Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-10
MULVILLE IN HOT SPRINGS.
Writes to Friends and Expects to Be
 Member of Fat Mems Club.

J. II. Mulville, the undertaken. who is spending a season at Hot Springs, Ark, appears to be getting along nicely and if he keeps on gain ing flesh he will be eligible to mem- bership in the Fat Mems associa- tion when he gets back. Before leaving Waterbury MT Mulville promised to drop a few lines to the Democrat. He has done so and here is what he has to say:
 Majestic hotel, Hot Springs, Ark,
 April 6, 1908.
 II am rather long keeping my promise to write you but I have been so busy getting rid of my aches and pains. that I really have not had the time before.
 T will expect you to say that you are glad to know that the three weeks l have spent here has helped me very much and that l hope to return in the not distant future completely recovered.
 You will expect me to tell you something about Hot Springs. Well a year ago it was a wide open town as regards sports. but the state has put the lid on as to gambling and horse racing, so the sports find 1t rather quiet place now. Prize fighting is allowed, however, and they hold them every week. They are we'll attended and the ladies are very noticeable by the number that attend
 The street car service is some what different to our own. The motorman Is the whole works. You can get on only at his end of the car, and you are expected to drop your nickel in slot as you enter the car, if you want change he is supposed to have it, and he rings you up as you get on. The com pany, however, does not let him get his hand on the nickel
 We have had lots of ball since I have been here as both the Boston Americans and the Pittsburg Ma tionals were here for their spring training, so taking it all in all l have had lots of ball.
 Its remarkable the number of strangers there are in the city and the places they come from All here of course for their health, which means a course of the baths We are having very hot weather, thermometer hanging around the eighties to-day.
 Lots of very pleasant walks and drives through the mountains.
 T am receiving the Democrat regularly and read with interest the news from Waterbury.
 MT Mulville says he considers Hot Springs wonderful place even though the population does not ex- ceed 5000, something like Wa terbury when he was in petticoats. It is the greatest health resort in the world-125,0 ,000 visitors annual ly Healing powers of waters is marvellous. The mountainous scen- cry defies description. The climate is ideal. Finest saddle horses in the south Four of the largest and finest hotels in the country-capa- city 2.50O. Twenty-seven bath houses-capacity government bath house 1,5OO day; army and navy bath house 500 a day; other bath houses 16,53O day. Forty-seven not and two cold springs on Hot Springs mountain. Hot water 102 to 141 degrees Fahrenheit. Daily flow 100000 gallons. Water pos sesses radio-activity to a marked de- gree. Water entirely free from or ganic matter. Twenty-one baths s5 10 SIC. Government regulates bath ing expenses. 633,355 baths during fiscal year ending June 30. 1907. Receipts amounted to $195,S67.9O. Army and Navy hospital cost $1,- 100000. Bath houses cost from $15,00O to $75,OO0. Water rem tals $6O per tub. Governments an- nual receipts from bath houses s32,- OOO. Over hundred physicians some of the most eminent in Amer ica. Lowest death rate of any city in the world. Expenses. per month, including medical fee, medicine. baths, board, etc. $50 and up. The only Keeley institute in Arkansas. Two of the most complete sanitari- ums in the United States. Hot wa ter under same roof. Splendid street railway system. Electric light and water works. One thousand feet above sea level. Finest whetstone quarries in the world. Home of the Hot Springs diamond-much hardest stone in the world One of the most successful ostrich and alligator farms in America.
 Trusting you are well. am
 Yours respectfully.
 U. H. MULVILLE."