The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-11-15
FIRST SKOVELFUL,
OF SOD COMES OUT
FOR FOUNDATION
GALLOWAY MEMORIAL HoSPIT'
AL WORK BEGUN WEDNES-
DAY AT NASHVILLE.
BUILDINGS WILL BE FIRE PROOF
Appropriate Speeches Made at lnisia'
Exercises by Bishop Lambuth and
Commissioner Clement and Spade
Is Handled by Large Number.

Is Handled by Large Number
NASHVILLE. Nov. S.-Grornd
breaking exercises for the half-mil-
lion-dollar Galloway Memorial Hospit-
al, to be erected under the auspices
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, on the old Peabody campus,
were held yesterday afternoon in
the former chapel of Peabody Col
lege, with Percy D. Maddin, president
of the board presiding. The institu-
ton is OF be the handsomest and most
thoroughly equipped In the South
and will stand as a monument to the
generosity of the people of every
creed in the state. Seated on the
platform with the president of the
hospital board were DIR. Isadore Lew
initial, DIR. James /. Vance, DR.. Carey
E. Morgan, DR.. H. ]. Mikell, Bishop
W. r. Lambuth, DIR. Rufus w. Weaver
and Commissioner A. e. Clement
The exercises previous to the
ground breaking were very impress
sive, ministers OF the verious demon
nations of the city and members of
the hospital board appearing on the
program. The principal address of
the occasion was delivered by Bish-
op w. r. Lambuth, and other speak
ers were Percy d. Maddin and E.
Clement Music was furnished by
the Industrial School Band.
Each of the three buildings will be
fireproof throughout, with founda-
tons of native stone, and for their
construction gray brick will be used
Floors of hollow tile and reinforced
concrete are to, be laid throughout the
edif1ce. The construction committee
had advice from the leading hospital
architects of the country, and when
the entire institution is completed
it will stand as the most thoroughly
equipped in the South The build
ings will be heated with hot water.
Mr.. Clements announced that the
Capital City Construction Company
had been given the contract to Guild
the foundation.
Following Mr.. ClemSnts' address,
Rev. H. J. Mikell offered prayer, af-
tier which the ground breaking took
, place. The first shovel of dirt was
lifted by Percy d. Maddin, then fol
lowed the directors, leading ministers
, of the city and Miss Mary Fowler,
Mrs. McPheeters Glasgow and Miss
Hall, each of whom lifted a shovel
full of earth. Rev Carey E, Morgan
pronounced the benediction.
After describing some of the great
features of the progress of medical
science, and paying tribute to the
medical profession, Bishop Lambuth
said: The three-fold function OF q
great twentieth century hospital has
: been admirably stated as follows:
5 The care of the sick, the adequate
+ training of medical men of the fu-
+ ture and the advancement of medical
knowledge
+ mo hospital, such as we contem-
+ plate, can do its work without an en-
dowment. This should be available
within two years or by the compile
ton of its first unit of occupation.
Gifts are needed for the furnishing
. lof rooms, of wards, of the operating
: rooms, for the building of home for
nurses, and for other purposes. But
the most imperative need will be the
: endowment of rooms, of a ward for
children, one for lgsDgan patients,
and in still larger sums in the form
of gifts, legacies and requests, which
can be invested for the running ex.
penses of an institution which must
. necessarily exceed the receipts from
pay patients. We have many friends
= who have so intelligently grasped its
!, widening scope and larger needs that
= am sure they will not hesitate to
;, provide for these exegencies.
In closing, the Bishop said:
!. THE gospel has a mission to the
a whole man and is one of the forces
% which make man whole. / take high
n ground today, not only for the body
r. as matchless instrument for the ex
= preston of the divine spirit as dy
manic in all men, but especially In
o the physician. This minister Is al