The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-18
BUTTE NEWS.
IT'S NEARLY COMPLETED
st. James Annex Will.Be Ready
for Occupancy Soon.
AN ARTISTIC CREATION
Many Testimonial Rooms Will Be Fitted
Up at Oncs-Will Be Elegantly
Furnished-The Finest Hos
pital in the Northwest.

The new annex to st. James hospital,
which is to make that institution the
largest and best equipped hospital any
where in the West, is nearing compile
ton and will be ready for occupancy
inside of two weeks. Work on the in
side finishings have been going on for
some time and the building is now
practically completed, but remains to
be finished, and it will probably take
a week or two to put all the rooms in
readiness to receive patients.
Most of the rooms in the new build
ing are to be finished as testimonial
rooms and these will be fitted up at
once. AS far as is certain at this
time, there will be 10 rooms furnished
in this way, besides the general sur
gical ward and the Sisters chapel
The building being now ready, those
who intend assisting the hospital by
furnishing a room may go ahead. OF
the rooms for the furnishing of which
provision has not been made there are
several which will be furnished by
the hospital unless there should be 9TH
ers who wish to lend a helping hand.
Those who have signifed their inten-
ton of furnishing a room are Drs.
NJ. G. MacNevin, J. Newton Alexan-
der, J. c. Johnson and Donald Camp
bell, Frank Boucher, J. N. Gravelle,
A. F. Bray, d. NJ. Newbro. ]. j. McHat-
ton, Mr. and Mrs D. J. Hennessy, Mr..
and Mrs. James H. Lynch, Mr.. and
Mrs. Miles Finlen, Brownfield-Canty
company, Mrs. Thomas Lavelle, Mr..
and Mrs. j. H. Curtis, Mr.. and Mrs.
jerry Mullins, Miss Skyrme, p. J. Bro
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the surgical ward with 10 beds will be
furnished by the five banks of the city,
the First National Silver Bow Nation
al, Marcus DAILY & Co., State Savings
and w. A. Clark & Bro. The Sisters
chapel is being fitted up by Mrs. p.
A. Lafgey, as a memorial to her late
husband. The name of each person or
firm thus contributing will be placed
over the door of the room furnished
to remain there as long as the hospital
stands. From what is known of the
intentions of those who are furnishing
rooms, the furnishings will be elegant
and in keeping with the fine new
structure.
The annex is an artistic architectural
achievement, is constructed of brick
with granite and terra Gotta trimmings
and in its appointments every advan
tage has been taken of the latest ad-
vancements in hospital building A
basement will afford accommodations
for electric baths and every other
character of bath, an X-ray room for
the examination of fractures and the
location of foreign bodies in the flesh.
together with utility rooms. On the
first floor will be located the most
modern operating and preparing rooms
possessed by any hospital in the West
A room which can be brought in al
most moments time to any temper
ature desired will be located in con-
Venient proximity to the elevator A
patient may be carried into this room
and prepared for an operation and from
there enter the operating rooms in far
better condition for withstanding the
operation than in the ordinary hospital
This is the preparing room The OPP
Grating room adjoins. 1t will be light
ed after the modern idea of overhead
lights, and, as in the preparing ROOM
it will be possible to bring the room
to any temperature desired almost in
a minute. Every possible convenience
to surgery will be supplied in the OPP
Grating room. On this floor will also
he located the Sisters chapel, sac
risties and three general wards
The upper floors will be devoted to
private wards and the necessary util-
ity rooms, among which will be bath
and toilet rooms on each floor When
the annex is ready for occupancy St.
James hospital will be able to accom-
modate more than 200 patients and will
undoubtedly be the largest and finest
in all the Northwest.