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mmbbm HPiAn.M a buinuat aaie.kiuai'i. attainia, ua., atrmJAr. imrr 4. irnn. » A S I 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." [QJOMEN WHO LEAD A SEDENTARY LIFE Know from experience the horror* »b<1 of h«eOe , 'b«» heert nerrouen*** catarrh an/1 aaaal troohlae tn<1 that iai*k of life and energy which too oftea deatroya plaeanra 1c tbr bom*. Th#n follow* what the doctor* eaJl arrrou* proa tration, with ita loaa of time and *ip*ailw t?eatiB«at. Te pre rent it Take Jacobs’ Liver Salt On *r1*ing It ia pleaaantW efferrawcent. acts feet!/ *a*ily and quickly and allminetea the poieone froze. poorlT digested foods which make the *y*t*m e'nggleb and causa deproaaton and diKsaae. No griping no pain, no nauaea. It will pat naw life lata you and la to jour home Try it today 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. x