The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-17

ment and kitchen to officers dining-room
in the second story will be- provided.
The general operatives will sleep over
the mess hall, large dormitories for male
and female help and private rooms being
provided. Adjacent to the mess hall, and
like 1t, connected to all portions Of the
plant by covered ways, will be bath and
amusement buildings.
In the former will be two separate
plunges, with dressing-rooms and an at
PENDANTS room. These small buildings
will likewise be reached by gentle in
clines. In fact, nowhere will the patient
have to negotiate stairways, and in win
ter nowhere will he have to encounter the
open air.
1t is the intention to use local products
in construction far as possible. An
excellent sandstone is quarried at Hot
Springs and is found in pleasing shades of
cream, gray and pink. Hard plaster Of
superior quality is manufactured there
and from gypsum quarried on the spot.
For lumber northwestern fir has been fig
ured. For floors, tile, concrete, maple and
fir, with pulp, at least in the wards proper.
The scheme contemplates housing and
caring for 1886 patients in the regular
wards, with an added overflow capacity of
120 by using for beds those portions of
the ward building Easements which by the
natural formation of the ground necessa-
rily come above the surface grade. In
the wards each patient will have 105
! square feet of floor space and 4 $50 cubic
| feet of air. The mess hall will have 300
| sittings, while the upper story Of the same
| building is designed to provide an assist
ant surgeons dining-room to seat twenty
and sleeping accommodations of twenty
! beds for male and twelve beds for female
| employees.
The chief features Of the plan are widely
separated ward buildings and conse-
| quently the greatest amount of fresh air
! to the patient, with a concentrated and
| condensed service with it's consequent op-
erative economy, accomplished by placing
| the ward buildings on radiating lines and
connecting their cOnvergent ends by cir
cular arcade or covered way, the founda-
| tons of which will enclose service tunnel
| where will be located the plumbing, heat
ing, lighting and other arteries of the
buildings, together with a tramWay for
food distribution. This arcade will en-
close a court shady and cool for the sum-
| mer and protective for the winter. At
the extreme ends Of this court will be the
executive buildings to the southwestern
| ward the city-and the service group
(mess hall, kitchen, etc. toward the
mountains.
The proposed location Of the buildings
contemplates their possible repetition, and
the site chosen for the power plant fore
sees the possibility of its doing double
duty at some future time. A natural ba-
sin Immediately behind the proposed group
| of buildings and another farther I'D the
| mountains will make excellent reservoirs,
| as we'll as attractive lakes easily attain
able. Appropriate and desirable locations
| for band stand, officers houses, conserva-
| tories, stables, nurses home, laundry
morgue, etc., have been left available for
such use, as we'll as a space sufficient fol-
all other requirements that may arise
| The circular way that connects all DOR
| lions of the establishment will provide a
very desirable feature, in that it will be
shady and cool in summer and dry and
warm, being enclosed and glazed, in win
| ter, and everywhere will look upon a. pic
turesque natural landscape on the one
hand and the work of the horticulturis,
on the other. Last but not least it will
provide absolute enclosing of the spa &C
intended for the use Of patients, resultins
in a degree Of control as desirable as it is
unusual.
BY experimenting and using the founda
lions Of the arcade, a service tunnel will
be created, which will provide a specia
distributing canal for all the service o.
the establishment. The distribution O.
food and supplies, collecting and distribut
ing laundry, etc., will be confined to a wa,
that interferes with the use of no portion
devoted to patients or visitors and will
hide from view the most unsightly par
of hospital work, as well as provide al
unequaled conduit for pipes and wires
preventing their burial in unreachabl,
places.