The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-05
New York Has
Consumptive Camp

disease whose germs are sown on
nearly every block!
The dry dust of the streets, the cars,
stairs and platforms where thousands
pass daily, hold germs of the disease
for days. They are swept up by trail
ing skirts and carried into homes where
only proper soil is needed for their
propagation.
The health board, with so earnest a
man as DR.. Ernest J. Lederle at it's
head, has long had in mind the difficult
condition of affairs which it had to con-
front. 1t could do nothing to remedy
matters, however, except in the way of
investigation and by bringing the ques-
ton to the consideration of all those
interested in sociological matters. 1t
well understood that given certain con-
| dftions of air and soil cases of con-
sumption in the earlier stages would
yield readily to treatment, whilst the
most hopeless cases could be consid-
erably benefited. The statutory red
uisites were as gathered from the
most complete data on the subject: A
location far from the city's contamina-
ton, with an altitude sufficient to in
sure pure, dry air, and a sandy soil
to give perfect drainage. There must
also be some barrier to shield the pa
tent from the chilly blasts that sweep
down from the North Atlantic, and
yet it must be near enough to the city
to permit of ready access.
A careful search of the available coun-
try surrounding the city disclosed the
fact that there were a few such places
available, but that they could only be
had by paying an enormous price.
The mayor and city authorities view
ed the scheme favorably, but still there
remained the fact that the legislation
necessary to secure the necessary funds
would take some time to push through
DR.. Lederle had at first outlined
plans for an expensive sanatorium,
hoping in that way perfected scheme
of operation would include both suit
able site and equipment. To carry out
this ideal scheme at once, however, was
found impossible.
Stirred by the necessities of the Sit
uation through the appeals of DR..
man Of New York finally came
forward and donated a tract of land
nearly 100 acres in extent, ideally stu
ated and suitable in every way for the
purpose.
1t is at Summit Lake, among the
lovely mountains Of Orange county,
New York, and is scarcely fifty miles
from the city.
The camp will be located amongst
some of the most beautiful scenery in
the world. The ascent to it's site is
steep and rocky, and it can be reached
only by one road that pierceS the range
for many miles-the old Dunderberg
turnpike. The notch in the mountains
through which the road winds is called
the Summit pass" 1t reaches an alti-
tude of nearly 1000 feet and the air
breathed here is impregnated. with
ozone. The country is seen at it's best
in early spring, when Boreas has re-
tired and the breezes come to ones
nostrils laden with the scent waited
from millions of young trees just burst
ing into bloom. When April comes 1t
brings the beautiful arbutus blooms,
with which every hillside in the vicinity
seems to be clothed and whose spicy
perfume is so eXhilarating.
The site of the camp is but short dis
lance from the summit of the pass. where
a gently ascending, slope, facing the east
and the south, leads up to a level plateau
at the back Of which is a dense forest
which shuts off the chill winds from the
north and west
Although within some scora of nailaa