The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-05-12

FRONT OF THE NAVAL HOSPITAL, BROOKLYN.
tertaining and instructive, besides papers
and magazines. The latter the Jackies
like to look at, but they pay no attention
to the books They would rather stick to
their smoking room. Combine the twop
No, guess not We can't have the smell
of tobacco all over the hospital"
The operating room Is called by the sur
geons one of the finest in the country. 1t
Is larger than usual and, no clinics being
held in 1t, 1t has not the amphitheaters
which always accompany the operating
rooms of the civil hospitals. At least
three and perhaps more surgeons can
work in the room at once. There is an
electric elevator in the corridor which
leads to the operating room. In the main
building are small laboratories, chemical
and meteorological, but the large hospital
laboratory is in an outside building, Here
all kinds of experiments are made i'm
portant to the medical world, civil as we'll
as military and naval.
In the hospital now are about rs pa
tients, including two of the Names VIC
tins. One OF them, Wilbur, lost q brother
in the explosion To care for these the
hospital has 20 or 80 employees, besides a
medical director of the navy In charge
and his three assistants. The enlisted men
of the navy, of course, occupy the wards,
and the officers have separate rooms or
suits, which correspond to the "private
rooms" Of the civil hospitals.
No matter how clean, bright and airy q
hospital Is kept 1t Is impossible to divest
Ii of the grewsome aspect of disease. This
somber feeling is heightened hundred
times when, besides the hospital morgue
or vault, there Is graveyard attached.
The cemetery of the Naval hospital, which
has been in use as long as the hospital it.
self is east of the hospital and hidden
from 1t by the high brick wall which snr-
rounds the whole Of the land sides of the
navy yard. Looking out from the rear of
the hospital all that Is seen is barren
waste, blocked on the farther side by this
wall Mercifully the brick interposes be-
tween the present and the possible future
of the patients.
The graveyard itself Is we'll kept, but
the fence which divides IL from the scrap
iron yard on the other side is of iron pal
ings, which keep out neither sight nor
sound, nor, it may be added, desecrating
boys.
Here in the sandy loan below the
| springiDg grass was laid away few days
hBu dH uHkHuMu DOuy VI Oho VI tile
Names men. All the patients in the hos
pital who could get out were gathered
about the grave and heard the chaplain
read the burial service, but because II
| could not be determined whether the man
was a bluejaoket OF marine no bugl6
| was blown, no volley was fired. 1t was
not the burial Of soldier or a sailor,
merely the laying away of bit of clay
| with the most usual and unavoidable oi
Christian rites. The flag In front Of the
main building was at half mast during
the brief ceremony. There will be little
iron shield half foot high for grave
mark and that Is all.
The graveyard knows neither rank mol
nationality The enlisted man lies beside
his officer and mayhap has finer monr
ment. The Spaniard is at peace with the
hated Yankee at his elbow, and the ac
counts of both have been balanced. From
all such reflections the sick Jaokies are
separlted by that brick wall -.