The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-02-07
Vets Sanatorium To
Be Dedicated Feb. 22

Wednesday, February %, has
been designated by the United States
Treasury Department as the date for
the dedication of the mammoth war
veterans sanatorium which has
just been completed at Dawson
Springs
The dedication will be one of state
wide Importance and will mark the
turning over of Uncle Sans best
hospital to the ex-service men. On
this day the keys to the gigantic in
stitution will be handed to Lieuten-
ant Colonel II. E. Whitledge of the
United States Public Health Service
Department, commanding officer of
the sanatorium, who is a former
Kentuckian.
The sanatorium which has just
been completed, is composed of a
unit of twenty-five buildings and is
located in a 5,000-acre tract of
land donated to the government by
the citizens of Dawson Springs,
Hopkinsville, Madisonville and 9TH
er Kentucky people. The 5000 acre
government reservation is located
in the counties of Hopkins, Chris
tian and Caldwell.
The commercial organization Of
Madisonville and Hopkinsville are
aiding the Dawson Springs CONNER
cial club in making arrangements
for the dedication, at which it is es-
timated there will be some fifteen
thousand people in attendance The
dedieatory address will be delivered
by Governor Edwin P. Morrow, and
national officers yet to be selected,
and the occasion will be attended by
some of the most prominent people
in the United States, including the
American Legion and War Veterans
Bureau.
The United States government, as
well as the citizens of Dawson
Springs, desires to extend an invi-
tation to every person in Kentucky
to be present on this day and view
what the treasury department says
is the best hospital unit in the
world.
On the day of the dedication the
doors of this new government insti-
tuition will be thrown omen to the
public and an urgent request made
for the people to see what is. the
best that can be provided to care
for disabled soldiers, sailors and
marines.
To those who think they will see
one lonely building in the form of
an up-to-date hospital, and nothing
more will receive the shock of their
lives. They will find that this SAN
atorium is little city within it.
self, with all modern conveniences.
The unit is built to care for 500 /
patients. With an additional ex-
penditure of 100000 it can be
made to care for twice this number,
and this action will probably be ia
ken in the very near Future.
The unit is composed of twenty
two buildings, all of fireproof con-
struction and equipped with the
very latest mechanical equipment.
The construction is of stucco and
tile. 1t possesses a modern power
plant equipped with three large al II
current generators and
four of the largest boilers in use by
he government. II has its own wa
ter works and sewerage system, and
100000 gallon tank perched 100
feet in the air. There are filter
beds and water rectifying plant, re-
plant gas system, fre
protection, telephone system, street
lights, concrete roads and walks.
rhe unit covers about 75 acres of
and.
There is a macadam road from
he government reservation to Daw-
'on Springs, and a steel bridge and
restle over Tradewater river, which
has been built by the government.
The site picked for the erection Of
he sanatorium unit is one of the
most picturesque 10 be found any
vhere. The buildings are at a point
hat affords landscape view in all
directions as beautiful as mortal eve
'0uld wish TO look upon. The bean-