Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-17

MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST II.
THE MoNTEzUMA HOTEL.

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The Optic this evening In its news
columns devotes considerable space
% setting forth the attractions OF the
big hotel at Hot Springs and its
claims upon the consideration of the
pleasure and health seeking public NJ
large.
We wish through these columns ia
bring before the people OF Las Vegas
tho claims upon them of this famous
resort which the recent Inauguration
OF the street railway service has
brought within such easy access 81
our people and made them to feel tina.
It 10 to all fntents and purposes a
part OF this city.
As is well known. the Monteznma
has been for years conducted on d sort
Of double plan: That Is. II has been
the effort Of the management TO com.
bine In 1t the features OF a sanitarium
as well ~ Of q pleasure resort. A
regular corps OF physicians and train.
cd nurses has been maintained at d
heavy expense so that skilled medical
attendance might be offered to all
who might desire II. This was deemed
necessary owing TO the distance from,
the city. and the Inconvenience at
tendant upon travel back and forth
The result Of this was that the physi
clans located In Las Vegas felt con
strained. by professional courtesy,
from practicing Mt the hotel and per
sons coming from a distance who do.
sired the attendance OF city physicians
did not ind Il desirable 10 lodge al
the sMontezuma. This fact probably
operated largely against tho mutual
Interest and cooperation between the
people Of Las Vegas and the manage,
ment OF the hotel which could and
should have existed.
n has been long maintained by
many greatly Interested in the hotel
that the essentials Of 4 sanltarium
and Of q pleasure resort were not cas-
lily combined and that 10 meet with
the fullest ucces Il should be made
the n or the other. With the estah.
iishment OF the Las Vegas and Hot
Springs electric railway the dificui.
ties In the way OF easy communication
with the city and It's medical advan.
tages we're removed. and the Santa Fe
officials. by whom the hotel is owned
and managed. decided 10 eliminate 20
far as possible sanitarInm features
and abolish the medical stan which
had been maintained nj the Montezu
ma. This makes Ii necessary for the
guests Of the hotel who desire smedi-
cal attendance. to come to the city or
summo physicians TO the hotel, AZ the
8 may require. and makes the 10.
tel 10 a much greater extent a Tea.
ture OF Las Vegas. Consequently. the
management OF the hotel feels that II
IN now. more than ever before. emil
tied Il the greatest possible support
from the people of this city. There
are those who maintain that the ho-
teI brings very little direct benefit @
tbe ciiy, a. lts supplies arc not 10 any
great extent purchased through the
mercantile channels of Las yegas
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