The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-06-30
HOSPITAL SHIP READY.
She is Fitted with All Modern Conven
fences and il Complete Hospital

From stem TO stern and from the water
line to the ton OF her tall flag pole, where
floats the Red Cross flag, the new army
hospital ship Relief Is painted white eX-
cept for a green band around her nun
.ni q touch OF red la the ventllator nm
ings. says the New York Herald Shs
lies al the Morgan Iron Works, in East
Ninth street. where she is rapidly getting
ready for her start South, which probably
Will be made tomorrow
Major George II. Torney surgeon IN
command, held a small and quite ipiorinal
reception on board yesterday, showing
his friends the beauties Of his new boat
The Relief is fitted TO accommodate 30
patients, and in case OF urgent need 6O
can be provided for In the operating
room are the most modern and complete
arrangements. just as in a well equipped
hospitai on land. The beds are double
dcckers." Of white enamelled iron, with
wire springs and soft, easy mattresses.
Below decks one machine distills sea
water. another makes il palatable by put
ting Il through a carbonating process
and stin another freezes It by the use
of ammonia. A disnfecting plant is an
other necessity which has been provided
and a steam laundry Is stu another.
Fresh paint, outside and inside, makes
the wards attractive. There are several
wards. all light and airy. The staterooms
are for the officers OF the medical staff
and for the nurses.
Tho STAFF. besides Major Torney, will
consist OF MAJOR william G.. GOrgas. sec
ond I'm command: Captain Francis Met
calf. OF Buffalo; Captain Randolph Mey-
ers. OF Washington; Llewellyn =. VIII
Hams. OF st. Louis: DR.. William VI. Gray,
OF the Medical Museum OF Washington.
microscopic and Drs. Ernest 9. Schultz
Thomas a. Smith and Frederick MEG.
Hartsock. The nurses will be ten women
from the Johns Hopkins University
Unlisted through the National Society
OF Daughters OF the American Revolt
ton. and fifteen men from Bellevue Hos
pital.
Mess rooms are provided fr doctors
and nurses and the pantrics and store
rooms look as II they could provide for
twice the six hundred patients that can
be carried. In the officers mess room
japanese servants were busy yesterday
In two Of the wards are Roentgen ray
machines. The whole boat is equipped
with electric lights. and each WARD with
four or more electric fans. The upper
deck. the fun size or-he boat. IS shaded
by an awning
Many of the Injuries on board the
shin are the gifts OF patriotic women or
this city The Woman's National Wan
Relief Association. Of which Mrs. u. 5.
Grant IS president. has given carbo-
mating plant which cost $500. electric
fans. green shades for windows and for
electric lights. and gree lining for the
deck awning. Many delicacies that are
mot provided by the government. but
which are OF help TO the surgeons in
caring for sick and wounded. have been
provided by this association and by the
Colonial Danes OF America OF which
society Mrs John Lyon Gardner is pre-
sidcnt.
Plumbing and kitchen arrangements
aboard the Relief are all up 10 date. The
government in fitting up the vessel pro-
vldef nothing OF a kind which could re-
tain disease germs except the mattresses
which are ~ cotton and inexpensive.
These will be thrown overheard In case
OF contagious disease.
Besides the medical stan and the
nurses. twenty-five regulars from Gov
errors Island will sail on the Relief. all
being members OF the hospital corps and
wearing Red Cross brassards on their
left arms.