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HOSPITAL NUMBER 35French Lick, Ind., Dec. 6.—Just to come home is joy enough for the average Yankee soldier, but to come back to be housed in a marble palace and to enjoy all the comforts which can be found here in West Baden, famed throughout the nation as a resort— well, for: a few hours the wounded Yanks who come here are disposed to wonder they are not dreaming.They leave the hospital train to fihdfa; great brick building of 650 rooms built in a ravine against a background of wooded hills. They, enter it to be assigned to large, airy rooms, with private baths, and windows and balconies overlooking the hilly forest lands of Orange county, rooms, by the way, for which the cheapest charge was $6 a day when the West Baden hbtel was still a hotel and had not become U. S. General Hospital No. 35.When the government took over the hotel to use as a hospital, Lieut. Col. W. R. Bliss, commanding, made arrangements to retain the attendants and masseurs who gave the baths. So it^is:that: the wounded Yanks have the privilege: of taking mud baths, sulphur baths, all kinds of baths, every day, and to have the special services of trained masseurs.As soon as a wounded soldier is able he|begins taking physical exercises under the competent direction of Sergt. George P. Walling, formerly assistant to Alonzo Stagg at the University of Chicago. ^It is only the little things that the soldiers lack, the things they wish to buy for themselves. This, however, is being remedied through the friendliness of visitors at the French Lick hotel.
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Bloomington Evening World
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Sat, Dec 07, 1918
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