Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-27
SUMMIT DECIDES
TO BUY HOSPITAL
Will First Raise $4,000 to
Cover Cost of Campaign
for SITS, 900.
Especial to the Newark star. !

SUMMIT, Feb. 27-"Resolved, tina
the purchase Of Overlook Hospita
should be made on the following con
ditions: First, the sum of $175,000 b
secured to cover the purchase pric
and to found with the Smith Ell
legacy of $50, 900 an endowment fund
second, the sum of at least $4,000 b
first secured to cover the expense o
the campaign needed to raise the sal,
sum; third, a committee of at leas
fifty citizens be appointed by tn
chairman of this meeting to conduc
the said campaign under the guild
ance of a compete professional"
This is the resolution adopted a
the public meeting held in the Lin
coin School building last night to con
slider the question of purchasing b!
public subscription the hospital which
| il acquired, is to be conducted unde
the management of the trustees o
the Summit Hospital Association.
The resolution is the same as tina
adopted by the Hospital Association
trustees at a meeting of that body
held February 10. A motion was also
adopted appointing the Summit Medi
cal Society and the trustees of the
Hospital Association to act as join
committee to raise the $4,000 cam.
paign fund.
The stipulation that the $4,000 fund
be first raised met with the favor oil
those who are opposed to undertake
ing the requirement of the hospital
at this time.
m the report of the committee ap.
pointed at the public meeting last
June to consider the question of pur-
chasing the institution it was recon.
mended that the purchase should moi
be made unless the citizens are pre-
pared to raise annually $500 to meet
the deficit which the committee be-
lieves will be the average loss in run
ming expenses of the hospital. III
the purchase is to be made, Summit
should raise from it's own citizens and
from those in neighboring communi-
ties the sum of $4,000" it was stated
in the report.
OF the $4,000 $4,000 was allowed
for the expense of ten days cam
paign; the purchase price of the hos
pital was placed at $125, 900, leaving a
contingent fund of $1,000.
oanda's Motion Lost.
The motion of Charles J. Canda,
one of the city's wealthiest residents,
and who is said to be financially in
terested in Overlook Hospital, to
raise $4,000, or as much more as pos
sible, for the purchase of the institu-
ton was lost.
During the meeting Thomas M.
Debevoise and Rev. Robert c. Hull,
pastor of the First Baptist Church,
INDUCED in some pointed remarks
relative to the proposition to acquire
the hospital.
After Mr.. Debevoise had presented
his report Mr.. Hull declared 1.-The
hospital association trustees report
Is the most pessimistic possible view
that could confront us in this propo-
sition." Mr.. Hull contended that in
stead of an annual deficit of $500
it had been shown that during three
years, from 1910 to January /, 1913,
the net profits of the hospital ex-
Guiding interest on loans and insur-
ance averaged SO, 7S3.26. During that
period the subscription of the hos
pital association and county appro-
priation averaged S4,460.39 per year.
Deducting these subscriptions from
the average profit ii was shown that
excluding interest and insurance the
yearly deficit for the three years was
$677.13 per year.
Mr.. Hull declared that the report
Of Mr.. Debevoise's committee was
inaccurate and unfair as no deduction
should be made from the receipts of
the hospital of the money paid by the
county or hospital association. In
urging the purchase of the institu-
ton the clergyman expressed the be-
lief that the city had been given a
wonderful opportunity to acquire the
- -JfV aVfnA III q a
stress on the possibility of DR.. Will
lam H. Lawrence, jr, head of the
hospital, disposing of the institution
to private parties who might not con-
duct the hospital as semi-public
institution, as it is at present, and
the possibility that it might be con-
verified into an institution such as a
tuberculosis sanitarium, which would
be Objectionable to this city.
Commends DR.. Laurence.
Mr.. Debevoise, in reply, stated that
the report Of the trustees was adopted
by vote of Is to l, Mr.. Hull clone be-
ing opposed to the findings of the
trustees He commended DR.. Lawrence
for what he has done for the city
through his hospital, but declared,
1--WE we a great deal to DR.. Lawrence
and DR.. Lawrence owes us a great
deal. Mr.. Lawrence has made sue
cess of his hospital and this com
munity and It's physicians have done
a great deal toward making the sue
cess of that institution. Don't be
driven into buying the hospital
through sentiment or through fear"
said Mr.. Debevoise. Mr.. Debevoise
added that the question of maintain
ing the hospital after its requirement
is a larger one than that Of securing
the institution.
Mayor Francis II. Bergen gave no.
tice that the suggested plan of Rev.
Walker w. Gwynne that the city APP
propriate annually $500 toward the
support of the hospital in the event
of its purchase, such appropriation to
be raised by taxation, that no such
appropria ton would be made by the
city, as taxes are already sufficiently
burdensome. William Coles and for
mer Councilman George w. Mac
Cutcheon, both formerly trustees of
st. Barnaba's Hospital, Newark,
spoke. The former favored the pur-
chase of the institution, while Mr..
MacCutcheon believed the scheme in
advisable at this time. Dr. d. r.
English and Or. Thomas r. Prout
also favored the purchase. Former
Councilman Herman De Selding
offered the resolutions, which were
adopted. Hamilton w. Mabie, presi-
dent of the Hospital Association, pre-
sided. and William V. T. Samuels,
secretary of the association, acted in
| a similar capacity at the meeting
UNION
On complaint of Israel Feins, OF