GLENDALE is the name of the new sanitarium located amid orange, lemon, and olive groves in one of the most beautiful and fertile valleys of Southern California. It is only nine miles from Los Angeles, and one mile and a half from the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad running from Los Angeles to San Francisco. A branch of the Salt Lake road runs within two blocks of the sanitarium, and the Glendale and Tropico Electric line carries passengers from the Arcade depot in Los Angeles to the sanitarium door. So, while the institution is located in the country, it has convenient access to the city and all parts of the outside world.
The Glendale Sanitarium.
The Fernando Valley, in which the sanitarium is located, will afford an excellent supply of fresh fruits and vegetables. There are acres of strawberries and other small fruit, beside the beautiful groves of oranges and lemons. These are interspersed with alfalfa fields, vineyards, and vegetable gardens. The ocean breezes, blowing over the low range of foot-hills that hide the waters of the broad Pacific from view, fan the valley by day, and the cool mountain air by night conduces to refreshing sleep in the warmest weather. Surrounded by hills and mountains, with an altitude of six hundred feet, Glendale Sanitarium possesses natural advantages found only in this great sanitarium country.
A thirty-minute ride on the electric line takes you to Los Angeles, and in an hour and a half the cars convey the visitor to Long Beach or any of the other seaside resorts. A few miles from the sanitarium the mountains rise several thousand feet. An abundance of pure mountain water is piped all through the building and about the grounds, which are laid out and planted with trees, shrubs, and flowers. The building is a three-story structure, and contains seventy-five rooms. It cost, as it now stands, over forty thousand dollars, and the grounds are worth five or six thousand dollars. The Lord gave us the entire property for twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
At the camp-meeting held in Los Angeles from September 1 to 12, a resolution was passed by the conference to purchase the Glendale Hotel, and equip it for a sanitarium. Over five thousand dollars were raised by the brethren and sisters present, in donations and pledges, and over three thousand five hundred in cash deposits to start the work. We trust this good beginning will continue until many more will have a part in establishing this memorial for God to work for suffering humanity.
As Southern California is fast becoming the great sanitarium of the world, may we not look for some financial help outside the conference? A sanitarium in a field like this is of more than local interest. There are a variety of ways in which we can assist the institution now struggling to get a start. Donations of money, time, and furnishings are always in order. These are among the best ways to help the cause of God. It will take a large amount of furniture, bedding, linen, etc., to furnish the institution. Some might greatly assist at this time to get the work started by depositing money without interest, or by loaning it at a low rate of interest. We shall be pleased to correspond with any who can help in this way. All can assist by calling the attention of friends and neighbors who may be in need of the benefits to be derived at the sanitarium; and last, but not least, by praying for its success.
If the Lord wills, we hope to be ready to receive patients about the middle of November; but the formal opening will probably take place a little later.
J. A. BURDEN.
