The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 87

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

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least to get well and strong enough to take up their
work again or some easier employment. Many of
them remain in the hills; others again try the low-
lands for a while, but find that they cannot breathe
freely down there any more, especially in the cities
and on the otherwise so beautiful and enjoyable

ATLANTIC BULLETIN,

One of the Adirondacks Sanitaria.

Long Island. Therefore they return to the hills
and find jobs here. Men who came here very ill
thirty and thirty-five years ago have regained their
health and, remaining here, have been able to work
and are still working. Many of the doctors and
nurses are former consumptives.

The best-known region for “curing” is Saranac
Lake and surroundings. The village of Saranac
Lake has a population of 8,000, two-thirds of them
people who have tuberculosis now or who have had
it and have been cured. The whole village prac-
tically exists for the patients. There are no large
factories or other industries.

Besides the large Trudeau Sanitarium there are
dozens of smaller nursing cottages and boarding-
houses and many homes where relatives and friends
who come to visit their sick can have room or board
or both. There are three large and several smaller
hotels, two banks, a movie theater, a beautiful cham-
ber of commerce building, and a high school, which
is surpassed by very few in the State for size and
beauty. 5
Four miles. west of Saranac Lake is situated
Raybrook, the State Sanitarium, a group of sub-
stantial and beautiful brick buildings, right in the
woods, but near the main State Road No. 86 and
a few minutes’ walk from the railway station. Here
the patients, free and gratis, live in surroundings
such as most of them formerly saw only on the
silver screen. Some of the severe “cases” have single
rooms, but most of them sleep on large open porches,
about ten beds in each. On each floor there are
solaria, beautifully furnished rooms, with plants,

birds, gold-fish bowls, pianos, billiard tables, all on
costly rugs, with pretty curtains or drapes on the
windows. And the patients get good food and
plenty of it. They may drink all the milk they
wish; and every morning and afternoon those who
are able to go out may take a walk in the pine woods
or enjoy an auto ride with friends.

Since the beginning of the year your missionary
has received permission to preach in this institution
itself.

In Trudeau, where your missionary is permitted
to preach, as also in Sunmount, thirty miles south-
west of here, microphones on the pulpit bring the
message of salvation to those patients who are not
able to leave their beds. Patients in Trudeau are
housed in cottages, four to ten in each. Each cot-
tage has a sitting-room, beautifully furnished,
a radio, and all conveniences. :

Sunmount, is the United States Veterans’ Hos-
pital. Here also your missionary is very graciously
received, provided with a well-furnished room and
all the meals he cares to eat whenever his duty
takes him there.

The Variety Actors’ Association has a large and
beautiful hospital for its sick members two miles
out of Saranac Lake. This building is modern, in
fact luxuriously furnished.

In all these hospitals, homes, and private houses
your missionary is welcome. He has not met with
any difficulties so far. On the contrary, he is re-
ceived kindly and in some cases joyfully. Only one

ATLANTIC BULLETIN,
A Sanitarium Chapel.

patient so far has declined his services. Thus a
wide door, rather a multitude of doors, is open for
your humble servant to bring to these sufferers the
good tidings of Him who knows from His own
experience what it is to suffer. While most of these
patients are young people, do not look sick, and are
full of hope and very lively and cheerful, they all
know that they have a hideous disease, and many