Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-11-29
CARLSBAD.
Scenes al the Famous Hot Cnr;no

scenes at the Famous hot Springs Of Germany.
(Corr. Detroit Evening News.1
1t is believed that there exist under
Meath the sprudel rock on which Carls-
Dad is built an immense reservoir of
S'oiiug water from which these springs
find their way to the surface through
natural or artificial outlets. They exist
i'll great numbers, but the large ana most
used incidentally rise through artificial
apertures several inches in diameter.
These are generally inclosed in hand.
some building known rs c,,rhaus, and
eorin i'll some instances very pretty
though rather tumultuous fountains Of
boiling water. It is found necessary to
clean AMI cnlarge these apertures
through, which the water flows as often
AS once i'll three months, so rapidly is
She encrustation formed by the minerals
FL solution deposited. Ii obstructed at
one outlet the waters force themselves
another passage to tue surface, and
burst forth with great violence, serious
ly en,}angering the buildings in the
vicinity. It is said that at the time Of
The great Lisbon earthquake these
springs ceased to flow for three days, in
'ilcstlng some subtitle s1lbterrarean COLI
nectlun; but since tLen they have never
failed III their duty. Unlike our hot
springs OF Arkansas, the water of which
Is coIortess, odorless and tasteless, and
IN which analysis shows scarcely trace
OF minerals, the Carlsbad springs are
supposed to owe their t:,erapeutical
properties chiefly to solution OF salt,
sulphur and carbonate of soda. The
water is not very disugreeabIe to either
taste ~ smell, and the quantity con-
snn'sS! by the German visitors is elualed
nv 40 OF! .er liquid unless it he beer.
1nvallt's or not they are certainly 40
slHgguds. At 5 o'clock in the morning
begins the work of the day. The early
pedestrian, whatever direction be may
take Will encounter these interchangeable
sH'Allh seekers, in ones, twos, tArces, or
larger parties, saunteriug along toward
some noted thermal spring in the sub:
nrbs OF the town, with 3 convenient cate
or beer garden. Every one is arouul
with china cup OF regulation size sus-
pended from his neck by leather strap
and little pink paper bag whose over
crowded contents Of roll or pratzel can't
;'r quite shut in. This is hi, breakfast
''tSo'et SAotSoI, Uut LIZ tdheS ulOIt'
substantial one later onto be washed
down with cup OF coffee or zwei glass
lager after his morning constitutional
and apcricnt dram. He carries it with
ann because it is cheaper than to order
It with bis beer and-next to heer-he
so5es economy. Beer he must have.
Bread is desirable adjunct.
About the same time in the morning a
less energetic O: less capable crowd of
,nvallds assemble in the popular c1lrhaus
'nr thcu constitutional. 1t is long.
spacious, elegantly fitted up building
with Cine exterior colonnale. 4 notice
F'ousplcuousiy posted up near the en-
france directs the promenaders to keep
to the right: and another warns them
to keep on moving. Thus it happens
that there is continuous stream Of
human beings passing up one side and
down the other, each one on bis first
."'ln1 stopping at the further end only
cong enough to get his cup filed at the
'lo>,v boiling fountain, which there
bursting forth with great vehemence to
ashc'gbt OF two or three feet, falls back
INTO deep basin which is several feet in
diameter. At this basin girls are sta
toned, each one with two long poles to
one emf OF each of which perforated
tin cup is attached, reminding one some
what Of the appliances that are used in
fonlt. churches for ''taking up the collec.
ton The water bibber deposits his
china cup in one Of these receptacles, the
other is placed on it as cover, when it
is sent TO the fountain and brou ght back
t'll. Without this protective appliance
II would always come back empty owing
to the violent outflow Of the water. It is
;'n odd sight, to say the least-this i'm
1nense hall filled with people slowly and
solcmn' y marching round and round,
ZACH holding Il cup of not water in bis
hand, from which he inbibes through a
bent glass tube; the band. in senior
cu1ar side recess, playing vigorously all
the time. This monotonous sort of en-
tertainment keeps up till about 9 o'clock,
when the mass Of the people dispense to
other duties and pleasures, to renew the
business of their lives later in the day.
All this music and drinking and enter
'ainmeut is supposed to be gratuitous
but the "yisitors' tax and the Emusic
AK which are imposed weekly on the
visitor, with the regular hotel bills, make
It rather an expensive gratuity.