The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-03-11
William Henry Harrison Tells of
Provisions Made by Govern.
ment at Hot Springs, Ark.
LIFE AT FAMOUS RESORT
Cosmopolitan Population Holds Inter
esting Exercises in Celebration of
the Centennial of the Birth
of Abraham Lincoln
(From Saturday IS Dailyl

kIIOm OdGuIudy Ddlly
The Evening News has received the
following interesting letter from Viii
liam Henry Harrison, formerly super
visor of assessments for the county,
who is now at the government hospital
at Hot Springs.
Army and Navy Hospital,
Hot Springs, Ark,
Feb. q, 1909.
Kenosha Evening News,
Kenosha, Wis.
Dear Boys
/ promised you little information
as to this health resort before COM
ing here, and will endeavor in my I'M
couth way to do so.
This is city of some fifteen thous-
and resident population, and from one
hundred and thirty to one hundred
and fifty thousand visitors.
1t has fortyfour hot springs, the
main one being on Bath House Row,
and all ON the East or Hot Springs
Mountain are controlled by the gov
eminent and confined by cement and
stone so as to be under certain control.
The main one about midway Of the
reservation on Bath House Row, steam
| is pouring out constantly near by in
an alcove cut in the rocks; it is run
ming at all times and here you may see
any time Of day the cosmopolitan
crowd with their cups, drinking.
There is no peculiar taste to it, and
after few draughts, it is very pala-
table. It's healing qualities Prof.
Boltwood of Yale says, come from
Radio activity. They are all Radio
active to a marked degree.
He further says the activity
of the water is due to a dissolved
/ adium emanation Ga gas) and not to
the presence Of salts Of radium or
other radio solids. The temperature
of the spring is 1876 and there is a
difference Of opinion as to how these
waters become heated the most ac-
copied theory is that the waters are
/ heated by running through the hot
rocks which were heated by some erup-
ton. The theory is not very plausi-
BILE, as we should then enquire how
the heat fire came there.
There is the Mountain Valley
Springs, twelve miles north, which
water is used for all kidney, liver, and
bladder trouble, and is hauled here by
the government. Potash Sulphur
Springs are six miles east; Ozark
Lithia Springs are six miles north !;
White Sulphur Springs are three miles
east, and The Thousand Dripping
Springs are five miles east; Crystal
Mountain is twenty miles west of Hot
Springs.
| The Gulpha is picturesque gorge
on the east side of Hot Springs Noun
tain. The Hot Springs North and
West Mountains are about thirteen
hundred (1300) feet above sea level.
An erroneous impression has gone
abroad that visit to Hot Springs
necessitates a great expense; such is
not the case. The hotels of Hot
Springs are Of all classes, from the
three dollar per week, to the finest
resort hotels anywhere. They number
upwards of five hundred (50O), besides
numerous furnished cottages and
apartments, and private boarding
houses.
The Ostrich and Alligator Farms are
at the end of the street car line run
ming out Wilmington avenue to Whit
tington Park, second Coney Island;
a trip up Happy Hollow from the end
of Bath House Row will furnish the
visitor with no little amount of amuse
ment, with it's donkies, ponies; wild
animals from a moose down to the
small rodents, our own badger includ
ed.
! You can ride over the mountain on
a donkey or ox-cart-a pair, or single;
or you can go in as fine a tallyho as
any city affords; or conveyance Of any
kind, down to a donkey and mule
team, and old style trace chain har.
ness hooked to an ancient mode of
wagon; one drives along Bath House
4 ItO0t OIOWlIS GIlO Idll-In CdIl Uu bHO
bugle, creating much amusement.
Saddle horses of the finest any
county affords.
The Hot Springs, proper, discharge
one million (1,000,OOO) gallons Of water
per day. There are twenty three (23)
lighthouses that pay the government
for the privilege Of using the water,
besides the government free bath
house. About half Of them are stu
ated on Bath House Row
They range in cost from fifteen
thousand dollars ($15,O00) to seventy
five thousand dollars ($75,OOO). They
are very tasteful and elegant; they
vary considerably in furnishings and
equipments. The charges are based
upon that. The waters are the same
in all. All are kept in sanitary con
dition as required by the government
rules, and porcelain tubs are univer-
sally used. The more expensive have
solid royal porcelain tubs, marble
floors and partitions, and rooms for
massage and electric treatments.