New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-12

of the State prisons had been sent to Dannemora.
where a large proportion OF them had recovered
The death rate of the prison population was only
five per thousand. He read statistics which, he
said, showed less humidity Dannemora than
at Big Clear Lake. and that indicated that con-
sunptive patients recovered more swiftly at Dame
mora than elsewhere in the Adirondack region.
Finally he said:
I'VE have an abundance Of labor at Dannemora
in the prison population, and the land for site
will be given 70 the State. The State itself owns
1900 acres of land in that vicinity. do not under
stand that there is building at Big Clear
Lake; at Dannemora there IS a fine granite quarry
on State land The hospital at Big Clear Lake will
cost large amount of money; It will cost far less
at Dannemora, and I believe the consumptve
patients Will have better chance OF recovery"
y have been up to Big Clear Lake" said the
Leutenant-Governor and, to my mind, II is an
ideal site; yet If the tuberculosis Commission IS
willing 10 consider the Dannemora site I willing
they should do so. 7 understand that objection
to the Dannemora site is that it Is a narrow
gagged railroad DR.. Ransom replied:
The Chateaugay will be made q broad gauge
from Pattsburg to Dannemora If the hospital is
placed at Dannemora"
And then the name of Dannemora as connected
with the prison is Objectionable" added Mr.. Wood
ruff
The Chateaugay Railway viii give a new name
to the station the hospital" replied DR.. Ransom.
That does away with that objection" said the
Lieutenant-Go Governor.
LETTERS RELATIVE TO LAKE CLEAR SITE.
Merton E Lewis, the secretary of the Forest
Preserve Board at this point presented the follow
ing letter which he had received from Whiteaw
Reid:
Dear Sir: Your courteous invitation 70 appear
before The joint meeting Of the State Board OF
next in the hearing OF arguments for and against
the location OF the State tuberculosis Hospital at
engagements must prevent my attendance
.AIthougn an owner OF camp in he vicinity for
side Of the St Regis Iess accessibIe from the pro-
SIX weeks of the year anyway. l think, how
ever, / know the sentiment of my neishbors. and
lakes: Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes the Messrs. Pen
Twombly, Mr. Robert Hoe. Mr.. Henry Livingston,
S6ris oulT lPRompSoR Or french MI DuTkG EN- MI.
kiss. and many others 1t is the general feeling
an unnecessary injury TO their interests
Altogether aside from this local feeling, it is
locate such charity in a region thronged with
pleasure seekers, where the inmates of the hos
the country. and come in freauent contact on the
roads and lakes If not also in The notes and
camps, with crowds Of summer visitors. These
would certainly be favorable conditions for the
wide distribution of the disease.
It also seems contrary to public policy, need
offensive 10 large classes in the immediate vicinity
and injurious to their vested interests. Further
more IL seems ungrdclous Tor the state Comlhs-
sion without clear need to depreciate the prop
erty Of the very classes who have done the most
TO sustain Sanatoriums for COnSImptive inVaHds
at their own expense long before the State entered
that field
The establishment Of a State Hospital for the
support of INDECENT patients with incipient tuoer-
culOss is an experiment anyway which has not
Hl Eaa f Them Ire c5mpiai9 that
once begun there is point at which this move
vides special establishments for INDECENT tuber-
euloss patients, why not for INDECENT patients
directors additional grounds for hostility to the
incpient experiment.? Would i not be better to
avoid needless antagonlsm az me outset 100
IT certainly cannot be advisable TO NIL the mos.
invads unless the distinct gain 10 those invalds
from this location is so much superior to what
could be gained elsewhere as to compensate for
/ the general injury
The general opinion l have heard expressed 6y
Regis lakes present advantages Tor the cure OF
tuberculosis above those 10 be found In other parts
seekers for their beauty rather more than by health
often been held that Tor patients whose diseases
are in any way complicated by rheumatic Ten
dency they positively less desirable than other
places, which free from the fog that rises from
the lakes, and have less dampness generally In the
Various places have been suggested, and many
can be found, which certainly seem 10 present
Clear. AT least one Of them If also commended
by its specific freedom from constitutional OBJ
II the objection to site. because the railroad D2
which it is reached Is not IN the largest railr9ag
for serious consideration, II may certainly be on
set by the disadvantage at Lake Clear OF being t
supplies and at distance OF twelve or hfteeh niies
seven severe winters this might become serious
MY confidence in the desire Of the revising
fact bearing upon the question: at the outset OF
this new and interesting experiment in the state
policy. has lad ma to submit th~s@ -lAI-@Astinns Ia