The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-11-23
BEGINS ANOTHER
IMPROVEMENT ERA
HOT LAKE SANATORlUM is BE-
COMING NoWN FROM OCEAN
TO OCEAN.

Beginning with the Improvement Of
the promenade at Hot Lake Sanatior-
iunl doubtless a campaign OF re-ar-
mngement and addition has been
started that will reach for into NEXT
season and will enlarge thct GREAT aA-
ssi'ution sufficiently to care for the
consistently increasing busine5S.
When it is con2idered what was at
Hot Lake seven years ego and what is
there today one cam but wonder at the
marvellous TRANSFORMATION. Seven
Years ago the sanatorium building
t@oll1 only accommodate i'm manner
| fifty patients. There was but one
nurse who also acted in capacity of
houSeNeeper. The waoer for domestic
,, purposes was hauled in barrels Oh a
sled. Grocery and supplies were lie
livcred to the sanatorium in o spring
| wagon that proved adequate for the
demands OF transportation. A total
number of twelve employees constitute
ed the force rot the Lake. Laundry was
shipped out to- La Grande. There was
NO telephone connection with the out
side world The bath house would
| only take care of ten to Involve pet
Tents, while the doctors office and
treatment rcora was one and the same.
No steward, no bookkecper, no check
ing clerks, no bell boys, in fact one
m&n-the clerh-did it all. A 15-horse
gasoline engine furnished electric cur
rent for the institution, and in fact
Hot Lake wGs only small speok eth
er ON the map or in the minds of the
people.
But what lis the institution today?
None its equal in the Northwe est arld
/ very few in the United States Today
the buisdIn accommodates 250 pat
Tents with most modern apartment ts
1 possible for the sl0illed architects to
build. Twenty two nurses are regularly
employed. Weter for domestic plr-
poses is brought to the institution In
a priYate water plant which consists
OF q cement reservoir of 10000 gal
Ions capacity. 1t is distributed oyer
the large building through mains per-
fectly plumbed and scientifically ar
ranged. The electric current used
from the MAIN power Lime amounts to
ll25 horse power each twenty four
hours. 1t is Interesting to know what
important part the electricity per-
rorms there. Besides being used for
lighting and for running the elevators,
it does the cooking in the diet Kitchen.
runs the macline shop and wood work
ing department whore all institution
furniture is manufactured, runs. the
laundry whore each week 10000 pieces
of LINEN are laundered, sweeps floors
and rugs, peels the potatoes, grinds
the coffee, washes the dishes and Is
extensively used in the electric mas
sage department of the bath house.
Whore seven years ago the spring
wagon carried the groceries from La
Grande to Hot Lake now a commits
sary Is established in the institution
that cGrries ? stock OF $4,000. The
sanatorium is enc of the lH~geot cor
load shippers cn the c. r. & N. out
side of Portland and att the present
time carload OF canned goods Is be-
ing iunloaded there
The office force which formerly con-
sisted Of the one clerlz, now includes
the day and might clerks, he'll boys.
bookkeepers, steno sra2herS, checking
CLERKS, and information man who Is
Giyfaye at the service Of the guests.
The DOCTORS office formerly com
binei with the treatment room, now
consists OF q suite of nine rooms. Also
there are labratory, treatrlent and x
Ray rooms. The surgery room rs por-
| celain lined hermetically scaled and
cannot be sunpas sed by any other IN
stitution. During the past year over
600 ma jor operations have been per-
formed at the Hot Lake sanatorilim.
The merit of the place heretofore
more or less confined to the northwest
| is now reaching into the middle and
! extreme eastern states. Where
the register formerly showed people
from nearby s5a,ey now can be seen
many OF the prominent people OF the
east and middle west. La Grande
I evening olcerver.