New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-23
Stony Void Sanatorium Puts
This "Stunt" on Programme.
S25O,OOO FUND THE AIM
President Butler of Columbia
Talks About Microbes at
Annual Meeting.

10000 OF the $4,000 fund 1t is workine
to secure
Herbert l.. Satterlee. in the absence 81
Mrs Sat.erIee who is the assistant
treasurer of the corporation. read tho
report of the fund committee at the an
nual meeting of stony Void Sanatorlun
held Yesterday afternoon at the nome o.
Miss Annie Leary, No 1892 Fifth avenue
THE committee has In actual cash, h'
| said. "t2l, s27 %. We have pledge o.
$4,000 to be paid as soon az we ra's'
$4,000 So let us get busy and beg th'
necessary 5000 by the end of this month
That's only tl,c0 a day. We have
further pledge of $4,000. which will be
ours when we have reached the 5000
mark. Now. that's what we'd call an at
tractivc proposition downtown
Mr.. SstterIee BACKED Out
81 think Mr.. satteyee had better set tc
work right here and raise that first
1000" said Mrs James +. Newcomb. tho
president: but Mr.. Satterlee laughed and
shook his head and backed out Of the
| room.
II was n crowded meeting. ard some o'
the people Who sat IN the heated rooms
with the walls lined with velvet hangings
sighed as they listened 10 descriptions OF
Stony Wod Sanatorlum where the air 5
always cool and clear and there aren't
any hangincs to shelter tuberculosis
microbes.
Nicholas Murray Butler. president o'
/ Columbia University, who was the chlei
! speaker. told some stories 10 illustrate the
endurance Of hose same microbes.
Il was talking 10 Sir Edward Shackle-
/ ton" Dr. Ru'lcr said. land he told me
! that I'm the sixteen months his men spent
on the southern ice cap they never had
suspicion Of Inflammation Of the throat
or lungs. never a touch ~ influenza.
They endured great deal Of exposure
/ but in that pure air they escaped all Ill
ness. until toward IN, end Of the stay
! their clothing giving out. they opened a
/ box Of woollen clothing they had brought
from London Within a few days every
man was down with influenza. Tn" mi
crobes had been living in mat box 81
/ those months.
/ "Since Dr Eochs discoveries. thirty
years ago. We know pretty well about the
/ Tuberculosis bacll. but what We don
realize Is the terrible omnipresence OF
these bacilM Il is estimated that - per
! cent Of iii. worlds inhabitants have
/ tuberculosis At some tim" in their lives
Many of them get over 10 AID live TO DE
/ Of something else. What "e have 10 90
/ Is 10 put all who are threatened WIN
/ tuberculosis into surroundings which VIII
enable them TO overcome the disease.
"And there Is "A class that particularly
moods 10 be- looked out for-tAe sef-sup-
pnrtlnc peorle who can live IN compare
/ tive comfort when al goes vel. but VIC
! l,,, such "a rar.ow margin that "hef
/ si.luess comes they are in dire straits
/ Ttle lass inclulcs many seif-sppportlnf
women. stonoeraphers. actresses iea'h'
.~- know Of no better work than pro-
| ,.idire means for such rs these II" recover
/ ,,cir health when they are IN danger ol
los 'uS it,
pr rutlrr said he foresaw the time
vl.u tuberculosis would disappear iro"
,ne earth a. lerrosr is disappearing
.L.prosv." he said. seems 10 have pro-
! d..,cd rs The v,ars have gone on. KIND
~ aptItoylu for itself So, IL may be- u
we are sufficiently alert IN employing pre-
vc,,ive measures. tuberculosis. which Ike
,crrosv il a contagious disease. VIII pro-
dc IT, own curative agent
Tubcrcular Children Need Help.
Ia. Henry Smycl.. who has been fN-
ap,ring physician 81 stony VOID since
IN. recent dea,h 81 Or James J.. New
c,,nl. gave a brief report IN which he en'-
rbeslzcd the importance u helping tu'
h,rc,,lar children. Children. lie said, re
s,,,dcd more readily to treatment than
older peoplc. and children had their o"i
| special appeal
1T Is OF great importance TO save 'n'
children" Mrs. T. Borden Hartman WIG
came after DR. ShiNely, said, nut tHeI'
10 another class which requires more
consideration than IT has-l near
tho iucirrables. These are the peopi'
who are sent away from the hospitals
and eanitariums because there Is no
room for thcm-sent 10 die IN their tene
nent homes. In boarding houses sent l'
stand in the bread lines. and lie on parN
henches sometimes. until they are toe
FAR gone 10 bc about These are the PEG
ple who are menace TO health th'
health OF the community.
eft does seem cruel when consumptiE'
has a home to say that he should be TAX
ON away 10 die I'm hospital. And yet
il is the right thing. know there are
not hospital beds enough now TO accom-
,,odate thc tuberculosis patients, but II
time there will he. with the competitor
OF the hospital at Sea Breeze there VII
be one thousand more
Stony Void Sanatorium. according u
the reports read yesterday mas ha'
rather successful year. No deaths have
occurred there since the last annual meet
| ing There have been 5g3 Applications foi
! treatment or admission. 30 were handle,
al the sanatOrium, which is up AT Lake
| Kushadua In the Adirondacks; the res
| were dealt with at the New YORK oillc,
| where applications are maze
| Mrs James H.. Ncwcomb. the president
said that ia spite of the increased cost o
all foodstuffs, and the fact that the,
| have had To pay their help aud nurses
more the sauatorium mas managed Il
keep expenses down.
1T cost to run II last year only five
cents more per capita than In 1911, she
said. Il think that's pretty gOod.'
UNIVERSALISTS FOR UNION