The morning journal-courier., 1908-05-28
ANNUAL MEETING
AT GAYLORD FARM
Encouraging Reports at Session
of New Haven County Anti
tuberculosis Asso-
citation.
PROGRESS IN ALL LINES
Governor Woodruff and Many New
Haven People Attcnd-Scycral
Also from Around the
State.


The annual meeting of the New Ha
ven County tuberculosis associ
alton was held yesterday afternoon a
the Gaylord Farm Saaatorium and
large number OF persons from this city
Waterbury, Hartford and Meriden an
other places IN the state attended. TIL
New Haven party left here at o'cloc
and were driven to the meeting place
After the meeting a luncheon wa
served and the return to New Have
was made late in the Afternoon
Among those who attended from thi
city were Governor Rollin 5, Woodruff
DR.. j. z. c, Foster Max Adler, Di
Francis Bacon, Prof, Irving Fisher an
j, Davenport Wheeler.
The most important business was tn
reading of the reports of various OH
GERS.
The following directors were elect
ed; DR. j, 2, C. Foster, Dr. O. T. Os
borne, DR., IL l.. Swain, Max Adler
and W. p, Curtis, all of New Haven
and DR. c. w. Gaylord OF Branford
Il was voted to expend $4,000 for {
house for the superintendent.
DR.. Racon's Report.
DR. Francis Bacon, the president OF
the association, submitted his report
as president and II was as follows;
Ladies and gentlemen, friends and
fellow workers in the cause of life
saving to which this beautiful hilltop
and this group Of buildings are econ
secrated;
The New Haven County Anti-tuber-
culosis association, with hearty graft
tude for all your help since It's be-
ginning, with sincere appreciation Of
your continued favorable interest,
again welcomes you to Its annual
meeting
Since we last met here a year ago.
the sanatorium has had under treat
ment more patients than In any prev
ious year, almost constantly 10 the
extent of its capacity. largely as Il
has been increased since its first open
ms.
The results of this treatment which.
will be shown in the various reports
about to be presented are worthy OF
careful study they justify the enthus-
iasm which has inspired the chief
workers in this enterprise and richly
reward the unilagging industry with
which they have discharged their var
ious duties.
II would be yielding to a natural
impulse, here TO make official acknow-
ledgfment OF obligation TO such oiii-
GERS of the association as have given
the time, the thoughtful study and
the skillful action that have combined
to make this institution what It Is to-
day The need of praise which 4
would be a pleasure to us to award TO
each, is not the handspring Of such
work as they have done, neither is II
the reward of such work. The mot
i've power is that faith that sharpans
the vision TO foresee results The
reward is the sight of the accom-
plished fact
But this does not forbid one who
has from its inception watched this
work with the deepest concern, TO
bear testimony that the humane en-
thusiasm of the earliest days has not
died out, that what has been done in
the service of this association has
been done with so imperative a sense
Of duty and with such freedom from
all faint OF self-seeking that there
has resulted a harmonious Co-ordina-
ton OF effort in every department
somewhat rare In the history OF en-
terprises founded upon and intended
TO exemplify charity the chief Of vir-
tues.
1t may seem like a whimsical para
dox, but it is a spad belief, growing out
of mere than half a century of work IN
such institutions. that a hospital which
has outgrown the period Of infancy
with no serious dissension to disturb
its operation may call itself exception
ally fortunate Such good fortune has
been ours. We are at peace among
ourselves. We are at peace with our
neghbors. We are at peace with man
kind; even with that Objectionable min
ority that contracts to do important
work, and then by culpable negligence
ruins an admirable source of water,
thereby involving US in serious losses
and great inconvenience, and in vex-
atious litigation protracted by devices
familiar to the inpenitent misdemean-
ant. but terminating at last In an
award consolatory of our sufferings.
We are free from any present debt
though, as you will learn from the re-
port Of the chairman of the executive
committee, an unusual but necessary
expenditure is contemplated which will
offer a new opportunity for that bene-
f1cence which has followed us from
the beginning and to which we have
never appealed in vain.
Looking upon this encouraging as
semblage of friends a new reason for
congratulation appears IN the presence
Of the honored chief magistrate Of Con-
nect;cut, drawn nither not only by his
Wacthful regard for all state aided in
situations but by that earnest sympa-
thy with the aims OF the anti-tubercu-
losis movement which he has already
in various ways effectively demon
strated.
To those who remember the sad
aspect Of neglect and decadence that
prevailed here before our work began
the present appearance Of domestic