New-York tribune., 1906-10-19
NEW HOSPITAL PAVILION
Many Clergymen at Dedicatory Ep-
erciseS at St. LaJk6's.

IN the presence of three bishops and many
| other prominent churchnen and members Of the
| medical profession the new pavilion to ST.
| Luke's Hospital. Morningside Heights. was
dedicated yesterday The services. which began
| at o'clock. were held in the little chapel OF
| the hospital. Nearly five hundred were present.
The new wing is called the Margaret J. Plant
Pavilion, being named after the widow Of Henry
Bradley Plant the railroad and steamship man.
Mrs. Plant is now Mrs. Robert Graves OF the
100000 which the new pavilion cost she
tributed S45OOO0
The Right Rev. David H. Greer Bishop Co
ad1utor of New York. of the Protestant Epis
copal Church, conducted the services. Bishop
Frederick NJ. Keator, Of Olympia Wash, read
the service of benedictionB The third Bishop
present, but who did not take an active part in
the ceremony, was the Right Rev. Frederick
Courtney. formerly Bishop of Nova Scotia. rector
of st. James's Church. Those who participated
In the services gathered in vacant ward. and
in procession in which the choir of the
Cathedral of ST. John the Divine. the clergy. the
board of managers Of the hospital. the president
of the hospital and the medical board, marched
slowly the chapel. After the service in the new
pavilion, George Macculloch Miller, the president
of the hospital, made the address Of acceptance,
and the memorial tablet was unveiled. A short
time afterward Mrs. Graves and Mrs. George
Frederick Glover, wife of the hospital supern-
tendent gave a reception to their guests The
pavilion will be ready for inspection by medical
men on November g. after which time it will
receive patients.
The purpose of the pavilion is twofold; first,
that private patients of wealth shall be able to
receive the most skilled hospital treatment pos
sfble; and second, that the money derived from
this source may be devoted to the opening OF
two more free wards.
St Luke's Hospital has been handicapped since
the erection of the new hospital on Cathedral
Heights by being obliged to use for private pa
tients two stories of the nurses home Partly
from the crowding of the nurses due to this
cause and partly owing to a lack OF income. four
wards have never been opened. The new pa
vilion will relieve this pressure, and by giving
room in the nurses home for more nurses. and.
it is hoped. by obtaining more revenue St
Luke's Hospital will be able to extend its free
and charity work.
AS St Luke's Hospital makes no barrier OF
color creed the extension of this work is a
matter OF moment to the city at large. Accord
ing to tho last annual report of the patients ad-
mitted during the year, 303 per cent were Ro-
man Catholics, 44.3 connected with
ligious bodies other than that of St Luke's
Hospital, and only 26.4 per cent were attached
even nominally to the Episcopal Church. Fully
20 per cent of the patients in the hospital
entirely free, and As per cent are part pay, CIV
ing what they can afford. Only 30 per cent
produce revenue equivalent to the cost OF
treatment.
The new building occupies one of the most
commanding sites in New York City, overlook
ing Morningside Park. Every window in the
building possesses a clear view. The structure
is Of French Renaissance STYLE the theme being
carried out in cream colored brick and marble
conforming in specific detail with the five other
pavIons of the hospital
In the building are rooms for sixty-nve pa
tents, separate culinary department, a floor
tO wit Ha.
pendencies. a solarium and roof garden, quar-
ters for the house STAFF of the pavilion, and
large number of rooms for orderlies and SER
wants. On each patients floor also are a spe-
ctal nurses workroom, a steTilizing room, serv-
ing room. specially connected with the kitchen
and containing small gas ranges on which such
extra cooking may be done exigenoy de-
mands.
Mrs. Robert Graves who contributed most to
the cost OF the new pavilion, is especially inter
ested IN the care Of the sick She has endowed
beds for fremen injured while on active duty
at the Presbyterian, St. Vincent's Mount Sinai
and New York hospitals well as st. Lukes
Among the clergy present at the services yes
teTday, besides those mentioned, were the Ven
George E. Nelson. the Ven. Frederick B. Van
Kleeck, the Ven. Amos T. Ashton the Rev
Canon Pascal narrower, the Rev. Canon
Robert B. Kimber, the Rev. Henry Mottet the
Rev. D. Parker Morgan the Rev. George r.
Rev. H. p. Nichols, the Rev. A. L. Wood the
Rev. Lea Luquer and the pastor and superin-
tendent Of the hospital the Rev. George Fred
erick Clover Others present were Mr.. and Mrs
H. D. Babcock, Mr. and Mrs Stephen Baker
Benjamin G. Chisolm, DR. and Mrs. Theodore
G. Janeway John S. Kennedy John McKim
D. O. Mills. DR.. and Mrs. Beverly Robinson
Sir Percy SanderSon, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew c.
Zabriskie and Dean and Mrs. J. Howard Van
Amringe of Columbia College.