The New York herald., 1922-04-22
TWO NEW HOSPITALS
SURE FOR VETERANS
Major Fraser Says One Will BE
in City and Another i'm
the Mountains.
KINGSBRIDGE FILLING UP
Port Chester Site Has Been
Abandoned-Bureau Hires
Only Ex-Service Men.
KINGSBRIDGE FILLING UP

Major Leon Fraser. director of the
Veterans Bureau for the New York
district. told reporters yesterday that
the hospital program of the bureau is
on the way TO a satisfactory situa-
tion
dent the signing OF the Langley bill
on Thursday By President Harding.
providing s17.ooO.ooo for the erection OF
hospitals by the bureau. means that
New York will have tuberculosis hos
pital for ex-service men in the city
and another in the mountains. There
are now fifty-eight patients at the new
Kingsbridge Hospital for the care OF
nervous cases, the Major said. and II
is expected that witain a month there
will be 100 Within three months Major
Fraser plans to have 800 men quartered
there.
1t is his intention to transfer patients
now in hospitals outside the district 10
kingsbridge Hospital at the request OF
their relatives, provided the transfer
would not work harm to their physical
condition. Men are being taken there
from the Marine Hospital and the
Nav Hospital in Brooklyn
Major Fraser announced it had been
founc necessary to abandon the pro-
posed site three miles and half from
Port Chester, on the Connecticut border.
Negotiations for the purchase We're COM
pleted by shs Treasury Department
when property owners in the vicinity
offered strong objections.
"The situation at Sea View saio
Major Fraser. has much improved.
so bad as reported. to begin with. The
ex-service men have building of their
own Their only complaint was on the
score os food, and I think that obJec-
tion has been removed by the employ
rlcnt of a chef from a New York hotel.
who IS making big Improvement In
thes r,eotL"
Major Fraser said there was no truth
i'm the report that he contemplates re-
signing. II won't say that I'm going
10 remain until the job Is finished,
he added, because that won't be for
q, hundred years or more, but I'm in
no hurry to quit
He said that in keeping with the
policy outlined by Col. Il. G. Forbes,
director of the bureau, he had issued
an order calling the attention OF the
claim examiners and of the medical
iaters to the fact that lit Is my policy
and desire that the ex-service men DO
given the benefit of the doubt In every
instance and that we prefer to err on
ihc side of liberality than on the side
Of strictness."
Capt. f. A. MacgIIire, former assist
ant chief of the cooperation division.
has been appointed its chief to succeed
Harry Buringame. who will be as
signed to special duty.
Major Fraser said the bureau was
adhering strictly to its policy OF en-
ploying ex-service men only, reports to
tho contrary notwithstanding. Since
the establishment OF tho bureau. he
said. the number of ex-service men en-
ployed has risen from $500 to $500
WASHINGTON, April Edward OF the
contract for the United States Veterans
Hospital construction at Palo Alto. Cal.
AT cost OF sS61,969, to Mahoney Bros.
or san Francisco, was announced to-day
by Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury
Clifford.
The construction work is to consist OF
nineteen buildings and three additional
officers cottages. to be completed within
eight months.
WASHINGTON. April 2l.-Signature by
President Harding OF the Langley bill
authorizing an additional appropriation
OF sl7.0o0.000 for hospital facilities for
disabled former service ren was an
nounced to-day at the White House.