Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-24
FOR OLD SOLDIERS
S,..t Hot Springs Will b Selected Early
Next Week.
BOARD or MANAGERS MEETS IN OMAHA
Captain Palmer VIII Entertain his
Associates on Sunday ana GO with
Them TO Black Hills 60
Make Selection.

Captain Henry Z. Palmer is TO entertain
, next Sunday several of the other managers
Of the National Homes for Disabled volun-
teer Soldiers, who, will be on their way to
Hot Springs, s. D., there to select the site
for the national soldiers sanitsrium, which,
through all the future years, is to harbor
those veterans whose health was wrecked
by the rigors Of campaigning.
The party will comprise General Martin
II. Mcmahon, president Of the board, a
Judge OF the court Of sessions In New York
City; Colonel George W. Steele, secretary
of the board, a congressman Of Marion, Ill.
General Charles NJ. Anderson. former mem
Der Of congress from Greenville, o.; Colonel
Sidney G.. Cooke. a banker Of Harrington,
Kan; General Thomas j. Henderson, for
twenty years a congressman from Prince
ton, ILL.,; George B.. Patrick, assistant treas
urer, from New York City; Mrs. George w.
Steele. Mrs. Meta Bellnap, Mrs. Anderson,
Mrs. Cooke and daughter and General Hen
herson's son and grandson, Thomas B. Hen
derson and Henry b. Dunbar. Captain
Palmer has received assurance from all
these that they will be here and in addition
Congressman Brownlow of Tennessee may
come.
IL is Captain Palmer's plan to meet them
1t the Burlington station Sunday morning
take than TO the Mulard hotel for break.
last provide a drive about the city and
have luncheon served at the Omaha club.
Plans of the Party.
At B o'clock Sunday afternoon the Wis
fors and the captain, who has been a prin.
cipal promoter of the project from the very
FIRST, will leave for Hot Springs over the
Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley road
Captain Palmer says
I'VE shall be at thu Springs two or three
days. The city is to furnish the site after
we select 1t. The appropriation voted las,
spring by congress was $40, 900, and this
will be invested in one hospital building
TO which additions are to be made in future
years when the additional appropriation
are secured. So soon as the site is selected
the governments architect will begin OF
the plans, and though thirty days adver.
tisement will be necessary we expect to SCI
the foundation taking shape by the LIST o.
next October.
AFTER disposing OF the task Of selecting
q site at Hot Springs, probably our party
will wish to visit Deadwood, Lead and othei
points Of interest up in the Hills.
"This institution, you know, is to be &
sanitarium and is to receive inmates o.
the soldiers homes when the veterans o.
either the civil or the Spanish and Philip
pine wars seem to require a change o.
climate or the medicinal qualities o.
spring water such as the Dakota resorr
has. Surely there could be nothing bet.
ter than the glorious climate Of that place
B,4S3 feet above the sea, and eventually 4
will prove a real saving to the ~nationa
government. The $17o, 900, though a yer!
snug sum, IS only the beginning OF wha
Is hoped for"
The central home is at Dayton. o., an,
there are others at Milwaukee, ToEus
Me-; Elizabeth City county. Virginia
Leavenworth. Los Angeles. Grant county
Indiana; Danville, ILL.,; Johnson City, Tenn
The members Of this board are ten Il
number exclusive of the president, chic
Justice and secretary Of war.