Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-04-20

The government owns the hot springs
in Arkansas and rents them to the diff
ferent proprietors who conduct the bath
houses. The average temperature Of
the al springs is 1875 degrees Fahrenheit
There are 100000 gallons day under
control The twenty four bath houses
pay the government sixty dollars year
for each bath tub and there are twenty
four tubs in each bath house. They al
so conduct free bath house for the
poor. They have one of the best hos
pitfalls in the country and any soldier
can get surgical and medical treatment,
baths, board and room for 40 cents per
day. A superintendent inspects the
bath houses and should any not be
found in a sanitary condition the place
is ordered closed until they have been
renovated. Twenty-one baths are call
ed a course and cost from ten to fifteen
dollars. The water is good for govt
rheumatism, blood poisoning, scrofula,
stiff joints, nervous affections, paraly
sis, spinal diseases, sciatica, catarrh,
locomotive ataxia, dyspepsia and
Bight's disease in the first stages.
About $50, 900 people come annually and
there are some OF the finest hotels in
the world here. The Eastman accomo-
dates 1000 people and charges up to
81 per day. The Arlington is smaller
hotel but the rates are the same. There
are others with dollara-day rates.
Within a dozen miles of Hot
Springs are many places of interest.
Nearly all of these are of scenic beauty.
The Oaklawn racing park, which cost
$500, 900, the golf links, the observatory
tower, which is at the top of 600 foot
bluff, ana l65 feet high, are all inter-
esting places to visit. One can go up
in the elevator in the observatory and
see Little Rock at distance of fifty
miles, also these various points of in
terest: Wilmington Park, Alligator
Farm Museum, Ostrich Farm, The
Gorge zone of the most scenic views
in all the south lano), Chalubeste
Springs, Mountain Valley Springs, Hap
py Hollow Springs, HelPs Half Acre,
Thousand Dripping Springs, Crystal
Cave, (where the famous hot springs
Crystal comes from bonanza Springs,
Snow Springs, Spring Lake, Potash
Sulphur Spring, Riverside Park, DeSota
Springs (the finest cold water pavilion
in the world is located here) Essex Park
Hot Springs, Dog Kennels. Sugar
Loaf mountain, Rector Heights and Ar
senic Spring.
About half of the people one meets
here are negroes. The weather is very
fine, the temperature being as high as
so degrees some ys and very cool
evenings 1t rained but once this month.
The land around here Is very poor and
very little of it is under cultivation.
When | write glowing letter about
some of my trips, my neighbor, John
Stadler, says to me, III the place ID so
good and cheap. why in Sam dill don't
you 60 and live there?
That makes me mad for it looks as
, III he is insinuating that might not be
telling the truth. | hope that my
| friends are satisfied with this letter.
| 1t is not 30 lonesome now as when IL
first came az found few of my old
friends from Wisconsin here. John
/ Donahue. the engineer, wife of BarebCo
are here, also " lhiam Dee and wife.
/ William Dee is employed in running an
: engine on the ST. Paul road. | also
saw Conductor Pert and Frank Choate
of Madison.
came near getting pinched by q po-
icemen, by going with Frank over TO
the Gamer bathhouse. The cop thought
was soliciting for some rooming house
which is against the rules.
I've travelled some, I've seen lot,
I've been most everywhere;
I I've been to London, Gay Paree, on
every thorOughfare.
I've seen the sights at Newport and
Narragansett Pier,
I've climbed the mountains, strolled
the beaches both afar and near,
But I'll admit, there is none but Bar
! aboo which clings
Like dear old Apply Arkansas Hot
Springs.
Best regards to all,
Mike Maher