Show f arina fl v fl I 1 d a for wounded t 0 pon 0 0 broin Osei seas 3 en I 1 43 L 0 great arm hospital T ifal in new nev york already filling fillina with the soldiers from fr om battle front I 1 closest link with the battlefields of europe Is the united states army hospital no 1 situated tit nt gun hill road and bainbridge avenue the bronx new york down the path frond from the hospital to the gun hill att str I 1 tion of the subway limp wounded soldiers who are entitled ito be ranked with veterans of the west front they are in the minority as yet because not ra more ore than three quarters of th thi patients of this hospital have been m members e of the american expeditionary force and of tho thoe who have been on overseas duty many have ret returned Orned to this side because they were found unfit for active service ice rather than for treatment of loynds nevertheless this country comes moa move e closely into touch with the actualities of war on this little stretch of road where the men themselves sun on pleasant days than anywhere elseo else on n tills this side of the atlantic sometimes a man with one leg makes ills his way along the road adroitly balancing himself on crutches crutch esi sometimes it Is a sturdy lad with his hl arm lu in a sling filing or his head bound up imp there are eye cases and men otherwise wounded and here and there in the procession a soldier comes along in a wheeled chair propelled by a khaki clad comrade less than a year ago there was nothing but vacant ground used as an athletic field by columbia university hersity and known as columbia oval where M t the it e hospital now X stands says a writer in the new york world today a wooden city occupies this ground in part this city te testifies stifles to ahja ready patriotism of columbia university and la in part it Ls is a monument to the efficiency of the war department part ment ent A modest distaste for publicity Is characteristic of the hospital its growth was so eo quiet as to seem magical although more than five million persons all of with the possible exception of a few of the most militant pacifists paci fists cherish a patriotic interest in all such institutions are residing just to the south of it lt attained completion without the general public being aware of its existence and was taking care of men who had been across across and been becu wounded in battle while most of the residents of new yolk continued to regard it aps BS merely in course of construction every afternoon from two until four the high tide of sympathy sets in from the outside world toward the hospital it was waa at this time that armed with a letter from the war department part ment 1 I approached the entrance it was necessary to fall la in with a long procession slon of women most of them burdened with bumpy packages which contained oranges apples bananas homemade chocolate cakes apple pies crenin 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 it Is flooded with sunshine spotless cleanliness and perfect order prevail from end to end of the plant and the most meticulous housekeeper at the end of a n prying visit might very well sigh and admit that men even keep beep house better than women do it was due to the initiative of columbia university that this large hospital hospit nl was so soon established the university idea was to organize and thoroughly equip a hospital for the use of american troops which hospital construction and all should be put up in nw new york and afterward carried across the ocean the hospital was to be officered by physicians from college of physicians sad and surgeons the medical school of columbia university ground for the he hospital was broken little ittle more than n month after the declaration of tar car the first building was finished in june but when the hospital was offered to the government in july it was decided that the project of transporting the plant buildings and nil all to franci france was impractical and that the hospital would serve a very useful purpose it if it remained on columbia oval thirty nine buildings were included in the original plan as presented by the university the government lias has since increased the number to 30 60 but tile the type of buildings has remained the each building Is a long low recta rectangle able one story high and with the sides made made up so largely at ot glass that nil all the wards resemble sun parlors tile hie executive building Is two two stories high but i t like tile he others Is of the he simplest co construction n st unpainted without and with n the buildings are lined with heavy paper the lie object of making them warmer otherwise I 1 they are as as the wooden sheds which served as headquarters for the first boffl ers training camps the entire group of buildings Is somewhat in he form of the letter 11 II the executive building agthe cross piece of the 11 on the second floor of this building are the offices buthe of the hospital as simple as tile the parts of the institution the office of ad autant dean F winn fitted out mostly with un 1 furniture constructed by the e men 8 at one side and next are the offices of col 44 i ma 1 I 1 aly RIO J rt A 4 Z Z 2717 Y douglas P F duval in command of the hospital colonel duval has as members of his staff many physicians from private life who have glyen up their practices to take service with the army in round numbers the hospital Is now able to afford 1100 beds for patients if it Is enlar enlarged geil ng as Is contemplated there will be provision for caring for men these men come from at all the camps from long island to norfolk va as well avell as from overseas they suffer from a great variety of illnesses which are discovered during a last examina examination tion in camp before they are aie ent to the other side then they are transferred to the gun hill road hospital hoi either fo tor r treatment or tor for examination the hospital Is fully equipped and can give definitive treatment of every sort it if necessary but as it stands at the point of embarkation bar kation and fit at the point of 0 debarkation as well as the war progresses it Is supposed that it will more and more be used as a clearing house there are 42 wards in the hospital altogether the number devoted to surgical burgl cal uses Is usually so far nine or ten tea including nose and throat cases the wounded men froin froia the other sloe side are still too few to constitute an important feature of or the surgical work more than ha half if of the hs surgical cases up tip to the present are due to nose and throat troubles many of which have existed for a long time and have been exaggerated by life in camp during the very cold winter there Is 13 a psychopathic word ward and a ne ward sometimes more than one of each of these the rest of the wards are for medical cases capes the tha variety of these Is as great as aa in civil J life ife there are many heart cases these include men who have hae of course had some heart affection before 1 entering the array army this has been augmented under the strain of army training they havo have slipped in through a dozen different channels explained the officer of the dily day who accompanied me upon the rounds of tile the hospital sometimes for instance a boy has got in through the good offices of the vil village lage doctor whom lie he has known all ills his life the physician wanted to do the boy a good turn turn and has been about his holding up under the increased strain of army life A boy wro ho really wants to go to war Is sometimes able io to over per persuade sunde a physician who really mean to fall in conscientiousness Then thenton too thero there tire are man many cases which would get gel along well enough in fil civil life andu anda physician ri may be honestly can con evinced that the trouble but somewhere a along 0 ng the line tile the boy bor breaks down it may not be until he gets to camp merritt and Is about to io ha h si shipped tipped out in a bayor day or two peri per i haps it will Mil melnot not be until begets he gets over on the 1 other side Is a great effort oli on the part of tile the army to 0 o weed them out before they get across but it always been accomplished 11 when we stepped into a typical ward and looked around w I 1 wished that it might be possible for the army to to give a pub public demonstration of a united states military hospital one usually thinks of uch such n place AS rather dolorous but united states army hospital no 1 Is one of the most che cheerful places in new york city perhaps it Is because the buildings are new wooden ones so much less ponderous than those of other hosi 1 petals that hospital no I 1 seems seeing to bid one tl to take courage and look on the brighter side bide of life only youth and hope have been sheltered within these fresh walls and have looked through these long of windows there are 24 beds to it a ward ranged opposite to each others other beside each bed Is a little table on which there are usually disposed entertaining magazines and books a vase of flowers per perli haps aps or some fruit in one of the wards a group of patients wrapped in their dressing gowns had gathered around a 8 low table at one end of the room they sat in the very comfortable rocking chairs alil which ch are provided there was a large bouquet of daffodils in a vase on the table As they sat und rocked peacefully talking ns as if all time were be before them they presented if a picture of extreme coni comfort fort these boys are rather petted arent they I 1 suggested to the officer of the day theres noth ing too good goodford for them s ah 1011 no theare itle not petted at all wild the officer of the but it Is true klint theres nothing too good for thew them I 1 at one end of each ward building there Is a sun parlor and at the other end there are the Path bathrooms rooms the ward masters room and the kitchen and the serving room the food Is brought from a general kitchen and kept hot on steam tables table s in the ward kitchen which Is ie also used for making the special dishes which aie are prepared for men who are on individual diets we found two members of the kitchen police force examining a large bread pudding which one of the nurses had just concocted for some of the men in her ward 14 the members of the kitchen pollee police who were convalescents and well enough to help out with the work said that although they had never meant to take up dish washing and food se serving as a career they min mind it in fact they found the work quite plea pleas sarit atit and were are here to do whatever Is needed said one of liese khaki clad youths what the army means the other youth said tha that i he be had only one regret in the mat matter tr I 1 As he looked very noble when lie he said this I 1 thought he was about to tidd ridd that his only regret was that thai lie he had but one life to give for his country dish washing kitchel detail deball or whatever it was but instead of thaid this he be added that the only trouble was he was too well to get any of tho the bread pudding there were many rheumatism cases jn in the wards most 0 of f ti these ae young to ung men will soon get welt well and be fit jor for reter to duty the camp conditions of this chis very bs bd d winter are responsible for their contracting the disease tit sease in most cases the hospital has to tao operating rooms both excellently ellent ly arranged na and pd the larger so well lighted from the top as well as the sides that surgeons regard it as unexcelled tn in this particular by any operating room annew york convalescent patients a ns well ns the soldiers wilb who have been adi assigned signed to the work of the hospital take thele their r meals in the mess hall ball and the call to mess mess ana made e it quite I 1 evident tant a large proportion of the patients patient s of this hospital will saon soon be returned eil to active du duty ty ali as well its as even a need yie e capt james W decker mess of officer licer tind and lem cain menu maker have achieved wonderful wonderful results in setting savory dishes before the patients alil eliout exceeding the GO 60 cents a dai day allowed by tb the e government bv for the purchase of lood for each man physicians f from civil life as well ns those who have been 6 in the i service for iaia many ny years constitute the of th the e hospital many 1 of thern them are noted surg surgeons ions or on medical practitioners who haye have given up elarge large practices to take up tip the army work evry mon m mari on the staff has a specialty s so 0 that while ahll he regularly performs routine ward duties he cad can be called upon to to treat any patient requiring his specialized skill all thim enormous hospital even to the laundry which turns out pieces of laundry in a W week ck Is managed entirely by the army it is a lall matter tt r of with some of 0 the tha hosp hospital lial arith that trie only person not in khaki or la in war nurse I 1 uni uniform forin who helps to make the wheels go 90 albund in any of oc the departments Is tho the fa seamstress 7 14 |