New-York tribune., 1906-04-10
MAKES PITIFUL APPEAL.
Wado5o Fears Flatbush Insane
Asylum Viii Be abolished.
10 the Editor Of The Trihune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Driven wellngh to distraction by the thought
of separation from who is nearest and dearest
10 me in all this wide world. send to you and
through you, to the readers of your paper this ap
peal for assistance in retaining at its present Ioca-
ton the Long Island State Hospital for the Insane
at Flatbush 1t has. you know been rumored
that the present site is to be abandoned and the
Inmates scattered among the different institutions
up the state.
1t needs only this last drop to hn my cup of
bitterness to overfiowing When I was married
scarcely year my husband. who was a seafaring
man. shipped as first mate the brigantne Mary
Celeste, of which he had formerly been captain.
On November g. 1872 she left this port bound for
Genoa Nothing more heard of her until
months after. when the intelligence reached
that the Mary Celeste had been towed into the
port of Gibraltar by another vessel. the Da Gracia
that e bad beea of the the n sv S t
island Of Santa Maria the most most southern Of the
Azores group. drifting derelict with rot soul
Of my husband OF any Of the crew. Year after
hope that my husband would be restored 70 me-
but all to no avail.
eIaf Tafnfng perhaps in some measure to fSFget
srngIi adopted nephew. my sisters child ana
HIS RebeRS bcaa m all the aecCn tbo Of am %oheF &
b say faTo him GROW into promising manhood
tTenty-one years old he stricken by sunstroke.
bee rom - that & time on his reason by slow degrees
him TO the insane hospital at Fiatbush. Since then
Sunday and Wednesday have been the one ray Of
sunshine let into a life darkened by sorrow and
e from day day in the hope that s may S' the he
4aIener see ms dear face And now they are con
which the hospital is at present situated and the
hps miles pp the sae rhnk ho% any
unabe VIII ~ o-9 9e OF R those wh4 IKE myself will be
tnus ne rudeiy separated from those dear to them.
F yo4Fr paper failed to champion the cause of the
unroTTtonate oTtu a and downtrodden.
L also appeal TO all members of the Masonic order
to to use their Influence in my behalf. as my father
veteran and am the widow Of W veteran y ""S
NJ ..ao n.-.., +EEAYYSIIE n, RIcHARDsoM.
Many people OF Brooklyn greatly agftated by
the thought that the State Hospital for the Insane
may be abolished. though it is still posi-
| bility Last year the Legislature passed a bill
authorizing the state authorities to trade for the
site of the hospital which belongs to the city GER
| tain rights on Randals Island. The matter is still
| pending before the Sinking Fund Commission The
real estate men of Brooklyn much opposed tC
the trade. they enormously believe that If the
state gains title to the site of the hospital it will
turn the institution into Juvenile asylum The off,
cas of the asylum say that the state authorities in
tend to abolish the hospital If the trade is not au-
| thorized by the commission Mr.. Coler Is much op-
posed to the trade. he says that the city own:
Randalrs Island. and that the only thing that the
state will give up for the valuable site of the hOsp
establishing Juvenile asylum on the island He be-
lieVes that the state and the city should come Z
tions.
The chief argument against change is that tn
poor people whose friends and relatives in tn
hospital will be subjected 10 great Injustice
the institution be broken UP. In such a
would be necessary to send the patients forty-fiy
miles away to Kings Park or to Central Isip. Tn
poor people. who can afford to spend five or tel
cents TO travel to the hospital in its present loca
ton. would not be able to afford the longer Journey
Some OF these visitors have been travelling I
| the institution weekly or semi-weekly for twent
years and moro. The city would be greatly incon
venenced by the removal OF the hospital also. as
| is opposite the Kings County Hospital an
| takes all the worst cases they come in