New-York tribune., 1910-01-10
sTRAUS TO GO ON
,yryT CONTINUE USE
OF COTTAGE.
5Iso UM Giue SIO0,000 for
Institution Outside OF
LdkescOOd.

D1.,;.e The fact that the board OF
s,rec,ors of the tuberculosis Preven-
.or;un, for Children decided at meet
r-,5dav night TO remove the In
.,itutjon from Lakewood, y. j., as re-
sult of the protests OF a cofhiiiit'ee VI
citizens of that place, Nathah S'raus'
ou-,,er of the Cleveland cottage, IN "hlch
&c the preventorium. announced Eester-
de-. that he would continue TO use the
.co..age for children in need of special
&c AZ his own expense and would give
500 600 cash if they decided to move the
i,sti,,tior Accordingly. the preven-
-oriuu trustees have, under the presi-
depc,- of Marcus NJ Marks, voted to ac-
o.n, the offer Of Mr.. Straus, and they
will establish new preventorium near
Lakewood.
II Kearny. chairman of the citizens
committee Of Lakewood, when told
yesterday that Mr.. Straus would con-
-inue using the Cleveland cottage, said if
he persisted in so using it the committee
would see if immediate steps could not
he taken 10 prevent il. and have the
children now there sent elsewhere. Mr..
Kearny said the committee woulc op-
pose any plan that included the starting
Of a new preventorium in close prox-
unity 10 Lakewood. unless II was iE a
srarsely settled district
Mr Straus has thus planned that there
shall be two of these institutions. He
expressed these intentions in a letter to
Samuel Untermyer. counsel for Max
Nathan, in which he says:
offered my share in the hotel TO the
preventorium without thought of any
opposition from outside sources. / tried
10 induce Mr.. Nathan TO join in the gift
or TO sell me his share of the hotel, that
] might give il TO the institution. 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
ny own. Mr. Nathan had. at my re-
quest, stated to me that it was 10 be
mine; and 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 cot
tage and the work will be continued in
Lakewood. II is no longer a question
of what viii benefit this institution: it
z
children II your clients, the rich men
II Lakewood. are able to drive from
their neighborhood as lepers these poor
children. not yet even infected with the
dread disease. then ii will make a
precedent that will mark a. tremendous
step backward in the fight against the
white plague.
will voluntarily not withdraw these
children from Lakewood. If you should
by any means win the fight, then, / say,
God help The children.
II by hook or by crook you prevent
nc from turning over to the prevento-
IiUm what I promised them, / will not
allow either the institution or the chill
dren 10 suffer
II the directors of the institution feel
that their organization should leave its
present quarters, will help them to es-
tsblish an additional preventorium by
giving them the SUM Of 100000. on con-
dition that they build an institution to
receive children in some place as near
Lakewood as it can, without friction with
Ihe residents. and leave the Cleveland
cottage intact in its present condition
with the children nov there / shall
then. at my own expense. continue the
work myself, in its present quarters.
TO this Mr.. Untermyer replied last
night that he understood the directors of
the preventorium had unanimously voted
10 vacate the Cleveland cottage. and that
Mr.. Nathan and the Lakewood commit
tee were satisfied that they would keep
their word.
If NJ. Straus" said Mr. Untermyer.
had the welfare of these children at
heart, as he claims. Mr. Nathan was un-
able ~ understand why Mr. Straus did
not join hiS1, in giving to the preven-.
torium the proceeds of S250,O0O in cash
which the citizens of Lakewood had Of
fe-ed for the property In that way
they would have S250,OOo instead of
100000
4 written offer was made bv the
Lakewood committee of this sum of
H2JnSU more than a week ago, hJI. M.
Straus refused to join Mr Nathan il
accepting il, for reasons which Mr..
straus may understand. but which no
one else can.
If Mr.. Straus had given out all the
correspondence, and particularly the re-
ply 10 his letter which he has given for
publication, perhaps the public would
understand the situation better. He has
seen ut 70 suppress the other side of the
controversy"