Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-02-26 | Page 2 | Resumption of Work at Fort Likely

I Resumption 0 of Work tor at Fort Likely Surgeon General J Urges Completion I Of Post Hospital I HERE is a possibility that work on the reconstruction hospital I THERE I T at Ft Douglas ordered to be stopped and causing more than men to be made jobless may be resumed according to a wire received by Governor Simon Bamberger from Senator William Villiam H H. H King The message states that the senator in response to an appeal by Mayor V. Mont Ferry took up the question of the resumption of work with the war var following the protest made bythe by the civic authorities authorities' here here on the shutting down of the work I Senator King states that the army casualties are not as great as was anticipated anticipated an- an when the program was prepared pre pre- pared to accommodate incapacitated soldiers The program was prepared lOng long before beCore the armistice was signed As a consequence it Is believed that certain plans will have to be modified The surgeon general however is desirous desirous de- de sirous ot of seeing the hospital at Ft Douglas completed and he states that the question as to whether the stoppage stoppage stop stop- page shall shaIl be confirmed or orders given en for resumption of work on the I building will be reached tomorrow by government officials In his message to the governor Senator Senator Sen- Sen ator King Bing reports the following statement statement state state- ment as being given out by the surgeon surgeon sur- sur geon general The situation calls for Cor the modification tion In plans in various parts of the country I urged the completion of the Ft Douglas hospital Officials now are considering the entire subject and will reach a a. conclusion tomorrow I believe a sufficient appropriation will follow to complete the It Ft Douglas hospital as designed