Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-13
Has a Pleasant Call Upon
c. W. Morse, Bath.
An Interesting Interview with
The WeII-kn0Wn FindnCieT.
Bath Merchants Association Opens
Handsome New Quarters.

bdlH, NC, June -tiSpeCldl) .---i1siNe
just had pleasant cali upon Chas. w.
Morse at the beautiful home of his
sister Miss Jennie r. Morse, one of
1.-THE most imposing old colonial man
sions of the Shipping City. 1t is
one Of those kinds of residences, those
old time places which. in the prosper
GUS days of the deep water ships, the
old time ship owners loved TO build,
a big brick house with oVerhanging
| top supported by a row of Grecian
columns. 1t presents an ideal hos
pitable front and the Morses have al
ways been hospitable people. In this
mansion in the earlier years of Bank
| er Morse's successes as a promoter in
New York City. and when ne was just
beginning to be called the Ice King,
on his visits home he delighted to en-
terrain his school time friends and
| the Young married people with card
parties of an evening and in the big
double parlors musicales almost with
out number have been given by Miss
Morse, herself talented pianist and
the Cecilia Club In this reception
parlor Mr.. Morse has received this
week very many of the prominent cit-
zens of Bath who have dropped in in
formally TO give Mr.. Morse their as
snranees of kindly feeling and express;
to him their satisfaction that he was
home and looking so we'll.
The big New York banker and pro-
moter certainly is looking in wonder
fully good physical shape and as the
Journal Traveller remarked To MIR.
Morse 1T really seems like a cure"
Mr.. Morse admitted that the trouble
from which he chiefly suffered at At
lanta had been apparently eraticated
at the German Baths. There. obey
| ing the advice of the Italian specialist,
who is the physician TO the Pope. he
went the limit both ia bathing aud
drinking the waters. These are
saline. bubbling out of earth at "a
Temperature OF $50 degrees. Some
can't stand the heroic treatment
there" remarked Mr.. Morse. and die
while taking the waters. It was a
| case Of Kill or cure especially for me
and | made up my mind that l would
see what they would do to me. You
see the result"
| The Italian physician, after q thor
Tough examination. told the former Ice
King that the trouble was with the
kidneys and To treat for inenr The
heart was affec nd because OF the kid
lneys and thus the entire system had
become out of normal The Paris
doctor confirmed this diagnosis, as did
the physicians at the Wiesbaden Spa
| Mr.. Morse sat in the Baths by the
hour and drank all that he could of
the waters At first he disliked their
Temperature and sadness but toward
the end of his stay he actually en-
ljoNed the drinks as a beverage. They
lare the real thing" said the Banker
lin hot salt water The "a 'rfs at
Aiz-le Rains in trance boar abeut the
same relative proportion to the German
baths as a small child to full grown,
robust man.
| AT Atlanta | had at one time four
nurses down from Washington caring
for me and eight doctors, with an AS
sociated Press detail in an an;eroom
for death watch. / got so bad that
| didn't care rap whether | lived OF
ldied | slept abnormally owing 10 the
state Of the disease. | would sleep 20
hours out of the "a. One night they
thought | was dead. There was no
pulse for three minutes by the watch
Ny heart had actually stopped beating
for that length of time Then | came
in for extreme measures. They gave
lme hypodermic injections of stryeh-
mime and such treatment as is usual in
heart failure and gradually they got
| my machinery going. 1t was a tight
squeeze and narrow escape for me
as narrow as / care to have.