New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

highways, was purchased by the Red
Gross. Captain f. Harper Sibley, of
she Ned Cross formerly president of
the Chamber of Commerce of Roches-
ter, N. T., is supervising the construc-
ton work. Captain Sibley has been in
charge of the American Red Cross work
at Southampton since his arrival in
England, in April.
BY mid-August the hospital should
be ready to accommodate 400 beds.
Some o! these will be located tenn
porarily IN tents of the Bossoneau type.
with windows set in the walls to make
them light and airy and a double roof
with alrchamber between to insulate
them from the heat of the sun.
During the pleasant English summer
these tent wards will be very com
Portable and agreeable, and long be-
lore the first chilly weather of autumn
comes the frame hut wards, steam
heated. will be ready. 1t Is possible
that some of the tents will be retained
Tor the use Of convalescents or for
overflow purposes in the event of a
big offensive on the northern part Of
the Western front.
me hospital will have its own cleo
Irlc lighting plant and water supply.
mere probably will be double sys-
sem or water supply. water from the
river being used for ordinary purnoses
while special distilled or spring water
VIII be used for drinking purposes and
IN the kitchens and operating rooms.
Kitchen Is Spacious
The Manor House is large and
handsome building of what Enrlishmen
call modern construction, inasmuch a.
1T dates back only thirty-fve years. It
IS IN the Tudor style. standing on a
level plateau on the highest point Of
the estate. 1t is built of brick, with
portland stone dressings, and has a
slated roof with artistic red ridred
tiles, while the chimneys of brick and
stone are made prominent architects
ural feature. The most notable parts
OF the exterior are the magnificent
carved stone main entrance and the
stone balustrade.
An American housewife would per-
haps be the most impressed by the
Kitchen. room large enough to be
used as ballroom, white tiled and
with ceiling thirty feet hirh. II is
said that the builder of the house
planned to use it as a home for poor
boys, where they could be trained to
make themselves useful in the world,
and the kitchen would undoubtedly be
able to provide adequately for large
.-EihDSA ~ youCIAul AppGCl(cS, SClmu-
lated by the fresh country air and the
invigorating work of an English farm
stead.
The ambulances which will bring the
American wounded from the piers at
Southampton will approach the hospi-
tai by 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 arch
itecture, which probably will be used
as the residence of the superintendent
and chief medical officers of the hos
p PIT The wounded man, if his cot
river toward Southampton, with an
occasional view of warships and trans
ports. If his bed faces north he will
still get river view. this time across
the estates tennis courts and cricket
field, to where the narrowing river dis
appears amid the gray shadows of the
hills.
The convalescent soldier will find
several miles Of sunny or shaded walks