Dean Siz,—I have to acknowledge your Jette of Sts August requ 8 of the General Hospital to give' you adefuite idea of the purpose to which they propose putting the proceeds of the Margary Memo-5 0 that the same may be Jaid before the subseril ting to be held shortly for 1 ion of the question, In reply I beg to state that having consulted my colleagues on the point, they are linously of opinion that it should go to tion of a Convalescent Ward and lable to all. the patients, and in. which a tablet bearing a suitable inscription would be placed.
T may mention that the want of such a ward has long been felt in the present Hos-Pital accommodation, and would be a great oon to the patients Tam, Dear Sir, Yours faithfully, W. H. Meonurst, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Shanghai General Hospital, SpTist generally mas the proposition which the Committee had now to lay before the subscribers, and it was for them to accept it or not' as they chose. The small amount of funds was insufficient for a larger scheme, and the Committee thought it would be a great advantage to use the money in the way they proposed, as a befiting memorial to the person' whose memory it was to perpetuate, Mr. Hooo wished to know if further steps had been taken to obtain subscriptions from the Outport, Who Caimaaw replied that the subseriptions since the last meeting had been very Tittle increased.
Mr. Hocc—Have any solicitations been made for more money Mr, Mepaurst—You will find from the of subscriptions that the Outports been asked to contribute, and have Aefinite to subscribe to. For this reason nothing of importance has been done to raise subscriptions since the last moti The Cnatawan said the impression was that people would subscribe better when they knew what they were subscribe ing to.
Mr. Mepacrsr—Altogether, Amoy has subscribed $68, Chefoo $43, Kiukiang and Shanghai $626, After a brief pause, Mr. Mepaursr said as nobody appeared to have any more remarks to make, he would move—
That the Committee of the Margary Memorial Fund be authorised to hand over to the Trustees of the General Hospital all available funds in hand and to be collected, for the formation of a Convalescent Ward and Reading Room available to all patients, to be called the Margary Memorial Ward, and tobe surmounted with a suitable option in English and Chinese.
Mr, Box seconded the motion, Mr. Hoae said that now a definite resolution was before them he should like to make a few remarks, He did not think the proposal for the memorial to take the form of a Convalescent Ward and Reading Room at the General Hospital, generally approved of in the Settlement. He did not believe the subscribers ai proved of it, and he himself thought it w thing puta fitting way of noting their respect for Mr. Margary's memory. They wanted something far more public, something by which everybody could that they cherished the memory of murdered countryman, instead of hay the money sunk in the coffers of the Ho: pital. Besides, if the Hospital was to be the recipient, there ware rival cho which might lead to difiiculty—one suggestion was that the fund should be devoted to the er ion of chapel in connection with the Hospital. He did not approve of the suggestion simply for the reason that the subscribers to the memories different creeds, and to invest the mon in a chapel could not possibly please all. Moreover, to do that was taking a duty out of the hands of the Trustees of the Hospital, who would no doubt provide religious' accommodation for the different [lad already provided for the wants of the copie who came under their care. They
Roman Catholics, and in remodelling the institution they would no doubt provide for the wants of the Protestants who would form the bulk of the i of opinion that they must Hospital idea, for there was nothing th to form a suitable investment for their They wanted something public, monument raised on the Bund, or other prominent place—the exact form he was not at the moment prepared to aay, but the taste of the Settlement in the element might be brought forward and something produced of a far more fitting nature than sinking the funds in the Hospital. In saying thathe had he wasn't merely expressing his own views, but the opinion of a great many of the subscribers, He had waited for some other person to speak, but no one doing so, he had ventured'to make these few observations.
Mr. Ware expressed his belief that if the proposal of the committee was carried out the memorial would be altogether forgottenina few years, Thebulkof the people would never know such a thing had been erected, and in fact persons would have to get ill fo find out its existence.
Mr. Krxessertz thought what had just been said was an expression of the general opinion of the subscribers. Howerer good the object proposed to be established by the Margary fund in connection with the Hospital might be, it was not i with general favour. He believed that it had been partly owing to the reason that intending subscribers were ignorant as to what was going to be done towards perpetuating the memo valescent Ward with the money subscribed, but he considered this was not the proper time for them to come forward, The es had not told them that the proposed wardandlibrary weren't arranged for in the original scheme of the Hospital, 0 that they did not know that it was not intend to de the cover of the aubecrp thin ly provided for. their position." Then, again, he did not think the proposal of the Committee a good one because, as Mr. White had very aptly aaid,-persons would to get sick to know anything about He had hope that the pending negotiations would result in some real and tangible go oil arising out of the Margary expedition, and therefore he did not think that the present was the right time to disen: the project. At aume future period th might even have gre had now to erect place, and not hide it away where nobody would know anything about it, He oe well understand why the subscription from the outports had been so small, They certainly could not look for sub: scriptions from the outports for an institu tion which was solely connected with Shanghai, and which to a great extent was their own, Under the circumstance he advocated that the discussion of the alter might be well deferred until they S\kuew what was likely to t the upshot of the pr and when the kind of lad no doubt that sufficient fun forthcoming to them to perpetuate Margary's money in a worthy mauner, not only amongst foreigners but amongst Chinese also. It was advisable for the matter tostond over, and when the people oary that it was intended to havea worthy memorial, they would come forward and subscribe.
Mr, Toorat quite agreed with the remarks that hed fallen from the last three or four speakers. When he subscribed, it 1 Fund. Mar-
ing to mark his high the bong was to estimation of the man, and his detestation of the foul murder. ' Ti there bad not been aufiicient funds collected, it might be attributable in come way to the limit placed on the subscriptions, and he for one, if money was the only thing wanted, would willingly increase hisamountfrom $5 to@25, He believed that many of the subscribers had the same g as himself, and he thought they should put on record, aa Mr. Hogg had suggested, in same public place ff it were only a common plinth—som
estimation of Margary, and on the oth gold to record, on the commonest copper country could produce, their detestation of the infamot in which he was mur-i in China under-the passport of t Government. Ifhe spoke warmly it was because he felt warmly and there was nothing could reconcile him to having hi option merged in the General Hospital, unless ho had the fullest assurance that the ward would be devoted tion of the Governor of Yiinnan_and his like in China, Mr. Dovazas Jones said that, while not taking such @ strong view of the matter as Mr. Tootal, it was not his intention to subscribe to the Hospital when he aube scribed a small amount to the Margary Memorial fund. Money seemed to b the thing wanted, and friends he knew he was cure would be very happy to subscribe. He did not see any advantage or necessity of limiting the amount to $5.
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