Evening star., 1934-08-07
DECISION ON D. c.
SANATOR|UM SITE
SCHEDULED FRIDAY
Commissioners to Confer
With Committee and Med
icaI Authorities.
PLANS TO SELL. ICkES
ON GLENN DALE WEIGHED
Four Other Places Under Consid-
Grafton in Case Of Ban on
Land Now Owned.

The Commissioners are scheduled
10 reach a decision Friday as TO
where the proposed adult tuberculosis
hospital should be built with funds
which Congress authorized the Dis
trict 10 borrow from the Public Works
Administration.
The Commissioners will confer with
their Site-picking Committee Of Dis
triet officials and with an advisory
group OF medical authorities at 1890
Friday to consider the question of the
best location. Commissioner Hazen
announced today the city heads plan
10 reach a definite conclusion as TO
location at that meeting.
Should the medical authorities IN
sist It would be better TO proceed with
plans 10 develop tuberculosis center
at Glenn Dale, Md, where the Chill
dren's tuberculosis Sanatorium is To-
Gated. then lit win be up to the medi-
cal authorities to help us to sell the
Public Works Administration on a
loan for the building on that site" +"
Hazen said.
Ickes Plan Deadlocked.
The Commissioners originally planned
20 build the sanatoriurn for adults
on the District-owned land at Glenn
Dale, but recently started u look for
q mountain site, which Secretary
Ickes said he felt would be more So
cially desirable. Since then, leading
District citizens and medical authori-
ties have protested against abandon
ment of original plans and the spend
ing OF money to buy an additional
site, declaring the Glenn Dale loca-
tion satisfactory.
Hazen said his committee of Dis
trict officials after viewing some thirty
offered sites, had narrowed its choice
TO four. One of these will be spon-
sored by the Commissioners unless
medical authorities persuade them to
adhere TO the Glenn Dale plan. At
the Friday conference the following
viii be present or represented: Health
Oficer Richard c. Fowler; DR.. j. w.
Peabody, head Of the tuberculosis
Hospital: Surg. Gen. Hugh s. Cum
ming. the heads of George Washing
ton and Georgetown Hospitals, the
Washington tuberculosis Association
and the District Medical Society.
Inspect New Site.
The committee of District officials
set out today to inspect another pro-
posed site, while opposition from
leading Washington civic groups
against abandonment of a tubercu-
losis center at Glenn Dale, Md, con-
tinued TO increase.
The committee, headed by Walter
L. Fowler, assistant corporation coun-
sci, left this morning to look over a
site In Virginia. 1t was understood
the property offered for sale to the
District is located near Bluemont.
The declarations against abandon
nent Of plans for developing a COM
plete tuberculosis center on the Dis
trict-owned property at Glenn Dale,
about Ia miles from Washington, came
from Mrs. Edna Knight Gasch, presi-
dent Of the Soroptimists Club, and
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, president of
the District Federation of Woman's
Clubs.
Mrs. GaSch Surprised.
Mrs. Gasch expressed surprise at
the move to shelve plans for build
ing q 81 SOC, 900 hospital at Glenn
Dale in favor of some more distant
site, saying she had thought that mat
Ter had been settled satisfactorily five
or six years ago.
The Glenn Dale site, she added, is
satisfactory to the District Tuber-
culosis Association and is accessible to
local hospitals.
IF the adult hospital is erected on
the same grounds as the cllildren's
hospital" she said, ''it will not divide
families In which both children and
parents are suffering from the same
trouble.
Why burden taxpayers by purchas-
ing an additional site for adults when
o satisfactory place already has been
acquired for the purpose?"
Cites Time Saving.
Mrs. Wiley declared there is no
question at all but that the adult
tuberculosis Sanatorium should be
erected at Glenn Dale.
ITO have both Sanatoria in one
place saves time of the volunteer ply
SicianS who give their time and talents
for charity" she declared.
Mount Weather, Va, near Blue
mont, also owned by the Government
and covered with buildings, would be
good only If it was the only place
available. But it is Sc miles from
Washington. perched on top of a
lonely, inaccessible mountain, and the
road from Bluemont Gap is difficult
and dangerous"