Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-03-11

National Home Matters,
Mrs. A. B. Connor, who has taken q
very active interest in an effort to en-
list support of the National Home
measure, has, among other strong aids
secured the help of Kate B. Sherwood
of Ohio, ex president of the National w.
R. c., who now conducts the w. r. G.
column of the National Tribune. Mrs.
Sherwood has recently gone to Wash
inton and writes Mrs. Connor that
every senator and congressman she
has approached regarding the Nation
al Home has already been consulted
regarding the matter, and that she is
very much encouraged over the pros
poets for the measure. In her Nation.
al Tribune column Mrs Sherwood
says: "There is bill pending before
the United States senate to which all
patriotic orders, especially the Grand
Army and Relief Corps people, could
lend helping hand. It is q bill to es-
tablish another branch Of the National
Military Home, and General Franklin,
president of the board of managers,
expresses the opinion that the new
home should be placed west of the
Mississippi river, and that the proper
location is Hot Springs, s. d. The
senate committee having the bill un-
der consideration concur in this view.
'Gen. w. B. Franklin, whose views
are concurred in by General Averell,
assistant inspector of the National
Homes, bases his opinion on reports of
inspection and statistics gathered
made upon 30 veterans sent from the
National Military Home at Leaven-
worth, Kansas, to try the waters of
Hot Springs.
"The tests were made in 1898 upon
thirty men in sixty days. OF eighteen
men suffering from rheumatism, forty
four per cent. were practically cured,
and all others benefited save one.
Those suffering from sciatica, spinal
irritation and nervous prostration we're
greatly relieved.
"The South Dakota Home is pressed
on all sides by old soldiers seeking the
benefit of the healing waters, and Past
Department President Adelia Hale
Connor has taken up the work of arous-
ing the interest of the patriotic orders
to the necessity of providing national
home for the classes named. The
managers of the state Homes of Colo
rado, Kansas and Minnesota have
united in recommending Hot Springs,
and urge the speedy establishment of
the Northern Branch
S. E. Wilson has received reply to
a letter written by him to Congressman
Henderson. The latter speaks very
encouragingly of Hot Springs as the
proper place for the Home Sanitarium,
and while not pledging his vote, the
tenor of his letter was favorable indeed,
Thus from all directions come good
reports of the splendid efforts that
have been put forth by the people of
Hot Springs through their friends all
over the country to secure the location
at Hot Springs of the National Home.
and shonld this war scare result in de-
feating the measure with this congress-,
there can no longer be any doubt about
the Home being established here, aud
probnbly by the short session next
winter. Yet we have good reasons for
still believing that the measure may be
passed by the present session. All in:
formation from Washington is most
favorable. But everybody understands
the uncertainty of public measures of
this kind when grim war is staring our
country in the face. However, this is
a measure that is to make the declin-
ing years Of those who saved the ma.
tion as comfortable as possible, and IL
anything will encourage loyalty aud
patriotism within tho hearts Of people,
and bring forth soldiers when the
country needs them, the establishment
Of this National me-Sanita1 a1ium viii
do 20.