The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-10-03
The Hot Springs of Arkansas

more than i've out of each 100 of our
readers have ever looked upon the
picturesque mountains or drank or
oathed in the health giving waters of
that wonderful city. For this reason
1t has occurred to the writer that a
snort article in which many questions
VIII he answered concerning these wa
tiers and the city, would be of interest
The writer has been i'm Hot SPRINGS
frequently of late years, aud has lust
returned from there, have taken full
course of p baths.
Our first visit to Hot Springs was in
the summer Of 1SSi,-eighteen wears
ago. AT that time Hot Springs made
no pretenSions to being a city. II WAS
simply resort for sight-seers and the
dumping place for all the worst ele.
mentS or the human race. The streets
were unpaved, the houses. many of
| them, in tumble-down condition. the
creek running down Central avenue.
the main thorough fare-beisr open-
~ used for sewer, and when conven.
lent rubbish and all excremept were
dumped therein. What is now the
beautiful government bath house was
at that time known as the old mud
hole, where crowds, many with diseas-
es representing all stages of syphlitic
conditions ,bathed in a bunch in a large
pool III which tie hot water boiled
from the bottom, In those days there
were few of the beauties that now
meet the eye Of the visitor. There
j were few of the magnificent hotel and
no government buildings to speak Of
We believe the Avenue and Arlington
hotels were the only ones of more than
ordinary interest. In those days Cad
Allard and Maj. Nose Harris were
holding down the editorial nail kegs
on the Hornet-Holseshoe, and some
other paper the name Of which we have
| forgotten, and were making things
lively generally. Mai. Nose Harris
was scrapper and was one of the
principals in street shooting affair
which created great excitement at the
time. He afterwards went to Texas,
and we have lost sight of him. The
last time we heard anything Of Nose,
was about ten or twelve years ago at
which time he was in Austin, Texas.
trying to expose "A big steal IN the
building of Texas magnificent capital
building. But we digress.
The Hot Springs of today is quite
different. 1t is still the resort of much
of the scum of society, but it also in
cludes the best, and numbers among
its inhabitants and visitors many of
the wealthiest and most highly cult
waited families of this country, and
prominent families of Europe. The
resort has grown TO be much too large
to be patronzed by any one class
alone. Hot Springs is decidedly cos
mopolltan, and with all its social
features one need not suffer from
enni. The large majority of visitors,
| however, go for treatment of various
diseases, the following being the con-
sensus of opinion of the leading medi.
cal practitioners of Hot Springs as to
ailments cured:
Generally speaking, all diseases of
the skin, blood, digestive and secreto-
ry organs, and nervous affections and
ailments peculiar to women. Many
physicians assert positively that all
known diseases, but fevers, heart dis.
ease and advanced lung troubles, are
cured or benefited.
Troubles that yield most readily to
the hot water treatment: Alcoholism.
catarrh, chronic Inflammation of the
bladder and urethia, chronic ulcers,
| eczema, govt, hysteria, Indigestion. in
somnia, kidney and liver troubles, ma
lara, nervous prostration, neuralgia,
locomotor ataXia, paralysis, phthis
(early stages, psoriasis, rheumatism
in oil forms. scrofula, stomach diseas-
es, tobacco poisoning, etc.
Chronic rheumatism is cured in
from three to eight weeks on an aver
age, though cure has been known in
ten days.
The water of Hot Springs is super
i0r to all others, either naturally or
prepared as an aid in surgical treat
ment, >
The L. S. Government appropriated
the Springs and the Reservation ilNI
1882, and set them apart as Nation
al Park and Sanitarium for all time. .
1t is SAID upon good authority that
nearly l,000000 gallons of hot water
flow from the side of one of the Ozark
mountains at Hot Springs every day.
The average temperature of the wa.
tiers of the seventy-two hot springs is
l35 degrees Fahrenheit. There are