Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-02-23

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hold decorously need not and ought not
to be continually exceeded. With over
1000 men sleeping away from the exces-
sively filed regular dormitories, only a
faint idea may be obtained how urgent
ly and where relief is needed"
On page is this statement:
"During the last four years eleven
new barracks have been given to the
branches at cost of some $780, 600,
capable. of accommodating possibly about
$500 men, while the actual increase in
the average attendance has been over
$500. Such comparison of the num-
Der of men stored outside of the regu-
lar dormitories, and those applying
for admission, while it must indicate
the careful and persistent attention
that has steady been given this sub
ject, may also hint how almost cruelty
inadequate the provision made is and
must be at certain times and places
under the exigencies of the case and
the restrictions, not of the law, but the
present policy at least during the pre-
sent century, and while old age, decrep-
itude or misfortune are crowding upon
the old soldiers faster than DEATH"
VETERANS OF SPANISH WAR.
We note (see page 10, report of the
board of managers of the National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887
that:
sit is respectfully recommended that
soldiers and sailors of the late war
with Spain be admitted to the home on
the same conditions as are those dis
abled in our other wars, and upon sim
liar evidence"
And why not? Very soon there will
be thousands of malaria stricken sold
iers from Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines. A sanitarium or home in
the pure atmosphere of the Black
Hills of South Dakota, 3,4S2 feet above
sea level, few baths in the natural
heated springs, where for more than a
thousand years the wild and untutored
Indians have gathered their sick to
bathe in waters that have never failed
to cure-it is question for the future
as we'll as the present need.
Situated almost in the geographical
center of this continent, in the most
healthful location in the world, easily
accessible, mineral waters wonderfully
curative for many diseases other than
rheumatic trouble, we believe home
established here will be forever main
tained, and an appreciative public will
say, "Well done; it was wise and
creditable selection
AN UNsELF1sH INTEREST.
Gentlemen, my whole soul is in this
work. am not here at the expense of
the Grand Army 1 have not hope
of fee or reward for services render
ed. own not one dollars worth of
property of any description with in
one hundred miles of Hot Springs, s.
D.: have no relative interested; no
partnership remote or other
wise. am here truly in the interest
of my comrades. 1 know that gov
ernment sanitarium located Hot
Springs would be of great and lasting
benefit to them. That proper treat.
ment there of rheumatic cases will
give prompt, immediate and perman-
ent relief to the sufferers. 1t will pro-
long their lives, ease their pains to the
minimum, a blessing beyond computa-
tion. Not one of you gentelmen would
decline to render like service to our
old soldiers if you could realize that
what have said is true. There are to-
day in the eight national homes nearly
10000 inmates; fully one third of them
are hospital patients. Consider please
the benefits of sanitarium located in
SO healthy place as Hot Springs, s. D.
central for majority of the old
soldiers as large proportion of then
reside in the west.
The committee whom I represent is
as follows:
II. E. Palmer, chairman, past depart
ment commander Nebraska Crane
Army of the Republic; E. P. Farr
department commander of Soutl
Dakota; w. v. Lucas, past department
commander, South Dakota; G. s. Pal
mer, South Dakota; Richard Root
delegate from Iowa to national encamp
ment; w. R. Manning, past uepartmen,
commander, Iowa.
Favorable to the sanitarium.