The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-28

Dr. 4. p. Gardner, who is spending
the evening of his life at his beautiful
home "Glenwood," near Elmhurst, is
one of the very interesting persOnages
of this region. Though So years of age
his intellect is as vigorous as it was 80
years ago and he looks as if he had
many years vet ahead of him. DR..
Gardner has the distinction of being
the first homeopathist to practice in
this part of the state.
DIR. Gardner first came to this region
fifty years ago from New Jersey, max
ing the journey on horseback. He first
located at Carbondale where he praC-
ticed medicine for some time. He was
then a physician and surgeon of what
is known as the "old school," after
practiCing in Carbondale for a few
years his attention was turned to the
new school" of medicine which was
then beginning to be much heard of.
After he made a thorough investga-
ton of it's merits he became an en-
thusiastic convert.
He devoted himself with great vigor
to the mastery of the propositions and
methods of the new school" and soon
received his diploma as a homeopath-
list. Scranton was beginning to
spread out about that time and give
promise of its future greatness and
DR.. Gardner decided that it offered a
better field for his labOrs than the
Pioneer City. He located here and
was for time the physician of the
Scrantons. Cooks, and others whose
names are inseparably connected with
the early history of the city.
His arduOus work as a physician in
the then scattered hamlets that have
since been incorporated into a city told
severely on his health. His lungs be-
came afflicted and he was told by
brother physicians that if he would
save his life he must give up his pro-
fession and take up a residence in the
beech woods on some of the hills here
abouts. y tract of timber land neal
what is now Elmhurst was selected
by DR.. Gardner and there he hewed
the trees, rooted out the stumps and
constructed the inviting home like
structure known as "GlenwOOd" where
the doctor has for years entertained
his friends in his own OPEN hearted
characteristic fashion.
All the timber used in the building
was cut on the tract surrounding the
building. The frame work is fastened
together with wooden pins and after
the lapse of forty years looks as il
II would resist the crumbing effcc
Of time for years and years to come
During the years the doctor has beer
at "Glenwood" he has not devoted
himself regularly to the practice o
medicine but he has always been sub
ject to the call of distress and n,
a
Gus or too difficult TO keep him from
the bedside of the sick or injured
where he believed his services wOulc
be needed. For that and many othe
reasons DIR. Gardner is a greatly he
loved man by the older people of tn
eastern part of the county.
Edward T.. Loomis, the new super
Intendent of the coal department o
The Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern company, is attracting grea
deal of attention in railroad circle
since he was called to the importan
position he now holds. The Elmr
Advertiser says of him:
Edward T.. Loomis is rushing up tn
ieights OF distinction in railway ser
slce so rapidly that one must have oX
cellent eyes to follow his course, an,
1t would be rash to predict any limit
alton 10 his advancement. There ar
:wo great reasons for his success on
the qualities of the man and tn
uher is his short residence in Emira
1T Is curious fact about MI
Loomis that his friends, and they in
,lude all who know him, speak of hir
habitually in the strain of kindnes
that is usually permitted only in eu
ogy OF those who have passed out 0
his life. AIS associates in business