The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1905-07-22
SAHITARIUM
AND THE NORTH POLE
President W. B. Edison Pictures
a Comparison With Las Vegas.

St. Louis, July 16.-The an
nouncement from the East that
the Peary polar expedition was
receiving several thousand dol
lars a day in contributions has
thrown the executive officers Of
the National Fraternal Sanitar-
ium, with headquarters in the
Chemical building, this city,
into a frenzy, owing to the not
oyer-successful efforts in raising
an emergency fund with which
to open the contemplated mann
moth consumptive colony at Las
Vegas, N. M.
In an irOnical jest, papers con-
tanning telegraph reports Of the
flood Of gold that has been pour
ing in to Peary were handed
about during the board meeting
of Thursday, which had been
called for the purpose Of fling .
report on the results Of q recent
appeal to 5000 bankers, business
men and philanthropists of the
country. This report showed
that the total donations from
these appeals scarcely reached
$1,000, while the initial expense
in making them far exceeded
that amount.
Human nature was too weak
to stand the pressure, and, as .
result, the following unexpect-
ed official statement was given
to the reporters awaiting routine
reports:
Here we are, Z stated Presi-
dent w. X. Edison and Secre-
tary Charles F. Hatfield, with
100000 consumptives in this
country, 5000 Of whom have ap-
pealed to us to save them from
the grave, trying as yet unsuc-
cessfully, to raise enough money
to fit up New Mexican tent
camps for them to live in, while
a wild goose chase for the pole is
fitted out with . gold-lined bot
TOM" To emphasize this point
Mr.. Hatfield waved q letter from
a philanthropist who had refused
assistance to Fraternal City, and
then flashed q clipping which
chronicled the donation by the
same man Of 1O,OOO to the pOlaI
expedition.
THE chances are" he con
tinued, that if Peary does fine
the pole, he'll find it infested
with tuberculosis bacilli. TIL,
executive officers Of this sani
tarium, who, without exception
are business men with pressing
interests entirely apart from
this movement, have for thre'
years worked increasingly towar'
its completion without receiv
ing or expecting one single penn,
in return for their services. Gu
various Offices have been foOdel
with callers and letter writer
all afflicted with tnberculosit
Out Of our own pockets We hay
relieved their distress temporal
lily in many cases, and in th
same way paid the incidenti
expenses Of correspondence On
Office help.
Our object was and is to q
tablish in New Mexico q COZ
sumptive settlement Of unlimi
ed capacity, open to every ma
and woman in the country wi
can pay the actual cost Of the
keep, viz, $40 TO s25 per mOntl
The newspapers Of the COUNT
have poured the generosity
their columns on Us, and materia
ly assisted in securing the ma
nifcent donation Of the Las v
gas Hot Springs property by Il
Santa Fe railroad. valued \
$l,OOO,OOO. The publicity Civ,
us has brought thousands q !
quiries from patients who .
eager to Join the cCnsumpti'
settlement-but no cash.
Yet, when we make our 3
peal to the citizens Of The cou
try who daily are rubbing again
thousands 81 consumptiyes q
can see 1T first hand tie frigl
full rayages Of tie great VII
plague. We receive oE the 4T5.0