Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
HOSPITAL TO GIVE
I ITS FIRST BAZAAR
St. Joseph's Forced by High Ex-
penses to Abandon Stand
Against Public Affairs

An increase in the amount of social serv-
ice work it has been called upon to perform
recently has forced st. Joseph Hospital to
abandon its stand against public affairs be-
ing held for the benefit of the institution.
For the first time in seventy six years. or
since the hospital has been built. a bazaar
and lawn fctc to raise funds for the hospital
will be held on the lawn of the institution.
June 10, II and 10. Women prominent in
social affairs including wives and relatives
of surgeons and physicians of the hospital,
are patronesscs of the bazaar. Mt which it is
expected to raise several thousand dollars, to
be applied TO the needs of the institution $
social service department
Seventy women affiliated with tho Catholic
Alliance, an organization engaged in war
work. have agreed TO continue this work one
night every week for the social service de-
partment of st. Joseph's Hospital. These
women are connected with the parish Of Our
Lady of Mercy, Broad street and Susquc-
hanna avenue. The bandagcs. congresses
and other sick room needs that these women
make are used exclusively in the hospital
dispensary.
Influenza Increases Expenses
The recent influenza outbreak was one of
the causes of the wide expansion of the hos
pital's social service program. The depart
ment is in charge of social service workers.
who follow up the patients after they are
discharged from the hospital and look after
their moral and physical wellbeing during
the time they arc unable to look after them
selves. Conditions attending the war also
contributed to the increased work of the
hospitals social service department Thou
sands of persons were attracted to the city
by the war industries. Many of them be-
came i'll and were taken to the hospital. their
own homes being hundreds of miles away.
The social service work of st. Joseph S
Hospital has been going on for several years
under the direction of the Sisters of Charity.
The hospital is nonsectarian. catering alike
to all creeds. races and colors The hos
pital's staff of physicians and surgeons in =
cludcs virtually every denomination and re-
ligion.
The bazaar will open on the evening of
Tuesday. June 10. and continue during the
afternoon and evening of the two following
days. The spacious lawn of the hospital, at
Sixteenth street and Girard avenue. will
hold part of the bazaar. The sidewalk will
also be utilized. On the street in front of
| the hospital there will be pony riding straw
and automobile rides.
Here Are the PatrOnesses
| The patronesses of the affair include Mrs.
| f. r. Montgomery, Mrs. George Morley
Marshall. Mrs. J. Chalmers Da Costa. Mrs.
! s. Lewis Iiegler. Mrs. II. C. Hollopeter,
Mrs J. NJ. Spellissy, Mrs. Melvin NJ. Frank =
| lin, Mrs. Thomas A. O'Brien. Mrs. Charles
| F. Nassau. Mrs. p. F. Moylan, Mrs. NJ. H.
| Bochroch, Mrs. F. Hurst Maier Mrs. Paul
| J. Pontius, Mrs. J. Capetan. Flynn, Mrs.
| p Brooke Bland, Mrs. Charles J. Jones,
Mrs. p. n. Bcrgeron, Mrs. Joseph A.
Moore. Mrs John f. Y. Jones, Mrs. James
| A. Kelly. Mrs. William Quicksall. Mrs.
William Ellis, Mrs. Arthur Wrigley. Mrs
Arthur Sender, Mrs Elmer, johnson, Mrs
Francis Shannon. Mrs. f.. A. Tracy, Mrs
Mary Ryan. Mrs. William Nichols. Miss
Sheehan. Miss Rose Herman. Mrs Francis
i. Shannon. Mrs. Leo Flannery, Mrs.
Joseph Garvey. Mrs. James Richards and
Mrs. Edward Mallon.