The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-01
ODD COLORADO COLONY.
How Consumption at Health Farm
 Us Being Fought.

Se4OfaQ0, Lnere IS a unique llLEle SeL- tiement. in which the requirement. for admission is that any newcomer is a constructive. ..- -.....
 One would almost be tempted to take chances against the dread disease in order to live in such an enchanted place. This colony is the Association Health Farm. under the auspices of the Denver Young Mems Christian Asso- citation. If, when one gets in Denver he goes five miles to the northwest, on d straight road, he will strike beautiful white city" There, on a high iidge, in the rich fruit growing district. he will see row after row of small white houses, or rather tents, and for a background panorama of snow capped mountain peaks stretch ing from Pike's Peak in the south to Longs Peak in the west
 The story of the origin of the Asso- citation Health Farm is interesting. About a year ago. when the furor of excitement in the literary world caused Chales Sheldon's book, Tn His Steps was at its height, the Editor of ''The Topeka Capital" d daily paper, offered MT. Sheldon the entire management of the paper for an allotted time, to be run upon his peculiar principles. One of the first things that interested MT. Sheldon was the health farm project. And so a public apreal was made in the initial Sheldon edition of "The To- pelca Capital"
 An editorial in The Outlook" quot ing from this article, interested Dr. Edward F. George. of Hanover, Ger many, who gave the first s5,OOO. Fol lowing this, association friends in the East gave another $5,0O0, and a sixty acre tract was purchased, MT. and Mrs. David Brothers, of Denver, then rendered their fruit farm as gift, with a small annuity.
 The establishment of the health farm marks the latest development in Young Mems Christian Association work.
 It was formally opened last May, though for long time before then the Denver association had been interested in the project and in propogating plans for it's furtherance. The idea was first suggested by the crying needs of a multitude of young men seeking the Colorado climate for physical resons, and it had come to pass where w. M. Danner, secretary of the Denver Young Mems Christian Association, could no longer aid young men financially who went to him for help.
 The colony in some respects recalls the Brooks Farm experiment, for to certain extent the residents live in common. and they have one central idea-to be restored to health
 In all there about thirty tents, big brick house for, offices, dining rooms, parlors and reading room. Each resi- dent is given the exclusive use of one tent. It is thought best that each should live practically isolated, though all eat together in large dining room. The cottage tents are hoored, have three-foot wainscoting, with canvas sides and double ventilated roof. An iron bedstead, with good bedding, chiffonier, table,, washstand and stove, with rocker and rugs, are the complete furnishings of each tent. Last month there were twenty eight men on the farm, most of them making splendid Improvement.
 The conditions which make necessary an association health farm are chal- lenging teh attention of the whole earth. Deep thinkers on the Continent and the most intelligent men in this country are interested in the problem of fighting tuberculosis. More than 12O.O00 persons die every year in our country of consumption. A very large number of them are young men, away from home and without any care. The health farm guarantees good care and all the comforts of home.
 A young men may stay there at the rate of S20 or $25 a month, which covers his entire expenses. If he is able to work. it is secured for him on an ad- Joining nursery and vegetable farm.
 All control of the diet, exercise and rest of each residentis under the direct supervision of the resident physician, who himself has been restored to health by the Colorado climate and is glad to volunteer his services in such a cause
 There is a big orchard on the farm, also a garden which supplies the table and affords work for the members of the colony, for which credit is given.
 In no way does the little colony snlirk of the home with a capital H. ]" There are no grewsome dissecting rooms, no darkened sickrooms, surg ical instruments or stiff, uniformed figures to be seen on the health farm.
 Each little cottage tent is cosey and homelike. There is a reading tent well supplied with all sorts of literature, an organ. and with wholesome games. The large dining room is airy and sunshiny. Never is there a cause for solitude or 1omesickness on the health farm, for isolation there pertains only to sleeping quarters, and in the day time there are work and recreation, with always jovial company.
 In all, the health farm consists of ninety-four acres, fruit farm of thirty-four acres, with two thousand fruit trees of bearing age, and eight mcres of small fruits and sixty acres of ranch two miles further to the solth- west.
 Just now an artesian well is being dug. It was found necessary because of the failure of the surface wells. The necessity for good water for do- mestic purposes is well understood. This well will not only furnish water for house and bath purposes, but to a limited extent will furnish irrigation.