Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-11


 ancient British frigate, now used as q training ship, her decks sWarming with young midshipmen at their first lessons in seacraft.
 Centered in these surroundings is an old Manor House which, erected as private residence thirty-five years ago by wealthy landowner, will serve as the central hospital build ing. From the tower of this siruc- ture one may have an unobstructed view for 20 miles. The central corri- dor of the hospital will be 1000 feet long, and wards on either side will accommodate from 60 to 100 patients each. Here, and in neighbcring hut ments which will cover nearly ten acres, will be room for 5000 wounded to be cared for comfortably. There will be separate buildings for the medical and nursing staffs and other employees, and for kitchens and oper- ating rooms. At some distance from the main building will be a large iso- lation hospital, with it's own kitchens and equipment.
 This estate, located at some distance from the main roads so that the an- bulance traffic will not be interfer- ed with by the regular business of the central highways, was purchased by the Red Cross. Capt. F. Harper Sibley of the Red Cross, formerly president of the Chamber of Com merce of Rochester, N. Y., is super vising the construction work. Captain Sibley has been in charge of the Amer ican Red Cross work at Southampton
 since his arrivhl fin Hngland last April.
 By mid-August the hospital will be opened to the extent that there will be accommodation for about 400 beds. Some of these wlli be located tenn porarily in tents of the Bossoneau type, with windows set in the walls to make them light and airy ana a double roof with air chamber between to insulate them from the heat of the sunt.
 During the pleasant English sum- mer, these tent wards will be very comfortable and agreeable, and long i before the first chilly weather of au- tumn comes, the, frame huts, steam heated, will be ready. It is possible ! that some of the tents will be re- 1 tained for the use of convalescents l or for overflow purposes in the event 1 of a big offensive in the northern part of the western front.
 The hospital will have it's own elec- ] trio lighting plant and water supply. 1 There probably will be double sys- l tenn of water supply, water from the
 river being used for ordinary pur- l poses Whle special distilled water I or spring water will be used for
 drinking purposes and in the kitch- l ems and Onerating rooms
 The Manor House is a large and
 handsome building of what English men call modern construction, inas"
 much as it dates back only 35 years. l It is in the Tudor style, standing on a level plateau on the highest point of the estate It is built of red brick
 with Portland stone dressing and
 has slated roof with artistic red l ridged tiles, while the chimneys of
 brick and stone are made prominent architectural feature. The most not able parts of the exterior are tine magnificent carved stone main en'. l trance and the stone balustrade. 1 An American housewife would per- haps be impressed by the kitchen, a
 room large enough to be used as a
 ballroom, white tiled and with a ceil- i ing 30 feet high. It is said that the
 builder of the house planned to use | it as 8 home for poor boys, whers l they could be trained to make them
 selves useful in the world, and tht; 1 kitchen would undoubtedly be able 1 to provide adequately for a large number of youthful appetites, stimu- lated by the fresh air and the invigor- ating work of an English farm-
 stead.
 The ambulances which will bring the American wounded from the plers at Southampton will approach the hospital iby long carriage drive | through picturesque woodland and
 we'll kept lawns. At the entrance to
 the estate they will pass a gabled
 stone lodge in the finest type of
 English country architecture, which
 probably will be used as the resi-
 dence of the superintendent and chiet
 medical officers of the hospital. The
 wounded man, if his cot faces south
 ward, will look over the river towards Southampton, with an occasional view of warships and transports If his bed faces north he will get a river view, this time across the estates tennis ! courts and cricket field, to where the
 narrowing river disappears amid the gray shadows of the hills.
 The convalescent soldier will find several miles of sunny or shaded wall without going outside the hospital 1 grounds. Strolling southward, he will cross broad meadow and lit tie patch of woods to the hospital pig gerry and chicken farm, and just be- low this he will come to the boat
 house and the jetty, where he may dangle his legs just above the water and sit, fish pole i'll hand, with good prospects of profitable catch. If he chooses to stroll northward from the main hospital buildings, he will find the forest denser and wilder, and at the other side of the forest he will
 come upon Ithe hospital vegetable gardens and greenhouses.