El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-27
SAVE The BABIES
MOVE SAVED
CLOUDCROFT
Campaign Prevented Aban-
doning of the Place,
Says Stevenson.

The save the babies campaign sav&
Cloudcroft for Ell Paso and the south
west. This bit of inside information
was given to the business men by Dr.
H. z. Stevenson Thursday at tie cham
Der of commerce luncheon.
J When the lodge burned two years
ago. DR.. Stevenson said, the Phelps
Dodge interests were ready to retire
from Cloudcroft as this company and
the Southwestern railroad were not in
the hotel or resort business Cloudcroft
was even Offered to the people of Ell
Paso If they would take the resort off
the company's hands.
The matter was then taken up on an
ether tack, he said. This was the bene-
fit of the resort in the restoration of
the babies to health. Letters were sent
from grateful mothers, whose children
had been saved by Cloudcroft. This
appeal struck home and the people Of
Ell Paso We're asked to make a material
demonstration of their faith in Cloud
croft. This was done by a stock sub
scription<to hotel. Although this SUBJ
scription was thrown in the waste
basket, it convinced the Phelps-Dodge
interests that Ell Paso believed in
Cloudcroft and work was started last
year on the big 100000 hotel
Heart Interest Prompts Action.
1T was not the money interest but
the heart interest that prompted the
Phelps-Dodge company to restore
.Cloudcroft,' DR.. Stevenson said. There
is not any corporation that has the
real heart that the Phelps-Dodge COM
pany has. (Applause) It was the babies
that saved CIoudcroft."
DR.. Stevenson told of the early his
tory of Cloudcroft and the present
growth of the resort. The reservation
is now in control of a directory of prop
erty owners who are working in har-
nony with the company. A complete
sewerage system has been installed
connected up with the system which
disposes of the sewerage by means OF
a sanitary septic tank
Properly Is Valuable.
The property Of CIoudcroft has been
appraised at $780, 900 and a levy of two
and one-half percent made to defray
the expenses of making the improve
ments. The park has been cleared OF
ali underbrush and dead trees. The
company is building a bluegrass golf
links, tennis courts are to be laid ous
and the roads graded and ballasted for
riding and driving. A road is to be
built to the MescaIero indian reserva-
ton, auto lines established to this point
of interest and to other places in the
park and a circle drive is to be laid
out.
Reviews History of Work.
DR.. Stevenson also reviewed the his
tory of the baby sanatorium which has
been built and which will be used for
the first time this season. This sana-
torium, he said, was to be rescue mis-
sion for the little babies Of Ell Paso
and the southw est. A public spirited
citizen of Ell Paso has contributed $4,000
to the fund and other contributions
have been received. The ground was
given by the company and a beautiful
little sanatorium, the first unit Of a
complete baby saving station, has been
finished and equipped A matron has
been secured in the east, who is post
graduate nurse in diseases of infants
a specialist in baby troubles has been
employed and the work Of saving the
babies of the southwest will begin as
soon as summer comes
An excursion to Cloudcroft was an
nouhced for next Monday for the resi-
dept property owners who wish to ar
fshge for the opening of the season.