Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-30

Ponce de Leon-A Carlsbad Many
Thousand Miles This Side of Austria.
DEAR HERALD: 1t is many years since
have been at the Arrowhead. Having
a few days of leisure at my command, I
thought it would be we'll to put them
where they would do the most good; and,
as rest was my principal aim. the splen-
did heights and air of San Bernardino
county suggested themselves to me as
the best thing attainable. Without
enough time for Bear valley-an untried
experiment-Arrowhead seemed to fill
the bill.
A CHANGED RESORT.
When 1 first saw the Arrowhead it
was run by Mr.. Lyman and some
amiable vegetarian partner of his whose
name 1 have forgotten. These good
natured ministrants to health would
both have made comfortable meal off
of scraped turnip. By the aid of the
minds eye they could doubtless see,
after hungry teeth had champed an
onion or potato, visions of perfect
food assimilation. with correct develop
ments of accompanying chyme and
chyle, as result of these Vitellian indul-
gences. The mud baths were there then,
also, but they We're miserably managed.
All classes and conditions of people
were thrust into the same coffin-like re-
ceptacles. While Providence and the
warrant of Christ in Mathew makes it
right that the rain should fall alike upon
the just and the unjust, it is doubtful
whether the diseased and the we'll
should be ceansed in the same pool.
Primitive indeed were the ways of the
aforetime proprietors OF the Arrowhead
The accommodations were insufficient,
the administration inefficient and the
hygienic features of the place were
Silurian in the extreme.
But, presto, and change! DR.. II. G.
Roger. formerly the proprietor OF the
Turkish baths OF Los Angeles, has taken
charge of the sanitarium. and the re-
suits are simply magical. The company
which owns the Arrowhead Hot springs
have spent upwards of 500, 900 on their
property; and today, under the intelli-
gent and energetic management of their
lessee, DR.. Roger, one of the most at
tractive hygienic resorts in the world
has been evolved. Every convenience
known to the modern age has been pro-
vided for the valetudinarian or the
seeker after rest.
DAYS ITINERARY.
Perhaps it would be we'll to describe
the experiences for one day of seeker
after health or rest who should leave
Los Angeles for the Arrowhead. He
departs this city on the 1920 train Of
the Santa Fe., When. two hours and
ten minutes later, he arrives at San
Bernardino, he finds awaiting him at
that place large and comfortable
coach which lands him at the springs
before O'Clock p. m. This gives him
an opportunity of taking mineral bath
before dinner. Indescribably refreshed
by these healing waters, he finds a
bounteous dinner table resplendent with
electric lights and all the esthetic con-
trivances that make life delightful,
even to the invalid of this nineteenth
century, in its last decade.
A spacious dining room is capped by
a roomy and satisfactory music and
dance hall. If one believes in exercise
as 1 do, he has himself called ats O'Clock
in the morning, and proceeds to climb
the Arrowhead mountain, sharp ascent
of.three thousand feet, which enables
him to test every bone in his body.
Sometimes he loses his footing and
comes down kerflop. The Precipitation
streams out Of every pore. When he
descends, he feels as if he were still 60
ing up and down hill, but he breaks for
one OF the numerous hydrants which are
around for purposes of irriga-
tion. He succeeds in getting to his
room; and, after arranging his toilet,
the breakfast which he eats would
astonish both gods and men.
About ten O'Clock the seeker after
health will probably take mud bath.
1 would not take mud bath for $40, 900,
money paid down, unless all my fastid-
ious scruples were satisfied. Under DR..
Rogers auspices they are panacea
and delight. After you get one of them
you drink forty gallons Of the waters of
the Cold Water caf1on, which are piped
all over the place, and you are the bet
ter for it. You can also drink the min
eral waters if you like.
spent three days and four nights at
l would rather drink the
Cold Water cafion water than the best
quality Of imported Pilzner beer. / re-
turned after that brief period feeling ten
years younger. / was afraid to stay any
longer for fear I might become giddy.
The Arrowhead hot springs are the
Carlsbad Of America, and more.
j. ID. L.