The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-02
FORCED TOLEAVE
HOSPITAL HOME
DR.. Roger Martin to Quit Vir-
GINA After Being Patient
There for Five Years.
GERTzE RECORD is LONGER
Aged Citizen Has Lived at Memo
rial for Past Six and
a Half Years.

Even before Sunday school folk were
up and about. six patients were yes
terday transferred from tho Virginia
to the Memorial Hospital, the advance
guard Of the general exodus which Is
TO be made from the old Virginia this
week. BY Saturday, the last patient
VIII nave been moved from it's halls
and the Virginia Hospital no longer
IN existence. The practical consolida-
tlon OF the two hospitals under the
control OF the new Medic College of
virginia was effected yesterday.
10 the ordinary citizen the closing
Oh the Virginia Is simply the final in
cident in the existence of hospital.
FOR Dr. Roger Martin. who has lived
the last five years of his life within
It's walls. 1t is the loss OF home DR..
Martin was paralyzed five years ago.
Just now he Is recovering from Sc
we're operation for gall stones and was
not In condition to be moved. When
ne does leave the Virginia later In
the week. 1t will not be to go to the
Memorial. but to take up his residence
with his brother
"Papa" Gertze's Long Stay.
DR.. Martins case calls to mind those
or TWO patients now in the Memorial
VINO nave come to look upon that in
stitution as their home. Earnest
- e~S' g 1St almost ninety
years old, has occupied bed in that
hospital for six and one-half years.
George McGraw, 4 young man. has
spent three years as n patient in the
Memorial under treatment for some
loot trouble. Both men pass their time
rolling themselves about the corridors.
Under crusty exterior. which the
good nurses have come to regard as
n bluff, Papa" Gertze harbors n strong
sentiment for tho Memorial Hospital,
although he is often fond of raging
against the treatment he receives He
came from Germany to this country in
1854. and after roaming around New
York several years. settled in Rich
mond with his brother. They became
and prospered in bust
ness. Almost seven years ago, Papa"
Gertze slipped one day in Clay Street
while on his way to visit n sick friend
When they picked him up they found
him suffering with n broken arm and
partially paralyZed.
Took Clutches From Him.
Mr.. Gertze was moved to the Memo
rial. and began TO improve under treat
ment. On account of his advanced
age. however, his recovery was neces-
sarily slow. At last he reached the
stage where he could take n pair Of
clutches and hobble around the halls
One day his crutch slipped on the poll
ished floor. and Papa" Gertze lay on
the floor writing with pain from n
broken arm. After that episode. the
hospital authorities did not dare trust
the old man with crutches, much to
his chagrin. He swears that the nurses
have stolen his crutches and his clothes
in order to keep him prisoner.
Papa" pays his own bills. living at
the hospital on the savings of his pro-
ductive years. His business career was
checkered Once, said Papa" TO n re-
porter. he worked for seven years with
out receiving any pay. Another time
he earned $50 in one day and the man
paid him off In Confederate money.
He admits being eighty-five years old,
but. according to the nurses. has been
con Tossing to that age for two years
ut least. He very naively says that
he expects to stay in the Memorial
until he is moved to Hollywood
Nobody steal my crutch and clothes
in Hollywood" he growled, with a glare
nj the smiling nurse. Secretly, Papa"
harbors horrible fear that some day
something will happen TO make him
leave the Memorial Hospital
Nurses Come md Go.
On account of Misunderstanding in
regard to rooms, City Auditor Warren
was not moved from tho Virginia to
pected Mr. Warren Is improving
slowly, despite his eighty-hve years.
He Is In n wheel chair now
Miss Rosa a. Van Wort. the retiring
of the Memorial. left
Saturday afternoon with nine OF her
nurses for Stuart Circle Hospital. Miss
Mary Broaddus. superintendent at the
Arms came over to the Me-
mortal TO take charge OF the operating
room under the new superintendent,
Miss Agnes d. Randolph. Miss Church
i'll assumed the duties Of dietttian at
the Memorial yesterday
Fourteen nurses from the Virginia
accompanied tho patients transferred
They wore: Misses Friend
Talcott, Pierce. Hammer, Coleman, Rigg.
Sutler Nelson. Stuart, Coffee Soho
field. Martin and Mrs. Baum. The re-
nurses will be transferred as
the patients become we'll enough to be
moved