It is the lead story on page one of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise dated Tuesday, Feb. 8, 1916, a mere 106 years ago. The newspaper was published Tuesdays and Fridays by Kenneth W. Goldthwaite, “$1.50 Per Year, Strictly in Advance.”

So I believe that Amy Catania, who does such a great job as executive director of Historic Saranac Lake, will love this story. She better love it, or I will no longer whistle down the chatty crowds when she is ready to give one of her speeches.

Headlines and notes preceding the story:

“Gives $15,000 to Memorial” ­– “Gift of Samuel Mather” — “Trudeau Memorial Foundation Gets A Very Substantial Start” — “Board of Trustees of the Adirondack Cottage Sanatarium, Now to be Known as the Trudeau Sanatorium, Organized with Dr. Walter H. James as President and Dr. E. R. Baldwin as the Executive in Charge of the Laboratory and the New School of Tuberculosis, Succeeding the Late Dr. Trudeau in This Capacity.”

PICTURE OF THE WEEK: Last week in this space we saw the original 1909 Berkeley Hotel — this page one Enterprise photo shows the Berkeley Hotel burning on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 1925. The story has Walter Sagendorf, the owner, thanking the firemen for saving the building and saying he was unsure whether to reconstruct the building or build a new hotel.

All that is in headlines and subtitles, then the story:

“Following the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Adirondack Cottage Sanatarium held in New York City comes the announcement that a gift of $15,000, $5,000 a year for three years, has been received from Samuel Mather of Cleveland, Ohio, through the efforts of Dr. R. H. Bishop, whose wife is the daughter of Mr. Mather, a man widely known as a philanthropist and through whom the Western University Medical College has been endowed. The name of the institution has changed, officially to the Trudeau Sanatorium, after the great man who devoted his life toward developing this institution.

“The purpose of the $500,000 Trudeau Memorial Foundation which will be raised for an endowment in memory of the late Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau are as follows: “To maintain laboratories and carry on research into the nature, causes and treatment of tuberculosis, with the ultimate object of discovering a cure, thus continuing what was the main purpose of Dr. Trudeau’s life.

“To maintain regular courses of instruction for physicians and others in the most advanced knowledge of tuberculosis, as well as the principals of sanatorium construction and management , social service and the relation of the disease to public health.”

There is more listed to the “purposes,” but is illegible in this yellow, tattered copy, but further in the story is this: “Dr. Lawrason Brown was elected a trustee of the Sanatorium and made consulting physician and Chairman of the Board of the Trudeau Sanatorium. He was elected a trustee at a meeting of the Board of Trustees held in January, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Trudeau.

[Dr. Trudeau died at age 67 on Nov. 15, 1915]

“Dr. James Alexander Miller of New York City was elected to the board of trustees at the same time Dr. Baldwin was made a member of that body some months ago. Dr. Walter B. James was made president.

“The Trudeau School of Tuberculosis will begin its first session on May 17. The instructors include: Dr. E. R. Baldwin, Dr. Lawrason Brown, Dr. A. K. Krause, asst. director and pathologist of the Saranac Lake Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis: Dr. A. H. Garvin, Medical Superintendent of New York State Sanatorium; Dr. F. H. Heise, resident Physician of Trudeau Sanatorium and Dr. H. M. Kinghorn, vice president, Laurentian Sanatorium, St. Agathe, Quebec, Canada.

“A prospectus of the Course of Study of the Trudeau School of Tuberculosis is now being prepared, copies of which will be sent out to people who wish to come here.”

St. Agathe is a Sister City of Saranac Lake. I was in the right place at the right time in making that connection when I was village manager. The chamber of commerce, long after Sue Dwyer left, did not want anything to do with it. That same day someone suggested to the St. Agathe group that they stop and see me at the village office. I jumped on it, immediately went to Mayor Tom Catillaz with the idea and he said, “go for it.” I have a great picture taken in St. Agathe of Mayor Catillaz and a big group of Saranac Lakers when we officially created the Sister City connection.

Dr. Kinghorn, eventually moved to Saranac Lake and bought what was later known as the Sageman House on Church Street. I had met him when I was in high school with his son, John.

Checking out St. Agathe, similar to Saranac Lake in its physical layout which is built around a lake, but more significant, it was also a destination with a big tuberculosis hospital where people with TB went to cure.

Upon our arrival in St. Agathe, immediately in view, was the tuberculosis hospital where Dr. Kinghorn had been vice president.

This former farm boy sounded like Gomer Pyle when I say, “go-o-o-ollee” it looks just like our Will Rogers Hospital — hello! The architect for that hospital was William H. Scopes, who designed Will Rogers Hospital and half the other beautiful buildings in Saranac Lake.