The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-01-30
HOSPITAL MONEY
Z
IS Still INTACT
Captain Pagan Has Recently
Promised to Come to Medina
and Complete the Project or
Close It Up.
COMMITTEE COMPLAINS
OF UNFAIR CRITICISM

For some years it has been the ex-
pressed wish of people Of Medina that
a hospital be built to care for the
needs Of the city and county. 1t was
felt by some that the possibility of
accident at the foundry and machine
shop made it wise to have the best of
facilities for caring for any one who
night get hurt or burned in one of
the manufactures, and considerable
agitation was the outcome Of this be-
lief.
Some months ago people from
Cleveland drifted into Medina, took
an option ON the old Phillips home.
and began to talk Medina hospital.
A committee was appointed-or to be
explicit, was solicited-and the stage
was set for campaign with local
hospital at the end of the road,
This was about the time that the
( u. S. entered the war. Because of
this the Board of Trade refused to
get behind the project, and after con-
siderable work had been done, quite
a number of pledges secured, and
some money collected, the proposition
slowed up until there was nothing
doing. 80 ..H~ 4:
Finally people began to ask the
treasurer, Geo. McNeal, for the
money they had paid in--believing
that the project was dead beyond
resurrection. This Mr.. McNeal could
not return to them until some formal
action was taken declaring the project
had been given up. However, Treas
urer McNeal did ask Secretary R. E..
Hart to write Capt. Pagan in regard
to the matter. which Mr.. Hart did,
and he received in reply the state
ment that Capt. Pagan would soon
come to Medina and either nick up
the project and 60 ahead with it or
settle matters in a business like way.
| Certain Medina citizens feel that
the project has not been handled in a
business manner, that Capt. Pagan
has not had the experience in such
matters that he assured the COM
mittee he possessed, and in the mind
of the general public Capt. Pagan
would not now assay so per cent.
Some 60 SO far as to say the project
looks to them like an effort to exploit
the Medina public, both of city and
county. Those who gave pledges want
to see something for their money and
pledges or have them returned,
those who gave money think it time to
show activity or return the money.
The committee has been placed in
an unenviable light before Medina
citizens. With single purpose of
doing their duty in trying to secure
for Medina creditable hospital,
some of them feel they have been
dragged into proposition andathen
been deserted after the chariot las
been started rolling down an incIine.
They are-intersted in seeing the mat
ter 60 forward or its finances wound
up in business way. Certain of
them say they have been unfairly
criticized and they now desire to have
something done one way or the other.
Quite number of people who made
small contributions would like to see
the project go forward or be given
their money back. Some have been
so bored by what has happened in the
past that all they say at this time is,
"Give me back my money" Treasurer
McNeal can't do this until the mat
ter is settled ,one way or the other,
definitely, and with the money de-
posted in one Of Medina's banks he
awaits the verdict Of the community.
The money is still intact, and unless
Capt. Pagan completes his contract
there are members Of the committee
who say he never shall have penny
| from any public hospital fund. On
the other hand it is said that Pagan
and his confreres spent considerable
time and money to get as far as they
have, and that If the project stops
/ now the Captain stands to lose a
considerable sum.
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