Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-10
ONE HUNDRED PERSONS
TO WORK FOR HOSPITAL
Men and Women Promise Active
Support in Campaign to Raise
S25O,OOO for Memorial.
PROMINENT CITIZENS SPEAK
Physicians and Laymen Appeal for
Enlarged Facilities in Order to
Make Richmond Institution Fore
most of Its Kind in South.

Stirred to tremendous enthusiasm by
| the appeal of physician and layman
| for enlarged facilities at the Memorial
| Hospital for the care of the negroes
| suffering with contagious diseases and
! for an ampler home for nurses. 100
! men and women, who met yesterday
afternoon in the assembly hall of the
Chamber OF Commerce, bound them
selves TO work with might and main
i'll every district of the city until they
had obtained S250,000 for what is de-
SCribed as the greatest charity work
which Richmond has undertaken in
recent years. Appeals We're made by
| Thomas l.. Moore, general chairman:
by L. Randolph Williams. by DR.. George
Ben johnson, by Or. J. Allison Hodges.
by Colonel Thomas e. McAdams. and by
/ w. r Dabncy, business manager of the
Chamber of Commerce
Colonel McAdams sounded a signifi-
cant note when he stated that his
heart had not been with the movement
at first. but that since he had become
convinced that the city was entering
upon an enterprise for civic good which
demands the effort of every public
spirited citizen. He said he was in the
campaign to the finish.
Always in the forefront when IL
comes to boosting commercial enter
prise or matter of charity. Mr. Dab
ney urged that everyone present join
in the movement. saying that 1t were
better. if they did not put their whole
soul and heart in the effort. that they
give way TO those who would give the
most they can of their time and energy.
A like note of inspiration was sounded
by the other speakers. and the move
ment TO build for Richmond the great
est and most complete hospital in the
South was well-started
NURSES PROMISE AID
IN RAISING FUND
deeper touch to the significance OF
the occasion was given when it was
learned after the meeting that five
school nurses had agreed among them
selves and promised the committee to
raise S25 toward the fund. These young
women have become interested in the
children in the schools, and have fol-
lowed them into the hospitals, and they
decided. small their own stipends
are. TO make sacrifice in order that
they might give. The nurses are Misses
Hughes Hill, Montgomery. Copenhaver
and Henninehauser
The meeting was called to order by
Mr. Moore. and on the motion OF Or.
Johnston. Mr.. Williams Was elected
chairman. The general plan for the
campaign was outlined IN detail by the
campaign manager who stated that
experts had gone over the city drec-
tory and had selected 5000 people OF
whom, 500 are colored, To be visited and
personally solicited TO aid in the cam
paign These people are grouped by
ward and street number, so that the
work of the solicitor may be made
easier. The initial campaign. said the
| manager, had been a success. and he
asked that 1000 solicitors be appointed
Every man present indicated his viii
lngness to share in the work of solicit
tatior.
Contributions are to be turned in to
r. T. Morris. president of the board OF
trustees of the Medical College OF Nir-
GINA and treasurer OF the campaign
fund Larger funds are 10 be paid in
quarterly installments. II WAS asked
tina, donations of SIS or less be paid in
cash.
Further arrangements Will be made
q; the banquet 10 be held In the Je'
f.rson Hotel on Tuesday night and
,be campaign proper will begin on
Monday at a luncheon TO be given AZ
! the general headquarters on Fast Main
/ street. between and o'clock. Luhch- :
cons will be given every day AZ INC
/ same hour until the campaign Is cioSea,
! and committee chairmen will MAKE
/ their reports
DR. J Allison Hodges. who is IN
I charge ot the banquet arrangements
/ said that the tables TO be spre&h Tor
/ 800 people. were TO MAKE 'he io'a
] for IN. irOuSlnS VI ''7''t'
/ lie said that the committee was espt-
I ciallv anxious that every holder Oh
I ticket be present. The affair VIII DE
4 informal and women arc expected 10
/ att@nd. since they have given so larSe'H
/ Of their time and effort toward making
/ the campaign success. The cost
/ Of the tickets is nominal. only small!
| part Of the entire cost 10 the com
| mittce.
Mr.. Dabncy made rousing address
| III. said that the members OF the com
| mite" had been selected because OF
! their peculiar fitness for so important
a work and because II was known that
| They had the interests Of the com
munity q, heart
/ MR. MOORE: CERTAIN
OF RAISING MONEY
THE soul ~ every individual" said
| Mr.. Dabney. must be conferred in this
work. Each must feel az If the whole
| work depended upon him as much
| az IL does upon tho group. The city,
: he continued, owes not so much 10
! The Individual as the individual owes
| 10 the city. and feel AS If ] should
I repay TO the community everything
Owe Every one Of Us here is enjoying
[ good health ana We o*c 1t TO our
/ selves and 10 the community at largo