The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-11
KINGSBURY ISSUES
AN ULTIMATUM TO
INSURGENT M. DIS
Come Back at Once to Cumber-
land Hospital or Places
Will Be Filled.
COMMITTEE DECLINES:
SAYS THIRTY BACK 1T

Charities Commissioner kinCsburv
Cen, an ultimatum yesterday 10 all the
doctors who had not accepted his lnvi-
tation 10 Join tho new stafr OF the Cum
berland street hospital in Brooklyn.
where rebellion has arisen because OF
tho Commissioners reorganization pro-
gramme. He gave them until midnight
last night to give up the fight, and told
them that Il they didn't respond by
midnight they would be dropped and
their posts hlled by others.
As a club over the heads OF the in
eurgents Mr.. Kingsbury held the threat
of turning the hospital. long a centre
Of homeopathy. into an allopnthic In
etNution. He was determined. ne said.
20 carry out his reforms, aud " he
couldn't get enough h~omnopathists 10
man the hospital and II became neces-
eary TO build up n STAFF OF ailopathists,
who usually do not care to work with
members OF the other school. he would
not hesitate to do II. Rut he also said
that this would not be necessary. as he
had enough applications from hompo-
pathic physicians 10 I'LL every place on
the stan even II a large percentage 81
the men he had already asked 20 serve
should decline.
Nef1UerS o1 the ola OONtN OF pNNSiClHut
OF the hospital met last night at the
home OF DR.. Herbert II. Schenck. Is
Halsey street. Brooklyn. and drew IN n
letter OF defamation which they say will
he signed by twenty-siN members OF the
old board. The following telegram was
despatched TO COMMISSIONS kingsbury:
We are sending YOU our list OF dec
hnations. We vii, not r%elinQuish our
rights and we are prepared to fight for
them tn the finish.
The telegram was signed by DR.. W. W.
Blackmai. Dr. Nathaniel Robinson and
DR.. Herbert u. Schenck. Dr. Schenck
said that this committee of three repre-
sented more than thirty of the doctors.
Has n sIcpplcss Wight.
Mr.. Kingsbury got no sleep on Sun
day night. He was busy all night at the
telephone. asceritiuinr the intention of
the insurrecios and making sure that We
could I'LL any holes they could make in
the Cumberi street stan. Convinced
that the safety OF his position was as
eured he sent out his ultima,um AZ 8
O'Clock YESTERDAY morning.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Eingshury
announced that three .of the four men
he had appointed ~ chiefs of divisions
In the hospital had accepted. They are (:
Medicine. pr. T.. Rodney Fiske surgery.
DR.. J.. Hublev Schall Obstetrics. DIR,
Herbert e. Allen. Later an acceptance
was received from pr. J. Francis
Ranken. chief IN vyuc,ology.
Stanley Howe. Mr.. ~Niugsbury's secre-
tary. said Yesterday afternoon:
The m deal stan is complete and
VIII start work tomorrow. only one Of
the appoirtceS among toe associates of
the surgical stan ~ holding out. and
only one of the associates IN the division
Of obstetrics has declined. \ man has
been appointed in his plac,. There
will be no trouble in fll.ng the gyne-
Geological STAFF. of which DR.. Ranken
Will become tho head
In addition 10 the four division
chiefs there are tifty-two places on the
reorgaiizcd star. Twenty OF these
carry the rank OF associate. Mr.. Hove
ss.d that pr. Clark Burnharn OF ls2
Clinton street. Brooklyn. who was to
ave been an associate IN gynecology.
wa the only associate who had sent a
positive declinat!ou. The Commissioner
assumed from newspaper interviews that
DIR. Bernard + Shea o: 32i Stuyv5-
a avenue, would also decline. Dr
Shea, Il was said. was veN,d because
he was TO be clssscd as a dentist in
stead o: a surgeon. Mr., kllgShury
seemed to think that virtually all the as
eociates except Or. Burnham and Or.
Shea, would make w their minds 10
5oin the new stan. But TO list OF ac-
rentarces was ob,ainan Ia from tre Com
missioner.
Meanwhile the doctors who have been
leading the fight against the King. bury
plan insisted that It would fell. They
said that twenty Of the or ginal statf
of forty had agreed to stay out and
that the Commissioner could not iind
competent mcn with tn necessary ten
years eXperierce TO replace them. One
ct the twenty is Dr. Charles \. Brown
or 1913 Hals'N str ct. II" was not re-
appointed under me contamination pro
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