Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-19
THOROUGH CAMPAIGN
For Augusta General
Hospital to Be Made
by Team Captains

ENTHUSIASM lnOlCaIlVe OF success
pervaded the official meeting of the
executive committee of the Augusta
General hospital campaign held yes
terday.
Selection of 10 live, wide-awake bus
mess men and five representative wo-
men to act as team captains in the
coming campaign was taken up by
the committee, and reports were made
of the progress in this important
branch of the preliminary work.
Work of the selection of team cap
tains will be pushed forward rapidly
and then the team captains will con-
centrate on the mobilization OF the
$50 volunteer workers. This army
will make a thorough campaign among
the citizens Of Augusta and its vi
cnity whose names are being listed
at campaign headquarters at the Y.
NJ. {. A. as men and women who fos-
ter philanthropy and are willing to
give to movement which has as rs
objective a modern institution for the
healing of the i'll and injured among
their fellow men.
classification committee consist
ing OF Guy p. Gannett and Edwin /.
Dudley, both members of the hospital
beard. was appointed at yesterdays
meeting by Hon. George F. Macom-
Der executive chairman for the cam
paign.
Mr.. Gannett also volunteered to
serve as a team captain in addition
to aiding the organization Of the vol
unteer corps.
Complete success for the organized
drive to raise $4,000 for the addition
was predicted by Cornelius NJ. Smith,
director of the campaign, following the
meeting.
What other cities have done for
their hospitals, Augusta can and will
DO he said. ON every hand l am
assured of the deep appreciation on the
part of the public of what it owes to
the hospital and how necessary the
continued existence of the institution
is to the city's welfare"
Il am much pleased with the fine
civic spirit which has been shown in
Augusta added Mr.. Smith. Our
success hinges largely on the COM
munlty interest which we find in va
rlous cities. Leading business and pro-
fessional men in Augusta nave shown
strong pride in the development of
the citys hospital and the willing
ness with which some of the most
influential men in the citys CONNER
cial world have rallied to the colors
for the coming campaign may be re-
garded as going far toward assuring
conspicuous success.
The building and development of
goth century hospitals can not be ne
elected by any progressive city" Mr..
Smith added. "Such a task has come
TO be recognized generally as belong
ing to the business and professional
world he continued. at rs our ex-
perlence that manufacturers, mer-
chants. bankers. lawyers, physicians.
clergymen, capitalists and orner lead
ing citizens in most of the cities of
this country are quite willing to nut
their shoulders to the wheel when it
comes to raising a large fund for a
philanthropic purpose
Augusta promises to make A spIen-
did showing in the way of civic pride.
We shall get the $4,000 of this citv's
enlarged hospital, because the people
of Augusta realize that the institu-
ton needs and deserves it. and there
is ample recent evidence that this
community does not stay its hand in
the matter Of generosity"
Mr.. Smith said he referred to. An
gusta's brilliantly successful Red
Cross campaign, which was under the
direction of Henry r. Dunnack. one
OF the active members of the execu-
tive committee for the local hospital
movement