The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-20
BIJOU THEATRE.
COLORADO COLONY
 LIVES IN TENTS
HEALTH FARM NEAR DENVER GIVEN
 UP TO CONsUMPTTvEs.
Latest Development of Y. M. c. A Work in the West Affords Good Results.

Away out in that wonderful State, Colo rado. there Is a unique little settlement, in which the requirement. for admission is that any newcomer Is consumptive. 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 Association. If. when one gets to Denver. he goes five miles to the northwest. on a straight road, he will strike beautiful white city, There. on high ridge. in the rich. fruit-growing district, he will see row after row of small white houses. or rather tents. and for back ground a panorama of snow-capped noun tain peaks stretching from Pike's Peak in the south to Longs Peak in the west
 The story of the origin of the Association Health Farm is interesting. About year ago. when the furor of excitement in the fit- erary world caused by Charles Sheldon'e book. Tn His Steps," was at its height. the editor of The Topeka Capital. daily paper. offered Mir. 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 Mir. Sheldon was the health farm project. And so a public appeal was made in the initial Sheldon edition of The Topeka Capital
 Money and Land Given.
 An editorial in The Outlook, quoting from this article. interested Dr. Edward F. George. of Hanover, Germany. who gave the first s5.ooo. Following this Association friends in the East gave another 5000 and a sixty-acre tract was purchased. Mir. and Mrs. David Brothers. of Denver. then ten- dered their fruit farm as a gift. with q small annuity.
 The establishment of the health farm | marks the latest development in Young | | IL was formally opened last May, though l for long time before then the Denver as- sociation had been interested in the project and in propagating plans for its furtherance. | The idea was first suggested by the crying needs of a multitude of young men seeking the Colorado climate for physical reasons and 1t had come to pass where W. NJ Dan | ner. 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 a certain extent the residents live in common and they have one central idea--to be restored to health.
 | In all there are about thirty tents, a big brick house for offices. dining rooms. pariors and reading room Each resident is given the exclusive use of one tent. It is thought best that each should live practically iso- lated. though all eat together in large dining room. The cottage tents are fioored. | have three-foot wainscoting. with canvas sides and double-ventilated roof. An iron bedstead. with good bedding, a 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
 C0sts SEQ Month. l .a. A h. Az | of SEQ or $25 a month, which covers his en- tire expenses. If he is able to work 1t is secured for him on an adjoining nursery and vegetable farm.
 All control of the diet, exercise and rest of each resident is under the direct super vision of the resident physician. who himself has been restored to health by the Colo rado climate and Is glad to volunteer hii services in such a cause.
 There is G big orchard on the farm. alsC a garden which supplies the table and af lords work for the members of the colony for which credit is given.
 In no way does the little colony Amirk o the home with @ capital H. There are nC grewsome dissecting rooms. no darkenec uniformed figures to be seen on the healtf farm.
 Each little cottage tent is cosy and home like There Is a reading tent we'll supplied with all sorts of literature an organ. anc with wholesome games. The large dining room is airy and sunshiny. Never is there a cause for solitude or homesiokness on thu health farm. for isolation there pertain! only to sleeping quarters, and in the day time there are work and recreation. witt always toviaI company.
 In all the health farm consists of ninety four acres a fruit farm of thlrty-four acres with 1000 fruit trees of bearing age, and eight acres of small fruits and sixty acres Of ranch two miles further to the southwest | Just now an artesian well is being dug. II was found necessary because of the failure of the surface wells This well will not only | furnish water for house and bath purposes but to 6 limited extent will furnish irriga-