The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-02

Life is more than strenuous at the
Muldoon farm in New York where
Secretary of State Root has gone to
prepare himself physically for the final
round in the Roosevelt administration,
according to Dudley Grant of Oakland
who spent six weeks at the famous
hygienic institute on mis- last trip East.
Mr.. Grant says that Muldoon is called
the Gear by the inmates of the
establishment, ''but he's more than
that. he IS terror to those who break
his iron clad rules. One day million
aire brought his son to the establish
ment and told Muldoon to take him in
hand and treat the ex-cherub as if he
had succeeded to- the guardianship.
The young man was barely twenty
years old but he was pasty, soft and
in a general decline, morally, mentally
and every other way. He was an in
veterate cigarette smoker and insisted
on having a bracer every half hour or
he was "all in. As usual Muldoon
searched the luggage on its arrival and
threw away the bundles of cigarettes
and bottled ''bracers - The young
man protested Muldoon gave him one
you II do as | say or there II be trou-
ble Cut out all smoking and drinking
and follow the rules. - The young
chap laughed and declared as usual |
that he d do as he pleased. The same
afternoon he struggled in a lot of |
cigarettes from the village. Muldoon |
ground, destroyed all his cigarettes and
hor 10 bo
stun and take your exercise he order |
ed, its the hour eco yourself
was the blunt reply Muldoon caught |
the patient on the chin and he went |
to grass. Then the old time champion
wrestler picked HIM up, carried him to
the gymnasium, thrust boxing gloves
on his hands and stood him up. "Now
box said MuIdoon eco to, said |
the defiant ex-cherub. The wrestler
pummeled him all about the room and
then called a rubber to put the remains
in shape for supper. This contest of
wills lasted two days and then the ex
cherub, badly battered human, meek
ly joined the procession of nerv. pros,
which means a patient down with
nervous prostration. Two months later
he walked into his father s office in
New York, a rugged, robust young
athlete, with all his old habits left far
behind him. Now he says Muldoon s ,
the greatest ever.
Muldoon will not tolerate the slight
est infraction of his rules and therein
lies his success. He says his institu
ton is a necessity to Americans be-
cause they try to do too much. He re-
fuses to enlarge his institution because /
he thinks he would slip into the same
methods and try to do too much. He
handles about thirty patients at a time.
20 an old time California friend he
recently said: 81 am sixty-three years
old and / would like to see this institu-
tion perpetuated but who will take it
up when ] am gone? ] have tried
dozens of applicants but none have fill
ed the requirements. Only a short
time ago a student from one of the
big universities came to me splendidly
recommended, fine, big strapping fell
low and of course well educated. The
day after he had been installed he came
to me and said, 81 notified the patients
that you put me in charge and [ told
them to do certain things and they
didn t obey. What am | to do?'
g Pack your baggage I said, "and
clear out of here You can be of no
use to me. When I tell people to do
things, they do it--they don It stop to
argue.
According to Mr.. Grant. who is no
plodder, the days. work at Muldoon s
came harder for the first fortnight than
any six days work he ever put in in
his life. But it did him good. He lost
sixteen pounds the first week and grad
ually his muscles became as hard as
iron and he ate like a horse. As he
puts it, the treatment makes fat map
thin and a thin man fat. The disci-
pline is conducted on the most rigorous
lines from six clock in the morning,
rising time, to nine p. M, bedtime.
The day is split into gymnasium work
ong walks, horse back rides, shower
baths and rubs. Only one cigar day
is allowed and glasses of cold water at
stated times. The food is carefully