Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-12
New Providence Hospital to
Be Formally Opened.
INCREASED CAPACITY
ARRANGED FOB RECEPTION OF
ALL CLASSES OF PATIENTS.
Ceremonies Tuesday Afternoon to En-
brace Addresses by Secretary
Taft and Cardinal Gibbons.

as veil equipped and as efficient as any sim
liar Institution in the world. will be for
maliy opened next Tuesday afternoon. with
speeches by Secretary Taft Cardinal Glib
boES and other men prominent IN both the
secular and religious branches Of national
and international life. The doors OF the
new building. with its roof gardens, prom
enades and finely furnished rooms. will be
thrown open for the inspection of the gen
eral public. Oak. mahogany and maple
furniture brass beds. Brussels carpets,
marble wainscoting and everything else
that goes to make UP total expenditure OF
81 Gpooo0 will be on public exhibition after
the exercises are over
The greater, hospital has 200 rooms, In
which it ,an easily accommodate ooo
patients. Expense has not been spared IN
any detail which could add to the comfort
or welfare of those who are obliged to seek
the care of the institution. Arrangements
have teen completed for the reception OF
all manner of guests, whether of high or
low degree, of whatsoever color, creed or
nationality. If the patient has untold
wealth at his or her command, an apart
ment of three rooms and bath may be OBJ
tanned. Should the injured one be not pos
sessad of much of this worlds goods there
is a general ward, where furnishings are
less elaborate. but where the treatment IS
just as careful just as scientific and Just
as constant as in the more luxurious pri-
waite wards. There may be facilities for
class distinction socially, but there is no
distinction in the quality of services rem
dered.
Open to Inspection.
Visitors next Tuesday will be taken first
to the roof of the institution using one of
the two modern elevators in the new por-
ton of the building. The oid-fashioned eie-
VaCor in the reconstructed portion is TO be
altered and put on a modern basis as soon
as the other elevators are able to handle
all tn traffic.
Going from the east tower. the visitor
is usEered into a series of spacious roof
gardens constructed at every available
point The theory being that aid to
the treatment and the connections of doc
tors and nurses. the best medicine for
conva iescing patient is pure fresh air.
These gardens are so arranged that cano-
pies may be stretched over all of them.
should the summers sun demand it. From
the several vantage points views may be
had of every section Of the city, but the
prettiest vista is south, over the lowlandS
TO the river, and across that waterway TO
the gycen fields of Maryland. On clear days
this scene is a tonic and an inspiration,
even TO the abie-bodied; to the invalid it
Will prove to be a glimpse into that free
Gom ana health which awaits them upon
their recovery. Here they may sit and
ponder over the beauty of 10000 acres, or
they may converse in some quiet corner
with their fellow invalids concerning the
progress of politics or the decline of pa
ganiSn.
Rising from the center of these many roof
gardens is the water tower, where is MAIN
tanned supply of water sufficient for all
purposes of the Institution, and from where
1t descends by force of gravity to the myr-
lad rooms and diet kitchens below. All the
water used in the hospital is filtered and
sterilzed and boiled and what-not, so as to
make it as healthful and as germ-proof as
is in the power of human agencies
The Operating Suite.
Returning to the east tower the visitor is
conducted down one flight of the broad
steel stairs. for the entire building is fire.
proof to the new operating suite the finest
and bsst equipped that money brains
could provide. z. ]. Brennan, the con-
tractor for the entire work, and repre-
sentative from Wood, Dom & Deming. the
architects, Travelled all over the United
States, examining he best features of every
hospital of note in the country. Then they
studied the plans and specifications of the
very best hospitals in Europe, and deducted
from this knowledge the schemes and plans
which have been so perfectly Incorporated
In the Providence Hospital OF today. The
best features of the hospitals Of the world
have been cuGled for this hospital which is
calculated TO be credit to the national
capital
The new operating rooms numbering
twelve in all, are a revelation to the lay
visitor who has never been the subject
of clinics or of surgical demonstra tons. The
with tiles Each apartment. as they grad
uate in order of Importance is sapara ted
from its nelghboT, everything. including the
air itself. is steriized. or antiseptie, and
germs and bacteria which by any hook
or crook might find their way into the
operating department must either freeze
or Starve to death, as the spirit moves
them. The system of both natural and
artificial lighting is perfect windows he
ing everywhere. and electric lights poised
in every nook and corner. Nurses and at
PENDANTS glide noiselessIy about and pa
tients are taken to and fro on tables
with rubber-tired wheels attached All IS
system. all is quiet in this chamber where
life and death meet at the reshold, where
science and all the forces of humanity
strive nobly to give victory to life and de-
feat 70 its antagonist
The Private Apartments.
Coming from the operating room. the Wis
itor is shown some OF the private rooms
The suites range in size from one room
without bath TO two rooms with bath Each
room or series of rooms is furnished by
some private person or firm in Washington
or elsewhere. The names of the donors ap-
pear on brass plates attached to the front
doors OF the suites Some furnishings are
more elaborate than others but every
ltlhg Is good and substantial and pleasing
TO the eye. whether ii he of plainly veneered
oak or highly polished mahogany. There
are twenty suites of two rooms and bath
sl&ty-four suites Of one room and bath and
twenty -four single rooms without bath
The fittings of every one OF the ba throoms
are solid nickel and porcelain There Is no
shatn. no imitation, no attempt to save a
Grlar mere ana dollar there. but the high
standard IS maintained in every detail.
ON each floor there are two diet Kitchens
thoroughly equipped. where the food and
nCdTiS'i1ent for tire invauds s carefully
prepared by competent trained nurses
working under the direction of the intern.
or ward physician. on the top floor is
the ohstetrcal operating room The same