Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-05-02
WEST BADEN, ind.
A Booming and Very Popular Resort
for Health and Physical
Culture.
All Glasses of Citizens Meet There
to Enjoy Life and Regain
Their Health.
Two Weeks Treatment Proves to be
Sufficient for Visitors as a
Rule.

west Baden, Ind, Apr. 26.-(Speclal
Cor.)-West Baden, Ind. Springs at
this season of the year is the faVorlte
health resort of an increasing army or
pilgrims. who 90 there to drink the
rciuyenating waters. They there
learn over again, and put into prac-
tice. if for even short time, the COM
monest rules of physical culture that
were in daily use in youth and which
made childhood days so active ana
buoyant. The celebrity OF the springs
is naturally increased each year as
more people find benefit by experience
in course of the waters.
The Monon route is the only rail-
road accessible to the towns OF French
Lick and West Baden. They are lit
tie villages on a stub track OH the
main line OF the road, and are depend
ent mostly ON the business derived
from the two large hotels which care
for visitors, at the springs. West
Baden is about $50 miles south OF Chi
,cago, and each night a sleeper load is
carried out from that city to the
springs. The railroad service on both
day and night trains is excellent, and
"a fare of sl2 for the round trip is in
force the year around. French Lick
springs are mile distant from West
Baden and guests who 60 there put
up at the new and eXcellently man.
aged French Lick House. People who
desire cheaper accommodations can
get them in the villages at the several
smaller hotels and boarding houses.
The water in all the various springs
in the valley is substantially the
same.
The big West Baden Hotel is the
house best patronized by the crowd.
The grounds have many conveniences
for exercising. A double-deck cov-
cred bicycle track, one-third OF mile
long, is where most visitors walk their
regular miles, especially in rainy
weather. There is gymnasium tiled
up with all kinds of exercising appa-
ratus, a large hand-ball and tennis
court. entirely under root, and bowl
ing alley and billiard room. Race
track quotations are secured by tele-
graph from all the leading races in
the country, and a large layout for
those who venture their money on the
frisky rolette board is close by. The
gambling privilege is said to be worth
$50, 600 a year to the lessee.
The crowds that visit the springs
are extremely cosmopolitan in charac-
ter. Ministers. doctors, lawyers, rail-
way magnates, merchants and distin-
yuished men and women in their com
munities mingle in undistinguished
prominence with sporting men, actors,
barkeepers, professional gamblers,
tobacco and liquor dealers, and pro
fessional politicians. The latter genus
is in evidence the most of any type of
visitors, and the large cities of Chica-
90, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louis
willie and St. Louis, are constantly
sending groups of their shrewdest and
most successful politicians to the
springs to throw off the cares of state
for a week or ten days, or to repair
the attacks made on their systems
during the last campaign and, Incl
dentally, to prepare for another.
Few visitors remain longer than two
weeks, and the majority not over a
week. Many 60 to the springs several
times each year. The water is bottled
and shipped everywhere.
The effect Of the waters is to purify
and cleanse the system, stimulating
the action of the liver and the diges-
tive organs. The appetite is largely
increased, although dieting and eat
ing of plain food is recommended while
there. There are great many tax
ing the waters for obesity and the dln-
ing rooms of the hotels show, at dim
ner. a large and fine collection OF stout
ladies' dressed in the height Of fash
ion, glittering with diamonds and
jewelry, who are there only to take a
drastic course of the water, with ac-
companying exercise, for the purpose
of reducing their avoirdupois to more
graceful and comfortable proper
tiOnS.
AS spring medicine the water is
superior to any of the old-fashioned
remedies. Sarsaparilla and even
home -brewed sasSafras are not to be
compared with it. The Odor of the