Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-02
HUSIIING CLIFTON FOR G..

used here. It has capacity Of $50 tons,
while its elevating and loading capacity
Is practically unlimited. The yards OF the
company are second in size Of the entire
system, containing forty miles of track
on which are handled from 4 200 to L.
500 cars per day. The coach yard is
equipped with steam heat for hea ting
passenger equipment. The new ice house
OF the company has been finished and
was pressed into service during the past
summer, for the iceing of freight in tran
sit. plant for charging freight trains:
with air before leaving The yards has
also been recently added.
There are about 100 engines on the trains
in and out Of Clifton Forge. The number
of men operating the trains is something
over 10000. The payroll Of these, to-
gether with the shops, are not short OF
$4,000 per month.
The Railroad Y NJ C. a. is a hand
some three-story building. 70xs0 and is said
to be one. of the best-equipped buildings
for. the comfort and convenience of rail-
road men in the country. The total cost
of the building, library, fixtures, ETC.,
was between $4,000 and $4,000.
Another institution belonging to the
company is Gladys Inn Mr.. J. H CAL
lahan Is manager. It has sixty bed
rooms with a capacity of 100 guests. has
public and private baths and is heated
with steam and lighted with electricity.
It is one Of the most comfortable hostel
ries III Virginia, and there is not more
genial manager than Mr.. Callahan.
The Chesapeake and Ohio hospital for
the care of the sick and wounded en1-
ployees is situated in West Clifton
Forge. It is a spacious building. having
ITO rooms OF which a sufficient NUM-
Der are furnished to accommodate fifty
or more patients. It was opened Dec: i,
1887, and is managed by a board of gov
errors composed of six officials and sew
en- employees, one from each branch OF
the service. It is supported by an as
sessment on the employees. ranging from
Is to so cents per month. according to
salary received This entities every en-
ployee to free medical and surgical
treatment, including medicines, board,
wa shing and nurse without extra charge.
It also entities such as need it to v-5
funeral expenses in case of death. From
the funds, surgeons along the road are
paid for services to such as cannot be
taken to the hospital and other hospitals
to which patients who cannot stand trans
portation, are taken. DR.. John c. Wy
sor, a graduate of the class of 1878 of the
Baltimore College for Physicians and
| Surgeons, with several skilled assistants,
q staff Of five trained nurses, house
keepers, servants, ETC., comprise the hos
pital family. An annex at cost OF
$4,000 has lately been added to the hospital
for treatment OF contagious disease
This was dono at the suggestion Of Pres
ident Stevens, who remarked that mo-
| where is a mans humanity to man
more clearly and painfully shown than in
| the treatm of the unfortunate patient
who is afflicted with smallpox. He isEput
| in an uncomfortable pest-house, neglect
! ed while he lives, and almost denied bu-
| rial when he dies At his suggestion
| the hospital association erected COM
| Portable and well-equipped building, which
| is known as the Annex for Contagious
! Diseases. 1t has steam heat, electric
lights, baths, laundry, drying and dis
| injecting rooms, rooms for nurses and
orderly, and lacks nothing which would
| contribute to the comfort and recovery
of the patients and for the protection OF
| others from infection. The supplies for
| the hospital are furnished from the Ches'
| apeake and Ohio farm across the river
| from the hospital
| rHOs s. WRIGHT. E