New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-15
|. |. COLLEGE HOSPITAL
New Buildings Will Soon Be
CorDIeted-Cost, $4,000, 900.

For the last few days workmen have been
employed in tearing down the remaining
north wing of the Long Island Coilese
Hospital in Henry street, near Pacific
street The section is one of the last Oh
the old structure to go Gradually the OLD
building has been removed piece by piece
and replaced by new structures. Next
wear the new building that is to take the
place of the old wing will be opened ana
the hospital will be completed Inc cost
of the improvements amounts to S2,UooW9-
When the plan for the new hospital was
first considered, a decade ago. 1t was de-
ternained to spend s175,000 on the work j.
Rogers Maxwell. president of the BOARD Oh
Regents, in 1903 announced his wish 10
give a completed and equipped hospltai
building, comprising the two central sec
tons of the present structure. as me-
mortal for his brother, Henry w. Maxwell
who had taken keen interest in the I'M
provement Of the hospital up, to the time OF
his death. The offer was accepted and the
work begun in 1905. Soon after the lns1i'u-
ton had an opportunity to acquire addl-
tional land and buildings in its block, so IL
was decided to build four sections instead
of two. The work of tearing down the ola
building and putting up the new sections
has gone on ever since
The sections are connected by covered
Corridors They occupy most of the ploch
in Henry street between Paclhc ana AHlitS
streets They are designated by the hrst
four letters of the alphabet. Section "A was
begun in 1905 and finished in 1907. 1t is the
administra ton building. 1t contains the
main entrance to the hospital, the Offices
kitchen, icehouse, pharmacy, rooms Tor
private patients and a large roof garden.
Section was begun after a was open,
and part of the old building had to be torn
down to make way for it. The old Perry
mansion in which the hospital had Deen
housed since 1888, gave way for the I'M
provement. The section is 240 feet long ana
is a four story brick structure, with oase-
ment sub-basement and roof garden. In
it is located the $4,000 operating amph1thea-
ire which presented by George roster
Peabody as a memorial to the late DR.. Al
exander J. c. Skene. The section also has
other special rooms, the quarters of the
staff and the female help and beds OF loo
patients When the entire new hospital is
opened next year the section VIII be USED
exclusively for women.
Section d will be completed as soon as
the old north wing is out of the way. 1t is
plant. laundry, ambulance stable. storage
room, morgue, mortuary chapel. etc. The
last wing to be built, Section c, will con-
tain about two hundred beds for male pa
tients and the new therapeutic and
eIectro-therap eutic equipment. The hospi-
tai also has its own moderator for the
burning of garbage and its own wells.
On June of last year the institution
celebrated its semi-centennial At that
time it had graduated twenty-five hundred
physicians, of whom two thousand are still
living. The Long Island College Hospital
is the outgrowth of a dtspensary which
was opened at No. 49, Court street In 1856.
1t was at first known as the Brooklyn
German General Dispensary. Later its
name was changed by new management
to ST Johns Hospital.
1t was not until December %, 1857. that
it became known by its present name.
The Institution purchased the Perry prop
erty for s3125O on February IS. 1858, and
the Legislat ure granted it a charter on
the following March S. Financial difficult
ties closed the department of instruction
for two years In 1860 the department
was reopened and gradually succeeded,
though on April 6, 1851. the treasurer re-
ported that there was only s23 so left in
his hands.
The HoagIand Laboratory. the Polhe-
mus Clinic and the Dudley Memorial bear
the names of mez: who worked valorously
to make the college a success in those
dark days. They are housed in other
buildings than these occupied by the hos.
pital, though near at hand and forming
part of the same group.