For Sale by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 28, 1907

For Sale

By W. A. S.

Guadalajara

In a report from Mexico, in the issue of January 10, referring briefly to the work in Guadalajara, I made this reference to the medical institution formerly operated there by the Medical Missionary Association: “Just before that association went into liquidation, as most of our readers know, the Guadalajara real estate was taken over by the Michigan Sanitarium Association. The attorney of that corporation is now in Guadalajara disposing of the property. It is closed as a sanitarium, and a portion of the property has already been sold.”

An unsigned note has come to hand, addressed to the editor, upon paper bearing the letter-head, “Hotel Sanatorio de Guadalajara.” It is undoubtedly written by the manager and attorney, and I quote from it as follows, as the writer apparently takes exception to the report that the property was “closed as a sanitarium,” and desires correction made:—

I wish to say that the statements there made are entirely misleading and incorrect. The Guadalajara Sanitarium has not been and is not closed, and its affairs are not, and never have been, in a state of liquidation, by any representative of the Battle Creek Sanitarium that has been sent here for that purpose. I have explained to Elder Spicer and to others just what my mission here is, and who I represent. I have repeatedly said, and I say it to you again, that I have not and do not intend to close this place.

I would gladly accept any correction in phraseology required, but need only call attention to the fact that the manager's note does not state that the place is open “as a sanitarium.” My report that the property was not being operated as a sanitarium—which suggested no reflection upon the manager, I may say—was the manager's own statement to me in personal conversation, in which he explained freely that he had no medical help employed, gave no treatments, but simply let rooms with or without board, while endeavoring to sell off the property. In other words, it was operating as a rooming house or hotel property. This is borne out by the following advertisement, running in a Guadalajara paper at the time of my visit:—

For Sale

The desirable Hotel Property known as the

Sanatorio de Guadalajara

Beautifully located. All modern conveniences. With or without equipment. Complete printing plant also for sale. Furnished rooms, single or en suite, together with table board, if desired. Also family apartments.

This advertisement may be taken as a sufficiently full statement of the facts, to which the report made but the briefest reference. I regret the space required to state these facts, but wished to give the writer of the note the desired opportunity to make his correction of the report.

W. A. S.