Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-06-28

the hospital. Its growth was 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 residing just
to the south of 1t. II attained completion without
the general public being aware of its existence
and was taking care 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
the high tide of sympathy sets in from the out
side world toward the hospital. 1t at this
time that armed with letter from the war de-
partment approached the entrance. 1t was nee
essary to fall in with long procession of women
most of them burdened with bumpy 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 a 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 prying visit might very well sigh
and admit that men even keep house better than
women do.
1t was due to the initiative of Columbia univer-
sity that this large hospital was SO estab-
lished. The university idea was 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 ocean. 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 more than month after the declaration of
war. The first building finished In June
But when the hospital offered to the govern
ment In July it decided that the project of
transporting the plant, buildings and all to France
was impractical and that the hospital would
serve a very useful purpose If it remained on
Columbia Oval
Thrty-nine buildings were included in the orig
inai plan presented by the university. The
government has since increased the number to
CO. 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
IT, like the Others Is of the simplest possible con-
struction, implanted without and upholstered with
in. The buildings are lined with heavy paper
with the object OF making them warmer. Other
wise they simple as the wooden sheds
which served as headquarters for the first off,
GERS training camps.
The entire group of buildings is somewhat in
the form of the letter II, the executive building
serving as the cross piece Of the H.
On the second floor Of this building are the
executive offices Of the hospital, as simple as the
other parts of the institution. The office Of Adj
jutaRt Dean f. Winn. fitted out mostly with I'M
painted furniture constructed by the enlisted men,
is at one side and next are the offices of Col.