The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-11

two doors from where he was building on Chapel street. He pleaded to have the lives of human beings more at heart than $7,000 worth of unbuilt land. hue site only few of those present
 Frank Leddy, agent for the Malley property which Is suggested as the site, wanted to know some reason for the protest, some valid objection. He ask ed if they were simply afraid of the name of 'pesthouse," or had really in vestigated and found that in other cities the contagious disease hospitals were dangerous. "Td just as soon have it next door to my own home, and I love my family as much as any man in this hall"
 Chairman. Hamilton replied: "On the subject of the danger of the hospitals, doctors, as on everything else, disagree. l have had twenty-five years experi- ence with expert testimony and have seen that, If you have money enough, you can get doctors of equal conscien- tiousness and equal talent to take ex- actly opposite sides on a question. With due respect to the learning of doctors, hold that medical science is a very uncertain thing. It Is best to be on the safe side. There are scientific, sen- timental and financial reasons against the location of the hospital here"
 John H. Shaw then said that if MT. Leddy would withdraw the option on. the site from MT. Ullman he would be one of group to take the.land off MT. Malleys hands.
 MT. Leddy started to reply, Tt isn't a matter of price"-and was cut short by jeers from all parts of the hall. When the commotion had subsided he continued: "Give me some half-way- decent reason against the site. Like all lawyers, the chairman will not go out of the straight road to the object he has in hand"
 A motion was made that Mir Malley, through MT. Leddy be requested to withdraw his option for the sale of the land at Derby, avenue and the Boule- ward as a contagious disease hospital site. This was greeted with great ap- plause Feeling against Mir. Leddy for opposing the protest had risen like a tide about him. All sud- denly calmed down upon his diplomat lcally saying: T will agree to with draw this offer tomorrow morning. But I do this simply because my neigh bors wish it, to be neighborly. No good reason for the opposition has been shown"
 Don't you think the other wards all consider the hospital undesirable2" asked MT. Hamilton.
 But I think the citizens of the Sec ond ward are more intelligent than those of the others" replied Mir. Leddy,
 50 they are, and that's the reason they are here tonight to raise this pro- test" continued the chairman.
 Mir Shaw said that MT. Leddy had asked for a reason for opposing the site. He said they hadn't come to offer reasons. The fact that they all did not want it was sufficient without any fur ther reason.
 Thomas J. sFogarty, secretary of the meeting, gathered together the reasons of unsanitary location because of the nearby stagnant swamp, noise of cars, noise from the gun club, and added that, of course, all had the underlying reason of injury to property. He said he was one of the few who went be- fore the aldermanic committee to pros test at the public hearing, and had there to. contend with the influence of the wheel horsei,of thes republican. party in Connecticut and Colonel Osborn, of the Courier, who considered the site an ideal one, and favored it.
 Others claimed that the site was not really isolated, and that if it was not dangerous it should be placed on the grounds of the New Haven hospital
 The motion to request MT. Leddy to withdraw his option on the site was passed and MT. Leddy repeated his A vote of thanks was in- into the resolutions, which were adopted in full, thus:
 "Voted-That we, the citizens of the of the property site for the contagious disease hospital, object to md protest against the location of such hospital at the corner of Derby avenue md Boulevard.
 | 'Voted-That we commend the con- 1uct of Alderman Homan and the al- lermen voting with him in doing all in heir power to. prevent the location of ,aid hospital at said place.
 'Voted-That committee of five be appointed for the purpose of doing all l n their power to prevent such location # such hospital.
 %Voted-That Mir. Edward Malley, l trough his agent, MT. Leddy, having | agreed to withdraw the offer to sell l property for a site for contagious l lisease hospital, that the thanks of the | meeting are hereby rendered to them"
 Mir Hamilton, as chairman, named | he following committee of five: A. J. | Crawford, Frank S. Platt A. B. Dobbs, Walter K. Newport and Frederick l.. Head.
 A committee of three was also named | o see Alderman Curtiss and attempt | o "convert" him. The committee con- ists of Frank s. Platt, John H. Shaw | nd John H. Clarke. MT. Hamilton, as d