Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-03-08
RE TREAT PLANS $4,000
CAMPAIGN FOR BUILDING
Forced to Abandon Present Hospital,
Which Is Threatened With
49, Condemnation.
FORTY YEARS IN OLD HOME
Decision of Building Committee and
Managers tn Raise sum for New
Structure Will BE Announced ut
- Annual Board Meeting To-Day.

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To avert the possible closing of the
Retreat for tho Sick. which is facing
Threatened condemnation OF tho old
building il has occupied fog nearly
forty years a, Twelfth and Marshall
4 Streets. a conference Of the building
committee or the board OF managers
and number OF representative Rich
mond men and women. after a two
hour luncheon session al Stumpf's llo-
tel yesterday. adopted a building pro-
gram and announced the dates for
financial campaign for Sl5o,00o With
which to build new hospital on the
present site. FIFTY persons were
present.
The ten DAYS beginning Monday.
March 10 were fixed upon rs tho Pc
riod of active solicitation for the $3.50.
600 fund. Colonel Eugene c. Alassie,
representing the incorpora,ors OF the
Retreat, presided. The physical con-
dition of the present building was de-
scribed by Mrs. John i. Lightfoot.
chairman of the building committee.
Within the past three weeks. said Mrs.
LiEhtfoot the crumbling Of a fouu
dalton wall under the building made
a collapse imminent. and tho Building
inspector warned the management that
the usefulness Of the structure was
about over.
PRESENT BUILDING MORE
THAN 100 YEARS OLD
To-day, at the annual meeting OF the
board. which will be held ~ the Re-
treat at noon, Yesterdays decision will
be formally announced. The meeting
OF the board will mark the close of
the institutions fortieih year. 1t holds
tho record Of being the oldest non7
denominationsl hospital in the South.
/ and the building it occupies is over
100 years old
Tin tho forty Years the Retreat has
served Richmond" said Mrs Lichtfoot.
In presenting tho building committees
case to yesterdays meeting, I'VE have
a record of S7,2ST days of charity SER
vice to Richmond's poor Tina, is
record, ] think. which. | may say. is
unequaled in the State of Virginia.
And in all these years we have never
come before the public Of Richmond
with a general appeal for financial aid.
I'VE propose building ono wing 1t
our Twelfth Street property before va
eating the present building, and then
completing the second unit. in order
that the hospital may not be closed
during rebuilding. When completed.
we will have institution with 100
beds. instead OF our present capacity
of nifty. It will be tho poor mans hos
pital in tho future as in the past. and
no distinction viii he made between
the service given the charity and the
paid patient"
COMMITTEE Is NAMED
no DIRECT CAMPAIGN
At Chairman Mass,e's suggestion, tho
selection OF a campaign chairman to
head the moncy-raisinE effort Was re
ferred TO committee OF five. Mrs.
Lightfoot. Mrs. Thomas W. McCahe.
Mrs. j. Pryor Davis. r. NJ. Darlington
and Coleman Wortham agreed To serve
on the committee. Mr.. carr,nsto,, Mr.,
Wortham, George Bryan, Or. NJ. T..
NHckols. DIR. Paul llcwlc, 4. I. Adams
and others addressed tho meeting.
Under tho program outlined at the
meeting. campaign headquarters Will
be opened this morning al 1000 East
Main Street. Here tho preliminary
work. as we'll as tho actual money
raising during the tcn-dIy period he
ginning week from next Monday.
will center. y Campaign ganzation
OF fully 800 Richmond peopls--mcn and
women--is contemplated, under ap-
proxinlRtely forty team captains. \
series OF informal noon-day and even
ing conferences during the ncNt seven
days will eliminate IN An Organization
dinner on Thursday evening of ncNt
week. for the final checking up of
completed teams before the beginning
OF the citSwide canvass for the fund.
on. the following MONDAY Already
nineteen team captains have Noiun-
teered tos.scrvei
NJ .'The.o lef Twelfth street building has
lived It's life" said Building Inspector
John +. Butler last evening. After
the recent foundation collapse We Su-
pefintended temporary repairs which,
make the structure safe for the pres
ent. but the mana Ecmcu should no,
delay execution Of its plans for q ncr-
manent new home"
THIS IS HOSPITALS
% ANNUAL DONATION DAY
To-day. besides being tho occa sion for
the annual meeting Of tn. hoard IS
the hospitals annual donation day
we are hoping" said Miss Mary Nor
wood, president OF Tho board "tl,a,
Richmond people ulll sec IN our
fortierh donation daE an oppori,nit..
to offer. not alone their gtfis Of goods
but their personal service as we'll
The building committee Of In. hoard
which has handled the preliminary dc.
tails Of tho present movement. con.
sists OF Mrs John l. Lichtfoot fcbaIr
mani. Mrs. Shields Nj Eishop, Mr..
Thomas w. McCabc. Mrs 4 Pryor
Davis, Mrs. 4. l.. Straus. Mrs. Christian
IL. Clarke, Mrs. A. l.. Hanna. Mrs r. I
henson. and Miss Mary Norw God, rrcs
i6ent OF the board. ~ member cx
offico.
1.-The mems board Of iuccrporators or
the institution, which WAS wcll r.pr.-
scented at yesterdays meeting, con
sists OF Colonel u. &. MaSsic j. T,v-
Tor E'llyson, pr. John Il Wheat. John
Kerr Branch, Oscar SWiucford. iIrrhcrt
< w. Jackson. William H. White and
Milton f.. Marcusc. Mr., jackson has
. been made campaign treasurer.