Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-24
ANOTHER
IMPROVEMENT ERA
HOT LAKE sANAToRluM is Be
COMING NowN FROM OCEAN
TO OCEAN.

Beginning with the improvement OF
the promenade at Hot Lake Sanotor-
ium doubtless a campaign OF rear
rangement aad addition has been
started that will reach far into next
season and will enlarge thct great I'M
sa'ution sufficiently to care for the
constantly increasing businesS.
When 1t Is conSidered what was at
Hot Lake seven years ego and what is
thore today one can but wonder at the
marvellous trans. .ormation. Seven
Years ago the sanatorium building
would only accommodate in manner
fifty patients. There was but one
nurse who also acted in canacity Of
houSei1eeper. The wa,er for domestic
purposes was hauled In barrels on
sled. Grocery and supplies we've 1e-
livcred to the sanatorium in n spring
wagon that proved adequate for the
demands of transportation. A total
number of twelve employees constitute
ed the force ct the Lake. Laundry was
shipped out to La Grande. There was
no telephone connection vita the out
side world. The bath house would
only talie care OF ten TO twclve pet
tents, while the doctors office and
treatment room was one and the same.
No steward, no bookkecper, no check
Ing clerks, no bell boys. in fact one
IDan-the clerk-did 1t all. A l5-horse
gasoline engine furnished electric cur-
rent for the ils tuition. and in fact
/ Hot Lake was only small speok eth
er on the map or in the minds Of the
people.
But what is the institution today?
None its equal in the Northwest and
very few in tho United States Today
the bui.din accommodates 25O pat
tents with most modern apartment Us
possible for the sl1il.ed architects to
build. twenty-five nurses are regularly
employed. Weter for domestic par
poses is brought to the institution in
a priyatc water plant which consiSts
Of a cemel. reservoir of 10000 gal.
Ions capacisy. 1t Is distributed oyer
the large building through mains per.
fectly plumbei md scientifically ar
ranged. The electric current used
from the nsGhn power line amounts to
l25 horse power each twenty four
hours. 1t ic intere2ting to know what
o important part the electricity per.
FORMS there. Besides being used for
| lighting and for running the elevators
it does TIE cooking in the diet kitchen
runs the naci.ine shop ald wood work
ing department whore all inctitution
furniture is manufactured runs the
laundry whore each week 5000 pieces
OF linen are laundered, sweeps floors
and rugs, peeIs the potatoes. grinds
the coffee, washes the dishes and 4
extensively used In the electric mas.
sage department OF the bath house
Who're seven years ago the spring
wagon carried the groceries from La
Grande to Hot Lake now a commis-
sary is established ia the institution
that ccrries ? stock Of $4,000. The
salatorium Is enc OF the lc-sest car
load shippers on the c. r. & N. out.
side OF Portland and att the present
dme carload OF canned goods Is be
ING unlooded there
The office force which formerly con.
sisted Of the one clerk, now includes
the day and night clerks, he'll boys,
bookkeepers, stenogra2her1, checking
CLERKS, and information man WHO rs
GiN1aye at the service OF the guests.
The doctors Office formerly com
.blned with the treatment room. now
consists Of suite of nine rooms Also
there are labratory, tre@tElent and X
Ray rooms. The surgery room Is por.
1,celain Lined, hermedcally sealed and
cannot be surpas sed by any other in
stitution. During the past year over
600 major operations have been PER
formed at the Ho, Lake sanatorium.
The merit of the place heretofore
more or less confined to the north west
is now reaching into the middle and
extreme eastern states. Where
the register formerly showed people
from nearby sta,es now can be seen
many of the prominent people of the
east and middle west. La Grande
Evening O.Geryer.