Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-04
Price Four Cents.

| tral avenue is fast being widened, the rocks
on either side being dug away for new stores.
| new hotels and bath houses. full
| mile is now thus built up on one side
with the cheapest structures for stores
on the opposite with magnificent palace bath
houses similar in plan to the payiIions
at Coney. Island. All the bath houses and
the principal hotels have the hot spring water
conducted into them through iron pipes for
| bath purposes. At the Arlington Hotel is
the Arsenic spring, free to all The Rector
bath house, the Big Iron spring, the Old
Hale, the Independent, the Palace, the
Ozark, the Rockafellar and others are all
frst-class, elegant affairs. From either one
can drink hot water from the bowels of the
earth, free. to his satisfaction The medici-
nal qualities differ, can easily believe, as in
the hills, anywhere that excavations have
been made, all kinds of imaginable soils and
minerals nave been promiscuously thrown
| into heaps, with lava here and there.
Hot Springs is and will be the popular re-
sort for the West and for many northern
and eastern people too. Its reputation for
the cure of rheumatism, for the cure of the
lnebr1ate, for various ''indiscretions. for
ulcers, scrofula and all chronic ills is already
established. People walking with crutches
people being carried, people with all sorts of
diseases can be seen on the streets making
their way to the bath houses General Kei.
ly provides one called the Mud Hole bath"
Tor all who cannot pay, and many are the re-
putea cures performed at that place, just as
ehectuai as at the palatial bath houses
The originality of the city's appearance ia
fast disappearing, as buildings are being
erected upon and into the rocks where exca.
vated,-hlding from the street the beautiful
winding, towering hills. The Arlington Ho
Tel, IN order to retain its prestige, should at
once secure part OF the mountain in it's
rear and dedicate the grove to its guests. or
sooner or later people will shorten visit
which would be prolonged if cautiyatinp
surroundings existed. It is said of this
place that rats will not remain None ore
known to exist. Where does the water, from
100 to 160 degrees, come from? No one has
been able to answer yet. Hotel keeping thus
far has been profitable. l have seen
it stated IN print that sixty Thousand dol
lars had been cleared in one year at one hotel.
The nights are cool and one can be quite
comfortable. The price of bath is twenty
five cents. Doctors advice as you please to
employ one They make from nothing to
twenty thousand dollars a year. regular
course is twenty one baths regular fee for
advice $5 a week. The water belongs to the
government and the government derives
royalty of SO much for each bath per annum.
Lots are held on the avenue at two hundred
and fifty dollars a foot, which have to be
cl ared of the rock before they can be built
upon This clearing is very expensive and
much of it hard. This was neutral ground
among the Indians in Indian times, because
of its healing waters.
Central avenue is built upon with many
neat houses for a mile northward Almost
every house presents sign, "a vacant room
At the north end is the Castle park and gar
den and the Magnolia park. and beyond are
a number of cottages. Southwark also bull
dings are in process of erection The CITY is
growing at the rate of twenty per cent. per
annum. Gas made from hard pine lights the
city and hotels. The springs are said to emit
five hundred thousand gallons each twenty
four hours. The Eureka springs in the
northwest part of Arkansas are also in re-
pute Some speak of them highly. l. being
no patient, cannot speak with experience.
We're I rheumatic l suppose I would try
them, but at present my faith in the Turkish
stones in the world, it is here claimed come
from the Hot Springs district.
| will relate one case of temperance cure
which doctor from Missouri told me of toa
day patient of his, wealthy man but
great drinker, was induced to come here
year since. After few days of bathing in
and drinking the hot water, he said he could
smell the Internal liquor coming through his
pores. He had lost all appetite for drink,
and for eight months till he went to dinner
party, he drank nothing. Now he is at it
again. but in answer to his DOCTORS per-
L
will come in a week or two. 1 must have
hat time to get full" The doctor came on
without him to cure his own rheumatism.
The number of drug stores at the Springs
8 only exceeded by the number of doctors,
which is said to be seventy-five. The number
# adventurers and sharks is great. One will
to allure you into some place by
cling you that he has telegram for you in
lis Office If fool enough to go in with
tranger perhaps you will leave with unde-
irable experience but if refused he will beg
IF with ''Oh I mistake; thought you were
he gentleman who made bill with me" and
hen will try another ground to find out your
lame, in order that he can send his associate
n some new manner. Another will kindly
'fer to accompany you up to the observato-
y, as he is stranger and would like compa-
~. Soon he is joined by his associate, who
8 seeking the same place. If you go with
hem your greenness is palpable. Others
'ffer to post you on boarding houses. others
pon physicians; and l suppose they make
he confidence game pay, as see SO many
,ly it. The only safe way is to
.eep clear of all oficious strangers
Be polite; never familiar. The observatory
8 place to visit. The government has
emily built carriage road to it. The noun
ain is one of great interest, exhibiting all the
gay indications of natures upheaving. I'M
gine your East and West rocks; at their
ases innumerable hot springs, and one
undred feet opposite corresponding rocks,
ach from two to five hundred feet high;
be roadway where a city Is built not one
undred feet in width and little rivulet in
nat street eventually to be arched over;
otels, stores and bath houses built upon each
de, the rock having been excavated for
oom the street proper winding about one
lille in length and this is the Hot Springs
egion Northward and southwark are other
and nice cottages are built on