Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-15
BANQUET TO OPEN
BIG CAMPAIGN FOR
( FINE NEW HOSPITAL
Bishop McCort Heads Ex-
ecutive Committee, Lead
ing Forces for 100000
for Sisters of Mercy in
West Philadelphia.

Arrangements are almost completed for
banquet TO lnaugurate a campaign TO
raise at least 100000 for hospital to
be located on Cedar avenue, between SD
and 54th streets. for tine Sisters OF Mercy.
The feast viii be held In the LIST Regi-
nnert Armory. Broad and Callowhill
streets. Monday night, and promises TO
exceed In size any banquet ever held In
this city. Archbishop Prendergast, Bishop
McCort, the Rev. John d. Mcguire. Of
the Catholic University. Was'nington
Miss Lydia Stirling F'lintham, of this
city, and DR.. James j. Walsh, of New
York win be among the speakers City
Solicitor Ryan will be toastmaster. About
IL pieces of Kendle's 1st Regiment Band
will provide stirring music. and some fea-
lures not yet divulged by the commit
tee will be introduced to keep alive en-
thusiasm.
II is expected that 1900 men and women
OF this and the four adjacent counties
will hear at the banquet their final In
structions for raising the fund. The CAM
paign will be begun on Tuesday morning
and will continue until Saturday night,
May 90 Beginning on Tuesday, all the
aides will meet each night at supper, to
be served without charge In tent erected
In the yard between the Cathedral and
the old Cathedral School At that time
the workers will report tine sums they
have received and hear brief addresses.
A special committee has these suppers In
charge and has arranged programs cal
culated 10 make them interesting.
Bishop John ]. McCort heads the Exec
utive Committee and devotes as much
time as he can spare to personal visits
20 learn the sense of the community re-
gardng the campaign.
Archbishop Prendergast. as honorary
president of the committee, has given his
support to the movement since It's In
ception. our appeal to the people OF
Philadelphia is In behalf of the afflicted,
suffering poor. for they will benefit by
the establishment of the new hospitals
ne stated recently. "All who contribute
have the comfort of knowing that what
they give Will go directly to the allevia-
tion of human suffering. II they give
literally of their means. and even II they
make sacrifices in the cause of Christian
charity, what is the most generous offer
ing in comparison with what the Sisters
of Mercy, at my request, have consented
to dor They offer their lives and promise
to bear the burden of conducting and
maintaining this institution of mercy
without hope of human reward and solely
for the love of God and their neighbor.
Surely the public will not fail to give
them all the sympathy and material as
slstance necessary to accomplish their
great work"
other members OF the Executive Com
mittee are the following:
John McGlInn, Ienatus ]. Horstmann, Jo-
seph Trainer Charles A. McManus, DR.. Pc
ter F. Moyan, Daniel II. Mahoney, Martin J.
Powers John II. McClRthchey Michael J. Slnt-
terry. Timothy NJ Daily. John, j.. Coyle, Her;
G. Vetterlein, Frank Hardart, Michael
j. McEnery. Joseph F. Gallagher, Jeremiah
]. Sullivan, Eugene. G. BonnIwell, James J.
Ryan DR.. william II. Long, Ignatius j. Do
han, Miss Constance oHara, Mrs John Roth
aeter. Mrs. A. M; Burke, Mrs. Frank a.
Hockey, Mrs. william J. McCloskey, Mrs.
c. y. Hallahnn Mra Julia Mlnnick. Mrs
William j. Begley Mrs. A. l.. Fitzpatrick
MrF. Harry Schmitt Mrs. John p. Connolly
Mrs, Charles p. Donnelly and Mrs. Mary Il.
II. McMichan.