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GUY HOSPITAL PITIFUL
M rs. nils klorman;
daughter and heiress ,
1 of Charles Kohler, piano j
; magnate, who can not pay <
s expenses of her home on j
j $25,000 a year.
Officials Demand More Room—Equipment Is
Rest to Be Had, But Patients Are Crowded
Into Every Corner and Many Turned Away.
You can’t get away from this fact:
Grady Hospital in its present condi
tion demonstrates the failure of At
lanta as a city government for the
greatest good of all the people.
Sick wards crowded and overflow
ing, every corridor and every porch
strewn with the enameled beds of
weary-eyed sufferers, clinic halls
jammed daily to the point of suffoca
tion, nurses huddled into insufficient
quarters which were intended origi
nally only as sick wards, and with
no facilities for rest or study—at
every turn through the institution on
Butler street are evidences of a city's
neglect.
The normal capacity of Grady Hos
pital is 185 patients. Under the pres
ent circumstances the institution will
run smoothly, the wards w r ill be com
fortably filled, the staff will be kept
busy and every reasonable facility
taxed with 185 patients.
Hospital Overcrowded.
East week, which was not an excep
tional week, the hospital census aver
aged 300 a day. With 300 patients
not only is every available bed occu
pied, but every cot, and many pa
tients must repose on steamer chairs
—some even on stretchers.
And yet, with 300 patients in tne
hospital, room must be made for oth
ers. Every day there are accidents,
desperate illnesses, sudden strokes, :.3
there nyjst be in a city of 200,000.
The sufferers are brought to Grady
Hospital. The staff must not pause
to think of crowded conditions in such
emergencies. Room must be made.
And it is made by the heroic meth
od of selecting the patients who are
best mended and who may best sta id
the return to their homes. Perhaps
they are not fullv recovered—but
there are others who are in greater
need. This system, which has proved
the despair of Superintendent Sum-
merall and resulted in his resignation,
is one of keenest injustice.
Roof Garden a Myth.
A Sunday American reported visit
ed Dr. Summerall Saturday and asked
to be showm something of conditions.
The trip through the hospital was
made.
“In proportion to our capacity,’’ sail
Dr. Summerall, “we are forced to work
daily under conditions which should
accompany only a great catastrophe, a
great fire or explosion, for Instance, m
which many persons were Injured.
That is illogical. Look ”
It was on the fifth floor that the
survey began. When the main build
ing was constructed a portion of the
open, sunny fifth floor was intended
as a “roof garden,” where the con
valescent patients could be taken to
catch the full warmth of the sunshine
and the coolness of the breezes. But
that was a dream. The children’s
ward was overcrowded, so that the
“roof garden” was turned into addi
tional quarters for sick children. Sat
urday it was filled with cribs from
which pale, big-eyed, unmoving ba
bies stared at you.
Well Equipped.
Descending to the fourth floor and
to a pungent stratum of aseptic odors,
you find the operating rooms. Typi
cal of the entire institution, the op
erating rooms are equipped to a de
gree of efficiency and handiness be
yond that of the ordinary hospital.
There is no question of inefficiency in
this matter—it is a question of iria.i-
equacy, of inadequacy growing out f
the indifference of the public and par.
ticularly of the very people the hos
pital is designed most to help.
But About the’ operating rooms.
They were crowded. In the first room
a half dozen white-robed surgeons
• worked, absorbed and breathless, over
a pitiful, still something on the table.
In the next room there was a similar
group.
However, the operation here was for
tonsilitis, and the patient, a child,
gasped and gurgled hoarsely. A wom
an stood in the hall, and holding the
door of the operating room open an
inch or two peered through the crack
and sobbed in terror. She was the
mother.
That was but an incident, however,
hardly to be mentioned in the story of
a trip through a hospital. There are
many such things to be seen. The
fact remains that these rooms and the
others were crowded, as they are most
of the time.
Pay Wards Complete.
Down the hall from the operating
noms are the twelve pay wards of the
hospital. Gra*dy Hospital is a munic
ipal institution, but the limited space
for paying patients is maintained be
cause a number of physicians send
their patients to Grady in preference
to other hospitals. The Grady equip
ment is efficient and the work at Gra
dy is complete even the minutest
tests and diagnoses being made there.
Tn many other hospitals there are no
facilities for these details.
Also the pay wards are maintained
in thought of deriving revenue toward
the upkeep and extension of the hos
pital.
But most of the occupants of the
pay wards are not paying patients.
The free wards are overcrowded, and
the pay wards are pressed Into serv
ice.
“As long as there is a bed left.’’ ex
plained Dr. Summerall. “we do not
turn away an applicant for admission.
We might afford to turn away the
paying patient. Tf he has money to
pay, he can find treatment elsewhere.
But for most of the free patients this
is the only hope.”
In several of the rooms of the pay
ward there are two beds, although
♦ hey were built as single rooms.
Beds Are Everywhere.
Dropping below, you come upon the
women’s ward. You must walk care
fully through the corridors In passing
from room to room, because beds are
everywhere. The back porch is strewn
with beds of the gynecology patients.
The porches naturally were not
constructed to accommodate patients.
Hence they are not protected fully
against violent weather.
“When it rains,” said the superin
tendent, “we must do the best we
can”
There ar* 65 women In the gynecol
ogy ward, and the limit of capacity .s
30. They are working miracles with
their loaves and fishes at Grady.
The second floor Is *he men’s wand,
similar in even- detail to the wom
en’s ward, even t" conditions of un
comfortable crowding.
Nurses’ Room Crowded.
On the first floor of the main build,
ing are the administration office* and
a portion of the nurses’ quarters.
Twentv-flve nurses live in a long
room that was intended to accommo
date patients. The beds are close to
gether, side by aide, their trunks piled
In the center of the the other
furniture where It can be crammed. A
half dozen beds or more overflow the
room out upon a screened porch.
Nurses must study. There is little
opportunity for that in their working
home. They must rest, for nobody's
labors are^ quite so wearing and ex
acting as those of a trained nurse.
But try it yourself, and see if rest can
be complete and full when it is taken
in a room with two dozen others.
Other nurses live in a little building
on the grounds that was built as a
contagion ward. The beds of the
young women fill the house. In each
of four of the single rooms of -he
erstwhile contagion ward there are
four beds, with just space enough
about them for the occupants to sidle
in and out. Several of the nurses live
in little cubby-holes that could not
conceivably have been designed as
anything other than linen closets.
No Other Room Available.
There Is no other room available
for the faithful young women who
work day and night over Atlanta’s
sufferers. And their dining room is
a perennially darkened chamber oe-
low the level of the main building,
where they eat three meals a day oy
artificial light.
When Grady Hospital first was de
signed, on quarters were provided for
trained nurses. Indeed, there were no
trained nurses. And. although the ci f y
has grown and the institution’s needs
and service have grown, no further
provisions have been made for tne
staff of nurses, which has grown
apace with the city and the times.
No more accurate impression of fie
entire situation can be gained than by
a visit to the kitchen. Twenty-two
years ago the same kitchen, about
twelve feet by thirty feet in dimen
sions, served the twenty patients and
the even smaller staff. It was ade
quate a-plenty in those days.
Small Kitchen Serves 500.
To-day 450 to 500 persons are sus
tained each day by the output of that
kitchen. Yet no more room has been
provided. It is still twelve feet by
thirty, and the stove, which must
needs be kept fired at all hours, keeps
the little chamber at a temperature of
135 degrees.
No hotel in Atlanta normally pro
vides for so many persons as Grady
Hospital. The hospital kitchen is
smaller ‘Iran that In many private
homes of Atlanta.
Athwart the kitchen you come upon
the steam laundry, designed and in
stalled by Dr. Summerall when he be
came superintendent. There are
1.5(H),000 pieces of laundry in the hos
pital's wash each year. Sent to a pri
vate establishment for renovation, at
an average cost of 2 cents apiece, the
hospital’s lajandry bill would be $30,-
000 a year. To prevent this the hos
pital laundry was Installed.
A Midget Laundry.
For all Its effectiveness, it is a
midget laundry. There is no room
provided for a larger plant. When
the hospital was erected, a wash
room was constructed to accommo
date four washerwomen and their
hand tubs—just a nook of a cham
ber. Dr. Summeral found it neces
sary to utilize The same space for his
steam laundry. A portion of the brick
wall was knocked out to make a
place for the driving shaft; another
portion was torn away to locate the
mangle. Then the laundry was put
in operation. The 1,500,000 pieces are
laundered at a cost of only $3,000 a
year.
“No hospital has clean linen In
greater abundance and of better de
gree of cleanliness than Grady,” said
Dr. Summerall. “And yet, to do the
work, that laundry force is kept at
work day and night. There is not
a minute of the time that a shift is
not on the Job.”
City Is Neglectful.
The laundry is in the original hos
pital building. Except for the main
building, erected several years ago
at a cost of $100,000, the structures
of the institution, and the ground as
well, w r ere given the city by private
persons. Rut all this altruism is be
ing rewarded by the city by neglect;
no means are provided for repairs or
rehabilitation.
The hall of the old building, in
which the negro wards are located,
is sagging, with a perceptible Incline
along its surface. Dr. Summerall has
had it jacked up and bolstered four
times, until utter dilapidation is im
minent. In the ward for negro men
the floor is worn and the crevices
between planks are enlarged, fur
nishing delightful receptacles for
dust. The labor necessary to keep
the old floors clean is a dozen times
greater than the work would be for a
solid, new floor.
Survey Show Inadequacy.
All these things are but the bare
details of a survey. Anyone may see
them. Many visitors have seen them:
there have been surveys and surveys;
citizens’ ’ommittees and civic bu
reaus have come and gone; experts
from the East, at handsome fees,
have gone through the institution.
And what they all saw was what the
Sunday American reporter saw. And
they ‘all said so.
But nothing has come of it.
“The trouble is the utter Indiffer
ence of the public,” said Dr. Summer-
all. explaining his action in resign
ing. He was not content merely to
draw his salary as superintendent
and allow matters to drife along as
best they might.
More than a year ago a proposed
bond issue which would have made
Grady the efficient institution it
should be was defeated—not by ac
tive opposition, although there was
active opposition developed, but by
the indifference'of voters. And so it
is that Grady Hospital falls short
of its mission as a municipal hos
pital.
Many Turned Away.
“People come here to the clinics
every day,” said Dr. Summerall, “who
really should be admitted to the hos
pital. There Is no room. Many per
sons come here and beg for admis
sion; we can only treat them at the
clinics, and send them home.
“Most of them can not understand.
There’s the tragedy of it. They see
in this a municipal hospital, to .which
they have the right of entrance and
service, as citizens.
“And they have the right. Grady
Hospital is not fulfilling its mission.
“And then, the Injustice to those
wh.o must be sent away, not fully re
covered! The righteous resentment
of those who knock at our gates and
can not he admitted unless their case
is desperate! It is appalling."
“Drys" Are Looking for Way to
Raise Revenue If Beer
Money Is Lost.
Can’t Live on $25,000
A Year; Sum Doubled
Mrs’ Nils Florman, 20, Permitted Ad
ditional Income From Father’s
$4,000,000 Estate.
NEW YORK, July 3.—Mrs. Nils
Florman, 20, formerly Olga V. Kohler,
will have to hold her yearly expenses
in $50,000. She has been receiving
$25,000 a year from the $4,000,000 es
tate left by her father, Charles Koh
ler, piano manufacturer, but said she
could not live on that income, so she
applied for permission to draw $25,-
000 additional, and the court granted
the request.
Kohler provided in his will that nls
daughter should have the income from
a $300,000 fund, invested In stock of
his piano company, until 25, and then
receive $100,000 cash. Similar sums
are to be paid her on her thirtieth and
thirty-fifth birthdays.
Nils Florman, her husband, once
was the fiance of Miss Helen Stallo,
wealthy daughter of Edmund K. Stal
lo. Later he was reported engaged to
Katherine Foree. sister of Mrs. John
Jacob Astor. This report was denied.
In explaining why she needs more
money, Mrs. Florman says she pays
the rent for the Florman apartment,
at a cost of $5,000 a year. She like
wise supplied the credit for the fur
nishings, the contract price for which
was $20,000.
Old-Time Fiddlers
To Play at Bijou
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
July 5. .6 and 7. will be days of Joy
heretofore untold among “ye old time
fiddlers” of Georgia. They will as
semble at the Bijou Theater for a
convention, and among the well-
know fiddlers to attend will be Fid
dling John Carson, of Blue Ridge;
Gid Tanner, the double-voiced fid
dler: P. A. Ludwig, acclaimed Geor
gia’s greatest old-time fiddler; Riley
Puckett, with his dancing doll, and
numerous others.
Slim Jim., of Red Bank. Tenn., who
comes with a reputation back of his
fiddle and bow, propose* to show
Georgia fiddlers things they do not
know. All in all. Atlantans will have
an opportunity to enjoy a real old-
fashioned fiddling bee three days of
this week.
Certain members of the Legislature
are becoming alarmed over the State’.*
finances.
Consequently, members of the Leg
islature have decided to give serious
thought to the matter of the Stat.cs
revenue. They have about come to
the conclusion that a tax placed ou
soft drinks, taxing the manufacturer,
| dealer and dispenser of all soft drinks
made of carbonated water and syrups,
in an equal manner, will greatly m-
I crease the State’s income. This class
| of business is considered a luxury,
j and It is the custom to tax all luxu-
I rles rather than necessities.
A significant feature of this move,
I which will most likely terminate in a
1 bill that will be presented to the
! House and Senate next week, is that
I the idea of the bill is the product of
■'legislative minds* that are inclined >o
temperance legislation. These law
makers feel that the responsibility of
any measure that would curtail the
income of the State by the passage of
an act promoted by the temperance
advocates will rest upon those mem
bers backing such a measure, and if
the State should suffer financial de
pression in her Treasury from the loss
of a quarter of a million dollars rev
enue it now' receives from business
that they would legislate out, it s,
therefore, In their minds, up to th^m
to provide a way to recover the
State’s loss.
It seems certain that these mem
bers will take action along the line
of taxation of soft drinks of every de
scription in order that they may
“leave the State where they found
her,” so to speak, in case a temper
ance measure should be passed that
is sharp enough to cut the financial
resources of the State to the amount
of the near-beer tax In Georgia, which
ts about $250,000 a year.
As the members engaged 1n draft
ing the bill are deliberating over the
reach and regulations of.such a meas
ure, the secret has leaked out, and it
is becoming a most popular piece of
legislation before it Is born.
Fulton Odd Fellows
To Hold Memorial
Memorial services will be held by
Fulton Lodge, No. 32. I. O. O. F., at
the hall, Moore and Decatur streets.
Sunday, July 11, 4 o’clock, all of
the lodges of the Sixteenth Division
participating.
An interesting program has been
arranged, and an invitation is extend
ed to all. M. H. Cooper will deliver
the address of welcome, being a past
grand of Fulton Lodge. No. 32. The
proclamation and list of dead will be
read of Fred HeiLbron, D. D. G. M.
The sermon will be delivered by the
Rev. W. L. Hambrlck. Alex Dittler,
past grand master, will deliver an ad-
dres, followed by the closing ode of
the lodge by the members and then
the benediction. Music will inter
sperse the program.
Former Horse Guard
Members Will Meet
The first meeting and entertain
ment of the Governor’s Horse Guard
Association, a new organization, com
posed of former members of the
Horse Guard, will be held next Satur
day afternoon at the Druid Hills Golf
Club. Elaborate preparations for the
affair are being made by the enter
tainment committee, whieh consists
of Major J. S. Dozier. Asa G. Candler,
Judge Charles W. Smith. George M.
Hope. F. M. Stewart, Howard Candler
and P. C. Cashman.
The membership is growing fast
with members of the old guard, all of
whom are enthusiastic over the new
association and expect it to become a
factor in the upbuilding of the city.
Seek Vivisectionists
As Canine Capturers
Following reports that vivisection-
ists are hiring men to steal dogs to be
used in scientific experiments, the po
lice yesterday were searching for dog
thieves.
A. M. Harrison, of No. 178 Central
avenue, reported the loss of a collie
dog and offered a reward of $10 for
the recovery of the dog or the capture
of the thief.
Atlanta Grays to ,
Make Trip to Tybee
Company K. Atlanta Grays, of the
Fifth Regiment, widl leave Tuesday
for Tybee Island, where they will
spend several days In camp. The boys
will pay their own expenses, and ex
pect to have a delightful outing.
There will be 45 men and three offi
cers making the trip.
T
L
E
Bar Association Goes on Record
as Opposed to Amending
Its Procedure.
No change in the methods of pro
cedure In the Municipal Court will te
made at the present session of the
Legislature.
This became apparent when the At
lanta Bar Association, which has been
investigating proposed reforms for
the new court, Saturday failed to
agree on any of the changes proposed
by a special bar association commit
tee and dropped the whole matter by
tabling the committee’s report. A t >-
tal of ten or twelve amendments to
the original bill creating the Munici
pal Court were submitted to the bar
association, but none of them proved
satisfactory. After considerable dis
cussion, Attorney Burton Smith
moved that the whole proposition bo
laid on the table, and this motion
carried with a sweep.
This action was taken to mean that
no further move will he made by the
lawyers - for some-flme, at any rate—
toward reorganizing the methods of
procedure,in the Municipal Court.
The plah to obtain changes in the
court, with the view of increasing its
efficiency, was originated several
weeks ago, and a special committee,
with Attorney William A. Fuller as
chairman, was named by President
Shepard Bryan to draft a bill to be
presented to the Legislature.
This committee held a meeting some
time ago and invited suggestions from
Atlanta lawyers as to needed reforms.
When the report of the committee
was completed, a special meeting of
the bar association was called for Sat
urday to receive it.
Dakota Hotel Leased
To a New Manager
The Dakota Hotel, southeast comer
of North Pryor and Houston, was
leased for five years Saturday to Oli
ver Johnson, former manager of the
Hotel Savannah, by William Low’ry
Porter for the owners. Mrs. Porter
and her mother, Mrs. J. T. Cra^s The
price of the lease was withheld, but it
was said to be nearly the same as the
price under a lease executed before
the European war began.
The Dakota Is a four-story brick
vemeer structure on a lot approxi
mately 50 by 100 feet, and contains
50 rooms. Mr. Johnson will put in
improvements and run it under the
European plan. He was a clerk at the
Aragon many years ago, when that
hotel was opened to the public; has
been with Los Angelos hotels, and
now comes back to Atlanta from J. B.
Pound’s Hotel Savannah, where he
wa.s manager.
PUT FARM FOR
BUTS IN STATE
School of Order in Georgia Will
Be Asked of Supreme
Council.
That Georgia will hav* within its
bounds one of the largest farm
schools in the United States, rivaling
the famous vocational and experi
mental farm at Mooseheart, Ind.,
which is operated by the Loyal Order
of Moose, was the announcement last
night by Atlanta members of the or
der who have just returned to At
lanta from the installation meeting
held in Columbus.
Ernest Durham, of Atlanta, na
tional director for the States of Ala
bama, Georgia and Florida, said that
plans were being definitely made for
the presentation of the project before
the supreme council of the order, and,
that several offers already had been
received by the local lodge for the
gift of large tracts of land in the
State upon which to locate the indus
trial school.
Mr. Durham will go to Pittsburg
In a few weeks and will confer In
that city with James J. Davis, the
director general of the order, when 1t
is expected final action wiLl be taken
upon the establishment of a Southern
branch of the Indiana Moose farm.
Teach Scientific Farming.
The proposed farm will teach boyft
and girls, ihe children of members of
the orfter, the way in which to pro
duce the greatest results in farming.
The gospel of scientific farming is
one of the essential points in the farm
work.
J. L. Rodier. of Atlanta, interna
tional organizer of the order, is an
other one of the officials who Is en
thusiastic over the establishment of
the proposed school in Georgia. Mr.
Rodier said that 1,000 acres of land
had been promised the order near
Columbus, If it Is decided to locate
the school in this State. Tracts of
land in Floyd County, near Rome,
and In DeKalb. also have been offered
to the local officials of the order.
Will Cost $100,000.
“The proposed school,” Mr. Durham
said, “would be of great benefit to
the State. Tt would cost in the neigh
borhood of $100,000, and would serve
to educate thousands of children in
all lines of scientific farming. The
school at Mooseheart. Ind., is widely
known, and is of course self sustain
ing in every way. It is owned in com
mon by more than half a million men
of modest, position and income.
“The proposed school would be un
like most large Institutions, because
it would owe nothing to the bene
factor or to the philanthropist. There
are about 6,000 Mcose in Georgia, and
I feel w*e should have such a school
in this State to represent the entire
South."
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At All Jacobs’ Stores
And Druggists Generally
EISEMAN BROS., Inc.
FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
/7 Days to Dispose of $42,500.00
Worth of Merchandise
Twenty-five hundred dollars daily for seventeen days.
At the end of the seventeenth day the corporation of
Eiseman Bros, will be a matter of past history. We
must close out all of our stock because the building has
been rented for other purposes.
There is absolutely no time to lose. Nothing will
be moved elsewhere. The stock must be sold in seven
teen days, and the only way to accomplish such a
tremendous task is to cut the prices until the public will
not only buy merchandise for their present needs, but
will anticipate several months ahead.
Tuesday morning, July 6th, we will begin our final
wind-up. The entire stock has been marked down until
selling prices now represent only a fraction of the orig
inal cost.
Some lines are broken—some sizes missing—but with a stock con
sisting of $42,500 worth of Fruhauf Brothers—Naumburg—Hirsh-
Wickwire world famous clothes—Stetson hats—Hess shoes—Manhat
tan shirts—and a host of other merchandise, there is enough induce
ment for the most particular to accumulate an extensive wardrobe not
only for their present needs but for the future.
The prices will be low enough. We guarantee that during our
last seventeen days we will reduce our prices enough to force
you, if necessary, to take advantage of this last opportunity.
Final Price Reductions Will Appear in Monday’s Papers.
The Final Wind-Up Commences Tuesday at 8 A. M.
EISEMAN BROS., Inc.
11-13-15-17 WHITEHALL STREET
Established 1865.
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