The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-08
SANITARIUM WILL
BE LOCATED HERE
DR.. KeIIog's Audience Last
Night Was Enthusiastic.
TO RAISE 10000 DOLLARS
Battle Creek People Will Spend
Like Amount Here.

| At a great meeting in the Toler Audi
torium last night it was settled that
Wichita is to have a great sanitarium
and it will probably be built On College
Hill. Ten thousand dollars will be raised
in this city and another $4,000 will be
given by the Battle Creek people.
The meeting was called at the Auditor
ium for the purpose of listening to an
address by DR.. J. II. Kellogg of Battle
Creek, Mich.,. who is superintendent Of
the great sanitarium at that place. He
was introduced to his Wichita audience
by j. NJ. Knapp, chairman of the sani
tarium committee appointed by the
Chamber of Commerce.
The meeting was well attended and
the way in which DR.. Kellogg explained
the common sense treatment given at the
sanitarium pleased the people. The fur
Their statement that there were 800 pa
tents at the Battle Creek institution and
that about 600 attendants We're required
and that the people coming to the sani-
tarium for treatment left nearly three
quarters OF a million dollars in Battle
Creek every year convinced some of the
business men present that a like institu-
ton here would be a paying investment
for the city outside OF the good it will 10
the people.
Dr. Kellogg said that a wise man had
said there was nothing new under the
SUM- and he assured his hearers that
there was nothing new in the Battle
Creek idea. He wanted 1t understood
that they were not coming to Wichita
with the idea of running all the educat-
ed physicians out of the city because
they had educated physicians in their
sanitariums. He summed it up that what
is called the Battle Creek idea was a
new application of old methods.
He told how a simple German boy
had noticed a wounded deer going to
spring to stand with it's wounded foot in
the water until it was cured. He COM
menced 70 use what he called the water
cure until people came to him for miles
andxthe German lad became famous. He
believed that boy was inspired. for he
did a great good for the world. This
water cure was one of the methods used
in the Battle Creek sanitarium, but he
thought it took an educoted physician
to tell what kind of a bath a patient
needed, whether cold or a hot bath.
He said water had been the remedy for
diseases among the common people for
all time
DR.. Kellogg said the people needed
common sense remedies for at the rate
civilized nations were developing new
diseases and going crazy in about three
hundred years they would either all be
IN, Inn he
parent seriousness of this statement
caused some merriment among the audi
ence He said sunlight was one good
remedy in the treatment of diseases and
fer that reason Wichita was better nat
ural location for sanitarium than Bat
tie Creek, because there was more sun
shine in Kansas than in Michigan. He
said the altitude and the sunshine at
Wichita made the place a healthy loca-
ton.
After the doctor had finished his speech
Mr.. Knapp tcld the people that the Bat
tie Creek people had proposed to put
$4,000 into sanitarium here If Wichita
would raise a like amount and they
We're going to raise il. He said when he
mentioned the thing yesterday TO a few
Wichita people he was promised 500 in
a few minutes He said his committee
was going out to raise the money and he
believed it would be the best thing this
city ever did.
Some people have regarded thu sani-
tarium business as sort of experiment
but when DR.. Kellogg told how success
full they were all become convinced that
success would attend this movement in
this city. The Michigan man explained
that the saEitariums were charitable in
situations and the people who operated
them worked on very small sala ries.
They gave their lives for the good work
and were not in 1t to make money. The
people at the meeting were not asked
to subscribe any money. They were
given more time to think over IL before
Mr.. Knapp and his committee will call
on them for subscriptions. There was
no location picked out but the Battle
Creek people had been out to College
Hill and the general belief was that the
new building would be in that part of
the CITY