Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-30
HOW CLOUDCROFT WAS
 SAVEG BY RAILROAD
The Phelps Dodge Company Is Touched by Appeal
 for the Babies
lEl Paso Times.l


 At the Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday pr. N. D. Stev- enson. the guest of honor. told some interesting inside information as to how Clouicroft was saved to the southwest as a pleasure resort for adults and a health resort for chill dren.
 Dr. Stevensoh was a member of the committee appointed by the Chamber of Commerce after the burning of the Cloudcroft lodge to devise ways and means to secure the erection of another hotel at Cloudcroft. The doctor told of the discovery of Cloudcroft by c. B. and J. A. Eddy when they built the Fl Paso & Northwestern railroad.
 Then" continued Dr. Stevenson, the Phelps Dodge people bought the railroad to make it a part of their Fl Paso & Southwestern rail road system, and thus the F. P. & S. W. inherited Cloudcroft. The com pany did not want the resort and when the lodge was burned and our committee went to Mir. Simmons to talk rebuilding at Cloudcroft, he said his company was not in the pleas ure resort business and was per fectly willing to turn Cloudcroft ov- CT to the people of Fl Paso to do with it as they pleased.
 We then told NIT. Simmons and other officials of the E. P. & s. w. bow necessary Cloudcroft was 10 the lives of any babies that could not be saved anywhere else. Our ap- peal for the babies caught their at tention. They were willing to do something for the babies they would not do for business or money.
 They told us to let Fl Paso give some material evidence or sincere desire to save Cloudcroft as a re- sort. Our committee went to work and secured subscriptions agg'egat- ing s25. 900 for a hotel and we told the company we intended to have at ClouI-roft 8 sanatorium for chil- dren whose lives could not be saved anywhere else.
 And. gentlemen. declare to you here that the Fl Paso & Southwest ern is the biggest, warmest-hearted corporation in this country. IL in- vested si00,o00 in another hotel and never used any subscription. It was not the money interest, but the heart interest-the appeal for the tab.es-that prompted the Phelps Dodge people to save Clouderoit as a resort"
 The storm of applause that greet ed thi9 declaration testified to the high favor in which the E. P. x S. w. company is held by the people of Fl Paso.
 Reverting to the work of his com mittee pr. stevenson said the mem ters had been elected by the prop ,,av owners of Cloudcro't and toard of directors to manage the affa:rs of the community; that for three months the directors had from thirty to one hundred men employ ed in cleaning up and improVins CIoudcroft.
 The railroad comTany, said the sreater. had put down sewer mains and installed a regular sewer sys- tenn to which the property owners were connecting their premises anu uniting in the necessary laterais. The railroad company, said the doe tor was also building at CloudcroIt inc finest golf links in the west; that inc hoard of directors had levied flaw on nrorerty owners and had sold inc railroad company several nun Sred cords of it's own wool anu III this way was raising money to nm r,ove and beautify Cloudcroft anu make if the most sanitary resort ID the world.
 pr. Stevenson told of a charitable citizen of Fl Paso who entered the doctors office while he was study ing plans for a rescue station for little babies, and placed on the doe tors desk a check for $5000 10 De expended for the babies. The res cue station, the doctor said. has teen built and is now being equippea with steam heating appliances. rms station is for the poor babies whose lives can not be saved elsewhere. The money received from those aDls to ray would be expended on those not able to pay. There is no inteh. tion of trying to make money out oi the baby rescue station. Every uoi lar taken in will be spent in taking care of the babies.
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