The Sentinel=record., 1917-12-22

my report of last year l stated I have l some plans In Niew which If worked | out successfully during the coming | year, will. l believe, deal a very hard blow to this nefarious evil' r "Following up this plan, beginning last September Q9l6) there was in- augurated a crusade against the drumming doctors in which many of the anu-drulnming physicians took q prominent part hy raising funds from all persons in sympathy with this movement, and employing detectives and attorneys to secure evidence" Through this means, and with hearty cooperation of this office, quantities of evidence were secured which resulted in the prosecutions and indictments in the state courts.
 Action was also taken by this of flee and evidence submitted to the Idepartment which resulted in striking the names of IA physicians from the list of registered physicians filed in this office. Also, the guests of II | hotels, rooming houses and boarding houses, were denied the baths for period of three months, in each in- stance, charges of drumming having lheen sustained against the proprietOrs | of these places. As a final result 1t
 Is extremely gratifying to me to now report that doctor drumming in Hot | Springs is practically eliminated. In
 fact, 1t Is the subject of common com
 ment that Hot Springs is now freer from drumming than ever before In It's history, and the laws, rules and
 regulations are being more rigidly en-
 forced and observed"
 | The report then deals with the sit uation at the free bath house, recon | mending its removal and bath house | of larger facilities being furnished,
 and goes into the great benefit and advantage from the free clinic estao- hshed here.
 Il Recomme nd ations
 "In accordance with my recom- mendations last year the sum of Sl0,- 900 from the revenues Of the reserva-
 ton was authorized by congress in the sundry civil act, to be expended
 under the direction of the secretary of the interior for the employment of a landscape engineer and such other expenses as may be required, for the prepa ration Of a practical and comprehensive plan, together with an . accurate estimate of the cost thereof for improving the Hot Springs reser-- ] vation'
 Under this appropriation the firm
 of Mann & Stern, architects, of Little Rock, have been employed to perform , this work and they have entered , upon the undertaking MT. Mann has been furnished with necessary data
 and plans from the files of this office,
 and every assistance possible IS be
 ing rendered to facilitate the work.
 Tt is believed that all the improve
 ments recommended in my last report
 should be included in the new plan,
 namely, the construction of the road
 way at least 30 feet wide and three
 and One-haf miles in length through
 the Gorge; at the end of Hot Springs
 and North mountains; the paving of Fountain street from Central avenue to boundary monument No. 36; and Reservation avenue from Cen; ral avenue to monument No 26; this work to be done in such a manner as 10 provide that the property owners on the opposite side of these streets
 from the reservation bear their just share of the expense; the reconstruc-
 tion of the government free bath
 holte. the constr Ctio1 of new greenhouse; the construction Of , storm sewer and surface drainage
 system in Hot Springs to care for he
 drainage from the reservation, and
 the construction Of a sanitary sewer !. system to care for the sewage from the reservation.
 Tt is also believed that this pan
 should include the construction of a
 new main entrance to the Hot Springs
 mountain reservation from the prom
 enade in front of bath house rciw, one that would be in keeping with other contemplated Improvements. The present main entrance and bandstand
 has been adequate until the present sIlIut. bul ID LOL nOH NOholQtltQ III keeping with the other modern i'm Iprovements. new main entrance Ishould be planned and constructed on an elaborate and expensive scale and should have in connection bank pa Yilion or architectural design to cor respond, in order to provide band music as a permanent feature of en- ltertainment
 Also, it seems that the plans Ishould include a magnificent drinking pavilion to be constructed on the res ervation, the architecturals design and lconstruction of which should make it a leading feature of this resort.
 'It will also be necessary to in lclude in this pla1 modern comfort stations located at such points on the
 Reservation as may be deemed ad- lvantageous for this purpose.
 Tt is also recommended that, if consistent, the rules and regulations lgoyerning the Hot Springs reserva-
 ton be revised in accordance with my letter of May ', 1917. If this can be