Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-04

civic pride, including the removal OF
that once unsightly iron fence around
| the State House, flor in those days
Annapolis was noted for being a
fenced in city" the State House,
| Governors Mansion and st. Anne's
| being all fenced around)-so to the
Evening Capital is due the establish
lnent Of the splendid Emergency Hos
pital.
Public Sentiment Aroused
Through editorials written from
time to time by my father on the needs
of a hospital. and locals written by
myself citing cases whore patients
had died for reason Of the trip to Bal
| timore, and the operation performed
| there. when life might have been
| saved had there been a local hospitals
| public sentiment was aroused. ne
H"Doctors who lost patients for rea-
son of no hospital here, came to the
realization of the necessity for such
an institutions and one of the first to
take UP the Evening Capitals cue was
Dr. William 81 Welelr. who wrote, lat
seine leDgthlag REORGANIZATION, urging
| the citizens to come to q realization Of
| the needs for local hospital, aud TO
get together and take some action that
would result I'M building hospital,
however unpretentious. "a ~
sentiment WIS THUS created, and
the subject matter o. DR.. Welch's COM
munication sped from lip TO lip. The
result, people, who will talk, did, and
women took the lead, not in the talk
ing, but in acting The Naval Acad
envy buildings were being erected, the
State House was in progress of con-
struction, and as no building is built
save at the. cost of human life, there
were accidents. TO break the thread
of this story, it was one of these acct
dents that was the first case at the
Emergency Hospital.
Mrs. Wainwright Promoter
Eat that TIME, May, 1902, Admiral
Wainwright (then Captain) was Sup
erintendent of the Naval Academy.
His wife, at all times deeply interested
in Annapolis. called number of wo-
men together and they in the upper
hall of the Arundel Building. now the
Globe Furniture Company, discussed
the needs of a local hospital. Mrs
Wainwright said she could get num-
Der of mattresses from the class about
TO graduate, and she did These were
first taken to the old stable of the
Chase Home, later and now resi-
dence, formerly occupied by the Wash
burns. Then the mattresses, few
cots. and other things were removed
to a room in the old City Hotel, which
was loaned for the purpose. and it was
not long that sentiment grew; popular
favor resulted in the call by Mayor Du
Bots of a mass-meeting and the pres
ent hospital was given birth. 1t is a
long story, but the lusty infant soon
threw on its swaddling clothes, donned
short ones. then began to learn to |
walk, got on its feet, and had measles.
whooping cough, humps, and all the
ills child OF human flesh is heir to. |
but It had come to stay, and here il is |
ike that baby in the advertisement We
sec so often. Crying for More"-this |
tine a Nurses Home "
Committee Waits On Legislature
Mrs. Gage mentioned the fact that /
ION Thursday, March 10, 1904. dele
CATION from the Emergency Hospital
Association waited upon the Ways and I
Means Committee Of the Legislature
asking the Legislature for $4,000 for /
two years, tS2.500 a year) for the up
keep and maintenance of the hospital
The WAS and Mems Committee look
ed upon tho project with favor. and it
was later granted by the Legislature
1.-THE hospital committee WAS headed
by DR.. George Wellsy Chief OF STAFF:
Doctors Charles b. Henkel. j. j.
Murphy. William s. WEIGH and James
p. Bannon, representing the Advisory
Board.
Representative of the Board Of
Managers we're Mrs. George w Mil
Ter. president; Mrs j. c. Cresap, Mrs.
j. W. Martin. Mrs. George T. Field
meyer. and. Miss Kate Randall
She spoke of the generosity Of the