Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26
S17,374.O4 ADDED
TO HOSPITAL FUND
BY TEAMS TODAY
Total Now 1913, s,260.53-Collec-
tors Determined to Get Full
Half Million-Confdent
of Success
ONE GIVES $500 CHECK

The total subscriptions TO the building
fund Of the Children's Hospital we're In
creased y7.s7AOi today, II was announced
at the luncheon Of the committee at the
Hotel Adelphia. In all, s2is,2sO.53 has been
collected.
The team captained by Julian Biddle
brought In the largest total today,
through having received $1,000 from
Charles Norris. This brought the teams
figures TO Sll0O.
DETAILS OF CONTRIBUTIONS.
The following sums were reported by
other mems teams, designated by the
names Of their captains:
william Alexander, $2O7; Charles w.
Churchman, s3l Albert Il. Kelly, $S5;
Wharton SinlSler, $40; Arthur NJ. Wilson,
SS5 the Rev. Robert Johnston, slS525O;
Gimbel store team, S147,54; Doctors Git
tings and Hand, 500; Albert 7. Gerhard,
t69I; Chester NJ. Campbell $50; Charles
Platt Sd, $40; Seth II. whitley, SSl; Doc
tors Fraley and Newlin, S37l; Doctors
Wharton and Hodge, $3.50; Frank NJ.
Wirgman, 1892; p n. lie Roy Sl22.25; J.
D. Israel, SS Doctors Babbitt and Jones,
$3.50; Robert c. Mason, $Sl. Total, SS722.7s.
Women's teams:
Mrs J. Ernest Richards, Sl4S; Miss
Sarah Is. Hodge, sl4l; Mrs. Harold E.
Yarnall, $77; Miss Clara Watchnitz. s62;
Mrs Pierce Archer and Mrs. Duncan
Whelen, $40; graduate nurses, Miss Fen
stermaker, S603.25: Mrs. w II. Walsh,
1851. Total. {2SO2.25.
Mems Executive Committee, S5O66
Women's Executive Comr,ittee, S7S2.
An elderly man entered the headquar-
ters today and asked to be d'rect"d 10
the nurses table. He gave Miss Mary
Beaver n check for 500 Tor the Iund, Uut
declined TO have his name made public.
SEE FINAL SUCCESS.
The board of managers of the hospital,
of which Edward =. Sayres is presl l"nt,
say they are assured of the campaigns
success Mr. Sayres said touas lat
the certainty of the 100000 being reached
within the specified time had caused the
board to decide the immediates splannlng
of a formal breaking of ground at the
hospital site, 18th and Bainbridge streets,
on November 23, which will be the 6Oth
anniversary of the founding Of the insti-
tuition.
In addition to the bronze tablets that
will be placed on room doors and In the
reception halls of the new buildings to
commemorate donors of subscriptions or
$4,000 and $4,000. II is planned by the board
of managers to perpetuate for all time the
catholicity of the subscriptions, by re-
producing in bronze, verbatim replicas of
two letters one containing 50, signed "A
working girl who loves the kiddies," and
another containing $50, signed THE in
mates OF the Eastern Penitentiary." Both
these letters were received last week.
The Board of Managers also announces
that a vellum-paged book, elaborately
bound in wood and fooled leather, will
record within its pages a list of sub
scribers who have donated from $50 to
500.
The Chldren's Hospital OF Philadel-
phia was founded through the initiative
of Mordecai Dawson Lewis, a widely
known Quaker business man and phil
anthropist, of Philadelphia. 1t was in
Mr. Lewis home, at the southwest cor
ner of 18th and Chestnut streets, upon
the site now occupied by the Beneficial
Savings Fund building, that the moneys
for the hospital were originally sub
scribed early in 1855, Mr.. Lewis donating
the largest amount of the foundation
fund.
The original site was a purchased build
ing at 40s Blight street. a small thor
oughfare between Pine and Lombard
streets, east of Broad street, the hos
pital opening it's door to the poor sick
children of Philadelphia on November 23
1855. Within two years the adjoining
building, No. 40, was added. For II
years the hospital remained at this site,
when 1t removed to its present quarters
on 22d street, near Walnut. 1t has long
since outgrown these quarters, and in the
early winter of this year will be COM
PEELED to remove TO the only completed
building upon the new site at 18th and
Balnbridge streets.