The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-02
STORM BRINGS
 MORE DAMPNESS Retards Work of Drying the Soaked Walls and Floors
 of Burned Grace
 Hospital.
SEVEN PATIENTS BACK
Miss Albaagh Announces All Doing We'll Last Night-Two Brought from the New Haven
 Hospital.

That the storm of yesterday may prove to have arrived at an unfortun- ate time so far as the rebuilding of the ill-fated Grace hospital, which was burned on Friday afternoon, was the substance of a statement made by pr. William Pitt Baldwin of the hospital staff yesterday. Work was started with vigor on Saturday at drying out both sections of the hospital. But the snow and the rain got in on all sides yesterday and much of the work will have to be done over again. The plas- ter is now coming off from the walls and ceilings of the rooms in both sec tions of the hospital and the lathes are bulging out on every side The cell ings on all the floors of the new sec tion of the hospital building are drop ping.
 Dr. Baldwin stated last night that the authorties at the hospital had found conditions much worse there when they came to look over the ground thoroughly than they at first supposed they were. On Saturday a temporary roofing of canvass was stretched over the top floor of the new section of the hospital Below the contractors were busy pumping out the water and cleaning out the place. By night the place was fairly dry. It is t now planned not to do any more work until the insurance adjustors have thoroughly looked over the place and decided upon the exact loss. This work will begin this morning
 Taking Back Patients.
 Last evening seven patients had been taken back to the hospital and were comfortably housed in the old section of the hospital, in those rooms which were driest. They were made very comfortable Five of them came from homes in the neighborhood where they had been taken hurriedly at the time of the fire. Two came from the New Haven hospital. These were private ward cases and others about which the stan were most concerned. It is planned to take back the objectionable cases as fast as pos sible. Those at the New Haven hts- pital will be the last to return.
 All Doing We'll.
 Miss Albaugh, the superintendent, stated late last evening, that all of the Grace hospital patients. wherever they were, were doing excellently. She said that she had been to all the places in which they were quartered, including the New Haven hospital. St. Raphael's and the Nurses home and everywhere they were doing we'll Some of the critical patients were progress ing better than they often do under the best conditions.
 It was learned yesterday that Mrs. Louisa Moore, who died Saturday at St. Raphaers hospital, as d result, it was thought of the exposure and ex- citement attendant upon her removal from Grace hospital at the time of the 1 fire, had been confirmed on Thursday l by Bishop Brewster of the Episcopal church. This fact tends to point to the belief that at that time her chances for recovery were exceedingly slight. Mrs. Moore had been suffering from dropsy for about two months. She was the wife of Henry Moore of 120 George street and was forty-two years of age, Her husband is at present employed by Joseph H. Macdonald, the we'll known livery man of Court street.
 There was considerable relief to learn that the bell-boy who was. reported
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