The morning call., 1894-05-31
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

A. M. Wood of Hot Springs. Ark, was at the
Grand yesterday. He states that a pubic
spirited citizen of ST. Louis, whose nsthe 10
withheld for the present, proposes 10 erect auu
maintain an immense public free DathDouseHn
Hot Springs If the consent and necessary ala
from the Government can be secured. Inc
land from which all, or nearly all, the meulc-
inal waters of the springs flow belongs TO the
Government, and the batbhouSes WHICH are dt
present maintained there are the property Vi
private citizens, who lease the land AT all sea-
sons OF the year, Mr. Wood says, there is a large
number OF persons at the springs III search
OF health who are unable TO pay the ices re-
ouired AT the pay baths and consequently are
compelled to frequent the solitary free place
available The latter is open without charge
at certain hours, when the men pile into the
water in an indiscrminate mass. 1t is TO
afford relief to the worthy poor from all parts
of The country that the gentleman Mr.. Wood
speaks OF proposes 10 act. lit would seem that
our Government would readily accept so be-
nevolent proposition without the least hesita-
tiOn," said he, "but the men who hold the leases
have identified with them as silent partners
men who are high in the Government service
and possessed OF power, and 1t may be that the
project will yet be defeated"
Decoration day will always possess re-
markabe interest to me, not only because of its
perience 1 had in 1854" said E. p. Mitchell,
who is with the auditing department Of the
Wabash Railroad, and at present in this city.
al was one of three unfortunates who had sue
ceeded in escaping the horrors of Libby prison
that spring, and we had pushed forward in
nOrthwesterly course, hoping TO reach safe
ground in the North, or perhaps encounter
some OF our troops on The way. One of my
companions, named Raynor, had become dis
oh ha mn
was necessarily slow. 1t was on the
30th of May that we finally struck
the Ohio River above Paducah, where we
succeeded in securing the services OF negro
10 row us down. No three men ever looked
upon that noble stream with greater feeling
OF happiness than did we as we pushed our
way through a dense growth of underbrusn and
clearly found Its waters before us. A few days
afierward we succeeded in reaching Jefferson
ville Indiana where we took passage on a
steamer for Cincinnati, but RaynOr died on the
voyage up, the terrible experience he had I'M
dergOne being more than nature could endure"
w. Fl. Hays OF Ottawa, Kans, is at the Lick.
he is POpulist ana one OF that kind who be-
lieves that the country is destined to be eter-
nally ana everlastingiy ruined unless the party
of which he is a representative is given the reus
OF government. "Our people have solved the pro-
hibition problem" sad he yesterday. There
is no occasion for that question cutting any
figure in politics hereafter if the proposition
which we have advocated in our State is gen.
orally adopted. We propose that all drunkards
shall be compelled to undergo treatment 10 a
gold-cure establishment, and that the State
shall pay for the treatment If the patient is
unable TO do So" Mr.. Hays has not looked
into the efficacy of the gold cure in cases where
the patient had no desire to reform. but thought
that man of that caliber should be confined
by the Slate where his perniclous influence
wonld have no effect on a community.
Professor II. W. Wiley, an expert chemist
attached TO the Department OF Agriculture. is
here on GoYernm- mt business. He is interested
in the new experimental stations here for the
development Of sugar cane.
Clarence Ingraham OF st. Louis has been in
this city for the past three four days on rail-
road business. Mr.. Ingraham is a son of the
Rev. J. I. p. Ingraham, rector OF Grace Epis-
copal Church at ST. Louis.
The employees In the local freight office OF the
Southern Pacific, TO the number Of 300 or 400
with their wives, sweethearts and friends, went
TO Edmonton the Coast division, yesterday and
held their annual picnic.