Vote For Hospital

On Monday next, July 3, the voters of Ann Arbor may decide whether they will endorse the offer of the city council to give a suitable site for a new university building and thereby terminate schemes for removal to Detroit. Last winter, Detroit parties represented to the state legislature that their city would donate lots for a homeopathic college. To meet this, the council of Ann Arbor offered, through their senator, to do the same for a hospital. The matter had to be met promptly within a few days, as it was pressing for immediate settlement at Lansing. There was no time for submitting the matter to the people then. Now the prompt and wise offer of the city fathers must be made good by voting the money for the location of the hospital.

By virtue of the increase in the mill tax, the regents are able to put $50,000 at once into the proposed building. Work will be commenced immediately that a modern spacious structure may be occupied before another legislature convenes. That there is need, sore, of additional hospital room, upon both sides, is known to every one.

A department, once lost, disintegration of the university is assured. Since the recent legislature adjourned, combinations have been made in Detroit to renew the fight, in two years, for one, if not both, medical departments. The buying of this site and the construction of this hospital will emphatically relieve promoters of their occupation, their activities can be turned towards more promising fields. By voting this money, removal will be killed and university growth greatly encouraged.

The old school hospital, being full, can be extended by annexing the homeopathic building, as the two are so close together. Because the hospitals are so close together, it has been insisted by Detroit promoters that the two should be used by the regulars and a new one built in their city for the accommodation of the homeops. The new building should be some distance remote from the present location, if for no other reason, that annexation can not again be put forward as a reason for building a new one some where in Wayne county. The question of location enters into the matter, again, on account of beating and lighting facilities. If the new building be located not far from the campus, connections can be made with the present heating plant and a great saving be made.

The brick house upon the lot suggested, at the northeastern corner of the campus, at the end of N. University ave., can be converted into a nurses' home, as it is proposed to locate the hospital several hundred feet back frotn Washtnaw ave.

Let us make good the timely offer of the city council to the legislature and the regents.

Let us maintain forever the university intact.

Let us encourage the department whose efforts were untiring in securing the increase in the mill tax.

Let the city have, practically, a property right in this hospital, then see who will move it.

Between the hours of 10 and 2, on Monday next, at the engine house, let all qualified voters vote YES.