St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-23
HOME FOR The SICK.
Where Minneapolitans, When
III, Can Conjure Back
Health.
St. Mary's Hospital Now Open
for the Treatment OF
Patients.
Something About the lnstitu-
ton, It's Life and Its
Future.
How Admirably Suited 1t Is
for the Work Of Heal
ing.

''If sick man couldn't get well down
there he would languish in paradise" was
the remark made by man who had just re-
covered from severe attack of typhoid fever.
"There" referred to the ST. Mary's hospital,
where he had been treated and whence he
emerged looking better and stronger than be-
fore he became i'll. His enthusiasm caused
GLOBE reporter to visit this aew institution.
The state of affairs discovered warranted the
seemingly eXtravagant praise accorded it by
this young man. 1t is, without doubt, the
finest hospital III the city of Minneapolis.
Three years ago the sisters of st. Joseph
decided 10 establish hospital in Mlnneapo
lis. These sisters have for years managed
highly successful hospital in ST. Paul, under
the supervision of Archbishop Ireland, and
they believed that the time had come when
they could extend their work to the sister
city. house at 24I6 Sixth street south was
secured and hospital opened, but the
quarters soon became too small. The
excellent care given patients so IN
creased the clientele of the institution
necessity. The ground on which the pres
ent building STANDS was purchased, plans
were drawn. and a little over year ago the
erection of the hospital began. The corner
stone was laid on the 2Sth of last May BY
Bishop McGolrick, to whose efforts in that
direction the establishment of the hospital is
largely que. To-day the building is COM
plele and rapidly filing up with patients,
est sanitarium in the whole Northwest
The Hospital Grounds
are $50 feet by 200 deep, facing on Sixth
street and Riverside park, backed by the
river. The building, three-story BRICK
structure, INTELLECTUALLY handsome, rises
from the center Of the grounds. Spacious
verandahs are on every side of it, command
ing the most beautiful views of the pictur-
esque section of the city. Toward the East
is the rugged bank of the Mississippi, the
state university grounds and buildings, the
foliage-embowered homes of Southeast Min
neapolis. From the north side of the build
ing are seen the sky-piercing church spires,
the towering business blocks, the bridges
spanning the Mississippi, the river Itself
winding betweenits tor;uous banks, and with
this restful picture OF natures and mans
work combined, comes the gentle murmur
of the thousands who pursue fortune
INCREASINGLY. the clash of discordant elements
sofened to restful suggestiveness by the
distance. But it is from the front that the
advantages of this location are appreciated.
Directly al ones feet is Riverside park, the
most advantageously situated of the city's
many pleasure gardens. Fitful CLEANS of the
shining river appear through the trees. Away
to the southeast are the wooded slopes OF St.
Anthony park, the tree studded plains around
Hamline, the beautiful fields hedging the
fair grounds. One could see st. Paul were it
not for the elevations which add
so much to the beauties of the
prospect. Then as one seye sweeps the hori-
river, the irregular yet pleasing stretch of
country beyond, the heavy timber, inter
spersed with green pastures, toward Fort
this romantic old military post reveal them
selves. II is a landscape to be seen from no
other point in the city. By virtue of the cleo
tric car, whose not unmusical hum can be
heard two blocks away, this institution is
Near the Very Heart
of the city, only a matter of twenty min
% IL -1l, f1lH e r.
more valuable than all the precious medi-
cines of the chemist-pure air. sunshine and
qu1etness-are ever present realities Nor
can they ever be cut off from the patients.
On one side the river, on another the park
and on the two others the spacious grounds
OF the hospital buildings can never initiate
against the sick man.
But if the outside of this institution sug-
gesis health, no less are the aids to health
impressed upon the mind by visit to the
inferior. The word hospital is fraught with
suggestions of the smell OF drugs, fetid air.
misery. Not SO with ST. MaTy's hospital. On
the inside one sees broad Railways. lofty
walls, eXpanses of glass, light, airy cheerful
ness everywhere. Three long Corridors ex
tending from one end of the building to the
other one on each floor. divide it into halves
Opening off these Railways are the private
rooms and wards, every one of which is
fOomy, airy, light. There are twenty-five of
these private rooms. some Of them large
enough for two persons.
The Hospital Is Capable
OF accommodating $50 patients without the
least crowding. The building is heated
throughout by hot water. superior to steam
because by hot water a more even tempera-
ture can be maintained and lighted by cleo
tricity. There is no gas to rob the sick of
pure air. Electric bells from every room,
and speaking tubes on every floor, render
communication easy. All the walls are white.
without paper, and with as little woodwork
as possible, allowing no room for the lodge
ment of bacteria a feature of the hospital
is the operating room on the third floor with
its tiled floor, 100 square feet of glass over
head admitting the light. and its double
doors preventing the escape of gases and
chemical fumes TO the main hospital. Ply.
sicians pronounce 1t the best operating room
in the Northwest.
But it would take too long to enumerate all
the good points of this institution. 1t is ad.
mirably arranged for its purpose and ably
managed. The best physicians and surgeons
I'm the city are connected with. it. Ten gen.
lie voiced, Quiet-moving sisters of St. 80
seph minister to the wants of the patients
male nurses being employed for the men
brought there. The whole is under the man
agement of Mother Ignatius, the superior 9
pleasant-volced LADY who seems to think OF
nothing but the comfort of her patients One
other fact should be mentioned The laun
dry, the Kitchens. ali departments which
would create noise. steam or odors disagree
able to the patients, are in the old building
fully twenty feet from the hospital building
At this hospital nothing is left undont
which should be done. All arrangements TO
caring for the sick are complete. Patient
receive the best of care at reasonable cost.