Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-30
STATE NEWS
n. New acsr,t.l.

TIE New HrspstsI
Tho hospital to be erected at ths
southeast corner OF Sixth avenue and
Jefferson street, Topeka, by the A. T. 4
s. F. Hospital association will have .
frontage of 80 feet on Sixth avenue and
124 feet on Jefferson street, and will be
located so that there will be lawn fifty
feet wide on the Jefferson street side.
There will also be stone porch sixty
feet by twelve feet wide on this side.
The exterior walls will be built of
Castle Rock purple lava stone, trimmed
with brown sandstone from Flagstaff,
Ariz-. this stone work to extend from
ground line 10 second story window
stills, and above that level the best quail
ity OF red pressed b-ick will be used.
The trimmings around the second
and third story windows and the cor
nices will be formed of ornamental
nodded pressed brick. The roofs will be
slate, with copper for all ridge rolls,
cutters, etc.
The general form OF the building will
be that OF the letter 81, the court in the
rear being sixty feet by thirty-two feet,
thus giving ample natural ventilation
and exposure of the principal wards to
direct unlight during the greater part
OF the day.
The interior walls will be brick or
porous terra Gotta and the floors, cell
ings and roofs will be constructed on
the ''slow burning" or mill construction
system, consisting of heavy wooden
beams, foore6 18th planks three inches
thick, on top of WI; Oh the finished floor
ing or thing will be laid. The planks
and beams are to be plastered on metal
lath. The interior arrangement is the
result of wears of study by the A. T.
medical staff and the architect, ]. g.
Holland, and every precaution will be
taken to make and keep this hospital in
as perfect sanitarian condition as pos
sible.
All walls and ceilings will be covered
with enamel paint, on cement plaster
base, thus admitting of a thorough
cleansing as often as is necessary. The
heating and ventilation win be accom-
plished by forcing the fresh air through
heated steam coils and thence through
the rooms and out OF the building in
such quantities that it will be impossible
for foul air to accumulate in any part of
tho hospital.
The air will be forced by steel fans
run by electric motors. and the supply
will be nearly as positive and control
able as that of water from a we'll de-
signed and constructed system of water
works.
The foul air will be delivered from the
building at height Of eighty five feet,
thus practically eliminating all POSSIBLE
ity of communicating the air supply of
surrounding buildings.
The entire expenditure On building
and grounds will be at least $65, 900,
and its construction will furnish en-
ployment for number OF Topeka me-
chanics.
Kansas Wheat Crop.
Kansas City MOI Journal.
Grain men are almost unanimous in
their belief that instead of Secretary of
State Mohler being correct in his esti-
mate that the wheat crop of Kansas is
62,0O0,0O0 bushels this. year, that the
total will not fall short Of 100000
more.
There are many reasons for forming
this estimate. Mr. Mohler estimated the
average yield per acre to be 1873, and
to Offset this figure, from the Lest
sources of information to be had on
change, the yield will be much larger.
Reports from the interior show some
fields to give the enormous yield of fifty
bushels to the acre, and at no Office
could it be learned that field had been
cut with yield as low as that given
out by the secretary.
Another thing which makes the crop
look larger is the weight. All new wheat,
with one or two isolated exceptions, is
grading No. and is weighing out from
fifty eight to sixty-three pounds, where
as the crop weights Of last year ran
only from forty-five to ifty-five. No
one disputes, nor do the figures of
the Kansas secretary show to the
contrary, that the acreage this year is
any less than that for 1891. and this in
creased weight alone. bushel for bushel,
would put the yield to the very hand
some figure of 5000, OOO more than the
100000 given.
In the matter of acreage, too, there is
discrepancy. One grain firm was adj
vised by customer that he had 120
acres in wheat, and it afterwards devel-
oped that he had as much again almost.
At least three other firms have made
similar discoveries.
Stevens county farmers are raising
several hundred acres of watermelons
for seed for eastern firms.
A Baldwin japanese student delivered
q lecture at the Monticello Methodist
church on the religions OF Japan.
There were 2O8 boxes of infected
chinch bugs sent out from the univer-
sity experiment station at lawrence ono
day recently.
John Beatty, the postmaster at Cha
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