New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-01
Colonel Makes Address at
Opening of New OrthO-
padic Hospital.
SMALL BOYS EXPECT
TO HEAR ABOUT LIONS
But Ex s. Hunter Disappoints
Them and Talks of Institutions
Progress in so Years.

with counterpanes straight and nigh
ties lust so. the children's wards in the
Orthopadic Hospital waited excitedly
yesterday afternoon to shake hands
with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt after
he got through making his speech up
stairs at the formal opening Of the
new $4,000 building.
The little boys with their backs in
plaster casts were crazy to hear all
about huntin' lions in Afriky, and the
young ladies Of six prinked their hair
ribbons Imagine the horror, then,
when Mary Agnes, the smallest girl in
the baby ward made a face at Colonel
Teddys "Hlo!" thus announcing that
she wasn't in TO callers.
Mary Agnes was too young TO re-
member the birth Of the Bull Moose,
even, and besides she had a stiff leg
and new red and green parrot and
her leg hurt and her parrot wouldn't
squeak, and she hated the world. Colonel
Roosevelt couldn't do anything about
the aching leg, but he showed her how
to make the parrot squeak; whereupon
Mary Agnes loved him and would have
gone away with him if he had in
sisted
cts one charity to which there IS
no comeback. this business Of making
crippled boys and girls we'll" said Mr..
Roosevelt, addressing an audience tnaJ
filed the big auditorium till there was
no standing room left and then over
flowed into the hall.
Never let this institution become
institutionalizedl he said. NO IN
stitution is ever so well equipped and
no machinery is so perfect that 1t can
get along without the human touch.
He smoke Of the work Of his father,
fifty years ago, as the first treasurer Of
the New York Orthopadic Hospital,
then just founded, with $4,000 IN the
treasury.
Louder" said voice in the hall,
as his story went on.
"Whatl" exclaimed the Colonel. This
is the first time that ever happened
TO me. I'm so relieved 70 know that
for once I'm not talking too loudly that
I take il as a compliment"
He oulogized the doctors and the
nurses.
81 know Of no class who as a whole
better exemplify the spirit of which
Bishop Greer spoke in his prayer just
now. of service for its own sake, ne
said.
The dedication prayer was offered By
Bishop Greer, and President Eugene
Delano Of the institution and DR.. Rus
sell A. Hibbs, superintendent, made
short addresses
There is now no such word as in
curablc," Dr. Hibbs said in telling OF
the progress Of the hospital in the last
ten years. In 1905 1929 diseases were
treated in IL, while the number in 1915
amounted TO 1913, an increase Of IA
per cent.
The cost of the new building was
$1,000 while the endowment from the
old building at 1876 East Fifty-ninth
Street was $1,000 600. Those In charge
are asking the public for 81 100000 10
carry on their work properly.
Among women interested in the hos
pital, who were present yesterday al
ternoon, were Mrs. Douglas Robinson,
Colonel Roosevelt's sister; Mrs John
hobart Warren, Mrs. William D. Sloane,
Mrs. A. Murray Young. Mrs Edward
T. II. Talmagc. Mrs Walter Jennings,
Mrs Henry VI. Tilford, Mrs. Charles
B. Alexander. Miss Lucy Frelinghuysen,
Mrs. Dwight Collier and Mrs. Charles
II. Senff