FAIR,  1895.
 

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nONTEFIORE HOflE  FOR CHRONIC
INVALIDS.
 

The Montefiore Home, one of the youngest of
the principal Jewish charitable institutions of
our city, is one of those to which the New York
Jew points with the greatest pride, because in
character and scope it is almost unique among
the charitable institutions throughout our
broad land. The celebration of the hundredth
birthday of the Jewish philanthropist, Moses
Montefiore, in 1884, was taken advantage of
by the leaders in philanthropy among the New
York Jews, who had often realized the need of
 

1888, the present magnificent building was
dedicated. In November, 1894, ^ ^^w wing
was dedicated, by which accommodations for
two hundred and fifty more patients were se¬
cured.

The attention and care received by the
patients from the excellent medical staff of
the Home, and the most recent and perfect
equipments of the Institution, are such that in
many instances patients entered as chronic in¬
valids have since been discharged as cured,
while throughout their stay at the Home, every¬
thing that human ingenuity and thoughtful-
ness can offer, tending towards the comfort and
 

Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids.
 

an institution to alleviate the suffering of the
chronic invalid, whose case fell outside the
scope of the hospital and threatened to ex¬
haust the patience of the charitable relief so¬
cieties because of the very intensity and hope¬
lessness of the suffering ; and then the humble
foundation was laid for the glorious and mag¬
nificently equipped institution which now
overlooks the Hudson at One Hundred and
Thirty-eighth street. Starting with five in¬
valids, in modest quarters in Eighty-fourth
street and Avenue A, in which thirty patients
could be accommodated, its sphere of useful¬
ness was increased in an extraordinary meas¬
ure soon after by the proceeds of the Monte¬
fiore Fair of 1886, by which $158,090.11 were
realized   for  the  Institution.    In   December,
 

cheerfulness of the patients, falls to their lot.
The princely generosity of two of its leading
spirits, Jacob H. Schiff" and Lyman Bloom¬
ingdale, has enabled the Institution to perfect
plans for the speedy erection, at their expense,
of an adjunct Country Sanitarium in one of
the neighboring districts, for the special treat¬
ment of pulmonary diseases according to the
most improved methods. The Institution is,
furthermore, unsectarian. The extraordinary
success of the Institution is due very largely to
the zeal and self-sacrificing devotion of its offi¬
cers. These include at present : Jacob H, Schiff",
President; Louis Gans, Vice-President; Isidor
Straus, Treasurer; Raphael Ettinger, Honor¬
ary Secretary, and Lyman G. Bloomingdale,
Isaac Blumenthal,  Louis Clark, Jr.,  Samuel