The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-27
WARM HEARTED'
CRIPPLE AIDS
UNFORTUNATE
Crippled Lawyer Leaves
Large Fund For Crippled 1
Children of Minneapolis
CAME WEST TO WIN
All Children to be Allowed
Benefit According TO Donor,
VIM. H Eustis

BY NEA Service
Minneapolis, Dec. 27.-From the
| purse Of hopeless cripple comes Il
magnificent gift-a gift measuring
sl,0O0,O0O in money but priceless in
the measure Of its aid to a stricken
humanity.
William Henry Eustis, former
mayor Of Minneapolis, helplessly
lame since boyhood, has saved and
struggled through life in order that
he might prevent other children suf-
fering as he has suffered.
Affection and despair have made
no misanthrope of him. He is a
warm-hearted old bachelor, happier
now than he has been for more than
threescore Of his 7s years, in the
realization that Mt last he has full
filled his wish despite the terrible
handicap fate imposed upon him.
Gets Noted Surgeon
Eustis has set apart a million dol
lars from his savings for the erection
and perpetuation Of a hospital and
convalescent home for crippled chill.
dren to be administered by the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
And he also makes it possible to
have the hospital placed in CHI urge
Of DR.. c. F.. Pirquet. world famous
pediatric specialist. who has resign
cd from the University of Vienna
to come to the University Of Mimi
esota and look after the Eustis en-
terprise.
Eustis hasn't always been a clip
pie. He. too, has known what il is
to run and play.
The huskiest of IL children, his
father once entertained hopes of his
becoming q blacksmith.
Suddenly Stricken
"And blacksmith would doubt-
less have become" says Eustis,
had l not been struck, as though
by bolt Of lightning, when l was
TO-"
1t was not lightning, though. II
was necrosis. 1t confined him to a
couch for the better part Of the next
six years, leaving him permanently
crippled.
Later he was able to get around
on crutches, and then he went to
school, although his father figured
he was wasting his time. His father
by that time wanted him to be Il
cobbler, since his affliction prevent
ed him from following the black
smiths trade.
But young Eustis taught school in
the spring and fall terms and went
to the academy in winter. Then he
went to Wesleyan College in Con-
necticut and took a liberal arts
course, selling life insurance to keen
going.
Leaves For West
After getting diploma, and Incl
dentally, a Phi Beta Kappa key, he
went to New York for law course
at Columbia. -.
II practiced," he tells US, "for five
years in partnership with Judge
John r. Putnam in Saratoga Springs,
NJ. Y. Then decided to strike
bigger town. They told me MIMI
eapolis was the fastest growing city
in the middle west, so, came here.I
First opportunity bought n
downtown corner. Then l got an
other one, out of my saving from
my law work. And l kept buying
until l had seven.
Eyes, was pretty lucky in pick.
ng corners. That's the way I have
made most of my money.
IF it hadn't been for nv illness
when l was boy. / suppose I'd
lave been blacksmith. But it's
'een worth life on crutches to be
'ble to do something for the little
elbows who need help. And we'll I
now how badly they need it when
hey are crippled!"
Open to All =
One of the conditions of Eustis' I
ndowment is that all children, re- 7
ardless OF. race, creed or color, may t
ave the advantages Of the hospital
nd the home. Those who can nay S
'ill be allowed to. but the treatment a
or rich and poor will be the same. L
Eustis was a candidate for COVER
lor in 1898, but was defeated by;-
ohm Lind. He is a great lover of
orses and until two years, ago he
Insisted on driving his horse instead
+ an automobile. .
His gift will be known as the
Minnesota Hospital and. Home for
rippled Children. He refused to "
ave his own name connected with Il
:, saying in his letter to the uni =
arsity: T
I'm a generation or two my name W
Ill be forgotten. The name j sug. II
est should inspire faith amons par
nts and children alike, and in the &
ears to come when the little folks W
re restored to health and vigor, e,
'ey will look back upon, the institu- pl