Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1905-08-18
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE HOME.
Everything Possible Done for the Com
fort of the Old soldiers.

Everything Possible Done for the Com
fort of the Old Soldiers.
A Journal reported visited the Sol
diers' Home at Hot Springs the first of
the week, and found many changes had
taken place since the last visit was
made there about twelve years ago.
Many improvements have been made
there this year, and it has kept every
thing in a muss all summer, but no
one seems to mind it because they real
ize how nice it will be when everything
is done.
The main building has been replas-
tered throughout, the parlors have been
remodeled into chapel, and two
smaller rooms have been made into
parlor and sitting room Cottages
have been built for veterans whose
wives are with them, and the hospital
has been improved. There are a num-
Der of other improvements that have
been made this year, which makes the
Home better than ever.
The trees have grown to be fine look
ing, and shade the walks beautifully
Beautiful flower beds show the care of
intelligent hands The old system of
detailing the inmates for dishwashing,
cleaning, gardening, and the like has
been done away with, and all who wish
are given work and paid for it's per-
IN,1p c1,o oct
there has been so much doing around
the Home that there has been consid-
cradle work for all who we're able to
do it.
The commandant, Col. L. NJ. God
dard, is we'll liked at the Home, and he
certainly has the welfare of the institu-
tion at heart. Mrs. Goddard is pleas
ant, motherly, womanly woman, who
takes great pains to make the old vet
Grams as happy as they can be under
the circumstances. The young people
of the Goddard family are bright aud
pleasant, and all are fine musicians,
and they use their talents for the
pleasure of the inmates of the Home
as we'll as for themselves and their
visitors.
Quartermaster and Mrs. William
Reed are very we'll liked. and they
should be, for they do their best to
make the place home in reality for
those who are compelled by force of
circumstances to live in such an inSti-
tuition.
The food is excellent and we'll pre-
: pared, which can be vouched for by the
writer. for she ate three meals there.
Everything is prepared in the Home
kitchen, and after the old soldiers are
seated and waited on, then portions OF
the same are dished out and sent to the
family dining room on dumb waiter
; to the floor above. The menu consist.
ed of meat, potatoes, corn, bread and
butter, relishes,tea, coffee, sauce, break
fast foods, cookies, sugar and milk
and salt and pepper "miNed." Oh
course all of these did not appear al
each meal. They were served in the
usual order according to Marion Har
land or some other caterers long estab
lished usage. At each meal there
were a couple of kinds of soft food
f mush and milk. rice, oatmeal. hominy
} grape nuts and others, so that if ONE.
tools for mastication were not in gooC
trim there was always something nour
ishing and eatable anyway.
The writer met several she had know
i in Nermiiion in her younger days, anG
all expressed themselves as we'll salts
= fled with their surroundings. Mr.. anG
y Mrs. Wyrick are nicely located i'm g
cottage, but they take their meals al
the Home.
1t takes something to get a meal al
4 the Home. too. When they have bis
3 cult the cook makes five hundred, and
when baked potatoes are served the
vegetable man prepares five hundred
3 also, and other things in proportion.
a rig holding about ten people goes
to town four or five times day, so that
/ the inmates Of the Home have an CD
portunity to ride whenever they want
: to do so.
But with all these comforts the ole
soldiers get lonely and days seem long
! They are showing their age, too, whit,
hair and feeble footsteps being tn.
y rule. Every year the ranks are thin
Y ming, and but few years are left to th,
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