
country. Mr. Allen went up with Dr. John Bran
rers and they found good friend there who gives
away untold amounts every year, but never let's
IFS name be used. He entertained them beautI-
fully. showed them his Sarm and all sorts OF
thngs. and just before they left he said that what
ever Nas lacking when Saturdays mail opened
he would make up''
This aunonnt proved 90 be $685. and the generous
donor is entered the list Of contributors as "a
Fsader Of Newspaper Appeals" The rest of the
last $4,000 made up mainly by Eugene Delano
William =. Harmon Miss Jessie GilIender and
''H b." who gave $1,000 apiece. The rest canoa in
small amounts. One Of these came from a Negro
washerwoman. VINO called at Sea Breeze on sun
day with s.
The total amount required TO secure Mr. Rookie
telleE's glft $4,000, This gives the assocsa.
tion $4,000 20 build and equip hospital for the
outnoor seaside treatment OF tuberculosis Of the
bones and glands. with accommodations for from
200 70 800 children The design will be secured
through competition. and several architects have
expressed the intention OF going Europe TO study
similar institutions there before submitting de-
signs IT IS expected that the city will provide
the site in the proposed Seaside Park. and the
present idea is TO turn the hospital over TO the
city as soon as possible There is formal agree
uaent this effect. but the city fathers are all
known TO be greatly interested and If any OF them
should experience change OF heart a dreadful
fate evajts them.
'Tt any one tries 20 interfere with our plans
we'll break his neck Mr. Rtis announced savagely
u the city does take the hospital over. and en-
is sav, az toss2ds Of Htfle lives Yr rom a de
io-gnity and death IN its most hideous form.
yvoaas. MT Riis said aliud!ng to the appeal Of
Mss Laura wilmington published in The Out;
% die OF cancer Through this appeal Mr. Riis
1ess ana s RG g OsG hsd Se oy o
knowing just before she died that the rst $500
fer the new hospital had been subscribed.
@ eoe % eann6t m Se sve seea eeasa S u ShgF S M
arransfnr 70 90 The best ft,e can With entdoor
sreatr5ent- And perhaps. as Mr.. Riis suggested
Panama Canal extendea @ to their E vicinity '''
Others who contributed TO the hospital fund; in
addition 70 those already mentioned r. Fulton
Cutting. Percy r. Pyne. o. S. Harkness. Henry
r i. AuchEauty. Felix ". Warburg. Henry Gold
slans Robert g. Brewster. IEiss Helen NJ. Gould
ssSheia, and toward Tow ToWrsend s.
.or r5ro7r me % 55dien Il af fe' poor Pe 5opes tsf
the public viii not think 1t has need OF
money. Money Is stin wanted 70 the hospital
lor the first year. ana $4,000 must be provided to
garry OF the work in the temporary hospital at Sea
ms. little patients at Sea Breeze are also beg
9tlg for 9 new 1aGpols, punching bag, catcher's
glove and some basebals and bats. Any one who
wants 10 help these little folk and enable them to
celebrate the Fourth in proper manner is invited
q send his or her contribution without delay to
Fl. s. NintlFn, no. 100 East I'D street.
Mr. Riis wrote 20 President Roosevelt yesterday
e ray that The new hospital Wss assured % and nj
ton which the oil king had promised his gift OF
tE.cr0 had been fulfilled.