Arizona republican., 1905-05-14
FRATERMAL CITY
The New Home for COnsumptiVes
 Near Las Vegas, N. h.

but until now there has not been
 widely distributed description of the coming national sanitarium at Las Vegas It was made possible by the gift of $1 100000 by the Santa Fe rail-
 road and the donation of 10000 acres ! by the city of Las Vegas
 The National Fraternal Sanitarium
 for Consumptives, acting in the inter i ests of S,O00.00 fraternalists in the United States day before yesterday. or
 May 10. put their new city-Fraternal
 City on the map of New Mexico. six
 miles west of Las Vegas. In so doing.
 the fraternalists have established what
 is perhaps, the most unique health re- | sort in the world, a sanitarium city for consumptives, to be maintained without thought of commercialism by | per capita contributions made by the | great fraternal and religious orders,
 who. after three years of incessant la bor. have brought this gigantic cru
 sade against the great white plague"
 to 9 happy reality.
 II The formal papers closing the gift were
 signed and passed late on Wednesday
 afternoon in the central office of the
 National Fraternal Sanitarium, Chem
 ical building. St. Louis, President ll William R. Edison of the Associated
 Fraternities of America, and Secretary II Charles F. Hatfield representing the
 Site Selecting Committee of the sani-
 tarium. w. B. Janson. assistant to the
 president, representing the Atchison,
 Topeka Ss Santa Fe railroad. and F. H. Pierce the city of Las Vegas. New
 Mexico.
 The formal announcement of the To- l cation of FraternaI City was made that night at a monster banquet at the Ho-
 tel Planters, at which Governor Joseph
 w. Folk Mayor Rolla Wells, Arch
 bishop J. J. Glennon, F. L. Young. past president National Fraternal Press As
 sociation. NorwalI, Sturgeon General
 Walter A. Wyman Washington, D. C.,
 and numerous other dignitaries of
 state. church and fraternalism were | present. Governor Folk and the Arch
 bishop were particularly happy in
 toasts to the welfare of the community. The mamoth consumDtive resort of Fraternal City. as 1t will henceforth be known. is today a fact. It exists. The site has been chosen, the buildings are there. and the time which will be con- sumed in moulding the material on
 hand into an enormous sanitarium can l be measured in weeks. By next fall.
 when Fraternal City will be formally dedicated and opened, provisions will
 have been completed for the reception of five thousand patients. This num- Der iS to be increased indefinitel as
 rapidly as funds are available.
 This is made possible by the fact
 that in the delightful Rio Gallinas
 canyon, better known among health
 seekers as the Hot Springs canyon of New Mexico the National Fraternal Sanitarium has become possess
 ed of fifteen square miles of culti- vated land at an average elevation of 5000 feet. every acre of which meets
 the requirements of Fraternal City. Tn the center of the tract stands the [ palatiaI Montezuma hotel and it's acces-
 sories. erected recently by the Santa Fe at 2 cost Of $500 O0O The hotel is
 of brick and stone, four stories high.
 and has $50 fully appointed rooms and baths. There are 750 feet of yer l enda which commands a sweep of 1 thirty miles.
 One hundred yards from the hotel
 are the famous hot springs of New . Mexico. which possess the same heal , ing qualities as the Arkansas Hot Springs. The gift of the Santa Fe also includes a smaller hotel, a fully . equipped dairy farm, a chicken ranch, a bath house. electric light and steam ; heating plant an ice house. a modern club house. a surgical hospital, casi
 no with stage and scenery. a livery sta
 ble with cattle barn. and 1000 acres of land.
 The accommodations thus provided ! will. however. play a minor part in ! the actual housing of the thousands of consumptives for whose care arrange ments are now being made. Tent a camps. laid out under the direction of Col. F. H. BuzzacOtt, U. s. A., a sani- ] tary engineer, will shelter the bulk of
 the patients. These camps are being 1 erected at various elevations for the purpose of giving each case treatment in the most favorable altitude. Accom- modations will also be provided at the ] Montezuma hotel, and in cottages for s those whose lungs are not affected and
 who journey to Fraternel City merely as the companions of cOnsumptives. The government of this unique com ] munity is vested in a board of man. s agers, composed of fifteen represent ! tive men in the fraternal, religious, and philanthropic worlds. William R. EidsOn Of St Louis chairman of the [ board of managers and pesodent of the sanitarium, is president of the Asso- ciated Fraternities of America; August Fl Schlafly, treasurer, is president of the 5 Missouri Lincoln Trust Co. of St. Louis: Dr. H. A. Warner of Topeka zi ] president of the National FraternaI I Congress; M. P. Moody of St. Louis, I secretary of the religious department of the sanitarum, is manager of the 1 American Baptist Publication Society; ! pr. w. H. Mayfield of St. Louis. is a
 sanitarium expert c. F. Hatfield, sec : retary, ex-officiO, is secretary of the I Missouri Fraternal Congress.
 3 Governor w. A. NorthcOtt of RI IGreenville, Illinois, is past head consul 4 of the Modern WOOdmen of America; {; s T. A. Huey of St. Louis, is senator of
 the National Union; w. E. Farley of Columbus, Missouri, is a business man and a phiIanthrOpist; Paul Bromn of St Louis, IS 2 director in the COnti- mental Tobacco Co.,: Edward Wilkin- cnr, nf st .n.1is Is q Iast nnhIa grand