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could not be happy without taking an active part in 

 the affairs of the community. 



With movements for the public good in New York 

 he was also concerned, and when a hospital in the 

 Bronx was proposed, he stepped in and worked zeal- 

 ously toward making it a success. He was a member 

 of the Board of Trustees and treasurer of its funds. 

 When the dispensary of the hospital was opened, as 

 one of its visiting directors he never missed a Saturday 

 morning there, to assist in one or another capacity. 



But all his activities were interrupted when, in Feb- 

 ruary, 1914, he fell seriously ill. The best specialists 

 in the city were called and pronounced his case hope- 

 less; but the wonderful care that two physicians, Dr. 

 William Klein and Dr. Paul Kaplan, family friends, 

 gave him day and night, helped him to recover. After 

 two months he was able to leave his bed and go to the 

 country to recuperate. We remained there from April 

 to June, when he decided that he must return to work. 

 We took a bungalow for the summer at the seashore, 

 and four days a week he went back and forth to his 

 work, regardless of the weather. Upon our return to 

 New York we moved to a lower section of the city, so 

 that he might avoid traveling by subway. Here he 

 worked for another year, with his health terribly im- 

 paired, and on February 28, 1915, he fell ill, never to 

 be up again. 



After his death, his nurse, an elderly woman, told 

 me that she had been at the bedside of many prom- 



