El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-29

ond story is also IA feet in the clear
with eight rooms for patients with two
parlOrs, a sitting room and a dining
| room. This is the most elegant floor
) of the institution, and the rooms are
fitted up with the best of taste, as in
| fact all the rooms are, and there is an
air of refinement in the surroundings
that ought to please the most fastidi ous
| The sitting rooms and parlors through
out the building are curtained with
tapestries and either carpeted hands
somely Or provided with large rugs
The general wood work of the house is
of yellow pine, natural finish, aud every
thing from cellar to roof is kept scru-
pulously clean.
On the ground floor is a large re-
fectory for the sisters, also refet tory
equipped rooms for patients of moder-
ale means, including two good
sized wards for city and charity
patients. There is pharmacists
room provided with all the medicines
aud remedial agents in demand in
first class HOSPITAL. Then there is the
old operating room where SO many i'm
portant operations have been perform
ed. There are complete bath room
and closet facilities here as there is on
every floor of the great structure. The
kitchen is 50X50 feet with one of the
best ranges in the country, feet
square, from Cincinnati. The celler is
paved with cement, and is equipped
with large store rooms filled with
preserves ar the good things of this
life. Then there are the vegetabl de-
partment the refrig ERA ors, bake shop,
heating apparatus and other fixtures
pertaining 10 such a large institution
And by no means the least impor tant
Of the features of the building is the
elevator which now runs to the top of
the building; so there is no necessity
for climbing stairs. The grounds of
the hospital are being steadily i'm
proved, late addition being a good
sized fountain in the court on the east
side which is the delight of an intere St
ing congregation of ducks. The front
and the surroundings generally made
attractive. There are now about
thirty patients who are we'll satisfied
with their surroundings.
The head of the institution is Sister
Oily mpia, who came originally from
Virginia, but with an immode rate
bashfulness declines to say any more
about herself than that she is there
and trying to take good care of her
evident. Sister Olympia succeeded
Sister Stella, who died in Dallas about
q year ago from an injury caused by
fall on the stairs. There are nine sis
tiers with the lady superior, one of
whom is a patient.
The Sisters hospital, also known as
the Hotel Dieu, was built by Sister
Stella Margaret Dempsey in 1892. 1t |
has lis feet front. is 45 feet deep, and |
the kitchen addition is 3Ox50 feet. |
The cost when first completed was |
e50, 900. An addition of 25x40 feet was |
built on the east side year ago at a
cost of $4,000 Mr.. Krause was the
architect, The facing is of ST. Louis
pressed brick with brown stone trim
nipgs, and the general style of archi-
lecture is a modern renaissance The
ocation is at the head of North Stan
ON street at an elevation of forty feet
,bove San Antonio street, and the
great structure is seen from a long
distance. Ell Paso is proud Of the Sis
srs' hospital not merely of it's archi-
ectural beauty but for the good and
Effective work being done along chari-
able lines