The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-06-14
State Institution af Mt. Kip
Will Be Ready for Patients
In November
WORK TO GO ON QUICKLY
THERE IS, HOWEVER, A GREAT
WANT OF MORE MONEY
WHERE THE HOSPITAL
STAND s
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HIGH BRIDGE. June IA, 1906
Work on the State Tuberculosis Sanitar-
ium on Mt. Kip. near this place, is
progressing rapidly. The contractors,
George B. Post & Sons. Of New York
City, expect to complete the several
buildings by November 1. For the week
ending June 8 State Inspector John ID.
Hornby reports as follows: Employed
ten stone masons, two brick-layers, three
steam-ftters and helpers. two plumbers
and helpers, fifteen carpenters, twenty
FIVE laborers and five teams. Ward
building No /: Brackets set, wall plates
on, trusses in place, ready for roof shea.
ing. Ward building No. 2; Roof ready
for unions. Administration building:
East and west wings have brackets set
ready for roof trusses; middle portion ga
bles yet to run up. Service building;
Deep cellar walls level to grade; CHM
ney stack fifty-two feet above ground;
plumbing and steam-ftting in progress
Work in general moving along rapidly.
The service building when completed
will be two stories and a basement look
So feet The excavation for this build
ing was made through solid rock. Every
foot was blown out with dynamite. 1t
will contain butcher shop, store, bake
ries, laundries, cold storage, etc. Two
sixty horse power boilers and three dyna-
mos will also be installed. The stack
will be 100 feet high. Ward buildings
No. and No. 2 will be two stories and
basement, each 1913 feet long and 30 feet
wide. They are being built of stone and
stucco, will be tireproof and sanitary
| throughout, heated by steam and lighted
| by electricity. They will accommodate
| 120 patients The administration build-
ing is situated between the two ward
| buildings, forming court. 1t is So feet
! long and A feet wide and has two wings
east and west, each 40x7O feet. Besides
| an X-ray room it will have an operating
room, pathological laboratory and all
modern equipments pertaining to the cure
| Of tuberculosis. The stone used in the
building is native, and is found in great
! quantities on the site in fact the besI
stone for building purposes was blasted
out of the basement of the buildings
| The site of the sanitarium is on the
| slope of mountain nearly 1000 feet
above the level of the sea, where the
| State has acquired about 600 acres. The
| slope has been cut away and leveled for
a considerable space, and here the build
! ings are being constructed. On clear
day the view from this point is one of
the most magnificent in this picturesque
section of northern New Jersey 1t looks
away over a rolling country of wooded
hills and cultivated farm lands to the
mountains on the other side of the valley.
which runs at its foot. Away in the
distance like a thin ribbon of silver, is
the north branch of the Raritan river,
and in whatever direction the eye turns
some new and charming scene is encoun-
tered.
Notwithstanding this, the site is not
an inviting place to-day. Broken rock,
earth and other debris from the excava-
tions for the foundation walls of the
buildings lie around in uneven and un-
slightly heaps, while piles of lumber dis
colored by exposure to the weather, iron
girders and supports. rusted by the ac-
tion of the elements, and disordered rows
of iron pipes and earthen drains add to
its general unsightlness. To the rear of
the slope, is large tank into which
water for Use in the construction of the
buildings is pumped from small stream
some distance below.
Abram L. Beavers, of this place.
member of the Committee on Equipment,
said to-day: bids for equipment viii
be advertised for this month. The last
Legislature appropriated $4,000 for this
purpose. The next Legislature will be
asked for an appropriation for maintain
ing the institution and it is hoped TO have
everything in readiness to receive pa
tients by May /, 1907"