Ft. Marcy. Episcopal Church. Valley of the Rio Santa Fe San Miguel Cemetery. Camping Ground Gen. Kearney, U. S. Army, Aug. 18, 1846.Masonic and 1.0.0.F. Cemetery. Sisters of Charity Convent. San Francisco Cathedral, R. C. San Miguel Church and College. Santa Fe Trail.

Palace Hotel. Convent Sisters Loretto. Rio de Santa Fe.Governor’s Palace. Plaza and Center of Business.

Gas Works. State House Grounds. U. S. Military Reservation H’d Qrs. Dist. N. .M Congregational Church.Tri-Centenary Celebration Grounds, 1883. Presbyterian Church. Texas, Santa Fe and Northern R. R. Guadalupe Church, R. C. A.,T. and S. F. R. R. Depot.

Methodist Church. Gov. Vigil Place.

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Committee of Reference in Santa Fe, N. M,

I lon. L. A. Sheldon, Governor of New Mexico.Hon. S. B. Axtell, Chief Justice and ex-Governor of Now

Mexico.W. W. Griffin, Esq., Vice President First National Bank of

Santa Fe, and President of Local Branch of the Indian. Rights Association.

Arthur Boyle, Fsq., Honorary Secretary of Santa Fe Boardof Trade.

F. W. Clancy, Esq., Counselor-at-Law.W. T. Thornton, Esq., Counselor-at-Law.John Symington, Esq., M.D,

R. H. Alexander, Esq., M.D., and Major U. S. AW. Eggert, Esq., M.D,, Graduate of Universityof Berlin, etc.W. S. Harroun, 8.A., Michigan University, and M.D.Edwin W. L. Engle, Esq., M.D., University of Georgia.

Committee of Reference in Cleveland, 0,Edwin Cowles, Esq., Editor Cleveland Lender, Cleveland,

Ohio.

E. B. Hale, Esq., (of E. B. Hale & Co.), Bankers, Cleveland,Ohio.

AN APPEALIs now made to the benevolent and wealthy to take part in amost laudable work—the establishment of a Sanitarium forpulmonary sufferers, in a climate which, in almost all cases,has proved a specific for consumption and its attendant trainof ills. To induce those who have it in their power to bringthis about, this pamplet is addressed.

The observations taken by the officer in charge of the SignalService in Santa Fe during a period of ten years, vide Appen-dix A, show that the climate here is free from sudden changes,equable, mild, dry and bracing. Santa Fe is situated at thefoot of the eastern spur of the Eocky Mountains, and its alti-tude is 7044 feet above the sea-level. Santa Fe has the bestclimate in the world for the relief of sufferers from tuberculardisease or throat affections.

The dread disease, consumption, is a topic of all-absorbing-interest. The strongest amongst us may at any time be struckdown. Its name makes the bravest quail. It is the death-dealing demon that stalks abroad in the earth, striking downits victims on every side; possessed of an appetite never satis-fied, but growing by what it feeds upon. Eutbless, silent,steady, in its onward movement. It is the lieutenant ofDeath, whose livery it wears, and whose orders it carries outunflinchingly and with unfailing certainty.

Consumption drags in its train every form of woe and sor-row; it is accompanied by the wails and shrieks of those whomit has robbed of all that makes life dear.

Terrific! Horrible! Who without a shudder can hear itsfearful name, or contemplate its ravages without trembling?

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This language is no exaggeration; let the facts be examined,and they will reveal that, instead of these utterances spring-ing from the over-heated imagination of a rhetorician, theyfall infinitely short of bare description.

The stern statistics of disease and death inform us that themost destructive wars that have ever been waged, the mostfearful pestilences that have smitten the human race, are butas infants and pigmies when compared with this full-growngiant of disease.

All other ministers of death gaze with reverential awe uponthis master workman. How impossible, therefore, is hyper-bole, and how impotent is language to find adequate expres-sion for the reality!

The census proclaims that in England and the EasternStates of America one-fourth of all the deaths are contrivedby this ceaseless plotter.

This unerring marksman hurls, without discrimination,upon good and .evil, missiles in comparison with which thearrows of far-darting Apollo, falling thick and fast upon theGrecian hosts encircling the doomed city of Troy, were harm-less loyls.

This gaunt enemy, who laughs man’s futile efforts at oppo-sition to scorn, nevertheless is compelled to lower his weaponsand surrender many of his captives to those invisible powersof nature which make the pure air, that God himself has sup-plied, the antidote for the envenomed darts of this doughtywarrior.

It has been discovered by the pains-taking laborers in thefields of medical research, that for this disease the patientmust be committed to the Great Practitioner, whose pharma-copoeia furnishes an effective remedy when applied in time,even for this all-wasting pestilence.

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Intelligent physicians everywhere prescribe climate alonefor tubercular disease and its attendants, bronchitis, asthma,and the like. In obedience to the terms of this prescription,year by year the suffering hosts flock southward and westwardin search of health—to the shores of the Gulf, the RockyMountain plateaus, and the Pacific Coast. As they press on,these fortunate ones arc watched with despairing envy bythose who are unable, through lack of means or from othercauses, to join the advancing columns.

When we learn from the census returns of 1800 and 1870,“that the death rate from tubercular disease in America istwenty-five per cent, in New England, fourteen in Minnesota,from live to six in the Southern States, and only three percent, in New Mexico, and that the last-named place has beenastonishingly free from epidemic disease,” surely here we havediscovered the true Mecca for these mournful pilgrims, and assurely it is our duty, in every way, to aid the suffering inmaking their pilgrimage of hope.

The Mon. R. W. Riymond, Mining Engineer, in his reportfor 1871, says: “The climate of New Mexico is mild andhealthy, the sky as clear as that of Italy, and the air trans-parent and pure. In fact, the very act of breathing in thiscountry makes existence a pleasure.”

A large proportion of the population of the whole RockyMountain region is composed of those who came for health,fleeing from a deatli from pulmonary disease, and who havesince become useful citizens in the development of this coun-try. Sixty-seven thousand in Colorado, two hundred thousandin California, and a great part of the Americans in NewMexico, now strong and well, found their impulse westwardin the expression of the angel to Lot, “Escape for thy life,”and are living now in happy and contented homes.

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As the statistics prove New Mexico to be the most hopefullocality, so the author of this appeal believes Santa Fe to bethe most desirable point in New Mexico for the establishmentof this Sanitarium, and lie will now endeavor to rehearse thereasons for this faith which is in him.

The situation of the place, if selected with a view to thelocation of a Sanitarium, could not have been more fitlychosen. It lies in a kind of crater scooped out of the hills,having an outlet to the south and west, while, on the northand east, lofty mountains encircle and protect the city, withtheir friendly embrace, from the possibility of northers.

Northers, those harbingers of woe, whose fatal influence isso baneful to lung sufferers, are felt not only in Colorado, tothe north of Santa Fe, and in Texas, on the south-east, butalso in Louisiana and Florida. The altitude of Santa Fe,7044 feet, places the city above the reach of miasmatic influ-ences, and the pure mountain air, charged with life-givingozone, so entirely counteracts all tendency to decay and putre-faction, that meats are preserved by merely being cut in stripsand hung up. On the other hand, while this preservingagent is checking the corrosion of disease and healing theafflicted lung, it has been abundantly proven that, so far fromthe altitude superinducing hemorrhage, as the theorists wereled to expect, the majority of persons who had hemorrhagesin other places find all such symptoms cease after a shortresidence here.

Another noticeable effect is the growth of the respiratoryorgans. This is rationally accounted for on the principlethat the lungs, in order to secure the necessary supply ofoxygen in this refined atmosphere, are compelled to morevigorous action, and, like the muscles of the judicious gym-nast, they develop and grow.

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Santa Fe lias another advantage over other points in theterritory in its comparative immunity from dust storms, whichat times elsewhere fill the whole atmosphere, and render italmost impossible to face them. Here they seldom occur, andendure but for a limited period. Their violence is modifiedand broken by the interposition of a succession of short moun-tain chains.

Above all, we here find that most necessary desideratum,evenness of temperature, a condition more favorable to theconsumptive than all others. There arc times when the cold,as registered by the thermometer, would be considered ex-treme in the East; but, such is the dryness of the air, thatpersons coming here, as did the author of this, even fromFlorida, and wearing no additional clothing in the winter,declare that they have suffered far more from cold on theshores of the Gulf of Mexico than they have ever done inSanta Fe.

Then, too, it does not groAv suddenly cold. Changes whichin other localities take place in a few hours are days here inbeing brought about. The summer is delightful, although atnearly every other point of the territory the heat is sometimesexcessive. Residents in Santa Fe are strangers to what isknown as spring fever and other symptoms of the relaxingeffects of heat. To emphasize the restorative qualities of theclimate the writer will give an account of his own experience.

Less than two years ago he came here from Florida, whitherhe had gone from Baltimore in pursuit of health. On hisarrival in Santa Fe, at the beginning of winter, when thechange would be in greatest contrast with what he had beenaccustomed to, he was apparently well advanced in consump-tion, and one lung was by his physicians pronounced to bedecidedly affected. He had had many and some quite serioushemorrhages, was reduced in weight, and coughed incessantly.

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At first he found it difficult to breathe in the attenuated air,and, about a month after coining, had a hemorrhage. Fromthat time he began steadily to recover, and is now completelyrestored; his weight is as great as at any previous period ofhis life (having increased thirty pounds), his health is robust,appetite excellent, chest measurement enlarged two inches,respiration slow and deep, pulse regular, cough gone, and hiscapacities for work equal if not superior to what they haveever been, and there is no one in Santa Fc more actively andunceasingly employed.

The object of this appeal is to build a Sanitarium in SantaFe, so that lung sufferers may enjoy the blessings which awaitthem in this favored spot. This is a pressing need. • It is onethat touches all, for who have escaped the touch of this de-stroyer ? Many sufferers have difficulty in finding a placewhere they will receive proper care, even when they have thebenefit of climate. In the West, where everything costs at

least 50 per cent, more than in the States, hotels are neces-sarily expensive; nor can that repose and freedom from excite-ment which are so needful be found in such places. In board-ing houses the conditions are even more unfavorable still;there the tastes of invalids are not consulted, their fanciesdisregarded, and the surroundings and the associations areoften rejiellent and objectionable. The want of such an In-stitution as we - are endeavoring to establish has long beenapparent, but it has been forced upon the attention of thewriter by persons possessed of ample means to supply all theirneeds, and who were surrounded by loving hearts and readyhands to aid. If such as these felt the want, what must bethe lot of those, who if they come at all, must come alone?

A large proportion, too, of the afflicted must necessarily bewomen, unable to bring a relative or attendant with them.The terrors of such a position to a woman in declining health,

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and far removed from home and friends, are enough to dauntthe bravest heart, and compel her to ‘‘rather bear those illsshe has than fly to others that she knows not of.” How dif-ferent would it be could assurance be given such that theymight have the care and comforts of which they stand so muchin need, in an Institution where their tastes would be care-fully studied, and they would receive every attention fromthose whose object is not to make merchandise of their ail-ments; where they would find the loving sympathy of theirMother Church, and hear the well-known accents of her voice,certified iu every emergency of her spiritual rninistiations.

Wealthy congregations in the East, instead of merely pro-longing the sufferings of an afflicted brother or sister by theircharitable help at home, might send them here for little addi-tional outlay, and, in most cases, by their recovery of strength,have the gratification of a deed both well and wisely done.Moreover, the necessity of a long maintenance would be avoidedby a restoration to health and usefulness. As a business trans-action such a course would commend itself to any thoughtfulperson.

It is intended that this Institution shall be carried on witha strict regard to economy, in order that, while it providescomforts vainly sought for elsewhere, these shall at the sametime be furnished on the most reasonable terms.

It is almost certain that Sisters of Mercy could be procuredto undertake the household management. These Sisters, as

we all know, are refined ladies and trained nurses, gentlewomen, whose self-denying labors are actuated by no hope ofearthly reward. Some of these very Sisters, following theirmerciful vocation in the East, are beginning to feel the blightof the poisonous breath and clammy touch of the monsterConsumption, and their valuable lives might by prolonged bytransference hither.

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For the establishment of this Institution Santa Fc has manyother recommendations besides the natural advantages whichwc have endeavored briefly to enumerate.

The city may be reached from the east over the A., T. &

S. F. It. R., direct from St. Louis or Kansas City, in a palacecar without change.

The purest water, from mountain streams and meltingsnows, is supplied to the town, with a pressure of 180 lbs. tothe inch, thus securing a protection against lire, and meetingevery want for householdpurposes. The Plaza, the streets andbuildings are lighted with gas, and every convenience or luxuryis within reach.

Around Santa Fe are gathered historic associations that arefound nowhere else m the United States. It is the center ofa unique type of civilization, where the Sixteenth and theNineteenth centuries march hand in hand.

The adobe houses, the narrow, tortuous streets, the weather-beaten, time-worn churches, the cliff dwellings, the IndianPueblos, the quaint costuming of the people, form a sharpcontrast in New Mexico to modern architecture and modernmanners. The diminutive “burro,” with his pack of wood orproduce; the wooden plough, the ox wagon, with wheels cutout of the solid log; these and a hundred other strange ob-jects, all would furnish novel interest and occupation for theminds of those who require their thoughts to be diverted fromthe contemplation of their own ailments.

Then, too, Santa Fe is the seat of Government and the mostdesirable place of residence in the Territory. It has a popu-lation highly cultured and refined, its being the Army Head-quarters, and the home of the officers and their families, con-tributes much to its social attractions.

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There is a beautiful little Episcopal Church here of rough,hewn stone, completely furnished throughout with carefultaste and a reverent regard for the solemn purposes to whichit is consecrated. The writer of this monograph is the min-ister in charge.

For the purposes of the Sanitarium, land has been donatedby the citizens, and this Appeal is made to procure moneyenough to erect and furnish the buildings, and to put in orderand beautify the grounds, so that the surroundings may besuch as will contribute to the great end. The Institution isintended to be self-supporting. For this purpose One Hun-dred Thousand Dollars are requisite.

The people of Santa Fe are unable to offer more than theland, their time and labor; these they willingly contribute.For the rest we come to you in the name of Him whose ser-vants you profess yourselves to be; Who made you stewards ofyour wealth, and gave you power to get wealth, that you mayhave an opportunity to prove yourselves faithful to your Masterby doing His works, and by employing your powers in follow-ing His steps and imitating that life which was so largelyspent in healing the sick and making sad hearts joyful.

There is another circumstance to which we would refer as anincentive to your prompt and vigorous action. The RomanCatholics, besides their many churches and their imposingCathedral, now approaching completion,after eleven years laborin building, have in Santa Fe, St. Michael’s College for boys,the Convent of Loretto and an Orphan School for girls, andhave erected also in Santa Fe a general Hospital, which, underthe charge of their Sisters of Charity, has done and is doing a

work most worthy of imitation. It is the only Institution ofthe kind within a circuit of five hundred miles.

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It is hard for us to teach properly a people who are movedmore by practical than theoretical arguments, that we are, aswe claim to be, more consistent followers of the Master thanthose others whose faith is evidenced by their works, overwhose portals is inscribed “Charity,” as a motto, who openthe doors of their noble hospital to the suffering and dis-tressed, and who offer knowledge and a home to the orphan.

We in sadness are compelled to turn a deaf ear to the cry ofthe poor and suffering, or can only contribute to their needsby making the Roman Church our almoner. Our Church hasin New Mexico neither hospital, orphanage nor refuge.

Shall we not recall the glorious peroration of the greatApostle, those living words of admonition to all Christians;

“Now abideth faith, hope charity, these three, but the great-est of these is charity.”

In the name of charity we make this appeal.

EDWARD W. MEANY, B.A. (Oxon.),Rector Church of the Holy Faith, Santa Fe, JV. M.

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APPENDIX B.

LETTERS OF REFERENCE.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE,TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO,

Santa Ee, N. M., June 7th, 1884Rev. E. W. Meant, Dear Sir: Understanding that you

propose to establish in Santa Fe a Sanitarium for Consump-tives, and feeling the necessity and benefits of such an Insti-tution, I desire to express my sincerest sympathy in your lau-dable undertaking, and my heartiest wishes that it may provea success. The advantages of the climate of New Mexico inpulmonary ailments is well established,-but the special fitnessand superiority of Santa Fe over every other point in the Ter-ritory for the location of such a Sanitarium are not thoroughlyrecognized, to the misfortune of those who make their wayhither in hope of relief from lung troubles.

From my knowledge of your character and reputation, I amsatisfied that the motives which prompt you in this matterare of the purest nature, and, from your abilty and address itis my opinion, that in your hands, if in any, the project whichwill prove such a blessing to those who may share its privileges,will be in every way successful.

All who co-operate with you in this work, whether withtheir time or money, will certainly have the gratifying assur-nnce that they are doing a great deal toward lifting the burdenof sorrow pressing upon poor suffering humanity.

Hoping your merciful conception may be fully realized, Iam, my dear sir, yours faithfully,

LIONEL A. SHELDON.Governor of New Mexico.

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CHIEF SUPREME COURT,TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO,

Santa Fe, N. M., June sth, 1884.Dear Mr. Meant : It affords me great pleasure to aid

you so far as my influence and that of my official position can

do so, in the most necessary and laudable work you are under-taking. The almost utter impossibility of procuring in SantaFe what the Sanitarium proposes to supply, causes me to re-gard its establishment as an indispensable want.

While the climate is unquestionably beneficial, the comfortsof life equally necessary to invalids, are at present almost ab-solutely unattainable except to families permanently estab-lished. This your Sanitarium could supply, and, with South-ern California and the Valley of the Mississippi to draw upon,all the comforts and even the luxuries of life ought to be fur-nished at reasonable prices, all that is required is a propersystem, and your executive ability, high moral character andgeneral business qualifications eminently fit you to accomplishthis work.

If the great religious society in which you deservedly holdhonorable rank, will give you countenance, I do not doubt youwill establish here the greatest and best Sanitarium in theworld for pulmonary diseases. Very sincerely yours,

S. B. AXTELL,Chief Justice Supreme Court and late Governor of New Mexico.

Las Vegas, June 4th, 1884.My Dear Mr. Meant: I hereby give you permission to

be absent from your work for a reasonable time, solicitingfunds in the East for the establishment of a Sanitarium inSanta Fe.

Such an institution wouldbe a great blessing to hundreds ofpersons of limited means, who come to New Mexico every yearin search of health.

I think, if once established, it would in a short time be self-supporting.

Wishing you abundant success in the effort to establish thismuch needed charity.

I am very sincerely yours,GEORUE K. DUNLOP,

Bishop of New Mexico and Arizona.

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Santa Fe, N.'M., Juno 10th, 188-1.Dr. Roberts Bartholow says: “ The requisites of a climate for

pulmonary invalids, are dryness and elevation.” The abovetersely represents the modern professional idea of what is de-sirable in seeking a climate for pulmonary affections. I knowof no place, where in all respects, this idea may be more thor-oughly tested, than here in Santa Fe. Situated in a beautifulvalley, in the midst of the most lovely mountain scenery, withas great an amount of sunlight as any part of the earth receives,1 believe it to be the spot peculiarly adapted to the establish-ment of a Sanitarium for the benefit of pulmonary invalids.

W. S. HARROUN, M. D.,Late of Chicago.

Santa Fe, June 10th, 1884.Rev. E. W. Meant, Santa Fe, Dear Sir : i have read the

pamphlet with regard to the climate of Santa Fe with muchinterest and pleasure, for I can judge of its contents frommy own actual experience. Every word it contains is true tothe letter. Therefore I have no hesitation in recommendingyour work, the establishment of a Sanitarium for those whosuffer from disease of the respiratory organs, in the strongestterms, and with my best wishes for success. Not less bene-ficial results have manifested themselves in almost all diseasesof the digestive organs, like dyspepsia, chronic constipation,etc.

May this work of humanity which you are ready to under-take, prove as fruitful as it deserves.

*W. EGGERT, M. I).,Member and Sec. of the Territorial Med. Society.

•Graduate of the University of Berlin and of the Medical College of New York ; latepractitioner in Indianapolis, Indiana; author of the well known standard works on theDiseases of Women, published by Boericke & Tafel, New York and Philadelphia; etc., etc.

Note.—l came to Santa Fe in August, 1881, utterly broken down in health from nervousprostration. My usual weightfor twenty years was nearly 300 pounds; hut when 1 arrivedhere I weighedonly 138 pounds. After trying temporarily Las Vegas and Albuquerque, Igave up in despair, until I came to Santa Fe. From the moment of my arrival I felt thebeneficial effect, and to-day I weigh 200 pounds, being able to endure any work, althoughlam 60 years of age. It was not my intention tomake New Mexico my home. I only wasseeking health. But I concluded the territory was not the place for me until I reachedSanta Fe.

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Santa Fe, N. M., June 14th, 1884.My Dear Sir: I left Florida in the spring of 1882 for Col-

orado and New Mexico, in an emaciated and almost hopelesscondition. Many of my friends expressed themselves as of theopinion that I could not live to reach the Mississippi River.I traveled by easy stages, in private conveyance as far as St.Louis, camping in a tent on the way. I reached Santa Fe, N.M., September, 1882, having journeyed from St. Louis byrail, stopping at Denver, Colorado, for six weeks. By the timeI reached this place I was much improved in health, and aban-doned my tent life of eight months’ duration. I have con-tinued to improve since my arrival here, until I can now endurea great deal of professional labor. I cannot, however, be somuch impressed with the advantages of this climate in theprevention or cure of lung and throat diseases, in my owncase, as by my observation of its effects on a large number ofothers, many of whom are living monuments of its benefits.In drawing an intelligent conclusion upon the probable effectsof this or any other climate, upon any disease, several yearsand a large number of affected per-ons must form the basis ofany intelligent conclusion. I assume that I have been able bymy study of this climate, and by my personal observation andenquiry, to infer that this climate is eminently adapted to theprevention and cure of lung and throat diseases. Contrary tothe general expectation, it is calculated to prevent rather thanto promote hemorrhage. Notwithstanding the high altitudeof this place, I regard it as especially beneficial to afflictedpersons residing either in the Atlantic States or on the Lakes,where humidity or malaria are either the exciting causes ofpulmonary troubles or adverse factors in the prevention andcure of the diseases referred to.

Yours truly,EDWIN W. L. ENGLE, M. D.

To Rev. E. W. Meant, Santa Fe, N. M.