Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-05-18
EXPRESSIONS Of DELIGHT!
From the Visiting Illinois Physicians
Regarding the Curative Waters,
Scenery, and the
BEAUTIES OF HOT SPRINGS.
Unbounded Enthusiasm Over What
They See, What They Hear, and
What They Enjoy.
From Fridays Daily.

Whirling away on the wings of the wind
the Burlington Route has brought more
than two score, representative disciples of
Esculapius from Illinois. across a thousand
miles of prairie country. that they might
come to the mountains. see the rocks that
have been touched. and from which the
warm and healing waters flow for the bene-
fit of mankind. They came in this morn
ing under the chaperonage Of Assistant
Passenger Agent Lucius Wakely in two
Pullman vestibule cars. The local ply
%sicians. in'company with the Burlington
Route" band. met them at Minnekahta and
escorted them to the city. The Hot
Springs Mechanics band and a large NUM-
Der of citizens and guests; met them at the
union depot, and they were conducted to
the hotels. to which they had been as
signed. They are as fine looking a.. body
of men as ever. went on an excur-
sion. Their very appearance shows that
they are men accustomed to the severe
strain of mental activity. who nave devoted
their lives to the investigation of sciences
that have for their object the alienation of
the su%ffer,ngs of mankind and the prolon-
CATION of human life. They deserve a
short respite from the severe mental strain
they are constantly under. and it is hoped
this trip may be of great benefit to them.
They come also to investigate the cura-
tive properties of the Hot Springs waters.
1t is a we'll known fact that all the subtle
investigations of modern chemistry have
failed to produce the same combination of
the elements. and hold them in solution,
that are wrought out in the laboratories o
the earth. nor duplicate the effects on the
human system that these God-touched
waters have. 1t is inexplicable to modern
science as the alchemy of the ancients.
The results are seen. but not understood.
If. then. it can be made plain to the med
ical fraternity that we nave a veritable
Fountain of Youth" here. when they have
exhausted their pharmacopeia in minister
ing to the wants of their patients and find
that they have failed. we want to have
them know that there is still a balm in
Gilead. which is wonderful in its healing
powers to which they may send the suffer-
ing ones in the hope of their being healed.
They are being convinced of the fact that
Hot Springs waters are all they are repre-
sented to be. that our bracing mountain
air is just the thing for the pale-faced over
worked business men of the east.
They took in the plunge after taking
their breakfast and the capers they cut
would have made a parcel of school boys
in a pond ashamed of themselves. They
took their ease until noon. dined. and this
afternoon are being driven all over the city
to take in the beauty of the scenery and
the general surroundings. Tomorrow they
will divide up. and a number will go to
Wind cave, others to the Falls and still
others to various points of interest in the
neighborhood. They are loud in their
praise of the treatment they have received
at the hands of the railroad company and
pronounce MIR. Wakely a prince of hosts.