The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-12-24
sooMs NEW STAMPING GROUND.
Former "sockIess' Statesman Seeks
FraternaI Sanltarium for
New Mexico.

II 81. lAOu1S
At a meeting of the officers of the
National Fraternal Sanitarium held
at the central Office, in the Chemical
building, yesterday. a committee
from Roswell, N. NJ, composed Of
Terry Simpson, DR.. J.. w. Kinsinger
md H. r. Morrow, was heard. Ros-
we'll is competing for the proposed
sanitarium. Others are Santa Fe, Ra-
ton, Pecos, Deming, Las Vegas, Hud-
son Hot Springs, Watrous, Albuquer-
que and Springer. The town of Dem
ing offers a tract of 5000 acres if
the sanitarium is located there.
An organized movement to estab-
'ish a home for lodge members who
may contract consumption has been
carried on in st. Louis for the past
two years. The officers of the asso-
citation are: President, w. R. Edison;
first vice president, Judge Noah NJ.
Givan; second vice president, DR.. A.
H. Warner; third vice president, DR..
w. H. Mayfield; secretary of the re-
ligious department, M. P. Moody;
general secretary, Charles F. Hat
field; treasurer, August Schlafey.
Among the board of are
Mayor Rolla Wells and E. G. Lewis.
The late R. M. Scruggs was also a
member.
The board of managers of the sani-
tarium association were directors of
the Temple of Fraternity at the
Worlds Fair. They propose to give
the building for a s~anitarium as soon
as a own is selected in which to To-
cate it. 1t would be used as the ad-
ministration building for the con-
sumptive colony.
Plan to Enlarge Accommodations.
The present plan is to have accom-
modations for 1000 or 1900 people
at first, and enlarge as fast as re-
quired. The saniuarium is to be sup
ported by the National Fraternal Con
eress and the associated f%raternities
Of America. These organizations in
clude fifty-six separate fraternities,
with a combined membership of g.
from every member of the orders
will be asked for the support of the
institution. Any member of any of
the fifty-six fraternal organizations
who may contract tuberculosis will
be kept there until cured.
The officers of the association
were ~favorably impressed by the pro
position made by the committee of
Roswell, but no definite action will
be taken until after the meeting of
the board Of managers, which will
be held here January ). when a com
mittee will be appointed to go TO
New Mexico and investigate the
claims of each town that has asked
for the s%anitarium.
Former Famous Congressman.
Jerry Simpson, former congressman
from Kansas, famed as "Sockless
who arrived in the city yes
as a member of the commit
tee from the Commercial Club of Ros
well, N. NJ, to persuade the directors
Of the proposed National Fraternal
Sanitarium for Consumptives that
was the best place in which
% locate the sanitarium, has many
strong arguments. Mr.. Simpson is
we'll past middle age. He acquired
he title "Sockless jerry in the ear
y days of Populism, while running
congress in the "short grass coun
ry," the 7th district of Kansas. He
'eferred to his opponent as "a silk
tocking politician when the Hutch
.son (Kan.) News started the story
lie stuck to him and he credits il
With not only winning two elections
OF him, but also gaining the recog-
ition for him in congress where he