The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-18

who had already made a handsome gift to the medical school for the study and cure of tuberculosis, made the present, is typical of the man. Also much cred it Is due, particularly, to pr. William H. Welch, who first interested the great i flnancier and phlanthropist in the pro- 1 ject.
 Although the faculty of Hopkins for
 some time had been interested in such
 a clinic no direct appeal had been
 made to Mir. Phipps. When he founded
 the tuberculosis ward he was acquaint-
 cd with Dr. William Osler, and the
 s2000O given came to the hospital in the
 nature of a personal check to Dr Os-
 Ter, who had at that time gone 10 Eng
 land If was only three weeks ago when
 Mir. Phipps stopped over in Baltimore
 to inspect the ward that he was in casual conversation with Dr. Welch Mir. Phipps was loud In his praise of
 the methods employed and of those at
 the head of the institution.
 Casually the doctor mentioned to
 the mJlonaire the need of a hospital
 to study incipient insanity. There was
 short conversation anent this and
 the subject was dropped.
 Or Welch was surprised few days
 later to receive letter from MT.
 Phipps in which he said that Dr.
 Welch's remarks had made him think
 more seriously of the subject and he
 asked for details.
 Mir. Beers Part. Last summer, an author, who was also graduated from Yale university, and who was planning a story which should reveal some of the. horrors of insanity and it's treatment in some in- stitutions visited Baltimore and talk cd with pr. Welch. Before he left the noted physician asked him if pos sibe, 10 portray the needs of a psy- chlatric clinic in his article. He did so.
 When Mir Phipps asked for addi- N tional details Dr. Welch went to New York with Dr. Henry M Hurd, head | of the Hopkins hospital and an au- ] thority on insanity, and Dr. l.. s. Bar 1 ker. After discussing the proposed
 institution with Mir Phipps, they re- I turned. Dr. Welch, thinking of the book then published under the title, "A Mind that Found Itself" sent Mir, Phipps a copy.
 \ Several other times Mir. Phipps E sent for pr. Welch and, finally, deeply I interested in the project, he sent for \ him again last Friday and told him he 4 would announce his gift the following | day before sailing for Europe. More Money If Needed. T while none of those directly con A nected with the conferring of the N money would give the exact figures. il N was authoritatively learned from New N York that when Mir. Phipps asked the H probable maximum cost S750,000 was N named. If, however, the maintenance N causes greater expenditure, those who will be in charge of the new de ID partment were assured that the addi |N tional money would be forthcoming " MT Phipps announced his gif M just before sailing for Europe Satur ,n day.
 MI Its Great Work. HI 'The clinic will subserve a three Il| fold function, First, It will be th ||| mental ward of general hospital il |O| which patients may be received fo MI treatment without the formality o a commitment and without the stigm - which Is popularly supposed to at "a tach to entrance to an asylum for tn It. insane patient can be induced [ s. go to the Hopkins hospital for treat Id ment in a stage of his mental disorde
 when it might be impossible, In tn