The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-30
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MAGNIFICENT HOSPITAL SHIP
WAR DEPARTMENT VESSEL
BEATS ANYTHING AFLOAT.
Splendid Equipment of the Relief
Beats Any Land Hospital In Ex-
istence-To Sail For Cuba.

! New York, June 29.-What is I'M
world will steam out of New York har-
Dor next Thursday, and proceed to
Santiago de Cuba. The Relief is the
private ship of the war department. The
Solace, Uncle Sans other hospital ship,
| belongs to the navy department, and
is on duty in Cuban waters.
/ For more than a month the Relief has
been receiving the attention of carpen-
tiers, machinists, plumbers, electricians
Morgan iron works. Saturday she
1CSted out of dry dock, and with a few
more finishing touches, inside and out,
she will be ready to sail.
The Relief. with her splendid lines,
her massive steel frame and her mod
ern engines, more than answers every
demand from the view point of a ship
proper, and from that of the physician
and surgeon she is a dream.
Imagine ship of this kind divided
up into five large wards for the sick
and wounded, into store rooms and
mess rooms, operating rooms and Of
ficers' quarters, fitted with every ap
pliance known to modern medical or
surgical science, including all known
instruments likely to be required in
surgical operations; two complete *
ray outfits, a microscopic laboratory,
perfect facilities for photographing, and
with electrical power everywhere, rum
ring the lights and hundreds of fans
scattered throughout. the ship, whose
zephyrs will make the wounded sailor
or soldier forget that he is not in his
northern home, instead of off torrid
Cuba
The ship will be the largest with
the greatest cargo of nice things that
any similar vessel ever carried. Hun
dreds of patriotic women all over the
eastern states have heard of DR.. Tor
ney and his ship, and the result has
been many contributions of money and
0elicacies.
In the way of purely medical stores,
DIR. Torney has taken pains to supply
everything. He last week sent on board
several hundred cases of medicinal
stores, which he described as pills aad
powders.
Special plants have been provided,
which will add infinitely to the comfort
of the sick. They are the distilling
plant, the ice refrigerating plant AID
the plant for carbonizing water, the
gift of the Colonial Danes. The first
two will be indispensable in the south
in furnishing a plentiful supply of pure
and cold water, and the carboniZing
plant will make the water more drink
able.
Inc wards are models IN their way.
The walls are painted white, the floors
covered with rubber thing, and the beds
of iron, enameled in white.
Bath rooms abound. They are con-
nected with all the wards, with the
private quarters of the medical staff,
and with those of the ships officers.
There is a special shower bath which
would be the making of any bath house
on land. 1t is for sick officers, and is
so arranged that the shower throws
hot or cold fresh or salt water. All
the bathrooms have rubber floors.
For hosting or lowering the sick or
wounded, Naval Constructor Francis T.
Bowles has devised a special appar-
atus. On the forward side of the main
mast he has fitted a. steam boom. By
its use patients can be taken from
warship and placed on any deck of the
Relief, or in any ward desired.