The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-12-22
Interesting Features Of a Col
ony Started In Colorado.
WORKED OH COOPERATIVE LINEs

the disease can live ia tents and work
outdoors In the dry, health piving air
OF Colorado. has made start In a ten
acre tract Of fruit land near Barnum.
1t is backed by several men prominent
In business In Denver, and about TWEEN
ty physicians of high standing are
watching the experiment with interest.
II 1t Is n success, the colony will
solve the biggest problem that the
sanltariums OF Colorado have to face,
and it will probably save the lives of
thousands OF men from all over the
country who discover the disease while
il is still in an incipient stage. but can
not afford to go to Colorado and re-
main there In idleness, says the New
York Sun. The great problem with
the majority Of consumptives who go
TO Denver Is how to stay In Colorado
and TO support themselves by some
healthful occupation during the long
period in which the wasted lung It's
sues are repairing in the mountain air.
Hundreds go there each year. effect
partial cure and then. because their
money has given out and they cannot
afford TO live any longer without work
Ing, return to their old homes and un-
heslthful occupation only to succumb
to the disease in few months. Hun
dreds more 20 to work in offices and
stores, with the result that they de-
rive little benefit from their change of
home and only succeed I'm delaying the
end for little while.
For these two classes of patients the
colony is founded. 1t has been incor-
porated as the Rocky Mountain Inde-
pendent sanitarium. Its present quar-
ters are only temporary. They would
not give the colony chance TO ex-
pand. and the dream Of its directors is
to see 1t occupying about 1000 acres,
self supporting and independent of out.
side labor.
Ii Is not a charitable institution, nor
Is 1t a money making concern. Its con-
stitution Is framed with n view to pre-
vent 1t from becoming the latter. 1t
has been started and got under way by
few Denver business men as their
contribution toward solving the tuber.
culosis problem. and their idea is sim.
ply TO help consumptives to help them
selves.
only patients who can do outdoor
work or have money enough TO pay fov
their board for the present and are
likely to be able to join the ablebodied
workers before that money is spent
will be accepted at the time. They
will have good medical treatment, but
II is upon the outdoor life that the
principal reliance is placed to effect
cure.
To Insure the patients being In the
open air all the time they will sleep i'm
tents and viii even eat their meals
outdoors This is the plan followed In
the temporary quarters at Rarnum.
and the results have been most salts.
factory. There are now about twenty
consumptives there. Among them are
a carpenter and n shoemaker. but the
majority find work on the fruit lands
which now comprise the homes terri.
tory.
The institution will stay near Bar
mum till next spring. Then 1t win seek
llshed, 1t is expected TO make II capa-
bic OF living entirely by itself. Its In
mates supplying all its wants. The
idea Is TINT men of all trades Will 90
there and ply their trades. so that the
home will not need to buy much Of
anything but materials.
Even In the winter the patients will
continue the tent life. That is the
pivot on which the whole system
hangs. Some OF the present patients
have been at the sanitarium for about
six weeks. and they find that their con.
dtion has been very perceptIbly I'm
proved by the We outdoors. They say
that II Is uncomfortable to go into
heated rooms since their lungs became
accustomed to the cold air.
The superintendent OF the colony is
convalescent consumptlve. She is
Miss Margaret S. Dunno. In the war
with Spain she served In Cuba as a
nurse, aud at the close of the fighting
she was put in charge OF the officers
wards in the military hospital in Ha.
vana. There her health gave way. and
she came TO Colorado.
She is trying to found auxiliary
branches Of the home in the east with
view 10 interesting philanthroplc In
stitutlons throughout the country In it
before II launches out on a more ex.
tended scale. The land II will take will
be used principally for fruit cultlva.
tlon, as that gives the best field for
labor but some OF 1t will be grain and
pasture land.
II the experiment continues 10 fulfill
the promise with which II has opened,
there are plenty Of physicians ready to
encourage 1t. and 1t will have the most
modern and complete medica! equip.
ment that 1t is possible TO obtain.
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