The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-02
STATEMENT OF REID HOSPITAL TRUSTEES
Information Is Given to Public Concerning the institution
It's MANAGEMENT and It's Needs

ell was appointed and that committee
reported TO your body and recommend
ed an appropriation for the remainder
of the year 1906 of 5000. and or $500
TO be included in the general approprl
alton ordinance for 1907. and that THESE
concentrations were made upon the
recommendation of your committee:
81 700 ONLY was paid. the item of st.
GEO was placed in the ordinance Tor
1907. and was vetoed by the mayor anu
nassed again unanimously: the pres
emf COMPTROLLER refused to~lSsue d war
rant for further payment until the en-
abIing act was passed, and Wnlch dcl
has now been passed by our legislature
As result of our conference with your
special committee. and to fulfli our
nromise then made to you Mr.. Deukef,
then chairman of your committee Oh
finance. was elected member OF our
hoard. with equal powers with all oth-
er trustees. to represent the city anu
vour honorable body in the manage
ment.
| We beg to advise council, that we are
advised. and we believe well advised
| that there is nothing in the ooJeceion
| of his honor, the mayor, that your or
dipance of March 18th. was not recon-
mended by all. or a majority OIL the de-
partment of health.
/ The original ordinance appropriate
/ ing $4,000 was regularly recommended
nv the Department of Health and Char-
tiles. and the city comptroller Inc
Sc coo item was passed in the general
ordinance for 1907, was vetoed ana
passed again over the Veto ana the
Act of the legislature expressly iegai
| ICES these appropriations made. SO thd'
no recommendation of any board OF
officer of the city is requisite to au
thorize council to pass an ordinance re
concentrating these amounts so deter
/ mined upon. and the payment OF Whlci
was withheld pending the passage o.
the enabling act.
How the Hospital Was Established.
/ It would seem that every citizen o.
Richmond ought to know how this hos
pital was established Our city pa
pers have published the facts many
times. Our esteemed and more thar
generous fellow citizen, Mr.. Daniel G
Reid. proposed to give $4,000 to es
tablish a hospital for the people OF TINS
his home city. upon condition that TN
citizens would contribute $4,000 as al
endowment to aid its maintenance
Our citizens did contribute general,
land generously to this fund. and will
$4,000 of the MORRISON fund at IN
disposal of the city. contributed D.
YOUR honorable body, the amount wa
raised. That amount actually givel
nv Mr.. Reid in the end amounted L
almost double the amount original.
promised.
other generous citizens contribute
, generally to furnish and equip the hos
pital when the buildings We're complet
ed. and nobody connected with the en-
terprise in any way understood other
wise than that we were establishing
hospital which was given to and be
r longed to all the people of the city.
The following will be found in you
own records. as declarations of on
, board of trustees to your special con
, mittee and contained in the report c
that committee made in July last: IN
trustees have talked with us in the u
, most frankness and sincerity. both a
to the work the hospital is doing an
especially of the more extended an
larger work they wish and desire
may do. They have assured US. tia
they especially desire that all the pet
4 pie of the city shall understand thu
. this is their institution. and that the
e should get out of their minds complete
+ lly and forever the thought. or lde;
e that it is in any sense a private 1nstlt'
e ton. or. that it belongs to anyDod
l. other than the people of Richmond.
They wish that they may [
!. regarded by all officials. representa-
u the people and all interested citizen
o as trustees of the citizens to whom tt
l. hospital belongs: and that in the ma
i asement in every way, their h1ghe
= lpurpose is. to make it accomplish u
xreatest possible good
ID These representations made by OF
kboard to your special committee we T
Ia affirm. and furthermore we declare
II YOU and through you to the people
n the city you represent. that TINS nc
/ pital is not in any sense private