Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-14
VOICE OBJECTIONS
TO HOSPITAL SITE
Piney Branch Citizens Repeat
Protest Against Proposed
Municipal Institution.
committee TO ASK AID
OF SENATOR GALLINGER
Resolutions Adopted Criticising
Statements Made by Mr.. Borland
in Letters to House Members.

Protests against the PLACING VI 'he
Municipal Hospital in their neighbour
hood were made by members of the
Piney Branch Citizens Association at
meeting at the Iowa Avenue M. E.
Church last evening, reiterating the po-
sition taken by that organization at
its meeting last month. Plans were
also discussed for continuing the cam
paign against placing the proposed
hospital in the Piney Branch vicinity.
A committee. consisting of DR.. E. NJ.
Hasbrouck, John W. Keener, V. G.
Crossant and the president, George A.
Finch, ex officio. was named to wait
on Senator Gallinser and to ask his
assistance in the matter. Every men,
Der present last evening was presented
with a pamphlet protesting against the
establishment of the hospital on it's
proposed site. between Georgia avenue.
14th. Upshur and Allison streets. These
pamphlets are to be distributed by Boy
Scouts throughout the neighborhood
and are also to be sent to members of
Congress.
Charles P. McCurdy. chairman of the
committee in charge of making the
fight against the location of the hos
pital. said he hoped a hearing would
soon be held on the subject by the
District committee of the Senate. He
told of the recent hearing before the
District Commissioners on the project.
We know we need a municipal hos
pital." said Mr.. McCurdy. but we also
"Not Needed and Not Wanted"
President Finch declared: ut is not
necessary to place the hospital where
it is not needed and not wanted. Those
DESTROYS of seeing the hospital erected
would probably have had it by now if
they had not tried to bring it out here,
because the opposition has delayed it,"
The protest distributed last night
sets forth in part:
IF you are interested in preserving
your neighborhood as a suitable place
for your home you are urged to write
at once to the Commissioners and to
the chairmen of the Senate and House
appropriation committees, and to any
friends that you may have in Congress,
protesting against the location of the
hospital on the proposed site and stat
ing your views as to it's effect upon
you and upon your property and neigh
borhood. 1t is only by an outburst of
popular disapproval brought to the at
tention of the responsible officials and
complish any permanent relief from
this annually recurring danger which
SO seriously threatens us.
THE time is near at hand when Con-
time in writing If you desire to help
to keep this institution out Of your
section of the city.
Are there any plausible grounds for
the belief that this institution will
improve the community into which it
c mr. IN fav-
sertion that it will not injure it? Is
there any assurance from it's past or
from the unalterable character of its
future that it will not do for North
west Washington what it has already
done for Southeast Washington?
Cites Potential Danger"
THE potential danger to the COM
munity of an institution harboring
such a large number of mental sus-
poets, human derelicts and patients af-
fiicted with contagious and loathsome
diseases is obvious to any one who has
read the foregoing facts showing the
conditions within the hospital.
The sight of the institution as
permanent reminder of the unfortu-
mates within it's walls cannot fail to
produce constant feeling of gloom
uP'Ai OH tioeC "Lo must pass Dy and
i've near 1t. In good weather the
neighbors on abutting streets on all
sides will have the alternative of
watching the inmates get their exer-
else and fresh air in the hospital
grounds or of themselves remaining
indoors.
The streets leading to the institu-
ton VIII be the lanes of traffic over
which the thousands of inmates must
be carried to and from the hospital.
and the ambulances and police patrol
wagons will be familiar and daily
sights and nightly annoyances upon
these thoroughfares
The inmates will be DISCHARGED a+
the doors of the institution and left
TO their own resources and inclina-
tons for making their way back to
their places of abode
Means Of Transportation.