Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-06-07

the hospital. Its growth was so quiet as to seem
magical Although more than five million persons,
all OF whom, with the possible exception of few
OF the most militant pacifists, cherish a patriotic
interest in all such Institutions are residing just
to the south of IT, It attained completion without
the general public being aware of its existence
and was taking of men who had been across
and been wounded in battle while most of the
residents of New YORK continued to regard it as
merely in course Of construction.
Every afternoon from two o'clock until four
ne high tide of sympathy sets in from the out
side world toward the hospital. 1t was at this
time that armed with letter from the war de-
partment approached the entrance. 1t was nee
essary to fall ia with long procession of women,
most of them burdened with bunny packages
which contained. oranges. apples bananas, home
made chocolate cakes, apple pies, cream puffs and
other articles of food suitable to the dietary of
an invalid and calculated to relieve the tedium
of hospital life.
The wooden city which constitutes the hospital
is set upon hill. Fresh winds sweep over it and
1t is flooded with sunshine. Spotless cleanliness
and perfect order prevail from end to end Of
the plant and the most metculous housekeeper
at the end of a prying visit might very well sigh
and admit that keep house better than
women do.
1t was due to the initiative of Columbia univer-
sity that this large hospital was so soon estab-
ished The university idea to organize and
thoroughly equip hospital for the use of Amer
lean troops, which hospital, construction and all
should be put up in New York and afterward
carried across the The hospital to
be differed by physicians from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, the medical school of
Columbia university.
Ground for the hospital was broken May 49,
little than month after the declaration of
var. The first building finished in June.
But when the hospital was offered to the govern
ment in July it was decided that the project of
the plant buildings and all France
was impractical and that the hospital would
serve very useful purpose if it remained on
Columbia Oval
Thirty-nine buildings were included in the orig
Inal plan presented by the university. The
government has since increased the number to
so, but the type of buildings has remained the
same. Each building is long, low rectange. one
story high and with the sides made up so largely
Of glass that all the wards resemble sun parlors
The executive building is two stories high but
Il like the Others is of the simplest possible con-
struction implanted without and upholstered with
n The buildings lined with heavy paper
with the object of making them warner Other
wise they are as simple the wooden sheds
which served headquarters for the first Off
,ers' training camps.
The entire group Of buildings is somewhat in
he form of the letter H, the executive building
serving as the cross piece of the FL.
On the second floor of this building are the
executive offices of the hospital simple the
,ther parts Of the institution. The Office of Adj
utant Dean F. Winn fitted out mostly with I'M
tainted furniture constructed by the enlisted men,
8 at side and next are the offices of COL