Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-25

mountain resorts already eStaD-
lished would have cost more than
the average individual could afford
to pay.
How Larry Got the Land.
Tn 1914 four persons in addition
to Larry. w. c. Savage, Anthony
Truche, w. f. Raft and Harrison
Gates, decided to try camping on
the proud owner of a horse and
wagon. which he used in his work
as collector. He sold the outfit
and with the proceeds bought two
10 by IA tents and Camp KIN
Gloom was established in Bear
canyon, In the Sandia mountains
SO successful was the venture that
during the first sixty days the
camp was established sixty per-
sons were cared for The camp
was maintained at various spots in
the mountains during the summer
of 1915, 1916 and 1917. In 1918
Larry filed on 44.78 acres of land
as homestead, the tract including
the site of the present "Well coun-
try camp"
Since then a permanent building
containing three comfy rooms
and eight detached cottages have
been erected, providing accommo-
dations for q total of twenty per-
sons. They have been filled every
summer and more guests could
have been taken care OF II the
facilities had been available.
Twelve persons are spending
| ln thiG hninp
the first season that anyone mas
attempted to stay there during the
cold months.
DIR. Frisbie Helps.
For the last two years the camp
has been self-supporting, but prior
to that time one of Larry's favor
ite indoor sports was trying to make
both ends meet. The camp was
never intended as a money making
enterprise and has been conducted
on the cooperative plan. But the
addition of new facilities from
time to time and incidental eX-
penses which were not included in
the prorata assessments against the
guests resulted in the books show
| ing a deficit at the end of each
season. 1t was at such trying times
that DR.. Evelyn F. Frisbie, a
staunch friend of Larrys and
firm supporter of the mountain
| camp idea, came forward and gem
erously contributed whatever was
necessary to wipe out the debts and
enable the camp to begin the next
season with a clean slate.
w. c. Savage, one of the founders
Of Camp Kill Gloom. was the first
editor of the Kill Gloom Magazine,
which developed into what is now
known as the Herald of the Well
| Country. The Kill Gloom magazine
was first gotten out on a typewriter
and it's circulation, according to the
sworn statement of the publishers.
| totaled six copies. After a few
issues it was gotten out on a null
tigraph and still later arrange
ments we're made to have it printed
at a local job office. AS the Herald
of the Well Country, under Larry's
capable editorship, its circulation
increased to approximately 1000
copies monthly. 1t went into most
of the leading sanatoria of the
country and many physicians were
numbered among its subscribers.
1t was a unique publication. For
while it was edited by man who
was not in robust health and who,
way back In 1910 had been given
but four months to live, and most
of its contributors, like himself,
were fighting the ravages of dis
ease, its pages teemed with wit and
homely philosophy; it was, in fact,
gloom killer.
The second issue of the Kill
Gloom Gazette, February, 1914,
contained this announcement as to
the price of the paper: BY the
year, so cents; per copy, 5 cents
delivered 4 cents; If you come and
get it, cents; If you read 1t in the
office and leave 1t, two cents; we
tell you about it for one cent.
1t also contained this statement;
'"This is the only publication of Its
kind in the world. Thank God!
A Sim Fein Menu.
In the issue of March, 1914. was
a st. Patrick's number and con-
tanned this st. Patrick's day menu:
Noodle soup, mulligatawney
soup, Hungarian goulash. chile con
carne, sauerkraut, spaghettl,
French fried potatoes, caviar, Swiss
cheese, Rhine wine, Turkish demi
Tasse, oolong, Egyptian cigarettes,
music by Alexander's rag time
band.
A portion of Larry's autobiog-
raphy, written by himself, which
appears in the Herald of the Well
Country for May, 1919. follows:
II am graduate of several OF
the honor schools of the National
Society for the Study and Proven
ton of Tuberculosis, Edwards san
atorium, Naperville, ILL.,, 1901;
Valmora industrial SAN, Watrous,
N. M. 1912; Presbyterian SAN, AL
buauerque, N. NJ, 1912, where I
have acquired 1913 degrees and the
title of T. B. and PLY. D., and am
at present and have been for the
past six years taking a POSTCARD
uate course at the Methodist san
at Albuquerque.
Member of Eta Rho Epsilon.
Am a member of the Eta Raw
Egg fraternity and the One Lung
Glee club; was cough leader of the
class of 1910 and president of the
Linger Longer Literary Lights,
1917. Habits are mostly negligee
and will say nothing about charac-
ter-and amount. Believing in sal
vaging the wrecks on pleurisy and
that the lunger's proper sphere is
the atmosphere and have faith in
the possibilities of artificial respir-
alton as a substitute in emergen-
cies. such as when the lungs cease