The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-21

Oh WHOSE iltdl lIorS IsN 5000
of All Healing Springs. Here Mr.. Lind
say showed them about four hundred
acres on and around the mountain.
There are a number Of beautiful sites
for locating the hospital, ali OF Whlcn
Mr.. Lindsay had gone over. ANY OF
these Mr.. Lindsay offered 70 give Tree
of charge. The committee has under
adyisement the selection Of one OF
the sites. 1t seems pretty we'll assured
that here on the side of this little
mountain. overlooking historic Kings
Mountain to the southwest, VIII De
located the O~rthOpedlc nome. Al the
foot of the mountain in a beautlIul
natural forest is located Linwood Col
lece for Girls. Nearby is being erect
ed CASTOR Hall, a coordinate school
for boys. No better environment
could be found for placing these help
less ones. This delightful spot is six
miles from GaStOnia and three miles
from the town of Kings
located beside one of the hneSt sand
clay roads in the South, the Charlotte
highway. 1t
will serve as a continual reminder to
the thousands who pass by on quests
of pleasure and business and its very
location will likely ave a very benign
inuence.
Service Will Be Free.
The hospital home will be wide
open to every child in North Caro-
lima whose limbs are weak but mind
strong, at whose command is not the
money to save the body ere the time of
life has passed when hope survives.
The best of medical and nursing skill
and every home tie possible for such
a public nursery, in conjunction with
every opportunity for exercise n
play in the wide open country, on the
side of one Of Gods monumental tes-
| ttnon ~ a 10 70 hiC nrnninOfonoo on6
Omnipresence, will be given free Of
charge. Those who are able to pay
for such treatment will likewise be
welcomed.
The Prime Mover.
What is said just at this point is at
the risk Of the writer, for Mr.. Bah
bington is not looking for any per-
SOnal publicity, save what might re-
down to the cause he is Working for.
Early in the spring Of last year Mr..
Darlington donated a playground the
size of a city block to the children
of GaStOnia. This he equipped with
all the little things dear to the child
ish heart. Here those Of sound limb
and strong could come and romp all
day lOng-fOr there are tables for
picnic dinners and shelters from storm
on the grounds. This was very good to
look at, but there was the ever-present
thought for those who could not enjoy
the physical childish pleasures, when
medical skill might remove the i'm
pediment. This was not the first time
by any means he, and others beside
him, had thought of the proposition
However, it probably served as clinch.
err and he kept working to mature his
plans, accommodating every bit of in
formation Obtainable. He found tina
hundreds Of remarkable transforma
tiOnS from deformity back to Uniform.
ity had been made upon the bodies O.
5 children. He sprang his plan ant
the results so far have beer PARTIAL,
told.
$4,000 GastOn's Quota.
. GaStOnianS expect to see to it tina
, the county of CASTOR furnishes tel
: thousands dollars right away From
T fifty to a hundred thousand dollars i
: the goal looked to. The treasurer o
the fund, MI. J. Lee Robinson, one Q
the finest bankers in the Piedmont,
: open to the reception of contribution
1 at any time and in any mOun TIL
{ trustees are confident the appeal viii
not be in vain. They hope the wal
. will not be long, for the field of op
!, p~Ortunity for the conservation Of man,
l bright minds, by healing the cripple,
l BODY, is ripe unto a noble harvest i
y the good old Tai Heel State. Year
g it took a long fight and a grea
| plea by a good woman from anothe
y State to cause North Carolina to pre-
= vide a place where the disordere
{ mind could be wooed back to serenit
and health. There is no chance 70
the INDECENT %cripples of the State unit
Z an O~rthopedic home is built. TIL
trustees of the North Carolina Orthe
: pedlc Hospital are anxious to put the
plans into brick and mortar, doctor
} ard operating rooms, nurses and nu1
y SERIES. Fairgrounds and the rompin
Of these little ones upon the sam
limbs that formerly acted as dea
. weights in the race Of life. Her
II they see true conservation, not Of fol
: ests, fields and w~aterpower or mir
erals, but Of that tangible and intang
ble-health, strength, happiness,
l. fair chance in the human arena-an
% very life itself. The dividends will
~ paid with happy hearts and sunshiI
y of resuscitated child life.
= (This is no the Whole story by ia
:. blu it will probably give Il fair glimp'
- of a big idea and the uture fruits
Do its CODSummafiOn.O