The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-19
II. C. PAYNE TALKS CARLSBAD.
He Declares the Waters of the Re-
sort to De Most EGicacious.

Henry C. Payne. Vice Chairman of the
Republican National Committee. who has
Just returned from Europe. declares that
If n man afflicted with disease cannot re-
cover at Carlsbad his case Is hopeless.
Mr.. Payne says the waters of that resort
contain great curative properties and that
the place is wonderfully interesting to the
patient while he is undergoing treatment
He feels like a new man. he says. except
for a slight attack of rheumatic goat
In the first place. anyone who goes
there for treatment, places his name on
the register and himself under the care
of skiIlfui physician" said Mr.. Payne
Everyone in Carlsbad rises at o'clock
in the morning. They are expected to
get up a. that hour and the first thing
to be done is to drink the waters. You
take your place in the line with your tin
cup and. when your turn comes, get 1t
filed and drink it off, You generally get
three cupfuls and sometimes you have to
make three rounds tc get them.
Having taken your morning drink you
must walk about the better part of an
hour before eating anything. Before the
hour is up you can go to one of the little
shops and buy a small piece of ham.
This is cut just the size and weight you
are allowed. 1t is cooked to perfection
After buying it and seeing it placed in a
little red paper bag. you go on to another
little shop and get a roll. These rolls are
made just right, too.
THE roll you deposit in the paper bag
with the ham and walk on to one of the
many tables. where you can order coffee
and a couple of eggs. The coffee and eggs
are all you can order The attendants
know perfectly well that you are not al
lowed to eat more than the ham and roll
in your paper bag besides the eggs and
coffee.
1T is the most curious sight in the world
to see the thousands of invalids in the
morning each with Tin cup and afterward
each with a little red paper bag going
toward the tables where they can get eggs
and coffee. OF course, everyone knows
what is in the red paper bags. Sometimes
hungry patient cannot wait for the eggs
and coffee and dives in his hand to get
bit of ham or a piece of roll:
No butter is ever allowed. You have
to eat the roll just as yea get it from the
little shop.
AT p. m you have a light lunch and
at dinner, when the more robust inva-
lids are allowed 10 partake of quite
meal. The baths of Carlsbad are GER
tainly very invigoratins. The town is
kept clean as a whistle from end to end.
Malaria is unknown there Even the
little river that runs through the place
runs over a bed of cement. Tie water
ordinarily is not much over ones ankles
and the cleaners get after that river
as clean as white marble. 1t is so smooth
that very little collects on the bottom or
sides of the stream, but the little that
does is quickly swept away.
Il spent some time before going to
Carlsbad in Italy, Austria. Germany and
Hungary. / was two weeks in Naples,
two weeks in Florence, two in Rome, two
in Venice and ten days in Vienna.
trsFrisf F.a,t nj 'ifGt
the Srea inroad5 that American manufac-
turers have made in Germany, Austria,
end Hungary, and secondly, the vast
number of women who are daily wage
eaners in these countries. 1 expressed
my astOnishment to a farmer in hungary
He said in reply that women We're better
of tilling the soil than working in sweat
shops as they did in America. | could
not ask him any more after that.
in Austria / asked a man why Ameri-
cans. paying higher wages, could send
their goods to Europe and undersell the
Europeans on the products made in their
own lands. The question was prompted
by seeing a shoe store in Vienna where
they sold only American made shoes.
lin answer he said that when in the
oil business he sent men to see how they
produced oil in the States. and found
that five men in America could, with i'm
proved machinery, accomplish what thir
~ did in Europe. That he thought was
the secret.
whatever the cause, the Yankees are
certainly making ii warm, commercially.
for the Europeans everywhere, and in
the countries ! speak of something Will
be done to counterfeit the effect. In Ger
many the proposed tariff is the one topic
of conversation. L do not think, however.
that the tariff. as ii stands will be pass
ed in Germany. Some of its provisions
are proh!bitive. and the Germans do not
want that. If the European countries do
pass tariff laws to protect themselves we
cannot blame them. We have protected
ourselves Why should not they2"