The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
Can't get 'en up Can't get 'em Up,
Can't get 'em Up in the morning!
Can't get 'em up Can't get 'em up!
Cant get EN- I'D at all!

ms NcIslon OF the reNellle may
have tragic significance or interpre-
tstion as applied 10 this isolated col
onys where so many victims OF the
white plague have succumbed, yet
where death is never mentioned. Just
as IN regular army encampment-a
ChickRmauga Park or q Philippine
camping ground--it is to the awaken
ing bars OF the reveille that the men
and women commanded by General L.
h. Nealy in Sullivan County arise by
day. just as ii is to taps and lights
cut that they darken lamp and camp
and sleep by night
j." Assisting General Nealy are Drs
Deady and Wells. their immediate ad-
1ptaDts and q trio OF orderlies Day
and night. one or all Of them keep
vigil lest some breach OF discipline
may: widen with fatal consequences.
Death Is quite as eager and more
prpxiEnitous there than elsewhere
= Governed and laid out along severe
~ practical lines, the colony is CO.
: operative in that IL is maintained by
q common purse. made UP by the
campers, or ioungers Each person
contributes the same amount, and
while consumptives at Saranac Lake
and other upstate resorts frequently
pey from 800 TO 1925 a week for sani-
tsrium luxuries and scientific shep-
hercing. II Is possible to camp in Piney
Woods for SO g week. All are abso-
iVtely equal, and there are never any
special privileges or partialities.
q: PUBLIC is ABHORRED.
- Owing 70 the cheapness Of accommo-
dations, added 10 the limited number
Of patients who blvouac there under
open skies, those in charge of the col
ony eschew publicity as a murrain. 1t
= wsS only by special permit that the
writer was received and initiated into
the mysteries OF the place.
Mysteries? Surely there is a deal of
mystery in the remarkable percentage
Of cures effected. While most Adiron-
osck resorts boast cure percentage
Of slightly less than 30 per cent, this
camp effects an average cure of near
ly 20 per cent. and has done so during
a decade OF its existence. Sixty six
per cent, TO be exact. is the ratio OF
comparative cures wrought during the
last three years in this sunny, ozone
laden, pine perfumed rendezvous,
Which might be called a cheerful col
ony OF last hope.
% Everybody. Of course. lives practf-
cally in the open air during twenty
four hours of the day, winter and sum-
mer, rain or shine or snow. IN fact,
those in charge of the colony are ac-
credited with being pioneer prescribers
OF the so termed fresh air cure for
consumption. AS such this camp will
De SUBJECT OF speclal STUDY on the
part Of the American international
Congress on tuberculosis, which con-
venes in New York next November.
no matter how torrid the day or
how arctic the night there is one spe-
eiel law or order which may only be
broken on the penalty OF death or
dismissal, and that order is that the
patient must grapple fresh air TO his
or her lungs with hooks OF steel,
adapting the phrase of the 6ramatist.
In obedience 20 this mandate the tents.
ranged IN short avenues among the
sentry pines, are so constructed that
the sides and ends OF them are readily
raised or lowered. Reared above pine
wood hOorings. which insure dryness
in so far as the earth is concerned,
these tents are all pitched in such a
way as 10 give the occupants every
benefit OF sun and breeze Pitched
upon pine capped ridge or water
shed, from which the water Lows of
Immediately during and after rain,
no splinter OF sunshine and no breath
Of breezes are squandered by nature at
Camp Piney Woods.