Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-10
NATHAN STRAUS
TO BUILD NEW
PREvENT0R|UM
Trustees Accept Offer OF $780,
600 and Turn Over Lakewood
Institution to Him.

NEW YORK. Jan Jonathan Straus
has made a new move as a result of
the bitter warfare against the tuber-
culosis preventorium hat he estab-
.lished at Lakewood. N. j., to save poor
children of the tenements from the
white plague.
He gave his half interest in his Lake
wood Hotel property to u board of
trustees cnd the work was begun ON
July 2 in the Cleveland cottage. His
partner. Max Nathan, joined in the
fight against the preventorium and Of
fered the trustees his half of the prop
erty ii they would move out. Mr..
Nathan's lawyer, Samuel Untermyer,
threatened proceedings TO Dust the chill
dren, claiming that Mr.. Strauss con
troll of the Cleveland cottage was only
for his own use and hat Mr.. Nathan
would try to stop his using it for the
building up of poor tenement children.
Mr.. Straus has met this situation to-
day by offering to give the pre-
ventorium 500, 600 cash If they decided
to accept Mr.. Nathan's offer and re-
ests blish the preventorium near Lake
wood.
Mr.. Straus also declared his intention
to continue in the Cleveland cottage,
at his own expense, the work of saw
ing tenement children from tubercu-
losis.
Thus he planned that there should
be two preventoriums instead of one.
He expressed these intentions in a
letter to Samuel Untermyer, in answer
to the latter's threatening letter. He
wrote as follows:
Il am in receipt of your letter OF
January 4, 1910. I nave not answered
our letter of December 10, 1909, be-
cause I never considered that 1t was
meant for me to answer. You knew
before you wrote it what my answer
would be. I have no hesitancy in say
ing 70 you that you wrote it simply for
the purpose of publishing it in the
newspapers.
Il offered my share in the hotel to
the preventorium without thought Of
n opposition from outside sources. |
tried 10 induce Mr.. Nathan to join in
the gift, or TO sell me his share of the
hotel. that I might give it to the insti-
tuition. Mr.. Nathan, for reasons of his
own, refused my request and offers. !
was, therefore. prevented from using
the hotel, property for the purpose.
"The Cleveland cottage, however,
was my own. Mr.. Nathan had, at my
request, stated to me that it was to be
mine; n even if the law requires a
written release to vest the property
fully in me, / was justified in accept
ing his word. for until you became his
adviser Mr.. Nathan's word was better
than other mems bonds.
The work has been begun In the
cottage, and the work will be continued
in Lakewood. 1t is no longer a question
of what Will benefit this institution, it is
a question of what win benefit the chill
dren. If your clients, the rich men of
Lakewood, are able to drive from their
neighbornood as lepers these poor chill
dren not yet even infected with thedread
disease. then it viii make a precedent
that will mark a tremendous step back
ward in the fight against the white
plague. / will voluntarily not with
draw these children from Lakewood. II
you should by any means win the fight,
then. / say, God help the children.
IF by look or crook you prevent me
from turning owe to the preventorium
what 1 promised them, 1 Will not allow
either the institution or the children to
suffer.
III the directors of the institution
ledVe llS pFeSeHL quarters, L Will nelp
them TO establish an additional preven-
forum by giving them the sum of
ona hundred thousand dollars, on con-
dition that they build an institution to
receive children in some place as near
Lakewood as it can. without friction
with the residents, and leave the Cleve-1
land cottage intact in its present con-
dition with the children now there. l
shall then, at my own expense. con-
tinue the work myself in it's present
quarters"
The pieventoriun trustees. under the
presidency of Marcus NJ. Marks, voted
to accept AIr. Strauss offer, and TO es-
tahl,sh new p~reventoriiin near Lake
wood, leaying the present work in the
Cleveland cottasr to be maintained by |
MIR. straus personally.