Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1892 — A Hotel in the Desert, [ARTICLE]

A Hotel in the Desert,

It is said that 0,000 foreigners in quest of health are spending the present winter in Cairo. Among them are a few who prefer quiet to gayety, and the air of the desert to that of the city. A while ago a hotel was built in the desert near the pyramids. Several hundred acres of the desert land were bought in 1884 by a wealthy Englishman who was a sufferer from consumption.. He believed that the desert air would be a specific. For two years he lived with his wife in a little house erected on the sand waste he had bought and regained much of the strength he had lost. Believing that the desert air would be most beneficial to invalids afflicted as he was, be erected a sanitarium on his property, but he died just before its completion. The building he put up now forms a part of the hotel, which is reached easily from Cairo, and has a good many guests, not only invalids but those who wish to spend a night in the desert and have more time for inspecting the pyramids than they enjoyed formerly, when they were compelled to hurry away after a- few hours in order to return to Cairo the same evening. —Providence Journal.