DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
U. S. GOVERNMENT RESERVATION,
Hot Springs, Ark., August 29, 1911.

SIR: I have the honor to respectfully submit this my annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911.

GENERAL STATEMENT.

This is the second report of the affairs of this reservation during my incumbency as superintendent, and the prophesies made in my report for last year have more than been realized in that the past year has the distinction of being the banner year for this great health resort. To illustrate how widely these waters are known, a daily bathhouse report, selected at random, shows patients here from seven foreign countries. The cures effected here are so startling as to seem almost miraculous.

The past year was the most prosperous ever known here, notwith-standing that there is an element in the city which has felt that the success of the resort depended on the existence of certain amusements prohibited by law. In my opinion, people come here for the benefit of the waters and for rest and recreation; and while, as a resort city, many expect it to be free and open, with no restrictions, it has been demonstrated beyond question that it will grow and continue to thrive without questionable features. At the same time, every amusement should be furnished consistent with the good morals and civic decency of a resort so closely allied with the Government. In this connection, the fact that the Government has taken so decided control of local conditions is doubtless one reason for so many people coming here.

To afford some idea of how successful the past year has been, I give some comparative figures of arrivals and bathhouse receipts. The arrivals for March, 1910, which up to that time was the best year ever known, were 14,878; the arrivals for March, 1911, were 18,793. Every month of this year shows more visitors than the corresponding month during the previous year, and I estimate there was an increase of visitors here this year over last of over 20,000, the total number of visitors for the year being approximately 130,000.

When I first took charge and endeavored to create some sort of a system and change local conditions for the better, I was told my ideas were so revolutionary as to be almost certain of disaster; that the old system was the only one under which existence here was possible. I felt the people were in error and proceeded to suggest such changes as I deemed absolutely necessary for the future of the resort. I was told more than once that such years as 1905 and 1907, when everything was wide open and racing was at its height, could never be expected again. The figures on file in this office utterly disprove this assertion. I give here a few comparisons: The bathhouse receipts for all the bathhouses for March, 1905, were $27,999.70; for March, 1907, they were $30,615.24; and for March, 1911, they were $32,330.34; so that every previous year, including the banner years, is far behind this year; and I feel sanguine that the coming year will exceed this one by a still greater ratio. This is essentially a health resort, and as such it should be most jealously guarded and maintained.

It is gratifying in the extreme to compare the total receipts of the bathhouses for the fiscal years 1910 and 1911. The total receipts amounted to $217,916.90 in the fiscal year 1910 and to $253,314.42 in the fiscal year 1911, making a net gain in favor of 1911 of $35,397.52.

BATHHOUSES.

The schedule of prices for baths at the various bathhouses, as prescribed by the department, is as follows:

Table of maximum rates for single baths and course of 21 baths.

Business of bathhouses, fiscal year ended June 30, 1911.

Business of bathhouses, fiscal year ended June 30, 1911—Continued.

The attendant's fee charged in all bathhouses is $3 per course of 21 baths, $1 per week, and 15 cents for a single bath. The reports show that the net amount paid the attendants from July 1, 1910, to June 30, 1911, inclusive, is $106,079.95, which exceeds that of last year by $3,342.57. This amount is exclusive of any tips or presents received by them.

Frequent inspection of bathhouses and the close watch over them exercised by the medical director have given the public scientific administration of the waters and wholesome sanitation and hygienic conditions. The bathhouses, as will be seen by their annual reports, have had a splendid year. Never have they known such prosperity as this year has brought them. The bathhouse lessee is now willing to comply with the regulations because he realizes that they are beneficial to him as well as to his patrons.

The spirit of hopefulness for the future is as much manifest by the acts of the bathhouse lessees as anybody, and each appears to be vying with the other as to who will have the best and most up-to-date bathhouse. Early in the spring agreements were entered into between the department and the Maurice and the Rammelsberg bath-houses (the latter now designated as the Buckstaff Baths) for leases for certain periods provided new, modern, fireproof bathhouses were erected in the places of the old ones. The result is that both houses named were demolished, and there are now in course of construction on the old sites two as magnificent bathhouses as can be found in the world. Each will represent an investment of approximately $125,000, and when completed will certainly be an ornament to bath house row and a credit to the lessees and the Government

I have never favored taxing ground rent, but have always advocated that the lessees be required to erect and maintain the very best, high class bathhouses. This policy met with departmental approval, and I am gratified to be able to report that it will result within the next five years in a bathhouse row consisting of the best and most magnificent bathhouses in the world.

Owing to disagreement between the lessees of the Superior Bathhouse, and their inability to comply with departmental requirements for improvements, that house was closed on March 31, 1911, and still remains closed.

The Imperial Bathhouse lessee has recently entered into a contract with the department for a renewal of his lease, conditioned on his making certain improvements. This has resulted in the closing of this bathhouse, which is now being torn down, and will be reconstructed and beautified at an approximate cost of $50,000. When it is taken into consideration that the Imperial was one of the newest and best bathhouses on the reservation, and that it will be enlarged and practically made new, it will be readily seen what the future promises for the resort in the way of superb bathhouses.

The different individuals and corporations now holding leases for hot-water privileges from the Government reservation, also ground leases, together with the date and expiration of said leases, are given in the following table:

Hot-water and ground leases.

DRUMMING.

What has been the worst detriment and curse to this resort for over 40 years is what is known as doctor and hotel drumming. Formerly it was not at all unusual for 20 to 30 hotel runners to meet the visitor at Little Rock or Benton on every train, and frequently some drummer went as far as Memphis and St. Louis. The hotel drumming was but a mere subterfuge in most instances, the real object being to place the visitor in the hands of some physician who would give half his fee to the drummer. I am happy to be able to report that since October 15, 1909, when United States inspectors were placed on all incoming trains to notify the public what to avoid and to give full information as to how to proceed, the drumming on the trains has entirely ceased, and the practice of the doctors dividing fees for drummed patients has been reduced to the lowest ebb ever known.

The announcement made by the United States inspectors on trains is as follows:

The public is notified that the waters of the Hot Springs are owned and controlled by the United States Government, and it is a violation of the law for any person to drum or solicit patronage on the trains in this State for hotels, boarding houses, bathhouses, or doctors. No one will be permitted to bathe who stops at a hotel or boarding house which drums or employs inside men to drum or solicit for doctors.

The baths are open to everyone without a doctor. You are requested not to take the advice of any hotel man or inside man as to whether you should employ a doctor; but should you employ one, be sure that he is one registered by the Government and permitted to prescribe the baths. If you treat with a non-registered doctor, or one not authorized to prescribe the baths, the baths will be denied you; and if you bathe or attempt to bathe while treating with a non-registered doctor, you lay yourself liable to severe penalty. A list of registered physicians can be found in every bathhouse, posted on "bathhouse row," and at the superintendent's office. All information regarding doctors and the baths will be cheerfully given at the superintendent's office, the first office on "bathhouse row."

I do not assert that doctor drumming has been entirely eliminated; there may be isolated cases now and then, but on the whole I can assert without fear of successful contradiction that such cases are few and far between. I am firmly convinced that as long as the list of registered physicians contains doctors who have heretofore drummed, and who believe it their vested right, that drumming on a very small scale will always exist.

I have, through my detective force, kept continually investigating, with the result that the evil has practically ceased; but to completely cut it out, root and branch, would necessitate one of two things: (1) To have annual examinations of all physicians, who would be required to show a clean slate on this subject and also pass such examinations before the Federal Registration Board as it might prescribe. This would in time eliminate all objectionable physicians and materially raise the professional standard. (2) To employ Federal physicians, who shall attend the ill at nominal charges. This may appear at first glance to be Utopian, but I have no doubt that it would result in a great increase in the number of visitors and insure every visitor who comes here an absolutely square deal. These suggestions may seem radical, but the thousands and hundreds of thousands of patrons of this resort are entitled to the very best treatment which human minds can devise.

FEDERAL REGISTRATION BOARD.

The Federal Registration Board as now organized is composed of five physicians who stand at the very top of their profession, and are earnestly and zealously assisting this office in the enforcement of every rule pertaining to the protection of the visitor.

MEDICAL DIRECTOR.

During November, 1909, complaint was made that patients bathing at the public bathhouse suffering from different diseases were not properly segregated; that any person could bathe in any pool he desired. This was true. There were no means of discriminating between diseases, and I suggested to the department that the only remedy I could name which would obviate such condition was the employment of a medical director. On August 1, 1910, the department created the office of medical director, and Maj. Harry M. Hallock, United States Army, retired, was appointed to fill that position. Maj. Hallock assumed his duties on September 4, 1910, taking charge of the public bathhouse, and having supervision over the sanitation, hydrotherapy, and hygiene of all the bathhouses. By his untiring efforts the medical director has brought about a scientific administration of these waters.

IMPROVEMENTS.

During the year many improvements have been made, and I have endeavored in every instance to build not merely for to-day, but for years to come. There has been built a substantial six-room brick cottage for the keeper in Whittington Lake Park at an approximate cost of $2,500. The superintendent's office, which was originally erected for a central pumping station, was completely repaired, a tile roof put on in place of the old tin and composition one, the rooms divided, new floors put down, the interior redecorated and refurnished throughout, and the exterior well painted.

The official residence of the superintendent was completely repaired, a new tile roof was put on, new polished oak floors laid, and everything put in first-class condition.

On the top of East Mountain has been erected a beautiful stone-columned, tile-roofed pavilion, in which it is intended to place a drinking fountain. A contract for a deep well has been let, and I expect shortly to have in operation not only a drinking fountain for the public, but also a place to water stock.

All the pavilions in Whittington Lake Park were re-covered and re-painted, as was also the pavilion on Fountain Street containing the only cold springs on East Mountain. There are two of these, one of which, in compliance with instructions of the department, I have named "General Kelley," and the other "Colonel Hamblen," in honor of former Superintendents.

A 6-foot concrete sidewalk has been laid in front of the Government lots in blocks 188 and 189, a watering trough for stock has been placed in front of the "Whittington Cold Spring" on block 188, a stone wall with large stone columns on either side, similar to those on the Whittington Lake Park side-gate entrance, is now being erected around this spring. This will add very much to the general effect of the Government properties in that section of the city.

In Whittington Lake Park the six worn-out wooden bridges have been replaced by fine, substantial, reenforced concrete bridges. There is now in course of construction in this park a public-comfort station, which has long been needed. It is contemplated to erect during this year at least two such stations on East Mountain.

A vast amount of ornamental shrubbery and flowers have been planted both in Whittington Lake Park and on East Mountain. On East Mountain a border of flowering shrubs has been placed along the mountain roads to the summit. By trimming the slopes and getting a good stand of Bermuda grass, the picturesque feature of these roads have been much improved.

The maintenance in first-class condition of the 10 miles of mountain road is no small work, and with the limited force available it consumes a great deal of time. The labor is well expended, however, as nothing in Hot Springs, where walking, driving, and horseback riding is so much in vogue, affords the visitor more pleasure than do these mountain roads, all of which are in first-class condition. Substantial improvements have been made on them during the past year.

The stables have been thoroughly repaired and painted, as were also the two reservoirs on East Mountain.

The greenhouse was completely overhauled and reconstructed, so that the reservation has now a first-class greenhouse, and should be able to propagate and raise sufficient plants to fill all requirements. This should prove a material saving, as heretofore it has been necessary to replenish the flowers and shrubbery annually.

In the places of the pine flagpoles that were in front of the superintendent's official residence and office building there have been erected two 60-foot standard iron flagpoles, which were embedded in cement, so that for years to come no charge or expense will arise for this necessity.

This year has been an exceptional one for the forests, the flowers, and the shrubbery. Never have they been more beautiful and luxuriant or in more perfect condition. The park in front of the bath house row had several inches of rich earth spread over it in the spring and new grass seed planted. and with the almost perfect seasons we have had this year both the grass and flowers have grown in profusion the entire distance from the superintendent's office to the Arlington Hotel, especially the flowers, which are in splendid condition and elicit favorable comment, satisfaction, and keen enjoyment on the part of the visiting public. This park should each season be replenished with fresh rich earth, so as to maintain it in its present condition.

GOVERNMENT BATHHOUSE.

The act of Congress approved December 16, 1878, provides:

That the superintendent shall provide and maintain a sufficient number of free baths for the use of the indigent, and the expense thereof shall be defrayed out of the rentals hereinbefore provided for.

Owing to the inadequacy of the present bathhouse I suggested, in my last report, that a sworn statement was necessary, so that the baths given would be only to those contemplated by the act of Congress referred to. There has always been a belief that more cures were effected by the public baths than by those taken in individual tubs, by reason of the fact that in the public bathhouse there are 13 large pools, somewhat on the order of the old Roman baths, in which the radio-active gas is present in much larger quantities because of the volume of water.

As a result many persons who were amply able to pay took advantage of the free baths. Hence I recommended that each applicant for baths make a sworn statement of his inability to pay. This recommendation, after receiving favorable consideration in the department, resulted in the enactment of the following act of Congress approved March 2, 1911:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That only persons who are without and unable to obtain the means to pay for baths and are suffering from ailments for which bathing in the water of the Hot Springs Reservation will afford relief or effect a cure shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the public reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and before any person shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the reservation he shall be required to make oath, before such officer duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes as the superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation shall designate, that he is without and unable to obtain the means to pay for baths, and any person desiring to bathe at the free bathhouse on the Hot Springs Reservation making a false oath as to his financial condition shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not to exceed twenty-five dollars, or thirty days' imprisonment, or both.

After the passage of this law the privilege of bathing in the free bathhouse was limited to those actually indigent. Yet so steady has been the increasing demands that the baths given this year exceed those given last year by nearly 25,000. While this increase seems unusual under the restrictions in force, it is in fact reasonable when it is considered that this was an unprecedented year for visitors, and the proportionate increase of indigent is natural.

I wish to again state that while the present bathhouse is in good repair, sanitary, and well arranged, it is altogether too small. There should be a free bathhouse more distant from bathhouse row, and at least two or three times the size of the present building.

I do not see how the revenues can yield sufficient funds to pay for a new building, so if the Government expects to care for the indigents who come here, Congress should appropriate at least $250,000 for a new bathhouse, fully equipped, for the exclusive use of the indigent.

Should this be done, the present building could be razed, with the exception of the main portion, which, together with the furnace therein, could be utilized for the installation of an electric-light plant and pumping station. At present the light bills for the reservation are approximately $1,200 annually, exclusive of the cost of maintenance of equipment, which is now owned by the Government.

A good small electric-light plant could be installed, using the building as suggested, for approximately $5,000. This would furnish lights for the mountain, Whittington Lake Park, the superintendent's official residence and office, the free bathhouse, the medical director's office and residence, and bathhouse row. This plant would furnish about three times the number of lights now on the reservation.

I recommend this improvement, provided a new Government free bathhouse is arranged for.

The following table shows the result of the operation of the free bathhouse for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911:

Baths given by free bathhouse.

SALE OF GOVERNMENT LOTS.

In March, 1911, there was held under the supervision of the chief clerk of the department a public auction sale of the remaining 169 lots owned by the Government, aside from those reserved for various purposes. Ail were sold or permanently withdrawn, except 6, upon which it appeared the appraisement was too high. The majority of the lots sold were disposed of at prices considerably in excess of the appraised values. The sale netted $82,518, which has been set aside for improvements and current expenses of the reservation.

Incidentally I know of nothing which affords stronger proof of the substantial growth of the city and the fullest confidence of its future as a resort than the way these lots sold and the prices they brought.

RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS.

The receipts and disbursements during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, were as follows:

RECEIPTS.

Receipts for fiscal year ended June 30, 1911:

DISBURSEMENTS.

Balances June 30, 1911:

In addition the proceeds of the Government lot sale, amounting to $82,518, are available for expenditures on the reservation. This sum, added to balance given above, makes $99,557.99 available for reservation expenditures.

OFFICIAL VISIT.

During March of the present year the chief clerk of the department, Mr. Clement S. Ucker, was assigned by the Secretary of the Interior to conduct the sale of the unsold lots belonging to the Government in the city of Hot Springs. He was accompanied by Inspectors E. B. Linnen, Joe H. Norris, and William R. Logan, of the department.

In this connection I wish to say that the visits of the chief clerk to this reservation in 1910 and the present year, his coming in contact with conditions as they actually exist, his observations as to obstacles that must be surmounted in the effective enforcement of the rules and regulations, his having an opportunity to meet the leading citizens of this community and ascertain the public opinion of the wishes and intentions of the department regarding the present and future for this resort, have resulted in incalculable benefit both to this office and to the community by enlisting the hearty cooperation of the general public in the department's designs for the general upbuilding and development of Hot Springs.

I am strongly of the opinion that the Government has no asset nearly so valuable as these wonderful waters, and that there is nothing in all the world which can bring the same measure of relief and benefit to mankind as these baths. Such being the case, every official encouragement extended by the department stimulates a better and more cordial feeling of cooperation on behalf of the citizens of Hot Springs.

I have been informed that but two Secretaries of the Interior Department have ever visited Hot Springs during the entire period in which the Government has controlled this reservation. I regard this as most unfortunate, for the reason that the importance of these waters to suffering humanity can not be over estimated, and an official intimate knowledge of conditions would necessarily result in much that would prove vastly beneficial both to the department and to the public. I therefore indulge the hope that at no distant date we shall have the honor of an official visit from the present head of the department, when I believe that such an enthusiastic, loyal, and cordial welcome would be extended as would clearly demonstrate the very sincere appreciation with which the department's efforts are held by the citizens here.

RECOMMENDATIONS.

There is in contemplation the erection of a magnificent fountain to replace the one in front of the superintendent's office, the latter to be duplicated and the two placed on each side of the grand entrance. Both changes are necessary because of the fact that at present the accommodations afforded the public are inadequate. It is also intended to construct a colonnade from the curb line of bath house row to the Maurice Spring; and while the spring will be left in its natural shape, ample shelter will be provided for the use of its patrons at all times. This colonnade will be of stone and terra cotta, with walks, grass plots, and flowers its entire length.

During the present summer the lower part of Whittington Lake Park will be filled in and graded, and the present rock walls throughout the entire park will be cemented. Allotment for this work has already been made.

Among the improvements needed is a road leading down from North Mountain to Park Avenue.

It is believed that one of the most practical and beneficial improvements required here at the present time is the construction of a substantial conduit of suitable size along the reservation front to accommodate the pipe lines leading to all the bathhouses on bath house row, with manholes at appropriate distances. This would prevent digging up the lawn every time a bathhouse has trouble with its line. There should also be a conduit of like nature built from the main impounding reservoir in the rear of the superintendent's office to the curb line on Reserve Avenue to accommodate the six pipe lines now receiving their supply from this reservoir.

ADMINISTRATION OF SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE.

Important changes have been made during the past year in the administration of the affairs of this office, the most important of which is the requirement that every person not under the care of a registered physician shall first secure a permit from the superintendent's office before he is permitted to bathe. This regulation went into effect December 1, 1910. This has demanded an increase of help in order to properly handle the large number of visitors who necessarily come to the office to procure their bath permits. This custom has reduced the business of nonregistered physicians to the minimum, and I predict that within a few months there will not be a nonregistered doctor doing business in Hot Springs, for the reason that they will be unable to make a living. They are finding it harder and harder each day to persuade patients who are drummed to them to come here and certify to a falsehood in order to get the baths. It is believed that increased results might be accomplished by applying the same rule to the patients of registered physicians as well as to those not under medical treatment.

A modern and complete filing system has been installed, which is an important factor in facilitating the administration of this office, and especially will this be true as the volume of business continues to increase.

EMPLOYEES.

There are 30 employees, including the superintendent, required to properly maintain and care for the reservation interests. Their names, duties, and compensations, together with the names of the States from which they were appointed, are shown in the following table:

Reservation employees.

CIRCULAR OF GENERAL INFORMATION.

I have always felt that it was the duty of the Government to furnish the public with ample and exact information as to what these waters would accomplish and the conditions surrounding them and their uses. On my recommendation the department has issued a circular giving in detail all information likely to be useful to the visitor.

CITY OF HOT SPRINGS.

Hot Springs is a city of about 16,000 resident population, with churches of all denominations, public and private schools, a fine street railway system, waterworks, electric and gas lights, well-equipped fire department, local and long-distance telephone systems, metropolitan police system, fine city auditorium, and a magnificent race track and State fairgrounds. There are about 600 hotels and boarding houses, which furnish all grades of accommodations for visitors. A fine tennis court in Whittington Lake Park Reservation is always open to the public, as is also a splendid 18-hole golf-link course and country club. Hot Springs is reached by two trunk lines—St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and the Rock Island system.

In conclusion, I indulge the hope that the results accomplished in the administration of the affairs of this reservation during the past year will prove a source of gratification to the department, as I am sure they have to the public. The cordial interest in the advancement of every idea tending to afford a greater degree of relief to a visiting public and the more hearty cooperation of the citizens with this department, as has been manifested in numerous ways during the year; the general improved tone of business and the assurance of a greater hope for the future, taken in connection with the more scientific and efficient administration of these wonderful waters, augur a solid and substantial growth and splendid future and indicate beyond question that so long as the visitor receives the very best treatment amid climatic conditions rarely equaled and unsurpassed, with waters as marvelous in curative properties as they are mysterious in their source, that Hot Springs may well be termed the "World's pleasure ground and health sanatorium."

I have the honor to be, very respectfully,

HARRY H. MEYERS,
Superintendent.

The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.

APPENDIX.

RULES AND REGULATIONS, WITH ALL AMENDMENTS THERETO, UP TO AND INCLUDING JUNE 30, 1911, FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ALL BATHHOUSES RECEIVING HOT WATER FROM THE UNITED STATES RESERVATION AT HOT SPRINGS, ARK.

The superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation is directed to enforce a prompt and faithful compliance with the following rules:

RULE 1. Bathhouses or hotels will be allowed such number of tubs as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem proper and necessary for the public service and the amount of hot water will justify.

RULE 2. The constant flow of hot water for vapor or other baths, even during business hours, or the unnecessary waste of water in any manner, is strictly prohibited, and will, if continued after written notice from the superintendent to stop such waste of water, be considered by the department sufficient grounds for the cancellation of the lease of such offending lessee.

RULE 3. Rentals must be paid quarterly in advance, at the office of the superintendent, and if not paid within five days from the beginning of each quarter the supply of water may be cut off.

RULE 4. The charge for baths at the different bathhouses shall be at the rates fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and no bath tickets shall be sold for more than said rate, and then only to such persons as intend to actually use them for bathing. In event of charges in a less amount being exacted for baths, such new rate shall at once be reported to the superintendent, and, when approved by the department, shall thereafter become the maximum rate. No bath ticket shall be sold except at the office of the bathhouse where the bath is to be given, and tickets must show the date when issued, the serial number, the number of baths for which issued, the full name of the purchaser, and the amount paid therefor. Bath tickets shall be redeemable for the same proportionate price for which they were sold, when presented by the original purchaser: Provided, That when less than seven baths have been taken on any ticket presented for redemption, the bathhouse may charge the rate for single baths for the number of baths taken on said ticket. No bath ticket or part of a ticket shall be reissued after having been redeemed. No bathhouse receiving water from the Hot Springs Reservation will be permitted to issue complimentary bath tickets, except that bathhouse lessees may, on the written permission of the superintendent, issue complimentary bath tickets in such cases as in his judgment justify such action.

The renting and selling of bath robes, towels, soap, toilet articles, or articles of merchandise in bathhouses is prohibited.

RULE 5. The owners or managers of bathhouses receiving waters from the Hot Springs Reservation are prohibited from bathing in said bathhouses persons stopping at any hotel, boarding house, or rooming house which has a drummer or solicitor on trains or the owner of which drums or solicits on trains, or who has employed in or about such house any inside man or person engaged in drumming or soliciting business for doctors or bathhouses; also the owners or managers and the employees of such bathhouses are absolutely prohibited from either directly or indirectly reflecting on or questioning the integrity of the hot-water supply of any other bathhouse, or of claiming superiority of its own supply of hot water over that furnished from the springs on the reservation to other bathhouses. Upon evidence of violation of this rule the superintendent shall report the facts, with his recommendation, to the Secretary of the Interior, looking to the shutting off of the water from any bathhouse or canceling the lease, as the department may determine.

RULE 6. Bathhouse attendants shall be allowed to charge for their services not exceeding 15 cents for a single bath, $1 per week, or $3 per course of 21 baths, to be collected for the attendant by the bath house manager and properly accounted for by him to the attendant. The services of the attendants shall include all the necessities of the bath, except towels and bath robes, laundering bath robes, rubbing mercury, and handling helpless invalids. They shall be required to keep themselves in a neat and cleanly condition, both in person and in dress, and may be required to make good any damages accruing from breakage or neglect of duty. It shall be optional with the bather whether he employ an attendant or not. No person shall be employed or permitted to serve or occupy space in any bathhouse as a mercury rubber or as a masseur without the approval of the superintendent first had and obtained; and every person so employed or serving shall be subject and amenable to the rules and regulations the same as attendants and other bathhouse employees.

RULE 7. The payment of any sum of money, or anything of value, either directly or indirectly, by any bathhouse owner, manager, clerk, or attendant as compensation for drumming customers to any bath house, or allowing public drummers, drumming doctors, hotel or boarding-house proprietors who are drummers, or persons who work with them as inside men, to bring persons or show them through, or to loiter in or about any bathhouse, is positively forbidden. Upon evidence of violation of this rule, the superintendent shall report the facts, with his recommendation, to the Secretary of the Interior, looking to the shutting off of the water from any bathhouse or canceling the lease, as the department may determine.

RULE 8. The lessee of each bathhouse shall cause to be kept a full and correct daily register of each bath given, the number and kind of bath tickets sold, and the number of complimentary tickets issued each day, etc., such form of register to be approved by the superintendent and a copy therefrom of each day's business to be forwarded to the superintendent daily. No person shall be allowed to bathe without a numbered ticket being issued and a record of the same being kept, and report thereof duly certified by the manager filed with the superintendent on the first day of each month as paid, complimentary, or free baths, together with any information he may have showing a violation of the bathhouse rules and regulations which may be susceptible of proof.

RULE 9. All bathhouses receiving deposits of jewelry, money, or other valuables from bathers must provide means satisfactory to the superintendent of the reservation for the safe-keeping thereof. It is to be understood, however, that the Government assumes no responsibility in the premises. All losses must be promptly reported to the superintendent by the bathhouse manager.

RULE 10. An applicant for baths who is under medical treatment shall not be permitted to bathe in any bathhouse supplied with hot water from the Hot Springs Reservation unless said applicant presents satisfactory evidence that he or she is the patient of a physician who is duly registered at the office of the superintendent as qualified to prescribe the waters of the hot springs and who is known not to engage in drumming for custom: Provided, That ever applicant for baths not under the care of a registered physician shall be required to make a certificate to be filed with the bathhouse manager that he or she is not under the care of any physician, and should such applicant subsequently employ, consult, or take treatment from any physician while taking baths, then in such case he or she will immediately notify the bathhouse manager of such fact. The violation of this rule by the owner, manager, or any employee of a bathhouse receiving hot water from the reservation will result in the cutting off of the water from the bathhouse or the canceling of the lease, as the department may determine.

RULE 11. Physicians desiring to prescribe the waters of the hot springs, either internally or through the medium of baths, must first be registered at the office of the superintendent of the reservation and shall use only such uniform form of bathing directions as meet with the approval of the superintendent. Registration will be accorded only to such physicians as are found by a board designated by the Secretary of the Interior to have proper professional qualifications and character and who do not engage in drumming for custom. No physician who shall engage in the solicitation of patronage through the medium of drummers or otherwise, or who shall engage in unprofessional, disreputable, or dishonest conduct, or is addicted to the drug or other habit which disqualifies him for the performance of his professional duties, shall be or remain registered. In case any person who, in violation of these regulations, bathes or attempts to bathe or enters or attempts to enter upon the Hot Springs Reservation to bathe shall have the permit of a physician therefor, such physician shall be liable to the penalties provided in the act of April 20, 1904, unless he is regularly registered, but the bather or the person attempting to bathe shall not be liable to the penalties of said act unless it shall be made to appear that he knew or had reason to believe that the physician giving him the permit to bathe was not regularly registered.

RULE 12. If a charge is made to the superintendent in writing under oath, supported by the affidavits of two or more witnesses, that a registered physician has violated any of the laws and regulations pertaining to the government of the bathhouses receiving hot water from said reservation, he shall at once be cited to appear on a day to be named, and within not exceeding 15 days there after, before the board of registration and show cause why his name should not be stricken from the register of physicians authorized to prescribe the waters of said springs, and pending investigation and final action upon such charges the right of such physician to prescribe the hot waters way be suspended by the board of registration. The person against whom such complaint is made shall have the right of filing written interrogatories pertinent to the issue to such complainants or witnesses, to be answered by them under oath, and may submit within 20 days thereafter counter affidavits in answer to the charges or the matters contained in the affidavits of said witnesses.

The complainant witnesses may file rebuttal affidavits within 10 days after the service upon them of said counter affidavits, and the hearing of said charges shall be had on the record aforesaid. An appeal from the decision of said board and upon said record may be taken within 7 days from such decision to the Secretary of the Interior.

If upon consideration of the complaint the charge is not sustained the suspension will be immediately removed. If, however, such charge is sustained, or if default be made, the name of the physician shall be stricken from the registered list.

RULE 13. Persons violating any of the foregoing regulations within the purview of the act of April 20, 1904, entitled "An act conferring jurisdiction upon the United States commissioners over offenses committed in a portion of the permanent Hot Springs Mountain Reservation, Arkansas," and the act of March 2, 1907; amendatory therof, will be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be subjected on conviction to the payment of a fine, as provided in said act of April 20, 1904, of not exceeding $100, and be adjudged to pay all costs of the proceeding.

RULE 14. All bathhouses shall be kept in a neat, clean, and sanitary condition, and all sewage and waste water properly conducted away, and all underdrainage kept in perfect order. The water-closets shall have sufficient and free connection with the public sewers and be kept in the best order and with the best plumbing furnishings and appliances. Lessees of bathhouses on the permanent reservation shall under the direction of the superintendent, cultivate and maintain a part of the bathhouse park in front of their respective bathhouses, the space for each to cultivate to be allotted by the superintendent.

RULE 15. Each bathhouse manager, clerk, and attendant shall be required to have a full and complete understanding of the bathhouse rules and regulations before entering upon his duties.

The superintendent is authorized to require the discharge of any bathhouse manager, clerk, attendant, mercury rubber, or masseur for bathhouse drumming or refusing or neglecting to carry out the bath house, rules and regulations according to the true intent and meaning thereof. Any person discharged for, cause from a bathhouse or removed at the request of the superintendent shall not be again employed by the same or any other bathhouse or permitted to render service in any bathhouse without the written consent of the superintendent. Managers must promptly report to the superintendent the name of any person so removed.

A neatly framed copy of the rules and regulations now in force, together with the prices of baths and attendant's fees, both separately and combined, printed in large black type on white cardboard, shall be conspicuously posted in the office of each bathhouse.

PHYSICIAN'S APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION.

To the board of physicians appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to pass upon the qualifications and character of physicians to prescribe the waters from the Hot Springs Reservation:

1. I was born at ______.

2. My preliminary education was obtained ______. (State common school or collegiate.) (If the latter, name of college and date of degree.)

3. I graduated in medicine from ______ (give name of College), on the ______ day of ______, 1___.

4. My State certificate was issued ______. (When and where.)

5. From what county issued ______. (When.)

6. Society membership: County ______; State ______; American Medical Association ______(yes or no) ; special, ______.

7. I have practiced at my present location ______ years, and have practiced at the following places for the years named ______.

8. I now hold or have held the following positions ______. (Give places of trust or honor held now or in the past, prizes received, and dispensary or college appointments.)

9. I have during the 10 years next preceding the date of this application resided at the following-named places, and was engaged in the following business ______. (State period of residence at each place and business engaged in while there.)

10. I am ______. (State "general practitioner" or specialty, if any.)

11. Do you employ drummers to solicit business? ______. (Yes or no.)

12. Do you pay commissions on any of your professional business, either directly or indirectly? ______. (Yes or no.)

13. Have you paid commissions on any of your professional business or given anything of value, either directly or indirectly, for such purposes during the past two years? ______. (Yes or no.)

14. If so, when did you quit, and why? ______. (Date.)

15. If registered, will you faithfully observe the rules and regulations approved by the Secretary of the Interior regarding the use of the waters of the hot springs? ______. (Yes or no.)

16. My office is ______ Street ; residence, ______ Street ; telephone number ______.

Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this ______ day of ______, 191_.

______ ______, Notary Public.

My commission expires ______.
Reported and examined ______.

BATH PERMIT FOR PERSONS NOT EMPLOYING PHYSICIAN.

BATH PERMIT.

No. ______.

OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION,

In consideration of the Issuing of this permit, I hereby certify that I am not under the care of a physician, and if I employ or consult any physician it will be one whose name is on the Government's registered list. I fully understand that it is a violation of the law if I bathe, or attempt to bathe, while treating with any nonregistered physician, and that I lay myself liable to a fine of $100 for each offense, and this permit becomes void.

______ ______,
(Signature of applicant.)

Home Address ______ ______.
Local Address ______ ______.

BATH PERMIT.

NOT TRANSFERABLE.

No. ______.

OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION,

To Bathhouses:

When presented In person and countersigned by ______ it will permit you to sell said person a bath ticket, {he she} having employed no physician. This permit must be returned to the superintendent's office with your daily report not later than the day next succeeding the day on which it is used.

______ ______,
Superintendent.
By _______ ______.

Signature of applicant:
______ ______.
Witness:
______ ______,
Bathhouse.

Void if presented later than second day after date.

REGULATIONS OF JULY 7, 1900, FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FREE BATHHOUSE.

These baths are provided and maintained by the United States pursuant to the requirements of the act of Congress approved December 16, 1878 (20 Stat., 258), for the use of the indigent only; neither the manager nor attendants are authorized to supply them to others.

The manager of the free bathhouse is required to enforce a strict observance of the following rules and regulations:

RULE 1. No baths will be supplied except on written applications made on blanks furnished at the office of the bathhouse, making full answers to the questions therein propounded; then if the applicant is found to be indigent (in accordance with the common acceptance of the word), the manager will issue a ticket good for 21 baths, which may be reissued on the same application if necessary.

RULE 2. Persons using the free baths are required to maintain quiet and orderly deportment while in or about the bath house, to abstain from the use of tobacco, either by chewing or smoking, while in the pool rooms, dressing rooms, or office, not to scatter rags or paper on the floor, or to loiter in or about the building after bathing.

RULE 3. The wanton exposure of person or entering any of the front rooms in a nude state, the use of loud, vulgar, or profane language, the use of rags, paper, soap, or any foreign substance in the pool rooms is positively prohibited.

RULE 4. Persons using these baths are not allowed to stand or sit on or in any way interfere with the water pipes or valves or to stand on the chairs or benches. All persons entering the house are required to clean their feet at the door and avoid as much as possible bringing dirt or mud on the floors. Boys over 5 years of age will not be allowed in the female department during bathing hours.

RULE 5. Any willful or repeated violation of these rules, or any disorderly or contemptuous conduct, will subject the persons so offending to suspension or expulsion, at the discretion of the superintendent of the reservation.

RULE 6. Neither the manager nor the Government attendants shall be allowed to receive or become responsible for any valuables or to charge any fees for any service rendered to bathers which comes within the direct line of their duty.

RULE 7. The manager is required to enforce all the foregoing rules and to maintain good order in and about the bathhouse, to see that all indigent persons applying are supplied with baths, and to make a written report to the superintendent each month on blank forms supplied for that purpose. He may reject any application for free baths if he has reason to believe the applicant has made false answers in his written application and the aggrieved may appeal to the superintendent of the reservation.

APPLICATION FOR BATHS AT THE GOVERNMENT FEEE BATH HOUSE AT HOT SPRINGS, ARK.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION.

No. ______.

Persons desiring to use the free baths are required to answer the following questions, in writing, and sign the same, giving full name: Name, ______; town, ______; county, ______; State, ______; present address in Hot Springs: Street, ______; No. ______; native of what country______; age, ______ years; have you a family? ______; how many in family? ______; occupation, ______; are you able to work? ______; are you employed now? ______; by whom? ______; In what capacity? ______; do you wish to bathe for your health? ______; with what disease are you afflicted? ______; how long afflicted? ______; are you under treatment of a physician at Hot Springs? ______; if so, give his name and address, ______; do you own any real estate? ______; what is the value of your personal property? $_____; how much money have you? ______. The act of Congress approved December 16, 1878 (20 Stat., 258), restricts the use of free baths to the indigent; in other words, to persons who are poor, needy, in want, or without means of comfortable subsistence. Do you regard yourself as an indigent person? ______.

Persons accepting and using these baths are required to report to the manager once each week whether they are being benefited by the baths or not, and also when they discontinue bathing.

______ ______. [SEAL.]

HOT SPRINGS, ARK., ______, 19__.