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Hotel Headlines From Days Gone By
When we say our hotels have been making headlines for well over a century, it’s the truth.
Dusting off some old newspaper clippings to spotlight a few of the occasions we’ve been in the news over the years....
If you’ve got a good zoom tool and a little bit of time, it’s
interesting to peruse the story (or the accompanying editorial cartoon, at
least). The writer of the story interviewed the local sheriff, prosecutor and
judge, who all had the same laissez-faire attitude about allowing illegal gambling to occur in French Lick. The not-so-secret gambling kept people
flocking to Taggart’s French Lick Springs Hotel during the day, and the Brown Hotel (located right across the street) for gambling festivities into the night.
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| French Lick Springs Hotel owner Tom Taggart on the steps (circa 1911), and the Brown Hotel (below) which guests of Taggart's hotel frequented for gambling. |
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| Aftermath of the June 1901 fire that gutted the original West Baden Springs Hotel. |
Hotel Lies In Ruins … Great West Baden Structure Totally Consumed.
It made headlines from New York to San Francisco. Some early
editions of the day incorrectly stated that as many as 200 people perished in
the fire. This newspaper correctly that all the guests escaped, and that the “fire
was attended with thrilling rescues…guests had not time to dress – turned out into
the rain.”
Barely over a year later, the new West Baden Springs Hotel that
we know today was open and ready for guests.
For a span of seven months between 1918 and 1919, West Baden Springs Hotel temporarily closed to guests and became U.S. Army General Hospital No. 35. With World War I intensifying, the U.S. government prepared for the influx of soldiers returning from overseas and military hospitals were needed for recovering soldiers. A patriotic spirit led business owners to offer their buildings to the War Department for modification into temporary hospitals, as these large spaces could be converted much faster than barrack hospitals could be constructed and at less cost.
As one of these other headlines notes months later, “records
show that 800 overseas men were cared for there, with no deaths.”
“Pluto spring contains three times more sulphureted hydrogen
than any other spring on the continent … the air is rich with oxygen the entire
year … the sulphureted hydrogen with which the atmosphere is highly charged precludes
all possibility of malaria.”
If you had $800,000 lying around 30 years ago to buy the hotel, you could’ve bought the place. As it turned out, we’re pretty happy the Cook family ultimately made the multimillion-dollar investment to bring the hotel back to life.
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