Arizona republican., 1909-09-01
MET INSTANT
 APPRECIATION
 Ts. Bethesda Association Re CGiVGs Support in East A CAMPAIGN 0F PUBLICITY Dr. J. A. Geissinger, the Originator of the "City of Good Will," Returned Yesterday With Pledges of Money and Support.
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Perhaps no more worthy campaign of publicity has been conducted in recent years than that which term mated temporarily yesterday by the return of Dr. J. A. Geissinger.
 The campaign-it might better be called a crusade-was for the pur- pose of creating a general and wide spread interest throughout the east in the City of Good Will"-the pro- posed city in the desert for the care and cure of tubercular patients.
 Incidentally, Dr. Geissinger return- ed with pledges of about $20,OOO with much more promised when the first real beginnings have been made and the first buildings erected and patti ents cared for. When the idea is shown to be practicable, when it has passed the experimental stage, when certain rich men of the east are con- vinced that there is nothing vision- ary in the scheme; that it is not only practicable, but the only solution for the scOurge of the white plague, then these men will come forward with financial backing and the city in the desert will be reality.
 The first work of the Bethseda as- sociation, for such it is called. will be done about the first of the year. The ground will then be broken and the first buildings erected. The city will lie in the shadow of Camel tafV it has already been acquired
 Dr. Geissinger has been away three months. In that time he has visited many of the chief cities of the east, he has spoken before large audiences at the invitation of tuberculosis com missions; he has been interviewed by many of the large newspapers and has contributed articles to leading magazines on the subject of the City of Good Will.
 'I can hardly say" said Dr. Geis- singer yesterday, that I expected to meet with such unanimous interest in my plan and to gain so many men of standing and prominence as cO-wOrkers with me. When I had explained the general idea of the city in the desert, shown them the plans and drawings of the buildings and described to them what the air of Arizona will do for these unfOrtu- mates they were with me at once.
 T have established by my visit a band of cO-wOrkers all over the eastern statesmen who will give much of their time to the project, who will write to their friends about it, who will publish articles in the newspapers about the City of Good Will, who will. in short, form an endless chain that will bring this project to the attention of millions of people and result, I firmly be- lieve. in the building of this city of my dreams"
 Some of those who are now active ly interested in the work due to the solicitation of Dr. Geissinger are Arthur Edwards, dean of the medical department of the Northwestern Uni versity; C. O. Probst. head of the state health board of Ohio; Living stOn Farrand, executive secretary of the National association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; Dr. c. c. Cross of the Municipal Tuber- culosis commission of St. Louis; Charles Gilligan, banker of Philadel- phia, and many others.
 Interviews with Dr. Geissinger on the subject appeared in the New York Herald, the Chicago Tribune. Cincinnati Enquirer Times. Star and Post, Harper's Weekly. Leslie's Weekly, the Christian Advocate and other papers. Leslie's devoted a page to the city with reproductions of the plans and drawings of the buildings by L. G. Knipe, and has consented to receive contributions to the associa- ton in conjunction with Governor Sloan. The plans were generally ap- proved; the Egyptian type of archi- lecture was thought by physicians to be just the thing for this climate and for the purpose for which the buildings will be devoted.