The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-29

Louisiana planter, in 1S07 In 1911 he was joined by John Percival aud Isaac Gates. In 1920 Joseph Mellard built a double log cabin and this was the first structure that could be termed hotel. In 1928 LudoniCus Bedding settled here, put up the first store and showed great enterprise in build. ing improved cabins In 1880 Asa Thompson leased the springs and erected the first bath houses.
 The Hot Springs Of Today.
 Can truly be called a City of Hotels and Bath Houses No other resort is so well equipped to care for the sick and afflicted as well as pleasure seekers Several of it's big hotels are considered among the largest and most palatial in the world, and it's hotel facilities are ample to acCommo- date it's yearly increase of visitors.
 Government Ownership.
 The ownership and control of the Hot Springs of Arkansas by the Unit. ed States Government is absolute and it's endorsement of them for the treatment of certain ailments is un. equiyocal
 After due investigation Congress took possession of the springs in the year 1882 and it retained around them a reservation ample 10 protect them from all encroachments. It was the first national park reservation of the country.
 They are set apart by this act as "A National Sanitarium for all time' and dedicated to the people of the United States to be observed free from sale or alienation"
 In the year 1904 the State Legisla- ture passed an act granting the gener- al government exclusive jurisdiction and sovereignty over the reservation since which time the government has made rules and restrictions for those who dispense the waters and prac- tice in connection with them that have resulted in much better service to the sick.
 Government Improvements.
 The Government scheme of improve ments at Hot Springs has been going on for years.
 The mountain side for a distance of several hundred feet has been beauti- fully parked and planted to shrubbery and climbing vines and flowers The Grand and other entrances to the re. sorvation are works of great archltec- tural beauty.
 The most important improvement to Hot Springs made by the govern ment is the system of driyeways and walks made on the three mountains comprising the reservation. They wind around the sides of the mountain by easy grades to the summits of five or six hundred feet above the city, disclosing at every point some new scene of beauty among the surround ing peaks and valleys of the Ozark mountains. There are about fifteen miles of drives and six miles of walks
 The governments interests are looked after by superintendent who is appointed by the President.
 Official Report of Dr. 5oltwood.
 The Hot Springs Reservation, com prising about 911 acres, belongs to the United States, and is under the control of the Secretary of the Inter. for There are about 4S springs is suing from the base of Hot Springs Mountain, of varying degrees of tenn. perature and having a combined flow of about S50,000 gallons daily. There are twenty-three bath houses receiv- ing water under lease from the United States, besides the government free bath house, for indigent persons, and is managed by a superintendent, who maintains order and sees that the bath houses are conducted in a 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 bcautifying the Reservation.
 In the introduction of his report, Dr Boltwood gives a lucid and interesting account of the present state of our knowledge concerning the radio-activ. ity of water, and brief resume of the history of discoveries relating to this phenomenon. He states that the prenomenon of radio-activlty ex- hibited by certain substances consists in the spontaneous emission of ra- diant energy, and was first observed by Bacquerel in the case of the salts of the elements uranium. The phe- nomenon was later noted by Schmidt in the case of the salts of the element Thorium. Then followed the strik- ing investigation of M. and Mme. Curie, which led to the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium, which possesses the property of radio-activity to a marked degree. A third element discovered by Debierne, is also strongly radioactive. The existence of another radioactive ~.I..