The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-21

out the country are turning out larss num-
bers every day.
The Dwight club has, at present, an old
church as club house. The auditorium
is used for the club meetings. A large
hall that has been added is the smoking
room and the place for letter writing and
games, whist, chess, checkers, back
gam mon, etc. Twice a week, Wednesday
and Saturday evenings, entertainments
are given in the auditorium that are
attended by packed audiences of the
patients, male and female, and the ladies
and gentlemen residents of Dwight, with
their guests, and those of the patients.
These entertainments are free, and having
so much talent TO draw from they are
remarkably interesting. Good music,
vocal and instrumental, bright stories,
lively speeches, dramatic readings and
other Evolutionary displays prevail. Now
and then an entertainment is given in
larger and more public hall, to which an
admission fee Is charged, and the funds
thus acquired are added to the fund for
the support of the club, the purchasing of
stationery. payment of the secretary and
treasurer's salary and for the grand charity
of liquidatIns the expenses OF IupecunIous
cadets"
DR.. Kelley and his staff frown upon the
use of slang in connection with the treat
ment nevertheless il prevails when the
doctors are not in earshot, as is the case in
al places where many men are gathered
together in similar manner Every day
special train from Chicago arrives, bring
ing new patients from all parts of the
civilized world. This IS called by the
cadets the flag train" and many a poor
fellow arrives who has TO be hauled on a
truck to the treatment hall. Some come
sandgIched between couple Of solicitous
friends, some hanging OF the arm Of one.
Others arrive with thigh lonesome. 1"
The earth is theirs and the fulness there
of. If harmless they are taken to hotel
or lodgin g-house. after having received a
hypodermic injection OF bichlorlde
OF god and having been supplied
with the other remedies. If the new
arrival is obstreperous he Is taken to
building which is a sort OF house Of deten-
ton. neatly and comfortably furnishe d,
and there he is detained and treated until
he has cooled down. This place the IN
itiated term the jaggery." When one is
too III to appear in line at the treatment
hall he is attended by physician in his
room. Otherwise, be he banker or pauper,
he must take his pace in the lines to re-
ceive treatment, for here there is no sign
of aristocracy or favo-itism, and no one
can produce sufficient money to change
this immutable rule.
Upon the arrival OF a patient all the in
toxicants he has brought with him are
taken from him and the money in his
pockets is placed in the depository in the
laboratory building, where his account IS
kept on the banking principle, and he pays
his bills or draws money as he may need
it. on orders similar TO checks. Frequently
mothers. sisters. wives. fathers OF brothers
come with the loved one whom they have
brought hither to be saved. and often they
remain with him during the entire course
of MS stay az Dwight, thus giving the pa
to bear the ordeal. Every patient is re-
CURED to remain three weeks and many
are held for four and FIVE weeks;
the morphine patients generally twice
as long time. The Kelley
company own handsome and
IelI-hept hotel, built expressly for pa
tents, but the latter are left free to their
choice as to where they shall live, and
large numbers of the best private houses
in the village receive the patients as board
ing guests, and these guests are treated by
all the townspeople with the same con-
sideration as though they were the pa
tents of q sanitarium for the relief of con-
sumptlves or any other class of invalids,
for the Kelley institute patients are even
less bother than other inValids would be,
as they are generally able, after the first
twelve hours in Dwight, 20 take ample
care of themselves, and they act with as
much consideration for the feelings and
rights of others as gentlemen ordinarily
do under any circumstances.
To give a hint in this connection:
Dwight has only one policeman, an under
sized and good natured town marshal.
Laughingly he told me of a celebration
made by the Kelley patients ON the last
Fourth of July. think Of it," he said
there l was, one poor, little old officer,
looking after the peace and dignity Of the
common wealth st g Fourth of July cele-
bration among go old-tine drinkers. But
l Will venture that had far less trouble
than large force OF policemen would have
had at celebration elsewhere. In fact
had no trouble 81 al. There was not a
drunken man in the party, and the cele-
bration was the best ever saw"
The everyday life of the patients is 3
hypodermic injection at the treatment
hall four times per diem as mentioned
above, and not one Of these ''shots," as
the patients call them, must be missed
under any circumstances. Each individual
is supplied with twelve-ounce bottle of
medicine, called bv the patients dope" q
spoonful of which must be taken every
two hours during waking hours. Wherever
the patient is, whether in church or at
table, indoors or on the street, when
dope time comes, out comes the
bottle and down goes the dose.
The directions are followed as re-
Egiously as monk counts his
beads, for these people are IN earnest.