The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-19
In HUMANITY'S name
Improvements Being Made In 81. James
Hospital.
Comfortable Compartments Conn
bined With Skilled Attendance
and the Privacy of n Home
Cost OF the Work..

special CORRESPONDENCE OF the Standard.
BUTTE, July 1s.-The masons employed
on the new addition To st. James hospital
are now laying the third and last story .
One who has visited 81. James from time
to time cannot fail To see how greatly
needed Is the additional room and con-
venicnce, which this Improvement will
bring. Like the remainder Of the build
ing, b addition is being built Of brick
trimmed with granite and will he made
TO conserve aesthetic as well as practical
ends.
Built on the east side of the main
structure. the new part runs nearly forty
feet further back. The entire length of
the addition, exclusive of the piazzas,is 90
feet . inches. and the width NJ
feet. The walls are very substan-
TALLY laid, with n thickness Of
8 feet > inches. The basement story will
connect with the old part by an arch and
will also have an entrance on Idaho
street. This story will he divided into
two sections, one of which will be used as
q ba kerry, and the other as a boiler room.
The bakery is to be provided with n dumb
waiter, which will run up through the en-
tire four stories.
The first story will be divided into
three large rooms and a hall. The first
OF these rooms i'm the northeast corner of
the addition Is to be used as n dining
room. Its dimensions are l6 feet \ inches
by II feet 3 inches. This dining room
opens on the west side through AN arch
into a small lobby connecting immedi-
ately with a wide hall running north and
south the whole length of the addition.
Right. at the door of this lobby To the
south is the elevator, and beyond this a
wide staircase leading To the second
story. South of the dining room, and
opening into this hall is a smaller room.
whose dimensions are II feet n inch by
IL feet three inches. Still further up the
hall one finds another door opening into
q room 10 feet eight inches long and Is
feet wide. Both these rooms, we are
given To understand, will he used as pri-
waite wards. The hospital will 10Y he
able To offer rare opportunities in the
way OF private rooms To well-to-do people
who may be SO i'll as To need raine care.
The combined advantages Of comfortable
compartments and skilled care, together
with all the privacy of a home, are really
greater 10 the sick person than can be OBJ
tanned in almost any home.
The second story has the same hall and
lobby arrangements as has the first story.
The room, connected with the lobby by
an arch similar TO that opening into the
dining room below, is to he used a. n sit
ting room. The dimensions OF this room
are not the same as those OF the dining
room below, but are l. feet Z inches by -
feet . inches. The remaining space To the
east OF the hall is to be divided into four
rooms, whose dimensions are respectively
IL feet 5 inches by II feet 3 inches: IL feet
IL inches 10y IL feet : inches; IL feet q
inches, the fourth having the
same dimensions as the last named.
With the exception Of the last and most
soulherly one, all these rooms,a are Ia he
used as private wards. This last Is In he
the consultation room.
All these rooms open ou onto a wide
verandah, extending entirely around the
north and east sides, and connecting with
the east n west verandah OF the old
part. This verandah is directly over an
other of the same size, into which he
rooms of the first story open.
The third story is cut up into rooms Of
the same size as the second story. As in
the case of the second, the north room is
20 he used as a sitting room, hut as there
will be nc consultation room on this foor,
leaving the sout room 10 he used as a
private ward. IL desired. As has been al
ready stated, this floor has the same APP
pointments, such as elevator, hall, stair
way and dumb waiter, as b other
floors. The windows all look
andah. Like all the other ~stories,
this Is connected at the south end Of the
ball with the main building by an arch.
The addition will be admirably well
lighted. On the Idaho street front are
one triple window, two doubles and four
singles To each floor, except the first,
which has a large arched entrance in
stead of a triple window.
The cost Of the structure cannot yet he
exactly determined, but IL IN reported to
be in the neighborhood Of 81 90.