El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-09
SCORES OF
CONSERVATIVES
From All Parts of the Country
Now Headed For Ell PaSO
ALBUQUERQUE OFFERS
inducements for Those lnVallds
Who Are Rich, While Las Vegas
Has Established a Home For the
Poor Ones.

Constructive invslids from
all parts OF the country are
beginning to arrive in Ell Psso to
spend the winter.
Some of them are rich and deny
themselves nothing while others are
poor and have to rely for q living on
such odd jobs as they can get to do, or
entirely upon charity.
Las Vegas will establish home for
invalids who are unable to support
themselves and the Incorporation pa
pers have already been fled in the
office of of the territorial secretary of
New Mexico by a society that intends
to establish at Las Vegas q home for
consumptives, invalids and health :
seekers who are INDECENT.
The home is to be known as the HUI
manitarium Home and Sanitarium.
The incorporators and directors are
w. Edgar Bradner, John 81. Il. Eitle-
baum and Joseph Jacobs, all of East
Las Vegas. Mr.. Eitlebaum Is to be
the manager of the home. The capital
stock is $1,000 divided into thirty
shares.
The Journal Democrat in speaking
of the large number of consumptives
who congregate in Albuquerque dur
ing the winter month says:
The health seekers are already be
ginning to invade the southwest in
considerable mum bers, and most of the
towns are getting ready for the winter
campaign.
Phoenix, Tucson and Ell Paso are max
ing very extensive and elaborate ar
rangements for taking care of their
visitors. and are giving special atten-
ton to the providing of such accom-
modat as are demanded oy people
who have plenty OF money and are will
ing to spend it literally in taking care
of themselves or their invalid relatives.
And that line of the business Is the one
that has the money in it for the town,
because such people do not only pay Ii
berally for their hotel accommodations,
but they spend great deal of money
in other ways, at stables, anG in short,
benefit every line of business by put
ting considerable sums of new money
into circulation in the town.
= That's the class of invalid business
that the other towns named are striv-
ing for, and it is the class we ought to
try to get, but unfortunately that Is
the part of our line of battle that has
always been the weakest, The poor
have to bid for them. They come be-
cause of the climate. and they are
benefited by it, but the benefit is all
to them and none to us. Taken as
W hole, the poor health seekers cost US
q great deal more in the way of char
ity than they bring to US in the way of
trade. Our people have never COM
planned of that: they recognize the
fact that humanity has claims upon
them, and they always do their duty
and usually with q liberal
hand, but that is not "business, and
business is what We are talking about.
While we are willing to take the moor
health seeker who has to be helped.
we ought to try to get the rich health
seeker also, whose money will help US.
But that is the class we are losing, for
reasons which we all know too ell.
If they stop here at all they only
stay long enough to learn the situation,
and then push on to some other town.
This is costing US many thousands of
dollars as com munity every year,
and we ought to do something without
delay to bring about a radical change
mercisl Club has taken step in the
right direction, but the work should
not be allowed to stop at that. A de-
pot hotel is good in its way, but locst-
ed as it must necessarily be, in the
midst of the racket and smoke and
noise of the trains, it can never be
very popular with invalids. especially
with that class who have money enough
to get the best-and that is the class
we want to bid for. THERE'S an abun-
dance of room for such place-we
need it in the ordinary course of bust
ness, but while that work is going on
we ought to put forth our best efforts
to get good house in some other part
Of town to cater. especially to the in
valid trade.