A total of $1,000,000 was subscribed and pledged toward the Beth Israel Hospital Tuesday night at a testimonial dinner to Bernard K. Marcus, president of the Bank of the United States and treasurer of the hospital. More than 1.800 persons attended the dinner at the Hotel Commodore in honor of Mr. Marcus for his civic and philanthropic work. Beth Israel Hospital is nearing completion in Livingston Place between 16th and 17th Streets.
The dinner was arranged by a committee of 300 of which the chairman was C. Stanley Mitchell, chairman of the Board of the Bank of the United States. Bernard F. Gimbel, vice-president of Gimbel Brothers, was treasurer.
Mr. Marcus was praised for his work to provide hospital treatment for the poor and his achievement in building up the Bank of United States from resources of $5,000,000 ten years ago to $175,000,000.
The speakers were Mayor Walker, Mr. Mitchell, Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, who presided, former Police Commissioner George V. McLaughlin, Rabbi Nathan Krass and Felix M. Warburg. A telegram was received from Governor Smith, now in the West.
Mr. Marcus was born in New York and educated in its public schools and colleges. He is thirty-eight. He started to work in the Bank of United States, of which his father, Joseph S. Marcus, was president, as cashier at the age of twenty-three.
He is treasurer of Beth Israel and was an organizer and is now a director of the Jewish Center in West 86th.
Street. He was associate chairman last year to raise money for the New York Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
Besides a contribution of $50,000 by Mr. Marcus, others who gave a like amount were R. Sadowsky, S. R. Rosoff, Jacob Sperber, Joseph Durat, Max Goldstein, Harry Fischel; $30,000 was given by Meyer Vesell, $25,000 each by Saul Singer, Julius Schwartz, Abraham Gevirtz, S. N. Brimberg, Morris White, Abe Adelson, M. Weinstein, I. Gilman. E. Rubin, M. Aronson, Philip Weinstein, Jacob Granowitz, Morris Asinof, Samuel Kamlet, S. C, Lamport, Joseph Ravitch, Harry H. Weinberger, $10,000 each by Nathan Marcus, William Fischman, Maurice Rentner, J. J. Schmukler, J. C. Brownstone, Max Heit and Benjamin Shapiro.
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