The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-25
INVALIDS IN COLORADO.
Criticism of Statements Relating to
Its Chief Health Resort.
Colorado Springs Gazette.

springs GdZeLle.
1t seems great pity that a journal with
the standing of the New York Times should
publish such a ridiculous article as the fol-
lowing upon Colorado Springs before inves-
tigating the matter. And more is the pity
and disgrace that a physician should be
the author of such an article. In all prob
ability the man who describes his impress
sicns availed himself of the reduced rates
of travel to journey beyond the limits of
his town, and from the stupidity and false
hood of the article he may have remained
in this city a few hours, and then with
that egotism which IS born from absolute
ignorance tried to feed the minds of those
East with what he considered enlightening
matter, but which is dire rot.
He undertakes. on the wing, to describe
Western health resorts; he gives hints for
health seekers calculated to make a Colo
RADIO Springs schoolboy howl, and his jun
bled, ignorant suggestions have about as
much sense in them as manikin has
working brains.
We cannot speak with authority on
southern California, but on general princi-
as correct regarding that section OF coun-
try as he is in his attempts to describe
Did this travelling encyclopedia stop long
enough to hear of any cures in Colorado
Springs? Did he stop to inquire how many
people living here did not come for con-
sumption and how many did? Does he
know that we have about %. 900 inhabitant
now, and this number is increasing daily?
We should like to know where the SEATS
lining the sidewalks are situated capable
of accommodating these invalids We
should like to know at what fourth-rate
hotel or boarding house the medical gentle
man stopped. His idea of bacilli Is a pecu-
liar one; he seems to regard them as be-
longing to the same species as cimex
Then, again, the medical gents sight
must be phenomenal. for he not only can
observe the swarms of bacili, but he can
watch and detect a cloud of dust settle
On peaks two hundred miles away-and he
talks of Ananias. If he had consulted sta
tistics, if he knows what that means he
would have found that about one person a
year has contracted consumption IN this
place and that in every case the persoa has
lived in a room with a northern oxDoGure
where no sun ever penetrated and his sur
roundings were those of poverty and dirt
There is scarcely family in Colorado
Springs that has not come here for the
health of one of its members and # the
NJ. II. had taken the slightest pains to
consult anybody with ordinary Intelligence
he never would have made laughing stock
of himself by writing such an article . I'D
tho New York Times would have had room
for something more fit to print" The doc
tor belongs in the front in the ca te-
CORY in which he tries to place the real
estate agents of this city.
The serious and most pitiable feature of
all this is that such statements may be be-
lieved by some poor invalid who has not
the means of learning the truth and whose
life may be sacrificed by his failure to fol-
low the example Of the thousands who
have regained their health in Colorado
Springs.