Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1915 — LOOKS LIKE PROPER HOSPITAL LOCATION [ARTICLE]

LOOKS LIKE PROPER HOSPITAL LOCATION

Republican Believes Public Will Generally Approve Plan to Have It In Rear of Jail.

The county council the past week declined to appropriate $3,000 for the purchase of D. S. Makeever’s lots at the southeast corner of Cullen and Harrison streets for a hospital location. While the location is an excellent one and the price none too much for the three fine lots just diagonally across from the court house, the council did not care to spend that much for a hospital location and appropriated only SI,OOO. If the hospital was to be a $50,000 building and there was to be enough patients to make it a paying proposition then more extensive grounds would be needed, but it seems to us that with the limited appropriation of SIO,OOO for the building demands that every economy be exercised and we believe that the most appropriate location is the one in rear of the county jail. The barn there is of little uhe and with it removed there would be almost fifty feet of building space. Then fifty feet more could be purchased of John O’Connor and this would be quite ample for the building and leave room for quite a little yard space. The hospital could be heated from the jail and court house heating plant and at a minimum of expense. The location is excellent and we believe the hospital board will do well to give it endorsement. The Republican is pleased to approve the plan and as The Democrat is also in for the location it may be recorded that for once at least the two Rensselaer papers are agreed, no matter what the hospital board or the powers that will locate the hospital ultimately decide upon. There is no interest, however, so important as that of the taxpayers, and we believe they will give much warmer support to the hospital if the men who have it to manage will show the most careful regard for the public purse. The hospital is needed and will prove a great blessing in many ways and the county council will feel more like making additional appropriations if needed later on if the board shows satisfaction with the money appropriated for location.