Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-09-11
FAMOUS MUNICH
MUSEUM TURNED
INTO HOSPITAL
Shrine of Old Masters Now in
Use as 0thopedic InStItu-
ton, Where Injured Soldiers
Are Taught Trades,


Munich, Germany Aug 20.-Amer-
lean tourists who have visited the
Bavarim capital, and who have wor-
shipped at the artistic shrines I'm the
famous national museum, probably
would be shocked to find the former
quarters Of old masters now trans
formed into a huge orthopedic de-
partmeut for treating crippled limbs.
and To see almost naked soldiers bath
ing in the fountains of the wonderful
gardens. and taking sun baths and
gymnastic exercises on the lawns.
The national museum, however is
not the only Munich building to have
undergone great changes The mag
nificent new custom house as now
hospital I'm the rooms where for
merlv baggage and freight We're in
spected hundreds Of wounded sol
diers now lie ON cots In the office
of the collector Of customs surgeons
sleep. and in the transfer department
there are rows upon rows of medl-
eaments.
The availability of the customs
house as a hospital, and especially as
a sort of transfer station for wounded
soldiers. was apparent almost as soon
as the wounded began to come back
from the battlefields. Trains run
right t. one side of the huge build
ings. ana soldiers not only can be
unloaded from them as easily as bag
gage but may also be transferred TO
other trains for other parts of Ba-
varia with minimum amount OF
trouble. and to street cars for other
hospitals in Munich.
The amount of customs inspection
that is now necessary in Munich IS
approximately nil so that it was es-
sentialy a simple matter to trans
form the character of the building.
None in the whole city has So per-
fectly fitted the requirements OF q
hospital. for in addition to the splen-
did facilities for taking patients right
off hospital trains the rooms are
large and airy, and several of them
are well lighted to serve as operating
rooms
Munich. like dozen other German
cities has turned its largest Industrial
school into a vocational school for
crippled soldiers. The building has
a capacity of several hundred pupils
and all the necessary appliances Tor
teaching soldiers new trades or ior
teaching them how to continue their
! old trade Notwithstanding impaired
! faculties.
/ The vocational school consists real
/ ly of three departments. In the iirs'
wounded soldiers are, SO far as 1t IS
possible, cured At least open wounds
! are closed and they are given. the
regular hospital treatment until It IS
/ definitely established that a stilfened
/ leg never will become Timber, or a
crushed or smashed arm better.
When his physical status has been
definitely established the soldier
moves on to the vocational or indus
trial department where his capabill-
ties and lnclinations are studied. Ihef
he goes into the bindery or the PRINT
shop. the carpentry department or
/ the school of mechanical arts u
for instance, his arms and hands are
unimpaired he may learn stenog-
raphy. ypewriting and bookkeeping
The third department meantime be-
comes Interested in him, and, before
he is ready TO leave the institution
secures for him a position in whlcf
he may earn at least portion Of the
wage that he was capable Of before
going into the war
Munich as the capital and larges
city in Bavaria has quite naturally
the largest percentage Of BavariaT
wounded to care for With every e
source, financial, social and economi
cal. she set out at the start Of the wa
In see to it that no German cit
should surpasa her In the excellence
Of the care accorded the wounded
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