Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-14
FUND OF 100000
STARTS CAMPAIGN
Announcement Made on Eve of
Launching Work to Aid Me-
mortal Hospital.
NEED ADDITIONAL s15O.oOO
Prominent Men and Women
Pledge Support at Banquet
at Jefferson Hotel.
NEED ADDITIONAL s15O,oOo

ing Of hospital for .colored people.
pavilion for the treatment Of contagi-
Gus diseases and nurses home. that
already 100000 had boon raised toward
tho fund. The only single donation
which was mentioned. VAS that of
Major James II. Doolcy. Of 100000.
The announcement canlo near tho close
OF tho banquet held In tho auditorium
OF the Jefferson Hotel. when 400 of
Richmonds beet known men and
women gathered 10 discuss plans for
tho campaign which begins actively
day.
The workers will 60 upon the streets
Of tho city early this morning Already
Il list Of $4,000 names has been tnbu-
lated and properly !ndexed and is ready
10 he handed out to the workers The
city Will be divided up among the
workers 20 tho end that every. citizen
Will have the privilege Of contributing
70 this fund Each day there will be
luncheon at ] o'clock at the campaiEn
headquarters. S2l East Main Street At
this time the workers w!.l compare
notes and announce results
MAYOR OUTLINES NEED
FOR BIGGER HOSPITAL
The banquet was presided over by
Congressman a. J. Montague. who was
81.
chairman OF the arrangements commit
tee. In his opening remarks, Congress
man Montague said:
Cities are the index Of the coun-
tries in which they are situated We
do not know much OF the people in
the country aronad I3a hyIon. but we
do know grca, deal about the people
%! that city. France, perhaps, is no,
50 wel! known rs IS Paris. London is
better known Ii:aa England, Bcrlin than
|crmany and 50 Richmond. the capi-
"a! OF the state. and once OF a.nation,
has peculiar personality all It's own.
Richmond IS well known far from her
borders The building. OF this hospital
Is not 80 much of help 10 the doctors,
a. i; il that II gives the doctors the
ability 10 help the people"
In introducing Mayor George Ainslie,
Mr Montague announced the re- election
of the Mayor a. chief executive officer
Of the city Mayor .>insii. spoke for
few minutes on the need of the en-
lar-emen, OF III. hospital along the
lines contemplated.
People ar. discussing what is and
what is not necessity just at this
t!mc. ] want 20 say that contaEious
hospital is necessity In 1914 there
were l.S3@ cases Of contag gious dis
cases IN Richmond, In 1918 there were
100 contagious cases here This year
already $50 cases OF measles have heen
reported. Thlrty-seven per cent OF
the population is colored. and 70 show
you how badly the colorcd people need
hospital viii give some statistics.
tuberculosis last year killed 10 white
peopie and 213 negroes; pneumonia
killed IFS white people and 81 ne
gr"es. Al other diseases OF ,re respira-
cory organs killed I53 white people
and ~. negroes
NOW uP TO PEOPLE
AINsLIE DECLARES
The terms Richmond and success are
We can have il. 1t is not. can We have
it. but shall we have it?"
Thomas l. Moore told Of his con-
nection with hospitals in the city for
the past ten years.
we have but fifty-seven beds for
negroes. and they are all in the base
ment." he said. We have ground
enough. but what we need is money
1t takes big money TO dp big things
and money nowadays doesn't go as far
rs 1t msed to This idea Of enlarging
the hospital is a civic idea Richmond
Is pulling together for Richmond and
having the women with uS means that
we will succeed"
In his opening remarks. John Stewart
Bryan said that the two people who
couldn't be trusted 10 make mistakes
was mans doctor ard his chauffeur
Let them experiment on other pco-
ple." he said 1--WE don't want them
experimenting on us. We want them
to have the best facilities there are
for the treatment OF the sick. How do
we expect to have educated physicians
If we do not build large hospitals
wherein rhe young men of the land can
he trained by expert surgeonso
THE security. of city depends upor
its schools. its churches and its hos
pitfalls. We speak OF it as Memorial
Hospital. Memorial means memories
something that has already happened.
What we mean is immunity hospital
where we can take care of time, bac.
terra and microbes"
DIR. George Ben Johnston said that
city depends upon the nature and
quality Of its public utilities. He spoke
at some length on the eradication of
yellow fever, of typhoid fever and OF
'hc cure OIL tuberculosis. HOW could
these things have been accomplished.
he said, without hospital facilities and
funds with which the work might have
been carried on?"
NECESSARY,
SAYS MRS. MUNFORD
Mrs B. b. Munford spoke on the civic
strength secured in such moves.
Nothing more fortunate can happen
to city" She said, than for the citi-
zens ,to engage in Il co:operative ef-
ort of some kind and which is for the