The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-05-24

PRO AND CON
Arguments For and Against Lo-
alton on Western Avenue
Before State Officials.
THE HEALTH BOARDS HEARING

Arguments for and against the To-
cation OF a tuberculosis sanatJrium on
the Timmons property on Western
avenue were heard by the state board
of health sitting in the court house
on Saturday morning. At their con-
clusion Chairman John HI. Carstick
announced that the board would take
the evidence under consideration and
would render decision later and in
the meanwhile he hoped the Morris
town Anti-Tuberculosis society and
the opposition would get together on
the question of a site for the hospital.
The Rev. Philemon f. Sturges was
the spokesman for the society ana af-
ter he had told what the society
wished to do John M. Mills, represent
ing the Morris township committee,
township board of health and several
persons presented resolutions protested
against the locating of the sanatorium
at the point proposed and he then gave
several reasons why it should not he
placed there. He asserted that it
would be placed in a section embrac-
ing sixty houses and 300 people and
would be near school Of 10 children,
who came from Mendham, Piccatinny.
BayIey Hollow and Kahdena roads
and Mt. Kemble and Western avenues,
requiring their passing by the sani-
| tOrium.
Mr.. Sturges denied the assertion
that the sa latorium would be center
Of contagion and said the school
might house might be more of center
for the spread of the disease. "Con-
sumptiyes properly cared for do not
spread contagion, said the minister.
| Frederick G.. Burnham opposed the
location, asserting that he could pick
out fifty suitable locations for the hos
pital where it would not be placed in
the midst of a teeming population.
He considered the hospital would be a
serious injury to property and made
the point that under the law the So
ciety could bring consumptives here
from any where in the country.
Charlton A. Reed, representing Nor
rs P. Greenberger, was also an oppo-
nent of the scheme to locate the sar a.
torium on Western avenue at the
point selected He pointed out that
the present management might tire
of the task of collecting funds for the
support of the institution and that it
might pass into other hands who
would run the place for the money in
it and take patients not only from
Morristown but from any other town.
The property of his client might be
developed for building purposes, a.
serted Mr.. Reed, and the presence of
the sanatorium would create senti-
ment detrimental to the real estate
value. Mr.. Reed sa id that people did
not care to live near the state hospital
nor the aims house, there being a SEN
timent against such places being ad-
jacent to homes.
Charles w. Erskine, speaking for
himself and the family Of L. q. Giles
pie. said that they had large invest
ment in the section in which it was
proposed to locate the sanatorium and,
with the other neighbors, would have
to pass the place many times daily and
hoped the state board would not grant
the permission. His family had the
experience of seeing one tuberculer
patient who lived on Western avenue
in all the stages of the disease and did
not wish to have a sanatorium full OF
them to pass continually.
Mr.. Sturges asserted that the
swamping of the place by patients
from all over the country would be an
argument against the location of the
hospital anywhere and he admitted
that the sentiment against the insti-
tuition would have bad effect on the
real estate values but thought that
the best way to combat that Senti-
ment would be to build the sanator-
ium. Mr. Burnham is a fair, open
hearted man and if he objects to this
sanatorium being near his property
any other citizen would object" said
Mr.. Sturges, IF we have to wait to
find a place where there will be no OBJ
tion raised the only place for it will
be in heaven. ="
Mr.. Mills spoke Of a small farm of
which he knew but Mr.. Sturges said
it was too far away and that the cost
of administration would be too great.
DR.. Henry A. Henriques in answer to
a question Of Mr.. Mills said that they
would like location not more than
two or three miles from town and
which the doctors could reach in fif-
teen or twenty minutes.
Gas almost all the doctors have
automobiles you could go seven or
eight miles away in that time" re-
torted Mr.. Mills.
Mr.. Capstick asked what constituted
a resident Of Morristown after it had
been asserted that the society intend
ed to take only residents Of Morris
town as patients and Mr.. Sturges re-
piled that the bylaws Of the society
provided that the patient must live
| In the town for two years to become a