Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
SAVANNAH GIRLS
ANDCOUNC|LMAN
in CHARITY WAR.
Young Women Leaders of Kings
Daughters Claim Hospital Head
Ignored Agreement.
MISS BARROW IS DEFIANT
Charity Ward Is Removed From
OgIethorpe Sanitarium Follow
ing Heated Words.

SAVANNAH, March Social and
political Savannah is watching the
, row between the Elizabeth Butler
Circle of Kings Daughters on the
one side and DR.. ]. W. Daniel, MEM
Der of City Council and large stock
holder in the Oglethorpe Sanitarium,
on the other, in which the young
women of the society have drawn
first blood.
Miss Patience Barrow. daughter OF
the late United States Senator Pope
Barrow and a sister of d. c. Barrow,
Jr., Collector of the Port of Savannah,
and Miss Janet G. Menzies, daughter
of the freight traffic manager of the
Atlantic Coast Line, are at the head
of the organization that during the
summer conducts the Fresh Air Home
for children at Tybee and during the
winter maintains a ward for children
in the sanitarium of which DR.. Daniel
| is the head
Council Gives $40,
Some two years ago they got
an appropriation from Council OF
$40 monthly for the maintenance Of
the ward for children. The hospital
| furnished the ward, but the society
| had to put in the furniture. con-
tract was signed whereby the society
was to pay 65 cents day for each
child in the ward.
| The city of Savannah supports no
municipal hospital. but appropriates
about $4,000 annually to six or seven
that maintaia a charity ward. As the
Oglethorpe was not considered a
charitable institution, being chartered
as a stock company and considered a
money making proposition, the city
had not been asked to help it.
Fight Opens.
, Two weeks ago the Finance Com
mittee Of City Council. of which DR..
| Daniel is member, recommended
that Council appropriate $544.46 an
nualiy to the home, this being the ex-
act sum of the taxes. It was ap-
proved by Council
Immediately Miss Barrow and Miss
Menzies went to DR. Daniel and asked
that, as the institution was not on a
| charitable basis, 1t suspend the
charges of S. cents for each child and
let this money go to the support of
| the Fresh Air Home.
DR.. Daniel took the position that
they could not dispense with spend
ing the $40 monthly in his institution
because Of the fact, he said, that it
had been appropriated by Council to
be expended in this manner.
Miss Barrow made the charge that
the children's ward had been used as
ruse to get within the charitable
institutions privilege, by securing an
| appropriation equal to the exact
amount Of the taxes.
DIR. Daniel denied this and said that
the hospital supported a charitable
ward on the floor above.
Argument Hot.
The young women state than an
investigation failed to substantiate
this fact. Miss Barrow added:
Doctor, unless you live up to the
implied agreement with the city re-
gardlng charity hospital work, we will
take our ward somewhere else
81 dare you to, the doctor is said to
have replied
"a Barrow has never taken dare,
my dear doctor the young woman
answered, heatedly.
Immediately meeting Of the cir
Gle was called and it was decided to
take the ward to another hospital.
Council Acts.
In the meantime a meeting Of the
Finance Committee was called and a
resolution was introduced that the
committee withdraw its appropriation
to the society. 1t was on the eve OF
passage when Alderman Elton, the
Youngest member of Council, opposed
the action so strenuously on the
grounds Of its alleged Illegally that
n ,vas raferred 10 the City Attorney.