The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-02-24

the celebrated Mayfeld Sanitarium,
Of st. Louis, and located In the Ozark
mountains in Missouri; H. P. Moody,
president of the Baptist Publishing
Company Of st. Louis: DR.. H.
A. Warner, of Topeka, Past President
of the National F~raternal Congress
of America, and Grand Medical Ex-
aminer of the Knights and Ladies of
Security. Coming as guests of the
committee were George w. Meyer. a
Illinois,; L. A. Schafiey. son of Aug
ust Schafiey; A. L. Conrad, of Amaril-
10. traffic manager of the Pecos Val
ley and Northeastern railroad; w.
T. Oliver of Topeka, special agent in
the land department of the Atchison.
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad. who is
in charge of the party while it is on
the lines of his road, and Col. F.. H.
Buzzacott, of Chicago, a we'll known
retired United States army Office
who is now engaged as a U. s. con-
tractor, and who will give advice in
regard to selecting the camp grounds
for the sanitarium and, if possible,
at the sanitarium when it is compile
ted.
After supper the city's visitors
were escorted to the rooms of the
Roswell Commercial Club, where a
smoker was held in their honor, that
they might become acquainted perso-
nalIy and learn the points of mutual
interest in the investigation of sani-
tarium sites. There was only a fair
representation of business men pres
emit. the late change in plans being
Hinkle presided over the meeting.
President w. R. Edison was the
first called upon for an address. His
speech was short, but he told in a
comprehensive name the plans of
the committee, it's purposes and it's
methods, as we'll as desires in locat-
ing the sanitarium. He also told of
what they had seen at the towns they
visited, Las Vegas, Santa Fe,
Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Socorro,
Deming. Ell Paso, Carlsbad and Arte-
time in a brief address to make some
humorous remarks about the excuses
every town had for the unfavorable
conditions that a been encounter
ed. Among other things, President Ed
son said that the committee could
make no mistake in locating the sani-
tarium in New Mexico, no matter
what altitude they happened to find
at the place of location, for the whole
Territory is one vast sanitarium in
itself. He told many things that are
Record. He left no point untouched.
He gave the cost. the plan of mainte-
nance and the entire plans of the
committee. He said that this would
be the largest sanitarium in the
world, the largest sanitarium the
world had ever seen and that although
it was starting only in fraternaE ben
eficiary orders, it would eventually
AXE in the order that have no pc
cuniary benefits, and later even take
in the churches. He said that the
sanitarium would take in and care
5000 patients al one time. Those
wanted employment could get ii
startling figures on the death rate in
the lodges, and in America as a
whole. from consumption. showing
that one in every seven deaths was
by this disease.
President Edison stated that the
sanitarium would be placed no closer
than FIVE miles to any city or town.
said hat it would be a city in it
self; that it would have to be close
to a railroad and must have water,
plenty of agricultural land
it's patients might be given work
and tina the institution might main