Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-07

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with friends and drink little too much
at night, whose business imperatively de-
mand that they shall be on hand at a
given time the next day. After making
the rounds and enjoying themselves they
come here, and we put them through a
process which enables them to recover
and keep their engagements the next
day. There are other ways Of destroying
the immediate effects of drink, but they
are injurious to the system. AL medical
authorities agree that the Turkish bath
does no harm, for it merely draws the
whisky out of the system. have known
men to be brought here who could not
walk and in few hours we would send
them away able to assume the most try
ing business spOnsibiiuies, and they
would walk as well as you can"
do you have many inebriates who
| come here to get boiled out in this Way?"
"Oh, yes, the house is crowded every
night. Most of our business is carried on
at night. But come this way and will
show you what we have. This, you see
| lpOintiDg to a door leading under the
! sidewalk ], IS our barbershOp. This room
| crosses the passage way and back of 1t Is
| the operating room, where we have the
| shampoo bath and the operating slabs.
! Here we have cooling rooms with lounges
TO rest on, and back there pointing TO a
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| shrOuded in a midst of smoke or steam
is the hot room. The temperature of
| that is kept at about 1902, and complete
/ ly drenches a person with perspiratiOn.
See those men coming out! That is the
way it does them, but it don't hurt; they
feel better after it is all over, and they
don't even feel bad while they are sub
jected to the heat. Now if you viii follow
me little further L Will show you some
thing more"
! After winding around a large sunken
! basin filled with water enough for a
swimming bath, and passing between a
row of stone slabs, the visitor stumbled
against a little stairway, covered with
a thick, soft carpet. The cOlored man
led the way up this towards the floor
! above. which stands on a level with the
sidewalk. 1t came to an end in one
corner of a room about forty feet square,
in which there were a large number, per
haps as many as thirty, cots and beds ar
ranged very closely together in sys-
tematic order, some being in smaller
apartments created by partition wall
a foot or so higher than a mans head.
The ceiling of the room was fully fifteen
feet high. There were numerous win
dOWs, and the place seemed to be well
aired, but the strangest thing about it
was the absence of any other place of
entrance or egress than the little dark
stairway leading through the cellar, and
while the man gleefuily spoke of the
number Of persons who could be accOmO-
dated his visitor naturally wondered
what would become of so many halt
drunken men in case Of fire. This idea
being suggested to him he pointed to a
place that had been overlooked before.
One of the windows came down very
low and could be opened in such an
emergency. 1t was quite probable that
it never had been opened for other pur-
pose than to admit the air, for there was
no sidewalk beyond, and the yard seem
ed to be filled in with the relics of the
great fire, none of which bore mark or
sign of human footprint. Inside the
room, which was carpeted, was neat and
tidy, if not gaudy. The paper was a lit
tie loud and bore a striking resem blance
to the quality used in fitting up saloons
and gambling houses, but the furniture
was decidedly modest
'This is the only place of the kind in
the city," grinned the cOlOred man, ''and
it you should happen to get caught in the
way I have desCrib bed, call and seeus and
| we will fix you up all right"
GAS 1 am not a business man the
! chances are shall have time to brace
up soon enough to meet my engagements
| without resOrting to your expedients,"
was the response.
81 here is no telling what may happen.
| You see, sir" the man went on; I'VE
sometimes have men Of leisure for our
customers, too. Last Spring young man
who was about to be married TO a rich
! young woman living in the suburbs came
into the city one morning to get his GER
tificate. He was a timid sort of a person,
and before going to the County Clerk to
call for what he wanted he took several
drinks. He met friend in q saloon and
got very full. Somehow between him
and the friend the certificate was pro-
cured. He was to have been married at
! 6 o'clock, and he was brought here in a
| carriage about 2 o'clock so drunk he
| could not stand. His friend, who was al
so pretty well soaked, piteOusly bemoan-
ed the fact that the wedding would have
to be postponed and both PARTIES disgrace
! ed. But, sir, we put them both through
| the process, and started them away to
! their train little after o'clock as sober
and dignified as judges of the Supreme
! Bench"
'You have not explained the need of
the sleeping roOms?" the reporter sug-
gested.
"After the bath they always feel tired,
and in the night time, Of course, they
need their natural rest, There is less
/ danger of catching coldif they sleep here,
and we take good care of them and wake
/ them up at the right time. When we
call them we generally give them a cold
shower bath, which completes the course
of treatment and fully prepares them for
whatever work they may have before
them"
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