Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-15
WESTERLY HAS A. DARING R0BBER
"Skete" Allen, Former Baseball Player, Fought With
Taller and Escaped Haf-Hour After Being Locked
Up For Thefts-Support Of Local Hospital is Again
an Aqitated Question: Automobiles Steering Gear
Went Wrong.

ford a way along the beach for the
life saving station now being built al
Green HILL a mile and a half distant
The road as surveyed would run hall
a mile east from it's junction with the
present road from the beach settle
ment to Cross mills, the largest place
in Charlestown. The plan is to have
the proposed road fifty feet in width
and extend to places that are now
reached only by driftway through
the sand.
The new life saving station, which
has no outlet along the beach the
surfrnen must patrol, has revived the
demand for the new road, and the
Chan lStown Beach residents are urg
ing that the road be built the present
season, leaving the matter of land
damages to be settled equitably, later.
Although Westerly has a completely
equipped hospital of private owner
ship, emergency cases are sent to hos
ritalS in Providence, New London and
Norwich, for treatment, which is due
to lack of support of the local institu-
ton. DIR. John t. Champlin about two
wears ago established ard equipped a
hospital on his premises in expectation
that it would receive local support. The
hospital has been leased on two occa-
SiOns to trained nurses, but as the eX-
penses were greater than the receipts
they were obliged to abandon the pro-
ject, and now the hospital is only used
in special cases where the nurses are
engaged bys the patients, or members
of their families.
There is evidently lack of united eff
fort to maintain the hospital on the
part of local physicians, and perhaps
for reasons that are not plain to the
public, and in consequence emergency
cases are taken, elsewhere for treat
ment. The Westerly hospital receives
no state or town aid and is not self
supporting.
1t has been suggested in the cause of
humanity that the Westerly town
council take this hospital matter under
Amusement and make effort to devise
some plan with the owner whereby the
local physicians would give their unit
ed support to the institution, the town
to furnish the necessary financial aid
for emergency cases, whenever neces-
sary. 1t is believed that were the town
to pay the rental. which is said to be
a small percentage on the amount in
vested that the institution could be
kept in successful operation by trained
nurses with the earnest assistance of
local physicians. 1t has been further
suggested that a Joint committee of
the town council and the Westerly
Medical association might be able TO
bring about the desired result and
make the Westerly hospital one that
would be deserving of the name and
semi public in general character. In
the recent railroad wreck near the
railroad station the injured engineer
and fireman were taken to the resi-
dence of a trained nurse, as was also
the old man who was struck by a troll
ley car when in Mechanic street. Other
emergency cases, including that of
Conductor Donath, Sunday. were sent
to hospitals in nearby cities. No emer-
gency case has been taken to the West
erly hospital for the past year.