The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-16
PROTEST AGAINST NEGRO BALL
PARK.
COlOred Councilman Hopkins Asks
Residents to Reimburse Amusement
Company.

Wilmington, Del, April lathe
proposed location OF a baseball park
in the Ninth Ward by the Douglass
Amusement Company, a Colored or
ganization. was the subject of u
heated controversy in the council
chamber recently.
Headed by Holmes Jones, a dele
cation of about 100 citizens from the
Ninth ward living in the vinicity OF
Seventeenth and Church streets, pro-
tested against the closing of four
streets, Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
Spruce and Church for the purpose
Of erecting a ball park. which they
contended would deteTorate property
values in that neighborhood, as well
as constitute a source of annoyance
TO the residents in that vicinity.
tention otherwise. Mrs. Robinson
died December in the hospital
In another affidavit Bernard Duval
Of 1875 West 40 street charges that
while undergoing treatment for rup-
ture he was forced to pay SOS. 1t
is alleged that $40 went to an IN
terne, who arranged for his oper-
alton, $15 to orderlles and $40 to
nurses.
When a reporter for The New York
Herald made inquiries in the hospital
he was referred to the superintend-
ent or nurses, who said she was not
at liberty to discuss the case. DR..
George O'Hanlon, general medical
superintendent of Bellevue and Allied
Hospitals, told the reporter that COM
plants had been lodged with the
board of trustees about six weeks
ago, but that in most instances they
failed to name persons accused. In
one case where a member of the
hospital staff was specifically refer
red to as having taken graft, he
said the hospital officials had en-
deavored without success to get the
complainant to visit the hospital and
make an naturalization.
Alderman Harris told the reporter
that the hearing held by Commits
sioner Hfrshfeld dealt principally
with the case of Allen Russell of Fo'
LenoX Avenue, who charged that
when he took his wife to the hospital
in critical condition on February 10
she was at first refused admittance
by some one who stated that the ma
ternity ward was quarantined. In
the midst of row in which a police.
man was called in and threatened
Russell and his wife. it is asserted
that doctor made his appearance,
md on learning of the woman's con-
dition directed that she be admitted
to the maternity ward which was
not Guaranteed.
lIistreatmnet Charged.
Other afidavits charging mistreat-
ment arg signed by Sarah Benson OF
90 West 136th street, Haze Pinder Of
112 West 18th street and Hayward
j. Payne of West 1920 street, Mr..
Payne accuses persons connected with
the hospital Of having neglected his
eley en-year-old niece, who is suffer
ing from the effects of a hypodermic
needle which broke off and remained
in her flesh. Hazel Pinder charges
that one inferno directed that her
eighteen months old godehild be X
rayed because of an injury to her
shoulder, but that when she presented
the SIP for the X-ray she was told
ule apparatus was broken and that
besides, no one could take X-rays
on Monday" She says the inferno
afterwards tore up the slip.
Alderman Harris said the appoint
ment of Negro doctors to the staff
Of the hospital would give the Ne
groes confidence in the institution,
which they have not got at the pres
ent time. ut is not color question"
he said. ut is municipal problem.
The Colored people now go to the
hospital as last resort because they
anticipate discrimination. By post
poning going to the hospital they
often imperil other persons of the
community to whom they may com
municate their disease.