The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-25

New York yesterday to return to his work in the Far East. He took with him Stanley Wilson, who, acting in
 behalf of J. Gamble Rogers, is to su- pervise the erection on ground ad- joining the new Ya-H campus, in Changsha, of what will be the finest hospital in all China. It is the gift of a Yale man, whose name is a se-
 c1 ct.
 On commencement day in June, 1909, Dr. Hume stood up at the
 nual meeting of the Yale Foreign Mis- | sionary Society, in Dwight HalL at Yale, and ended his report for the year with the words:
 ''The thing we need above every thing else is hospital"
 At the close of the meeting Yale
 man in the audience-this is reunion
 time, and every graduate with the price of a ticket to New Haven goes there if he can-walked up to one of the officers of the Society and said: How much will 1t cost for Ed.
 Hume to have that hospital ?? That question took the wind out of the sails of the Yale Foreign Mission | ary Society for a minute, and some | body spoke up and said 1t might cost 1 as much as $15,000. That's all it | might have cost in the old days and | with the old missionary standards of 1 equipment, but-wel, those plans of
 Rogers that Wilson had in his suit | case
 State Express this morning call for a ! building that probably could tnot be | duplicated in this country for less l than $25O,0OO.
 Will Be Model Building. | ''when this proposed building is fin | ished," said Dr. Hume to-day, i've hope to have in it a model hospital. It will be the best thing of its kind in China, especially in equipment and ar rangement. The central portion which | Is all that is to be built at present, will have accommodations for a hun dred patients.
 '~The province of Human has twenty | two million inhabitants, and is with out any public health service. We have been asked by Gov. Tan and his asso- ciates to act as a board of health. AL fred c. Reed, a graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical School, who has had experience in the public health service here, is going out to help us, especial Iy in that particular branch of the work.
 Miss Nina Gage will have charge of the mems words and Miss Beatrice Farnsworth is expected to take charge of the women's wards. On one side there will be eighteen men nurses and on the other side eighteen women nurses, according to Chinese custom, and there will be a separate training l school for nurses of each sex The salary TOT 1ra1ned SraQuaI6 Cn1n0Se nurse is $180 year..
 That day in June, 1909, the anony-
 nous graduate said:
 ''Go ahead and get your land, and I'll put up the building"
 pr. Hume went back to Changsha and put in a year selecting and nego-
 tiating for a site. That is, he put in
 his spare time for year-time when
 he wasn't operating on patients in his temporary hospitaL or feeling the pulses-both pulses, for the Chinese thinks that each. pulse goes to a sepa-
 rate set of organs-of upwards of ten thousand ioutpat1ents.
 He got the site he wanted late the fall of 1910, a site adjacent to the new college campus, with it's main entrance on one of the chief streets leading out of the city, and about seven minutes walk from the north
 gate. The path for acquiring this property was cleared by the fact that
 Ya-n had come through the Chang sha riots in the spring of 1910 with
 flying colors.
 When much property belonging to the Government and missionary socie- ties had been either burned smash ed to pieces, until some few blocks looked like nothing so much as Oma- Ina after the cyclone, the Yale build ings in the center of the city were left untouched. This was due partly to
  good will of the residents of the street, who ingeniously put up a large poster on the hospital door saying that no one was to injure it, because it was a rented building.
 But most of all the salvation of Ya- | Ii was due to the obvious service of the hospital, and especially to the fact that one of Dr. Humes associates on full salary was Chinese, Flu ChIn- Yen, Yale 'O9 M. It was he who la ter conducted the negotiations for the new hospital site.
 The Chinese Government officials have a high regard for pr. Yen. When he was returning to Changsha through 1 Hankow, after a flying visit to Pekin | in January, 1911, Viceroy Ju1-Cheng discovered his presence, and sent word through the Governor of Huan to the | Yale staff asking them to lolan Dr. l Yen for plague inspection work In Hankow, and he put his request in no uncertain terms:
 '"The officials, gentry and merchant body of Wu-han have laid forcible hold upon pr. Yen and desire to keep l him here.
 pr. Hume came back from China In June 1911, and spent most of the next winter travelling about the country wis 1 iting the various Yale communities | in the interest of the college and hos pita1 at Changsha. This last winter he has spent in working up the plans for the hospital with the donor, the | architect and the hospitals medical advisory board.
 These are the men who have con- sented to serve on this board: William | H. Welch, TO, president of the Board | of Directors of the Rockefeller 1nsti- tute; Walter B. James, '79, professor | of clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons; Samuel W. | Lambert, 80, dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons; Harvey | Cushing, '91, professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School; Theo- | dore C. Janeway, '92 s., professor of the practice of medicine at the Col | Iege of Physicians and Surgeons; | -.a~.ard P. Strong, 'e3 S., director of the Governnent Biological Laboratory 1