The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-03-08

When Drs. A. NJ. and r. II Darl-
ing announced, about year ago.
that they would erect hospital in
this city, few appreciated the great
service they planned for the people OF
the community and the surrounding
mines and no one expected an institu-
tion on the scale that the building
subsequently, built turned out TO be
But like all good things, time has
brought the people of the community
to fuller appreciation of the great
benefit that such an institution is TO any
community and now the wonder is
how we lived so long without it.
The Doctors are coming in for much
praise for their humanitarian work,
for certainly the sacrifices they have
made to erect and equip this handsome
and thoroughly modern hospital is a
humanitarian act Of the most generous
kind as many poor fellow who has
already enjoyed the luxuries of it can
testify To-
The hospital is primarily an institu-
tion intended for the accommodation for
the miners who come under the charge
of the doctors in their practice at the
mines Of the vicinity but by erecting
hospital on the scale that the doctors
did they are enabled 70 take care
all that come along without cramping
their accommodations or interfering
with their service TO the mines. Thus,
what many. who knew not the ideas
that were in the minds of the doctors
at the time the building was being
erected, thought was extravaganza,
mas turned out to be piece of foresight.
The institution is gaining wider
circle of acquaintance every day and
people from outside towns are coming
here for treatment, even from places
that are provided with hospitals but
which institutions are not equipped in
the up-to-date manner that the Crystal
Falls hospital is,
The dimensions of the building are %
x60; three stories and basement. The
basement is one Of the finest, if not
the finest, in the city. 1t is covered with
concrete floor throughout and contains
besides the store room roomy laundry,
bathroom and a modem heating plant.
This plant is one Of the finest that
money could buy and is sufficient, to
heat the building in fine shape, Next
comes large bathroom and running
along one side is large passageway
from which the different apartments
open.
Coming to the first floor which il
entered from Superior avenue the
visitor finds himself in capacioui
hallway the inside Of which, like th'
remainder of the building, is hnishe,
in Georgia pine This finishing give
a very pretty effect TO the whole in
terror From the hallway two door
open, enc straight anead into the men
waiting room and one TO the righ
into the sitting room. The latter room
is very costly furnished and Its luxur
is inviting indeed Opening of tn
sitting room is the consultation roon
and to the rear of that and openin
off il, comes the drug department
The doctors put up their own med
icines and their drug room is we
stocked with drugs of all kinds Mex
comes the dressing room, one Of tn
largest on this floor, and to the rear {
that comes private ward room. Th
! hospital physician has a room on thi
floor to the left of the ward room.
All the floors are built after the sam
; plan, having large hallway alon
! the leftJfrom which the different room
! open. About midway along this ha
is wide stairway leading to the Sc,
} ond floor The stairway is an extrs
ordinary wide one as it is necessary
J have one very wide so as TO handl