Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-04-20
CAMPAIGN FOR A
new HOSP |TAL
Children Of Public Schools
Visited Today and In
terest Aroused.
s2,5Oe IS SUBSCRIBED.
Churches and Sunday Schools Enlist
ed-Booster Buttons Distributed to
Scholars Yesterday.
s2,5oe IS SUBSCRIBED

Visits to the public schools today
marked the second days campaign for
the $4,000 needed for new buildings
for the Alexandria Hospital Comirit-
tees of business men appeared before
the children of the various schools
and told them of what the hospital
meant to them in future years and
how their help was needed to raise
the funds for the new building. They
inst with a hearty reception Ianra the
children PROMISED to wear the but
tons which had been provided. This
afternoon other committees are visit
ing all of the retail merchants and
leaving with them literature and
pledge cards. The city has been di-
vided into four districts each in charge
of chairman. No contributions are
being solicited today, the work being
of preliminary character to inter
est the people in the project.
Terty-five hundred dollars have
been subscribed so far.
The committees that visited the Sun
day schools yesterday were as fol-
lows: Lutheran Church, Justice H. B.
Cation; Christ Church, Gardner l..
Boothe and A. D. Brockett; Method
odist Protestant. Jno. H Trimyer,
and Harry Hammond; Saint
Maay,s Catholic, J. H. Bayne and
Julian Y Williams; St. Pau!'s Episco-i
pal,Arthur eHrbert and c. S. Taylor
Burke; M. E. Church South, James f.
Cation and ]. Y. Williams; Trinity NJ.
E. Church, R. E. Knight and r. S.
Jones; First Baptist Church, Carroll
Pierce and S. w. Pitts; Second Bap-
tist, sd. T. Preston; Syra-
gogue, r. L. Payne and ]. Y. Will
lsams; Second Presbyterian, W. A.
Moore, Jr.,' and r. L. Payne; Grace
Episcopal Church, Justice H. B. Cation
Ara, A. D. Brockett.
Two, surprises awaited the commit
tees:s Atithe synagogue they, were
tolds; that little Jewish girl. agec
ritne, halj painted a picture and raffle5
it off among her friends: for $25.75
for the Hospital fund. At the Bap,
list church, six of the younger classe:
we're already at work, and each hae
$40 in cash ready to- turn over t.
the committee
CONGESTION AT HOSPITAL.
A representative of the Alexandria
Gazette called at the Alexandria Hos
bitai and:swas: cordially received By
Miss: Naomi Simmons, R. A.,the ,effici.
entasuperintendent of both the hospi'
tai { and Training School-wro fur
nished him with data from which ths
following is compiled.
The hospital is composed Of three
buildings two of which are anti
ouated and absolutely unfit for mod,
ern use-with entirely too much waste
snace which causes useless eXpendi.
tures for heating and does not give
necessary: accommodation for pa
tients.
There are beds for SO patients, in
rludihg six for children. There ar
FIVE wards, male and female, white
and male and. female colored. and on
for children :. These wards, as wei
as the private rooms, were scrupu
lously. neat, but when one is taken int
a ward" one. expects much more thar
,sI6xi4 room into which are crowd
ed from d to 5 beds and in emergen
cies six. The congestion reminds on
of the: description Of. an opium ger
rather than modern house for tn
restoration of health. az ,ss;
Owing to the fact that the sexes an
colors must be, kept separate, an
the fact. that the. children's ward ]
furnished with cots and cribs, use
less for adults, the hospital is over
crowded when there are twenty pa
tisnts. To any one acquainted wit
modern hospital service the conges'
ed condition of the Alexandria Hos
pital is. pitiable.
The private, rooms for pay patient
which assist largely in paying the e,
penses of the institution ARE alwa,
in demand, but. unfortunately man
patients have to be refused and sci