The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-04-09
Nothing psAalas Game Out Of
Meet Held Yesterday

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Fro~ fridays usjiu
Although the promoters OF the pro
jeet Of getting Blue Earth county and
surrenndins counties to cooperate In
tse establishments OF Joint counts
tuberculosis sanitarinm were disap
pointed az the results OF yesterday Z
meeting OF the commissioners OF the
various counties. the situation Is by
M means homeless, ,.it
sTbree OF the sin counties repre-
serted nj, the meeting al the Eiks
club hense yesterday afternoon went
% record as favorine tho. project OF
establishing an $4,000 ssnitarium II
fiyc or moro of the counties joined in
with It. Tho three acting favorably
were Blnc Earth, Watonwan and
.Nicollet.. Tho. three that registered
negative votess were Brown. Fari.
banit aud Martin.
The three that favored the proposi
ton would probably not GO in TO
sethsr for threee-eonnty hospital.
Their commissioners seemed much
opposed to that. Bait two more
counties might be added 10 these
three That would make the neces.
sary I'VE. Before the gathering had
dispersed Il became evident that there
was good reason to hope that the at.
titude Of Faribault county wonld he
changed. Indeed. from. what was said
last night by Jacob Under. Jr.. OF
Easton,. one OF tho Faribanlt county
commissioners. that county Is very
likely TO, join With Blue Earth. Nicol-
let aud Watonwan in tho hospital pre-
Joct, IN still another county can be
breusht into Anc. ..r.;
Faribualt County Not Opposed.
"Farihault county Is not opposed
tn the Joint county tuberculosis
sanitarmm idea" said Mr. Under.
"on The contrary We are In favor of
Il. I believe if all Of our county com.
Hiissloncrs. had bcen present at tho
nioctiRs. Faribanlt county would
have gone on record rs voting on that
side. But the fact is that only three
ot us were present. One of these, ].
Il. Burmester OF Wells. Is really in
favor OF the idea, but he did not like
70 have our county committed to II
when oniy three commissioners were
there. r. 8. Hyhes Of WiHnebaso r.
,against h and he and Mr.. nnrmester
ulado tho vote OF Faribaillt county in
the negative. nut ] am In favor of
Il. So is Mr.. Bnrmester and so IL
W. ~. Drake OF Elmere. who was alb
sent. The other commissioner. who
was absent. Frank sellen OF Blue
Earth. Is on tho fence. but. snyhow a
majority of our hoard Is I'm favor of
thn idea. ss.. ~.
Martin county. which refused IN
90 into the project at all. has q pro-
jeet of Its own. Martin county
would like to have n two-coHnty tu-
berculosis sanltarhim located At Fair.
mont. and would like 10 have Fari.
banlt county join in the project. 7
do not favor the idea OF two-county
sabltarium and neither does Mr.. Bur.
nester. believe orr county will NOT
90 In that idea ut all hat viii
prefer 20 support the idea OF such q
hospital at Mankato, with. eve or
more counties back OF It."
d, Now n bist one OF the -four coun.
ties that have definitely pulled out.
brown. Martin. waseca or lie Sueur.
wonld reconsider it's action. and n the
rarihanlt county situation is as Mr.
Under describes. Il is easy 10 see
how the project OF a five-county hos.
tisal. 10 cost $4,000. could he made
an accomplished fact. ..i...
Blue Earth 10 Take Lead.
A motion was passed at the meet
ing yesterday afternoon requesting
that the Blue Earta., county tnbercn.
losis saaitarlnm commission be re-
pnested te ceniinne In. take the lead
In pushing the prolec,. CORRESPOND
with the various county boards aud
call another. meeting OF the commits.
sloners % the various counties. when
ever it seems that something might
be accomplished by SO, doing. IN the
direction of getting joint county
saniterium established. I'D
Dr. A, y. Schmitt. chairman OF the
commission. requested that the coun-
ties that now stand ready to join, In
with, Blue Earth establish. similar
commissions 10 help push along the
work.
DIR. Robinson Bosworth OF 81. Paul.
representing the Minnesota State
Sanitarium commission. sought 10
Impress on the commissioners the
thotsrht that to establish O, Joint
county sapitarium would, In reality be
"a measure of economy and very
NECESSARY one. The state. board, of
health had made rule that all tn.
herculons patients mist be isolated.
IL was cheapestto do this by means OF
O ssultarhlm. Otherwise the ISOLATION
would have IN be done, In a much
more expensive way. lie. also EN-.
phasizod the thought that all the
counties were paying taxes 10 furnish
thes-state with the money which was
being used to help In. the establish.
ment and maintenance OF such hospi-
tails, Counties that did not avail them.
seives of the opportunity of drawing
some OF this state aid were paying
nllf rnOuay. An on In tho form nc % M 4,