Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
DENVER AS A RESORT
Consumptives Seek It's Tonic
Air in Thousands.
MANY SLEEP IN TENTS
MUCH BEING DONE FOR THE
BENEFIT OF HUMANITY.
Memorials Erected by Lawrence
Phipps, Charles L. Adams and
Morris x. Jessup.
MANY SLEEP IN TENTS
BIZ WILLIAM f. CURTIS.

| By WILLIAM r. OUTFITS.
Special Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago
| Record Herald
DENVER, July 10. 1905.
The altitude and atmosphere of this part
of Colorado make It a great sanitarium.
and a considerable part Of the population
| have been brought here by that induce
| ment. On the plains surrounding the city
are many villages of tents occupied by con-
| sumptives and other semi-invalids. You
\ will see tents also on the grounds of some
4 of the finest residences. The tents are fur
nished with board floors and the canvas
| walls protected by lumber sheathing three
or four feet from the ground. Many Of
1 them are fitted UP luxuriously, and the oc-
! cupants are comfortable as they would
| be In a hotel. What they seek Is fresh
| air. That Is the great tonic and remedy for
| all diseases and the tents are arranged so
| that they can be opened in such a way that
| the occupant will get much benefit as
though he were sleeping entirely out Of
| doors. Many houses in Denver are con-
! structed with broad porches sheltered by
I canvas curtains or Japanese mating so
| that they can be occupied rs bed rooms
| with nothing between the beds and the
| starry sky.
| There are several sahitariums. at which
! nature. reinforced by science, is fighting the
great white plague, and the patients all
| sleep in the open air. no matter how cold
| ii Is.
| is never vacant bed, and thousands Of
applicants have to be turned way because
of the lack of room to accommodate them.
A physician told me the other day that
| there were at least 1900 persons suffering
with tuberculosis in this city today. and
that If accommodations could be provided
| there would be 10000: because 1t has been
demonstrated that the pure air Of Denver
1 iS SDpcjfn whirh fails n that
| dread disease when taken in time. There
| Is use for chronic consumptives to come
| here. Their lives may only be prolonged a
| few months, but If they come before the
| disease is deeply seated there is no doubt
( of their restoration to health.
| The Agnes Memorials.
| For the benefit of humanity a great deal
| is being done, but great real more should
| be done. The latest and the noblest REIN
| forcement for those who are fighting the
great white plague is THE Agnes Memo
| rial Sanitorium." recently erected by Mr..
Lawrence c. Phipps. formerly Of Pittsburg,
| In memory of his mother. Mrs. Agnes
| Phipps. who died of tuberculosis. Mr..
Phipps is now resident of Denver a man
| of very large fortune made In the Carnegie
| Steel Company. He was in the habit of
| spending his winters in southern California,
| and one season. stopping to visit his sister,
| Mrs. John H. Sawyer was SO pleased with
dence and settled here. Recognizing an OPP
| portunity for doing great good. Mr.. Phipps
| purchased 100 acres of land in the suburbs
| of Denver, on dry sandy SOIL at alti-
| tude Of 5.400 feet, within easy reach by troll
| ley cars from the city and offering a mag
| nificent view of the Rocky mountains from
| Pixies Peak to Longs Peak, distance of
about one hundred and fifty miles.
| Upon this site he erected five buildings
of two stories. in the picturesque old Span
| ish mission style of architecture, so To-
| Gated that the sun can reach every room
at some time during each day-not to be
worshiped as the Pueblo Indians worshiped
| 1t, but to heal the sick. He spent $250,0O0
On the buildings and $4,000 for furnish
| ings. and made an endowment of $500, 900
| which he placed in the hands of seven bust
ness men Of Denver as trustees. He yields
| all control of the property, has no voice
| in the management and his name does not
appear in the act of incorporaton-al
though of course. he Is consulted by Dr..
! G. Walter Holden. the medical director,
and others who are actively engaged in the
management
Every Room Taken.
The institution was opened July 9, 1904,
and every room has been full ever since,
with a waiting list of thousand or more
applicants. The accommodations have been
| considerably enlarged by the erection of
tent village upon the grounds The insti-
tuition is free to everybody whose physical
d
reasonable time. Incurables will not be
received; patients are not allowed to re-
main more than six months. If they do not
| improve in that time they must leave and
give up their rooms to more hopeful cases.
Rich people will not be received-Mr.
Phipps' purpose was to give relief to per-
sons of small means-nor will any one be
admitted who can afford to go elseWher
The only provfso Is that where other con-
siderations are equal preference will be
given to citizens of Pennsylvania, which is
Mr. Phipps native state. The charges are
from 81 to SO week. which covers every
thing except laundry work and medicine
The open-air treatment Is practiced
Everybody sleeps out of doors, no matter
how cold Last winter the thermometer
went down to % degrees below zero one
night, with $50 consumptives sleeping on
the porches of this Institution, with no
shelter but the sky. Shortly after this the
patients gave minstrel performance, and
one OF the end men related the experience
of former patient who died and went
down to the lower regions, where his
satanic majesty assigned him to the frigid
zone because he was used to that tenn
perature.
Applications for admission to the Phipps
home must be made on blanks, which viii
be furnished for that purpose and must be
accompanied by detailed statement from
a physician. giving a complete diagnosis
of the case If conditions seem favorable
to recovery; IL the disease does not appear
to be too far advanced, the application is ac-
Ceplcu anu the name Is placed on the wait
ing list until vacancy occurs
Mr.. Henry Phipps Of New York city. an
uncle of Mr.. Lawrence Phipps Is doing a
great work in Philadelphia and at White
Haven. Pa, for poor people who are af-
ficted with tuberculosis; but there is no
other institution like this in the country
National Jewish Hospital
On the same high ridge Of land, about A
mile distant. is the National Jewish Hos
pttai. at which patients of all races and re-
ligions are received without cost 1t is an
institution supported by per capita tax OF
40 cents per year upon the members OF the
B'nai Birth. the Council of Jewish Women.
the Free Sons of Israel and other Jewish
orders. Subscriptions are also received
from about 1900 Jews in the large cities
of the country In sums varying from 81 to
$500. Mr.. Simon Guggenheim has erected
building, ard several other generous gem
tlemen have furnished rooms endowed cots
and given substantial aid to che institution
There are now about ninety patients, chiefly
from New York and Chicago, Of whom
nearly 20 per cent are Christians The
treatment and the regulations are the same
Al those ~ the a pneS MouncpJal vYo.no