The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-11-12
Soldiers Home Notes

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Report of Mountain Branch National
Home d. Y. s.:
Present subject to duty.......,..21
Convalescent., NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 8
On extra duty. .....,...,.......
DICK .,,,.....,......... 4
Absent with leave. 5
Total present q absent. .66
Temporary at post, ........,.,.....23
Vacant beds. ..........,..... 90
Vacant beds in hospital. 90
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The Otis Company is now placing
the electric elevator in the Administra-
ton building. 1t will be a beauty.
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No kitchen equipment is placed and
the two bake ovens have not been
started, but the doors and windows are
all finished and all depends on the
equipment of the kitchen aud bakery.
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The mess hall is fast nearing COM
pletion. The top floor is not laid yet
in the dining room. In the ceiling
there will be seventy-five electric lights,
FIVE in each panel and twenty-five in
the center in q square 1Oxl2, and none
on the sides and ends.
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The band instruments have arrived
and are beauties, silver plated and cost
about 81, 300. They are from the fam.
GUS musical instrument factory of
Conn & Co. and the band master is
preparing to organize the band and
hopes to give his first concert next
month.
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The temporary track that has been
in use nearly three years to get ma
terial to the Hospital group has been
taken ur and the bank will be graded,
and when the temporary board walks
are all laid around the Hospital group
there will not be much trouble from
the mud and rain.
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Work on the Hospital Group is pro-
crossing favorably. Wards and 4
are occupied. The doors are being
hung as fast as they can be. The three
stairways are plastered and the railing
is on, but the hand elevators are not
ready to run yet. There will be an
iron screen placed about them but it
has not arrived.
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The Phoebus Sentinel says that Maj.
r. E. Hayes, former property clerk in
the Hospital at the Hampton home,
has accepted aposition as head clerk at
the Hospital mountain branch John
son City. The major took his transfer
Monday last and has already entered
upon his new duties. He left the
Southern home with the good will Of
all.
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The morgue is not finished. The
large chest that will hold SIX bodies is
in place. 1t is eight feet high, eight
feet long, and eight feet wide, and was
built by the Lorillard Co., of New
York. The company furnished a great
deal of furniture, etc. The tunnel that
leads from the corridor to the morgue
is not finished. The arch and sides
will be of concrete, and there will be
three ventilators in the top. tits about
100 feet long and six feet wide, and tel
feet high.
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The second story of Ward 4 is in
tended for the use of insane members
where the hospital is used exclusively
for sick. At all the homes there is al
ways number of insane members an(
they are kept by themselves and tn,
doors and windows have to be grsted
Alter certain time they are sent tt
the government hospital in Washing
ton. Good progress is being made oil
the other two wards and the admins
tration building, but it will be som,
time next month before they are fin
ished. A large amount of fancy till
work is being placed in the Admins
traitor building, but the upper floor
of this building are being rubbe'
down, frames set, and some OF the door
hung. None of the bathrooms ar
ready, only cold water yet, but b.
next Sunday the hot water will b
on. There are fourteen lights il
the ceiling of the wards and sixteen o.
the sides and ends, and side lights 70
, the beds, so we have plenty of light.