The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03

accommodate nearly 5000 wounded Americans from the western front, says the New York Times. The site is a magnificent country estate of 1S6 acres, formerly known as Sarisbury Court. The central building of the | hospital will be the old Manor House erected as a private residence thirty five years ago by a wealthy British | landowner. Around this as a centre l the American Red Cross is building nearly ten acres of frame hutments. | The central corridor of the new hospital when completed will be 1,- 00C feet long, opening on either side into the wards, which will accommo- date from 60 to 100 patients each. | There will be separate buildings for the medical and nursing staffs, the
 other employees, the kitchens and the operating rooms. At some distance from the central buildings there will
 be a large isolation hospital with it's
 own kitchens and equipment.
 The site is one of the most beauti-
 full in Southern England. The estate | is located six miles from Southamp-
 ton and at some distance from the
 main roads, so that the ambulance
 traffic will not be interfered with by | the regular business of the central | highways. Included in the 186 acres i purchased by the Red Cross is wood | land, pasture land, and ample gar | dens. The estate has 0 frontage of
 half a mile on Southampton water,
 where there is good fishing and splen- did boating. From the tall tower of
 the manor house there is an unob-
 structed view for twenty miles in ev-
 cry direction. Southward, out of the
 broad windows of the wards, the Am
 erican wounded will look across
 Southampton, with the shores of the
 Isle of Wight in the distance. Off
 the hospital jetty they will see an-
 chored an ancient British frigate, now
 used as a training ship, her decks
 swarming with young midshipmen at
 their first lessons in seacraft.
 The woodland acres of the estate are already resounding with the axe and the saw, and several hundred , trees have been selected to furnish the
 heavier timber and joists for the hos pita1 buildings.
 The ten acres of vegetable gardens will be intensively cultivated, with the idea of furnishing as large a part as possible of the kitchen requirements. The hospital will also produce a con-
 siderable portion of it's dairy require
 ments, it's bacon, and it's eggs and poultry.
 The contracts signed by the Red Cross provide for the opening of the hospital with about 400 beds avail able in six weeks from the time the work is started. Part of these beds will for the time being be located
 in tents of the Bossoneau type, with windows set in the walls to make
 them light and airy, and double roof with air chamber between to insulate them from the heat of the sun. / 3 During the pleasant English Sum- 2 mer these tent wards will be very q comfortable and agreeable, and long o before the first chilly weather of Au- ' tumn comes the frame hut wards f steam heated, will be ready. It 1:
 possible that some of the tents will be |, retained for the use of convalescent! v or for overflow purposes in the even 6 of big offensive on the northern par
 of the western front.
 The hospital vii have its own efec
 tric-lighting plant and water suppl!
 There probably will be a double sys
 tenn of water supply, water from thu @ river being used for ordinary pur J poses, while special distilled or sprint
 water will be used for drinking pur poses in the kitchens and operating u rooms.
 The construction of the hospital vii
 be under the general supervision 0
 Captain F. Harper Sibley of the Re
 Cross, formerly President of tn
 Chamber of Commerce of Rochester IS N Y. Captain Sibley has been il J. charge of the American Red Cros J. work at Southampton since his arri le val in England last April.
 is The Manor House, which will b 70 the central building of the Sarisbur
 Hospital is large and handsom In building of what Englishmen cal re modern construction, inasmuch as t. dates back only thirty-five years. l le is in the Tudor style, standing on Id level plateau on the highest point c lg the estate. It is built of brick wit a. Portland stone dressings, and has en slated roof, with artistic red-ridge d, tiles, while the chimneys of brick an
 stone are made a prominent architec 1T, tural feature. The most notable part lg of the exterior are the magnificen st carved stone main entrance and tn en stone balustrade.
 70 The house contains about lift en rooms, and more than half of thes ed are large enough to be available fo H. use as wards containing from six st sixteen beds each. The great entranc ic hall is easily the feature of the inte lg rior It is as large as many an Am n- erican church, open to the roof, an
 with balcony or gallery running a al the way around 1t.
 to An American housewife would pel re haps be most impressed by the kitcf he en, large enough to be used as bal al room, white tiled and with a ceilin ks thirty feet high. It is said that th tn original builder of the house planne es to use it as a home for poor boy h. where they could be trained to maB ed themselves useful in the world, an nd the kitchen would undoubtedly be alb
 to provide adequately for a large nun ng Der of youthful appetites, stimulate ng by the fresh country air and the il mt vigorating work of an English farm ng stead
 tn The ambulances which will brir rd the American wounded from the pie in at Southampton will approach u ,e- hospital by a long carriage dri1
 through picturesque woodland ar sr- welI-kept lawns At the entrance 56 the estate they will pass gabled stoI for lodge in the finest type of Englis
 country architecturs, which probab ed will be used as the residence of tl zen superintendent and chief medical of Of hn dk