Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-01
IN CHARGE EXPECTS
TO SECURE MORE THAN ACT.
UALLY NEEDED.
REST WILL GO TOWARD
WiPING OUT THE DEBT
Sum Of From $4,000 to $500 Will Be
Needed For the Elevator and Hos
pitaI Debt is ,o00-Hospital Inter-
est Debt is 5000 Every Year-cIub to
Help.

No more worthier movement toward
public benefit was ever started in
Marshalltown than that begun by a
committee of business men Thursday
afternoon, in an effort to secure sub
scriptions to an elevator fund for st.
Thomas hospital. The committee is not
going to stop with the elevator but
will raise all it can and turn over the re-
mainder of the money to apply on the
hospital debt.
The general committee that has TAX
en- this movement in hand is composed
of A. A. Moore, G.. F. Kirby, B. Il. Cum
minis, Mayor u. L. Ingledue, F. L.
Meeker, and DR.. F. P. Lierle. These
men will appoint other workers and it
is the expectation to make a very
thorough canvass. People who are not
seen may send their subscriptions to
any of the committee members, or in
form them of their pledges, to be paid
later.
Elevator Badly Needed.
Ever since the hospital was built an
elevator has been badly needed, but the
sisters have never felt that they could
afford it as long as they could possibly
do without it, There is debt of $12,-
600 on the hospital, and the interest
charge every year is $780, A hospital
at best is not a money making institu-
ton, and if it pays expenses it is doing
we'll Marshalltown's hospital would
get along very nicely if it We're not for
it's Indebtedness, but it keeps the order
poor in maintaining the operating ex-
penses and meeting the interest charge.
The elevator is one of the pressing
needs of the institution, and always has
been. Patients who are not able to
walk have to be carried up the stair
ways to the second floor, and to the
operating room on the third floor. Fol-
lowing operations the patients have to
be borne down the stairs again, either
one flight of stairs, to the second or
two flights to- the ground floor. 1t is
hard work, and a waste of energy and
strength that should not be necessary.
A Godsend Last Week.
Had ST. Thomas hospital had it's
elevator last week it would have been
a GodSend to the institution, the sis
tiers, nurses, doctors, and noble men and
women volunteers who helped carry in
the injured into the building. Those
who had no hand in the work can
hardly realize what the. hospital at
tendants and volunteers went thru. To
be true, they got along without
the elevators, but 1t would have saved
much time and strength had the mod
ern passenger elevator been in opera
ton.
Up to People to Act.
1t is up to the people of Marshall
town to act and act now. The recent
wreck horror is still fresh in the pub
lie mind, and the needs of the elevator,
and the blessing that the hospital is to
the community, have been realized as
they never have been before. A dona-
ton from every one. even if small. will
help materially in swelling the fund to
the proportions it should reach, and
there are many in Marshalltown who
can we'll afford to give literally.
Our Club to Help.
The movement for the elevator start
ed with recent meeting Of Our Club.
which decided to back the elevator
movement The club is going to give a
charity ball within the next few weeks
and the proceeds from this will be
added to the general subscription that
is now being taken.