The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-05-01
SUPPORT IS
REQUESTED FOR
THE MISSION
LETTERS WILL BE MAILED OUT
THIS WEEK TO ALL BUSINESS
MEN, ASKING SUPPORT FOR
THE INSTITUTION.

The following letter will be sent to
every merchant and Office in the city
this week:
Dear Sir: You are aware that
there has been established in this city
hospital in connection with the Mis-
sion work. a necessity which every
city should provide for in some way
and which the citizens are expected to
maintain.
There is no appropriation, beQuest,
endowment or other source Of income
save that of voluntary contributions on
the part Of the citizens of Pensacola,
and to carry this work along requires
about 5000 per month.
The hospital is especially organized
for free patients, and those who cam
not afford to pay regular rates Of hos
pitfalls; and the accommodations Of the
few pay patients will help to meet in
part the expenses Of the free ones
We ask you to fill out the enclosed
card for the amount you can afford to
give for this purpose, and we are as.
sured that every one can afford to do
nate something, thus making the bur-
den light for each.
closing several cards which we will
ask you to distribute to any Of your
friends who would desire to aid, and
should feel indebted if they as well as
your own would be filled out ready for
call.
The bylaws Of the Pensacola Mis-.
sion, Inc, provide that a sum Of not
less than one dollar per month pay
able in advance, provides q member
ship, and we shall be glad to have
your name enrolled.
The Indebtedness, still unpaid, in
GLIDING goods on order, in fitting up
the hospital amounts to about $780,
and we are also asking the citizens to
provide for this by additional dona
tions; all such sums, as well as the
monthly contributions will be acknowl-
edged through the daily papers.
The full amount Of these contribu-
lions Is applied to the hospital, there
being no salaries for officers, all ser
vices being rendered free.
Yours truly,
THE PENSACOLA MISSION, Inc,
Cards Accompany.
r. w. Simpson, Secretary.
Enclosed with this will be found two
or more cards reading as follows:
Subscription Card for the Mission
Hospital.
Rev. r. w. Simpson, Secretary.
Dear Sir: I shall be pleased to help
the Mission Hospital by subscribing
........ dollars per month for twelve
months, to be paid on the ....... of
each month. Signed. ..............
II donations of money for outstanding
Indebtedness, please here: S.......
The question of having hospital in
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had to come soon. The idea of city
the size OF Pensacola with it's railroad
facilities and one of the important
ports of the south without any place
to care for the needy sick was becom-
ing disgrace, and the city had to
stop growing or else provide hos
pital
IL the city had taken the matter in
hand there would have been large ex-
pense both I'm fitting up proper place
and then in operating it. Salaries to
the amount of at least $4,000 would
have to be paid, and then large ex-
pense on the top of that. Every tax
payer would have had to meet his or
her pro rata share of expense, and
that without any option on their part
after it had passed into law.
The Mission was the only possibility
OF giving Pensacola an up-to-date in
stitution, and any other would not
have been worth while. The reason
for this was because of the free SER
vices given by all of the officers of
the Mission including the superintend-
ent. Second, the facilities the Mission
had for cheap labor by the men who
stayed over at the Mission house, a
day or week or more, and who were
willing to work for their accommoda.
tons. Third, the confidence bestowed
upon the Mission work being trans
ferred to the hospital, and the many
gifts following subsequently both
places being under the one director
ship. Fourth, the ability of being able
to put the hospital in first class order
before going before the public to foot
the bill
Fifth, the innate assurance that Pen.
szcollans would foot the bills.
AS state the above letter with
cards will be sent to every merchant
and the required amount is confidently
expected to be subscribed.
There are many clerks and employees
in the stores, and the Mission asks as
a favor that an effort be made to get
them to subscribe; in fact, they would
prefer to see a general subscription
taken up in the stores, and advertised
as such as follows: Jones, Smith &
Co., and employees, $500 per month"
II would not take an employer but
very few minutes to see his employees,
who could make up a nice little
monthly subscription between them, 10
cents per month from the smallest
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