The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-23
SICK WILL RIDE IN A CAR.
STREET CAR BEING FITTED FOR
ARMY HOSPITAL PATIENTS.

savannah, ThunderbOIt and Isle of
Hone shop Hands at Work on 1t.
Car win Accommodate Fourteen
Patients on Interestingly VIII
Ride in Two Tiers-Car VIII Meet
vessels and Trains With Sick.
Hospital VIII BE Ready March s.
Nurses and Attendants Soon to Ar
rive.
The Savannah, Thunderbolt and Isle Of
Hope Railway has something new in
street cars in course of construction. 1t
is a car destined for the transportation
of sick soldiers, and will be used In car
ryng sick men from the wharves and
trains to the army hospital when it is
ready to receive patients.
Maj D. NJ. Appel, surgeon in charge
of the hospital, showed the workmen at
lie companys shops what he wanted
done with one of the open cars to make
it answer his purpose, having first made
the use of the car which will be charter
ed by the government for the hospital
and viii be employed as often as there is
any need for 1t.
When the car is completed it will carry
fourteen filters, in two tiers. In this way
the soldiers will be carried comfortably
to the hospital The plan upon which the
car will be arranged is Maj. Appers own
idea. The car is open, and the posts that
support the roof will support the upper
tier of filters. The lower tier will rest
between the seats, the poles running in
grooves constructed for them. The ends
of the litters of the upper tier will be
held by hooks attached to the posts.
AT Fortress Monroe there is a street
car arrangement for the transportation of
sick soldiers, but the car there can carry
but six men, no special arrangement be-
ing made as there will be here The Fort
ress Monroe hospital car does not admit
of the soldiers being carried with COM
fort, either.
II II is found necessary another car will
be converted into a hospital car on the
same plan. 1t is believed, however. thar
one will prove sufficient for all needs. At
hrst there will not be so many patients
and, consequently, the TRANSPORTATION Of
sick men will not be large.
Maj. Appel believes the hospital viii he
open for patients on March s. He has been
hotlHed by the surgeon general that TWEEN
~ nurses, chief nurse and a dietist. all
women, are ready to start for Savannah
as soon as they are needed. The same
arrangement applies to sixty hospital men
mo are waiting at Huntsville, to be sent
here as attendants. DIR. Bradley. acting
assistant surgeon, who was here with the
Seventh Army Corps, has been ordered
back from Cuba TO report to Mai. Appel
for duty here
1t will be but short time before the
buildings are turned over by the contract
ors The stipulated time the contractors
were 10 have for the completion of the
work has expired, and Capt McHarg
quartermaster in charge, has been wired
by the quartermaster general that he
might take charge of the construction if
he saw fit. At conference with the con-
tractors yesterday morning, however, the
representations were such as to induce
Capt McHarg to allow them to finish the
work.
The storehouse and one of the wards
near at hand are being used now for stor-
age purposes. In them are mattresses
medical and hospital supplies. The iron
puhKs ordered some time ago from At
lahta have arrived, and will be taken to
the hospital within the next day or two.