Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1912 — HOSPITAL TO COST MILLIONS [ARTICLE]

HOSPITAL TO COST MILLIONS

Great Institution Is Projected by Methodist Church for Dallas, k Tex. I*l I Dallas, Tex. —Dr. John O. Mcßeynolds, dean of the Southwestern Medical college, says that it is the intention to raise $1,000,000 for the building of a new Methodist hospital in Dallas. The hospital will be a part of the co-related educational system and a branch of the Southern Methodist university, and will be in connection with the Medical College of the Southern Methodist university ——— The plan has the hearty approval of Dr. R. 8. Hyer, president of Southwestern uni ersity, and of the Dallas members of the Texas Methodist Educational commission. Other members of the board are expected to be favorable to the proposition, and it is hoped to have the ground broken for the actual building well within the calendar year. The, .first new building of the sanitarium or the group of buildings, if a cottage plan shall be determined, is to cost from $300,000 to $500,000. The $1,000,000 fund is to be the endowment It is planned to have each bed of the establishment endowed, so that whether the patient in that bed is wealthy or on charity, the work will go on without impediment If the patient is able to pay, then the money so received win be for adding to the endowment fund or for improvement of the establishment The announcement is that the big undertaking will be for a sanitarium

whose system will cover at least one block, will be centrally located, so as to be within easy access to the bulk of the emergency demands and so equipped as to be a drawing place for all the southwest, a hospital establishment as complete as may be found anywhere in the world. The matter of site, except that it is to be in Dallas, Is to be left to the educational commission.