Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — LET’S OFFER FOUNTAIN PARK. [ARTICLE]

LET’S OFFER FOUNTAIN PARK.

It is stated that George Ade will offer Hazelden farm to the government for war purposes. We have been talking to the management of Fountain Park and are anxious for them to offer the park to the government for a recuperating station. It seems a shame that there are pleasant grounds with over fifty cottages, which can be used only two weeks in the year. How mucn better it would be to have four or five hundred of the boys who are sent back from France to recover from wounds and gas attacks out there with nurses to look after them, where the surroundings are pleasant and congenial, rather than in some stuffy hospital that reeks with anesthetics and other obnoxious that a man recovering does not care to inhale. Without doubt, every cottage owner on the ground would be willing to donate the use of their cottage until this war is over, and longer, if necessary, for the use of our boys. They could, themselves take to tents for one season or more, during chautauquas, in the event of the government taking them over. The buildings are all there, hotel building for headquarters, cottages for the boys, store-room for supplies, and good, fine water and plenty of it. A little expense for plaster would put the buildings into condition for winter use and we can think of no better or more important use the grounds, could be put tp. As to the consent of the owners of the land, that, too, would undoubtedly be forthcoming freely, but if not the government has the power to take it over for their own use whether with consent or without it. Let’s be patriotnyenough to offer it, anyway.—Remington Press.