Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-20
THAT HOSPITAL.
A visit to the Hospital Grounds How
Hospital ia Tents Looks.

/ Yesterday afternoon u 1AIbIlb "
porter visited the ground where the
tents used for a hospital are situated.
! The tents have been erected about q
/ quarter OF a mile north OF the old small
| pox hospital, and are six IN number.
/ -Four OF them are used for the patients,
/ one for the dining room, and another
( is occupied 10y Mr.. NJ. i. Wesson. the
superintendent These tents are lsx2l
feet. and are fitted up neatly
with cots for the patients. A smaller
/ tent IL occupied by Dr. T.. Il. Worth.
/ the physician in charge. In the rear
| Of the dining tent is the kitchen,
/ which is built of plank and well sup
/ piled with all conveDiences. The
/ tents are new and Of the best canvass.
/ They are well put up and strongly
/ braced with scantlings four by four
/ inches, well set In the ground, and 1t
| would takea very strong wind TO cap
/ size one. The main line Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific road passes within a
couple of hundred yards of
/ the tent, and siding
| has been laid to switch oil ears with
goods for the hospital. 1t is the in
! tention of the company to build II
small station-house at this siding
when the hospital is completed. A
/ telephone wire has been run OH tele-0
| graph poles along the Missouri Pacific
road, and posts planted UP TO the hos
| pital ground, so that now direct COM
| InunicatiOn has been established be-
| tween the tents and the city. Mr..
/ Wesson was found by the reporter TO
be very pleasant gentleman, who
very obligingly answered the nunler-
Gus questions put to him.
! He has been for the
| past year the superintendent
Of the Missouri Pacific hospital at Sc
dalin, Mo-, and having been connected
with hospital service for - number of
| years Is well posted as 10 all the de-
tails of his onerous position. During
! the short time that he has been here,
he has gotten the hospital into fine
running order. The first patient was
| received on July I, and since then no
less than twenty-five patients have
| been received and treated. or this
number, nine have been discharged
leaving sixteen still III the hospital.
Besides these men, employees OF the
! Gould system come every day TO be
! quircd To run the hospital
I besides the resident physician, DR..
4 Worth and the superintendent, Mr..
| Wesson, embraces two nurses, Il cook,
/ dininE.tOom servant, an ambulance
driver anda carpenter. The reporter
| inquired how the hosDital TO he built
| will correspond with the others of the
| Gould system, and learned that it will
be larger and have accommodation for
a greater number of patients than
{ stt il.tI 1 Ia f,f fol all tnl,
are situated at SedaIa and Carondelct,
Missouri Some ide, may be obtained
of the size of the building from
/ the fact that it will be about
27S feet in length and ninety-hve
feet in depth, through the central
portion Of The building. During the
past few months the management
found thnt MS so large proportion OF
the patients come from the southern
end of the system, it would facilitate
matter by erecting hospital some
! where in the south. Flo Worth was
selected and the speedy erection of the
! building Is now an assured fact, as the
money for the ground, which the cti-
zens present to tile company, has all
been subscribed and its formal transfer
will take place in few days. In
April, 1888. there were i23 patients
treated in the hospital ut Sedalia. OF
these eighty-two were from the
south end of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas road. 1t Is expected that those
who viii take advantage Of the com
forts and treatment of the hospital
here Will be employees of the Texas &
Pacific, Missouri Pacific, International
" Great Northern, and the southern
division of the Missouri, Kansas Il
Texas roads. The extremely simple
aud yet most effective plan, by which
funds are raised To defray the va.t ex-
! pehscs OF such great institl-
ton, Is this: All employees
of the Gould system are
assessed go much per month, but to in.
sure the payment of the assessment il
Is deducted from each mans salary.
| The amount Is small, being fifty cents
rom every man drawing II salary OF
over fifty dollars and thirty-iive cents
from those receiving salary under
that amount. by this means Il large
fund is raised for hospital Purposes
/, ana any employe of the Gould system
If he be disabled in any way or fall
| sick will be taken in and cared for
no matter how long his illness may last,
The reporter eonversed with several
OF the patients who were convalescine
ana were able 10 81. up, and every one
expressed Themselves iaost enthusiasti-
caily Ia favor of the hospital. One of
them said that ten years work for the
I company would not repay hlsaratitude
for the manner In which he lad been
treated, The hospital is supplied With
n comfortable ambulance, which, h
drawn by a fine large pair of horses
That were purchased in Fort Worth al
an expense of 1850 The great benefits
that will accrue TO the city by the estab-
lishment of this hospital can
not be too highly estimated,
The reporter was Informed by Mr.,
Wesson that the company would ey-
pend IN this city during the month of
July fully one thousand dollars. The
building Of this hospital is also proof
TINT Fort Worth is regarded favorably
10y the Gould system, and may be
taken MS an earnest of other improves
ments TO follow.
Or, Jackson, who II now absent Il
expected u return in day or two
when the deed for the ground will he
mate To the company, and the work
VIII Then hlUin fnantnhfn,nI..