The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1915-01-28

Hot Springs enjoys the distinction
of being the greatest health resort
of the Western Continent. There are
many resorts in the United States
whose advantages nave been ex-
plotted more extensively, and if in
point of patronage they may be
termed rivals, it is wholly due to
persistent and genuine advertising
and not to genuine merit as health
resorts. for where is to be found a
single one in this country which has
as much to offer the health seeker?
Where can one be found that can offer
more?
These disease healing waters com.
ing forth from the bowels of the
earth in ineXhaustible quantity. have
made Hot Springs a modern Bethesda
or pool of Sloan where the sick and
suffering may come and dip their
bodies therein and be cured of their
maladies. The halt has not been
told Of the virtues of these waters.
Nothing could bear such convincing
| testimony of their curative qualities
or speak so eloquently OF their yir-
tues as the hving examples of the
| thousands who have ayailed them.
selves of them. Many theories have
been advanced by scientists and 9TH
ers as to the cause OF the heat as
well as to the healing principles of
| the water. The solution OF these
questions has engaged some of the
most advanced thought OF the coun-
try.
AS to the first proposition the most
generally accepted theory, in a word
is that the water is heated by chem
ical action in passing through various
strata of the earth to reach the sur
face.
As to the second proposition, the
United States Government seems to
have settled the question in the fall
OF 1905, when it sent DR.. Bertram II.
| Boltwood an expert chemist here
with instructions to make a careful
test of the water that it's curative
principle might be determined, upon a
scientific basis. This gentleman,
who held a professorship in an East
ern college OF the highest standing.
came to Hot Springs and after max
ing a personal investigation of the
situation so that he might know that
the water to be tested came direct
from the hot springs, he procured the
quantity desired and, placing it in
air-tight containers, proceeded to his
laboratory in the East, where he made
a most exhaustive analysis. His re
port to the Government was in sub
stance that the water contained re
dunn. a most powerful, life-givng
principle, hence its virtues as a cur
atiye agent have since been attri.
buted to its radioactivity.
| official Report of Or. BoItwood.
The Hot Springs Reservation, com
prising about 9li acres, belongs to
the United States, and is under the
control of the Secretary of the Inter
ior. There are about As springs is
suing from the base of Hot Springs
Mountain, of varying degrees of tenn
lperature and having a combined flow
of about 100000 gallons daily. There
are twenty-three bath houses receiv
ling water under lease from the United
States, besides the government free
bath house, for INDECENT persons, and
is managed by a superintendent who
maintains order and sees that the
bath houses are conducted in proper
manner Many thousands of persons
visit Hot Springs every year for the
purpose of taking the baths, and the
government is spending large sums Of
money in improving and beautifyinG
the Reservation.
In the introduction of his report, DR.
HOLLYWOOD gives a lucid and interesting
account of the present state of ouI
knowledge concerning the radioactiv
ity of water, and brief resume o
. the historyHpf discoveries relating Il
this phenomenon. He states tina
the Phenomenon of radio-activity eX
hibited by certain substances consist
in the spontaneous emission of ra
diant energy, and was first observed
by Baequerel, in the case of the salt
. of the elements uranium. The phe
nomenon was later noted by Schmidt
in the case of the salts of the elemen
Thorium. Then followed the strik
4 ing investigation of NJ. and Nine
S Curie. which led TO the discover
!. of two new elements, polonium an