The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-25
WOLFE SCORES
 NEW HAVENERS Backward in Every I'm provement He Says at
 Hospital Hearing.
A NUMBER OF TILTs
Contagious Diseases Hos pital Matter Again Wor-
 rying Aldermen.

The fight at the aldermanic hearing on the four proposed sites for q con. tagious disease hospital held last night centered about the Derby avenue site. The vehemence with which residents of that section rehearsed the unsuitable- ness of the place for hospital showed also what a horrible place it must be to reside in. Andrew B. Dobbs, treas urer of the Monarch Laundry company. testified that there was not a noisier section of the city. The heavy cars on the Derby line go through that portion of the city with such speed noise and jarring that it is often impossible to sleep, until far into the night, NIT. Dobbs said. He further said that the jarring had been so great as to cause the walls of the rooms of his house to fall so that he had to put in new ones. 1 A deaf member of his house had asked several times if it was an earthouake that was shaking the house.
 Charles S. Hamilton. another oppo- nent of the Derby avenue site said that | it would be an insult to property own CTS to place the hospital there. He, too. Insisted that the noise was too great. He metaphorically stated that the pandemonium reigning at the fall of the angels from heaven, as told by Mil- | ton, could not be compared with the noise made by the Yale students dur | ing their big games at the field. He did not really see the need of the hos pital, especially when it's erection would mean the destruction of thousands of dollars worth of property. He refer red to the difficulty in choosing site and concluded quite dramatically and poeticaly: Amid such confusion who can tell the road to heaven or hell or how we can be saved"
 Others appeared opposing the site, \ but there were no new arguments of- lfered. Many suggested Springside as the proper site. MT. Hamilton stated that he would get 10000 names to "a pe- ', tition for the Springside site
 I Thomas F. Fogarty said that the only objection to the Springside site came from the doctors. but that they would get used to Springside, if it should be. chosen.
 The first speakers of the evening were decidedlyin favor of Derby avenue site As soon as the hearing had been called to order by Chairman McKer- ness and the call read by the clerk, Colonel I. M. Ullman jumped to his feet He said that the only question to be solved was as to the location of the hospital. Wherever located, he said, 1t ought to be easily accessible, both by car lines and otherwise The Spring. side site. he said, was not the proper one and that the people should be taken care of somewhere else than on tho grounds of the poor farm. Gases of contagious diseases work great hard- ship on the poor families and the work CT has to be kept at home or carry the disease to others. Nurses are loath to take up cases at the home because they have no place to go should they be talk en sick themselves.
 As to the sita he did not care al- though he thought that the best of the four suggested was that on Derby ave- nue, and the one at Goffe and Crescent StreelS ne uecidFeu aDoup aS gOoQ
 Colonel N. c. Osborn, editor of the Journal and Courier, said that he would
 approach the subject from point of view of necessity. He said that it re- fected rather badly on the city not to have contagious disease Hospital, and
 that the committee should take the view that there should be one. The
 breaking out of a contagious disease in the crowded tenement district, he said, would be very serious to those living