Chinese Hospital

Consul Bee says it will be built.

Consul Bee was seen yesterday by a Chronicle reporter with reference to the Chinese Hospital, which has excited so much opposition from the property owners and residents at University Mound. When asked if he had read of the opposition to the building, the Consul replied: "Oh, yes, I have read all about it, but that does not make any difference, the work will go on all the same."
"Well, what about the proposed ordinance?"
"Well, what of it? What of the laundry ordinance? What of the queue-cutting ordinance? What of the iron-door ordinance and what of the hundred other anti-Chinese ordinances which have been passed in this city by the Supervisors and by the California Legislature? The Federal courts simply knocked out the bottom clean out of them all, and so it will out of this. The people have year in and year out complained that we do not take care of our sick and dying, but throw them out on the street to die. Now, when we propose to build a hospital for them the same as all other nationalities, there is an objection raised, and the Supervisors to please their own people rush in and pass an ordinance prohibiting the erection of any within the city and county, except those who desire to erect it first obtain permission from the Board of Supervisors to do so. How about the French hospitals, the Sisters of Mercy hospital, the German, the Italian, and last, but not least, the City and County hospital? Now what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If it be illegal to maintain a Chinese hospital in the city and county, it must be illegal to maintain any other hospital. The Chinese are refused admission into the City and County hospital. They will not be taken in any of the private hospitals nor will the authorities permit them to build a hospital for themselves. All I desire to say just now is, that the hospital will built just where we said it would, unless the Supreme Court in Washington should decide otherwise."
After thus expressing himself the Consul seized his hat and excused himself on the ground that he had an engagement at his lawyer's office.