Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-15
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The passage way leading to DraytOn
street is also six feet in width and about
twelve feet in length. The floor Of it rep
resents an inclined plane, upon which a
car is run from the floor of the dead house
UP to a point on level with me Drayton
Street pavement, where a close iron door
opens outward from the wall which forms
the enclosure Of the hospital grounds.
There is probably no superior morgue
of its size in the United States. 1t is
cool, absolutely clean and perfectly yenti-
lated, and the cOnveniences are all that
are required for the purposes for which it
was erected.
The work of ornamenting the hospital
grounds will not be completed for some
time, although many improvements al
ready finished are noticeable. The north
and west side of the lawn with
in the enclosure was graded
short time ago, and sthe
attention Of the visitor who enters by the
CASTOR street gate is attracted by the
fountain is at play and where pigeons and
birds battle in the water or occasionally
perch on the margin of the basin until
they are covered with the spray. num-
Der of plants have been set out to the right
Of a drive which leads from the gate
to giant oak, one Of the largest
in the city. To the right of the main
drive is flower Bed laid out il the form
of an anchor, with cypress franks set in
the ground as q border to the plat. 1t IS
the wish of the Board Of Managers
to obtain a collection Of plants or
shrubs frem time to time from any
person who will donate them. Among
the most delicate of the creeping vines
which a reporter of the MORNING NEWS
saw in the enclosure yesterday is an Am
pleOpsis that was set out on the north side
OF the Building now Occgpied by Mr.. Daily
as a workshop. A fish pond is in course
of construction near the north
front of the hospital building, and is
the only one Of its kind in this vicinity.
1t will be about 80 feet in diameter and
about feet in depth. In the centre a
rustic fountain will be placed ON an arti-
fetal island. Here an old rice milestone,
about feet in diameter, will be set, with
a number of smaller millstones erected
upon it, forming a cOne-shaped structure
through which the water viii ascend and
then fall back into the pond,
The larger stone was presented to
DR.. Duncan by Major N. o. Til
ton. 1t was first used in the
Habersham rice mill in 1912 when it was
Is inches in thickness. Within two sea-
sons the thickness of its outer edge was
reduced to two inches. The thickness at
the centre is about one foot. The idea of
making it appear in the foundation of the
fountain is that it may serve as remin-
der of one of the implements used
in one of the leading indus
tries of the South. 1t is
thought that the pond will be finished in
about five or six weeks. Beneath the
fountain a quantity of tiltering material
will be laid so as to fill an area 10 feet in
diameter and feet in depth. The waste
water from the pond will be diverted into
this filter and thence led by pipe
into a well that is being dug between
the fish pond and the main drive. A
rustic well curb will be erected, and it is
believed that the clearest of Savannah
river water may, in this way, be obtained
for the use of the laundry and hospital.
Mr., DAILY, the landscape gardener, Mhas
many practical designs, as well as unique
ornaments, with which to improve the
beauty of the grounds, and among them
is striking representation of the old
time well-the long-weighted pole and
''the old oaken bucket.''