New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
Many Attend Ceremony At
the Metropolitan Life
Sanatorium.
PRESIDENT HEGEMAN,
ABROAD, SENDS LETTER
Haley Fiske Professionalism
for Employees Best of Kind
in Country.
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stones throw of the cottage in which
General Grant died, the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company's tuberculosis
sanatorium for employees on Mount Nc
Gregor. nine miles from this city. was
dedicated to-day.
A special train from New York brough,
200 officials Of the company physicians
and others here last night. This party
inspected the grounds and bulldI Is o.
the sanatorium this morning, and after
a luncheon the institution was dedicated
to the work for. which II was conceived
Haley Fiske. first yice-president OF the
company, presided In the absence cf
President John r. Hegeman.
Although the first patients, employees
Of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, were received there last November,
the dedication was withheld until the
group Of buildings was all but completed
According to the opinion Of physicians
from other sanatoriums who went TO
Mount McGregor to-day, the equipment OF
the institution there is the most modern
and complete Of any similar hospitalfn
the country.
Heasmar Sends q Letter.
ANletter from Mr.. Hegeman, who s
abroad, was read by vice-President Fisks.
The impressive buildings with their
ample and perfect facilities. to be known
forever as the Metropolitan sanatoriunl
you dedicate to the cause OF humanity"
wrote Mr.. Hegeman. Thus, without
strain of language, may Mount McGregor.
already hallowed by historic association.
be deemed as consecrated ground"
May We be constantly inspired and i'm.
PEELED to such new fields OF usefulness as
to make the world better and happier for
our living" the president concluded.
Mr.. Fiske then related the story Of the
conception OF the sapatorium for en-
ployes and detailed the steps that were
taken before the buildings here were con.
structed
Suggested by Or. knopf.
In an address delivered before 10
Metropolitan employees in January. 1913.
he said, DR.. s. AdoIphus Knopf suggested
that corporation like the life insurance
company should have q sanatorium for
tuberculous employees. The idea was
taken I'D again later at a meeting OF the
Association Of Life Insurance Presidents,
when Professor Irving Fisher, OF Yale,
sought to interest the insurance COM
panies in q systematic campaign for the
extension Of life.
Realizing the need for a sanatorium for
their employees, who, on examination
revealed only a normal number OF tuoer-
culous cases. the Metropolitan Life In
surance Company, Mr.. F1ske declared
sought to determine II there we're legal
obstacles in their way.
William II. Hotchklss, then State su'
perintendent OF Insurance. declared. ne
said. that he did not think the company
could acquire property for such a pur'
pose. He proposed a friendly suit, how
ever to determine the matter, and tina
Supreme Court gave a decision fayoring
the project. After considering site IN
Westchester County. and needing the oo-
jections of neighbors and the New YORK
Department of Water Supply, the prop
erty on Mount McGregor was acquired.
White Plague Warfare.
I'VE have engaged in this warfare upon
the white plague with intense earnestness' (
and we hope, as time goes on, that We
shall be found TO have done our full snare
in the attainment of the final victory We
all so much desire" Mr.. Ffske declared
- his victory must be brought about oy
campaign OF education. and in the NUMBER
OF our policyholders, equal to one-eigh'n
the population of the United states ana
Canada, We are sure we have field wen
adapted to the carrying on Of a suceessiu'
campaign"
Hanging at the verge OF a cliff the req
rooted buildings of the ssnatorium can
be seen for miles. The top OF the noun
tain is l,O46 feet above the sea level, aho -
present the number OF patients proSlae'
for is seventy-three. The buildings inciuos
a power house. two ward buildings ~
Urinary, refectory, icehouse. nurses coz
, tage, superintendent house, water Tower
and pumphouse.
The Grant cottage, surrounded by lns
sanatorium property, stands on p'0'
owned by an historical society. The Ae''
ropolltan Life Insurance Company has
erected a tablet on the brink Of the eDp
where General Grant had his last view u
the valley on July 90 1885, three days oe'
fore his death
Celebrities at Dedication. :
Among. those who attended the dedica'
ton exercises were Frank Hashrouek' lE
surance Commissioner Of New YORK. Wv
! uty Commissioners J. n. brenainan 40
James J. Hoey, w. II. Hotchkiss, tofn"
Insurance Commissioner; F. ]. h. krseH'
Bridge Commissioner of New YORK Sis
c. ]. Mccormack, President Of Ricbmo1,
Congressman B. 1. Taylor, Robert ~.
Cox, Lee K. Frankel, DR.. J. II. Hucsn
ston, DR.. 8. A. Knopf, Miss Mary Y. ~
ter, OF the National Civic Fedsrauon' az
| Frank II. Mann, secretary OF the SnS''@
/ Organization Society.
, Eight new buildings, including TWO
nitories, are planned and vii! 90 49,
/ shortly. The maintenance OF the -
/ forum is derived from that part =.
surplus fund OF the Metropolitan h's ~,
surance Company which Is used ahnDs
/ to safeguard the lives of It's enp'ss
/ Several OF the speakers declared th1s
Metropolitan's next step In its nun.
tartan work would be a similar insul''
to care for its policyholders. c.s
Other speakers were Henry BrueIe
Chamberlain of New York; Wihia% a..
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