Evening star., 1902-08-02
A TUBERCULOSIS CURE
Virtues of Life -the-Open
for COnsumptives.
THEBALSAM-LADEN AIR
PATIENTS IN BED OUTDOORS
EVEN WHEN SNOW FLIES.
"a Cottage Sanitarium on an Adiron-
dack Peak for Invalids in Moder-
ate Circumstances.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
The traveller arriving at the village Of
Saranac Lake. y. Y, finds himself wonder
1rg as he IS driven toward his hotel
Through long rows of soldly built blocks of
stores and dwellings what industry it is
ihat here i'm the heart of this mountain
Wilderness gives employment to the appar-
tntly large population of the town. A few
miles north Of Utica his train has plunged
1nto a forest Of four million acres, and for
more than hundred miles it has been
Drawn by putting. painting locomotive up
kteep mountain grades. only to rush down
hgain to the valleys below and passing IN
fOute hundred lakes and ponds of gOodly
size. From the car window he has seen
panorama of mountain peaks and rushing
streams crossed by the train at frightful
Speed as it hurled itself down from the
heights above. He has seen a mOunJaineer
here and there at the little railroad sta
lions along the way, but these have been
few and their appearance of character
that failed to indicate familiarity with any
Regular employment
: If he has been keen observer he will
perhaps have noticed an occasional deer is
1t sprang through the brush, startled by
The roar of the passing train Later ne
may learn that this forest has many other
feniZenS Of a wild and sometimes ferocious
nature. but look as he WILL he can see 40
sign of industry which would make this
ISnetrOpOllS OF the mountains Wnere ne mas
now arrived an expected possibility. Who
Are they that populate this little city?
Ghe question IS quickly answered. He will
sOOn have observed that every hotel, every
house and cottage has it's veranda, and
fvery veranda a row of occupants. If the
traveller shall have arrived in the winter,
when the snow lies deep upon the village
etreets. and the clouds overhead threaten
Instantly to sift down a feathery reinforce
brent, his attention Is quite likely to be
fiveted to these strange folk engaged in the
seemingly insane pursuit of catching cold
end tempting death as they sit quietly on
their porches, the men generally reading,
the women sometimes engaged in fancy
work, though their well-gloved hands usu-
ally make this an awkward task. Instead
of tempting death or disease. these people
pre- actually fighting it. This, then. is the
Adirondack mountain for incipient
tuberculosis, and thousands of persons who
Rre today well and happy throughout the
f0untry owe that health to the beneficial
duality and wonderful invigoration of Sar-
Anac Lake.
Cured Himself First.
Twenty-Five years ago a New York physi-
cian. DR.. f. l. Trudeau, from actual per-
sonaI experience, himself suffering with the
disease then. as now regarded as incurable
pave in its earliest inCipiency. learned of
the benefits derived by cOnsurnptfves from
E life in the midst of these forests of pine
hud balsam- His own cure was remarkable
end complete, and gradually the fame of
the place spread. Today almost every train
brings its quota Of sufferers, while each de-
parting one carries its contingent of those
itTho have come here afflicted and are now
leaving wonderfully improved in health and
tpirtt, and in frequent cases actually freed
from the dreaded malady.
Twenty years ago DR.. Trudeau, struck by
fhe need of accommoda ations for patients
byhOse means were limited. and knowing
bvell that there were thousands whose in
come ceased at the moment of leaving their
faCrrl lar NIL we'd h. ixJo
The establishment Of a santarium where
persons Of this class could secure proper
Treatment at a nominal cost. The result
was the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium.
This institution. in itself monument to the
eeif-sacrifCing zeal of it's founder, occupies
, plateau at an eleva ton at about ]. 700 feet
ebove sea level, on the rocky side of one of
tne Adirondack peaks about mile and a