The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-01-19
NEW HOSPITAL ERECTION WORK
PROGRESSING.

work on the hospital for the
criminal insane at Farview is pro-
crossing as rapidly as possible, al
though the work has been somewhat
retarded by the heavy SHOWS and
clod weather for the past month.
DR.. Fitzsimmons in his report sub
mitted to the commission on the first
of the year, in speaking of the work,
says
The condition of the two hospital
buildings &c" and d." now under
course of construction, is as follows
The sheet metal and stating on the
roof of building &c" is SO per cent.
completed. There is only the sheet
metal work on half of the ridge on
this building yet to do. The sheet
metal work on the tower or louvre of
this building is all completed, except
ing the pacing of the sheet metal on
the louvre proper or the opening for
ventilation, all of which is made and
ready to be placed in position which
work can be done in about six hours.
At the time of the last report the
iron work of building ID" was in
course of construction. That work
is now all completed and the sheet
metal work on the roof of this build
ing ID" is also completed and SO per
cent. of the slate of the roof of this
building has also been laid. There
is about twelve hours work of stating
to be done on this building and had
it not been for the severe snow storm
this roof would have been completed.
If weather permits the slate work on
this building will be completed this
week. This does not mean that the
cement has been placed around the
slate as that is a job in itself that
will take about two weeks to COM
plete. If weather will be compare
lively favorable by Feb. 1st all of the
roof work will be completed. The
frame work on the three towers or
louvres of building ID" has been
completed and they are ready for the
sheet metal work to be commenced.
This will be proceeded with without
delay. The stair builders have been
engaged in the building of the iron
stair way during the past month and
at the present time the stir way lead
ing from the basement of building
&C" have been placed in position to
and from the basement.
The electrician has about 81 per
cent. of that kind of work done in
both buildings, &c" and 3D." and
this work will have been completed
by the 25th of the present month,
January. The plumbers or men en-
gagged in the placing of the drain
pipes, cast iron pipes, which are be-
ing placed in treanches under the
basement, and galvanized iron pipes,
which are being between the roof
cutters, have about so per cent. of
this work done. This includes the
hemp covering which surrounds the
galvanized iron pipes to prevent them
from freezing. The metal conduits
for the conveying of air and heat
and which contains thesthermoitatic
or heat testers is about 40 per cent.
done All of the windows have been
placed in position and are ready to
be permanently cased in, Storm
doors have been placed at all the
openings where ingress and egress to
the buildings is necessary and where
this is not expedient the openings
have been boarded up.
All of the work now in process of
execution, aside from the small
amount of work to be done on the
roofs, can be readily carried on re-
gardless of weather conditions
During the month three car loads
of trimming stone and one carload
of lime for building sc" arrived at
the d. & II. II. r. siding and is at
present in the store houses at that
place. There is only twenty men en-
ployed at the hospital, sixteen of
whom are mechanics in the different
departments and four laboring men.
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