Location: Central Arkansas. Area: 911 acres. Season: Throughout
the year. Address of Supervisor: Hot Springs, Arkansas.
HOT SPRINGS is reached by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, and the Memphis, Dallas & Gulf
Railroads. There is through sleeping-car service from St. Louis and
Memphis.
The Reservation is immediately adjacent to the city of Hot Springs,
which has a population of about 14,000 and which is a municipality and
is not under government control.
The only hotel on the Reservation is the Arlington, where the rates
are $5.00 a day and upward. There are hotels of every class in the
city, the principal ones being the Eastman, Majestic, Moody, and Como.
Some of the bathhouses are on the Reservation and some are in the
city, but the water is the same in all, the range in prices being due
to the equipments and accommodations provided. The rates are as
follows:--
_Scale of Rates for Baths at Different Bathhouses receiving Water
from the Hot Springs Reservation_
_Bathhouse_ _Single baths_ _Course of 21 baths_
Arlington $0.65 $12.00
Fordyce 0.65 12.00
Buckstaff 0.60 11.00
Maurice 0.60 11.00
Imperial 0.55 10.00
Eastman 0.55 10.00
Majestic 0.55 10.00
Hale 0.50 9.00
Moody 0.50 9.00
St. Joseph's Infirmary 0.50 9.00
Superior 0.50 9.00
Lamar 0.45 8.00
Rector 0.45 8.00
Rockafellow 0.45 8.00
Ozark Sanatorium 0.45 8.00
Magnesia 0.40 7.00
Ozark 0.40 7.00
Alhambra 0.40 7.00
Pythian Sanatorium (colored) 0.25 4.00
Visitors are advised not to take the baths without the advice of a
physician, as the waters are not beneficial in all diseases and in
some are harmful. Visitors should not patronize doctors who are
recommended by unknown or irresponsible persons, as in the past there
has been considerable soliciting on behalf of certain physicians. A
list of registered doctors may be consulted at the office of the
Supervisor of the Reservation.
Golf and horseback riding are the favorite forms of exercise. Visitors
from the North should bear in mind that spring is a little earlier in
this region and that fall is a little later.