Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-15
$4,000 STRUCTURE
BUILT ~ EVANGELICAL
!. LuTHERANs.
Beds LAKE PASTOR
FATHER OF UNDERTAKING
Organization For Construction Of Fine
Hospital Building Due to Efforts Of
Rev. Otto Won Gemminssn-WiII Ac.
eommodate About 100 Patients
Structure 10 s6x126 Feet.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Hampton, Sept. 15.-Hampton's fine
new $4,000 Lutheran hospital has
come ito be a reality. Something like
a year ago when Rev. Otto Won Gem
mingen, pastor of the Evangelical
! Lutheran church at Deeds Lake,
started the movement that has re-
suited in the handsome building now
standing at the corner SO long oc-
cupied by Hotel Hampton, local people
could not realize that so great an in
stitution was in store for this city. But
persistent effort and earnest endeavor
has brought forth the happy result.
This earnest pastor associated with
+, himself such available aides as E..
Hempel, Of Iowa Falls; H. A. Mas.
Hubbard; Paul Brammer, st. Ansgar;
Carl Koenig, Eldora; ]. Herman
Dunkerton: John Thies, Iowa Falls, and
Ed Dohrmann and F. w. Alert of this
city. who made up the board of di-
rectors. From these were chosen as
officers, Otto Won Gemmingen, presi-
dent; E. Hempel, vice president; H. A.
Mas, secretary: Ed Dohrmann, treas
urer. The price of shares was placed
at $25 and the canvass begun. The
contract for the building was secured
by j. F. Letters & Co., of Cedar Rap
ids, who were then finishing the Hamp
ton high school building, and the
plumbing contract went to the local
firm of Messner & Co. The total
amounts footed $4,000. The ground
was cleared and the foundations
placed last fall, and since early spring
the work mas progressed as fast as
possible.
Structure e6x126 Feet.
The structure fronts eighty-six feet
on Reeve street, and has a depth of
126 feet on Sixth street. The main
entrance is midway of the east front,
but an entrance at the south will ad-
NIT patients. and the hall leading from
the south door will afford easy access
to the electric elevator that runs to
the upper floor
The exterior is Of matt surface brick
with stone trimmings. The structure
is fireproof thruout, stairways, par
titions, floors and even window stills be-
ing Of cement. The building is to be
steam heated, electric lighted, and
private house telephone system is in
stalled to be used in connection with
the city exchange.
The second floor is given over prin-
cipally to rooms for the patients and
the passageways are directly over those
below. Above is the solarium with
windows that when thrown open will
make it almost the same as outdoors
The building is in the shape of the
letter L with the long side at the
south. The stairway is near the juno
ton Of the two sections and the ele-
vator is just west.
Will House 100 Patients.
The basement Is high and well
lighted with windows. In this is the
heating plant. and laundry, a labora.
tory, storage and stock rooms, etc.
The structure is thoroughly modern
turnout, and will provide for about 100
patients at a time if necessary. Among
the accommodations are private din
Ing room for nurses. club room for
doctors. large lecture room for nurses,
drug room, private rooms with bath,
doctors dressing room with shower
bath, and many other modern ideas in
such structures are Incorporated.
Opportunity will be given for pri-
vate parties or organizations to fur
nish rooms for patients, and some of
the rooms have already been thus fur
niShed