The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-16
LOOKS LIKE A CITY
Adventists' Camp in Riverside
Has Grocery Store
HOTEL AND BARBER SHOP
officers Elected for Missionary
Tract Society.

The first thing that greets the eye as
one enters the camp ground at Riverside
| park is a grocery store, which seems tc
| be doing a rushing business, as they
have four clerks employed and they are
rushed to wait on the hungry custom
ers from among the campers. Just be-
yond the grocery is a dining tent, which
feeds fully 100 individuals twice a day
The rates at this boarding house are
very reasonable-only % cents for two
meals, and the fare is nothing short OF
sumptuous.
Across the street from the grocery is a
first class barber shop, employing two
BARRIERS, and if you want a shave at
their tonsorial parlors you had better go
during the time that there is a meeting
in session, or go prepared to wait your
turn.
On the same side Of the street and just
west of the barber shop, is a book store
run by the Kansas Tract and Missionary
society. This store is well equipped
with books and periodicals on almost any
religious subject. A limited amount of
stationery is also carried and a postofice
for the camp is conducted there. The
Wichita daily papers are kept on sale at
the book store, and a large placard hangs
before the public announcing the Eagle
as a part of the stock.
Passing the book store, a few steps
brings us to a tent on which is a sign in
large letters "Sanitarium." A large COM
pany Of people are constantly about the
door, waiting their turn to see the doc
tor. Although he is a very busy man,
and many are DESTROYS of consulting him.
the representative of the Eagle sought
and obtained an interview with him.
The doctor in charge is A N. Lopez,
NJ. D., of the Nebraska Sanitarium locat-
ed at Lincoln, Nebraska. This institution
is a branch of the Battle Creek Sanitar-
fum, and is young but growing institu-
ton. There are three physicians and
twenty-five nurses employed, and they
have capacity for accommodating 100 pa
patients has been taxed during the past
summer, and they have during the sea-
son made some improvements that have
greatly added to the facilities for the
successful treatment of disease Among
the recent additions to the institution is
an independent lighting and heating
plant, and everything bids fetr for this
institution to become one of the best of
its kind in the west.
DR.. Lopez said: Fifteen years ago
was numbered among the pedagogues Of
Sedgwick county, and while attending a
teachers institute in this city it was my
pleasure to assist in reporting the pro-
gress of the institute for the readers OF
the Eagle. I had but little idea at that
time that I would ever visit the place
under the circumstances which bring me
here at this time.
MANY changes have taken place dur
ing the fifteen years, and We little know
what another fifteen may bring to any of
US. I remember with pleasure my asso-
Citations with the teachers and others Of
Sedgwick county, and my acquaintance
in the city of Wichita. I have not met
any of my old-time friends since 1 land
ed in the city this morning, but 1 trust
that shall before I leave, Sunday night
There are many changes in the city;
many fine buildings have been erected.
and the city has spread over a large area,
which was then under cultivation as
farm land. Five years of the time since
I last visited Wichita were spent in
Michigan, three Of them in the State
University at Ann Arbor, studying medi-
cine. During the past ten years I have
had a changing scene Of experience in the
practice of the healing art. One year af-
ter graduation was spent in the Medical
and Surgical Sanitarium at Battle Creek,
Michigan. Then I spent a few years in
private practice in Lincoln, Nebraska,
and for the past five years I have been
connected with the College View Ga, sub
urb of Lincoln, Neb) Sanitarium.
have met some familiar faces since I
came to the city of Wichita, but not
many of those whom knew when I So
journed among the citizens of Sedgwick
county"
The doctor is an able man. and though
he is rushed with business yet he can
take time to chat to his friends and make
them feel the influence Of the warm
heart that beats in his breast. He spoke
to the people at the camp yesterday af-
ternoon on the subject of health. and
permitted questions to be asked by the
congregation, giving them all careful at
tention.
The principles governing the Nebraska
Sanitarium are the same as those that
govern the Sanitarium at Battle Creek.
Mich. In fact. the Nebraska Sanitarlum
IS really a daughter Of the Battle Creek
Sanitarium and is conducted under very
nearly the same management. There is
q large bakery run in connection with
the institution represented by DR.. Loper.
GIe is its superintendent. which su--
nishes health foods. not only Cor ,ne
Sanitarium itself, but has a large whole