The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-03-11

the government are all the same; each
pay water rental Of sixty dollars
lso0.00) per tub per year. The COM
bined capacity is some six hundred
(60O) tubs, bringing in a rental of
forty thousand dollars ($40,000) per
year. The government S interests are
looked after by superintendent who
is appointed by the president, who has
charge Of all improvements and en-
forces all government rules.
The Army and Navy Hospital of
which | am an inmate, is situated on
the southwest and west base of the
East or Hot Springs Mountain reach
ing up the base Of the mountain about
one fourth of the way, consists of four
wards and will accommodate one humid
red and twenty (120) patients and is
full at the present, and the dining
hall over which the help sleep. They
are regular soldiers and thirty-four of
them, and they do all work about the
hospital, bath room, kitchen, and din
ing rooms. The Post is in charge Of
Major Deshon and Capt. Coffin and
Lieutenant Tilpman are the surgeons
All are very kind and attentive;
about two-ffths are Spanish-American
soldiers, and the orders are for all to
be used alike, but it is very visible
that we old veterans are the "what
has been'' and the younger the
what is. -
The bath house in, connection with
the hospital is centrally located so as
to be most convenient to each ward.
All inmates of the hospital and en-
ployes are required to take a bath
every morning between 1880 and 900
0 clock; they have sweating and cool
ing touches for those that have to be
helped back and forth; all others re-
turn to their respective wards and
exercise or lie down according to their
ailment. Have the spray tub and
douche bath, rotate with the two lat
ter and finish with the spray if they
desire.
The government has also a free bath
house about midway on Reservation,
on Bath House Row, about one-half
block back from the Row, where all
soldiers who are not inmates of the
government hospital, and their fami-
Lies get free baths, and also any resi-
dents or visitors that are not reason
ably able to pay for the same. The
daily attendance at this place runs
from four hundred (400) to eight
hundred (800), averaging six hundred
(600) per day; either tub, plunge or
hose bath may be taken; each person
taking these free baths must furnish
own attendant if they need or desire
one
The government is considering the
building Of four more wards, or of
purchasing the Eastman Hotel, which
stands just across Reserve avenue
from the hospital on the south. Tt has
been recommended by Capt. Coffin; it
| is one of the larger hotels, and is open
but from three to four months in the
year, and can be bought for about
twenty per cent go per cent? Of cost.
1t covers two blocks, but is not on the
Reservation. The government requires
all hotels and lighthouses on the
Reservation to be kept open the year
round
There are many miles Of pleasant
drives and walks winding up the East
and West Mountain. The North Noun
tain has not as yet been. improved
The observatory, steel tower, one
hundred and sixty-fve feet (165) high,
is on the highest peak of Hot Springs
Mountain. It has an electric elevator;
from the top large scope of country
can be seen. Looking south over q,
broken undulating country you see an
other range Of mountains about eight
miles away.
The old veterans had a Lincoln Day
gathering in the evening, with an ap-
propriate program, and was attended
by all old and young veterans, and
many citizens from the city. It was
held in the dining room, and Major
Deshon took part.
We were invited to the reception of
ex-Secretary Root and Senator Elect
from New York, which was held at
the Arlington Hotel on Bath House
Row, Wednesday night.
It was held in the beautiful pavilion
on the first floor Long before the
appointed hour, the lobby was filled to
it's utmost capacity, by as cosmopoli-
tan an audience as ever met to pay
their respects to a distinguished man.
The pavilion was brilliantly illumi-
mated with varicolored electric lights
Miniature United States flags were
lastly displayed in various parts of
the hall. At 900 o'clock, Mr.. Root
and the reception committee took their
stand at the south end Of the pavilion
in the following order:
Capt. Rix, Mr.. Root, Mr.. and Mrs
E. w. Rector, Col Rector being a. son
of the Arkansas Confederate Governor
Rector of war times, Mayor NJ Ell.
Judd and wife, DR.. W. V. Laws and
Mrs. Laws.
The guests to the number Of two