Show I NEW HOSPITAL SHIP I The Belief Will Cars For Sick and I Wounded at Santiago I Washington June 21Surgeon General Gen-eral Sternberg of the army has returned re-turned from New York where he spent a day in thorough examination of the hospital ship Relief being fitted out for the use of the army in the West Indies The final touches are being put I jon j-on the vessel and General Sternberg i reports that she will be ready to leave I for her destination which presumably will be Santiago the first of next week 1t The ship is admirably adapted for the purposes intended and the general is mQre than satisfied with her The capacity ca-pacity of the vessel ordinarily is for 300 beds but this may be doubled The eqLpment of the vessel consists of a complete outfit for all kinds of surgical and other branches of work which must come under the supervision of the hospital branch One of the most desirable de-sirable features of her equipment is an icemaking plant with a capacity of about two tons per day which in addition ad-dition to supplying the needs of the ship will be adequate also to supply the field hospitals in the vicinity of the ship There is also a water distillins plant and a carbonating plant the latter lat-ter installed with the money given by one of the relief associations The capacity ca-pacity of the latter plant is more than is necessary for the vessel and the surplus will be used forhospitals nearby near-by The naval ambulance ship Solace is now in Cuban waters and this vessel ves-sel with the Relief will be used interchangeably inter-changeably so far as the occasion therefore may arise I Unlike the navy ship the Relief is distinctly a hospital ship and will be kept at its temporary destination until its beds are filled with sick and wounded wound-ed men when it will take them to the most available and convenient United States hospital |