PALACE OF HEALING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 13

PALACE OF HEALING

SCENES OF REJOICING TORCH PROCESSION YIE.NNA, .Inn. 7. _ Extraordinary scones marked the official opening in Galspacli, I'pper Austria, (if the Zeileif I’nlaee. ihe amazing medical laboratory, designed and built m seven months at a cost ot £500,000. by "l)n.'’ Valentin Zeileif, inventor of a new science of radium-electric treatment . A victory for humanity as opposed to medical etiquette was scored by Zeil.eii, who is unqualified, for not only did thousands of loyal “subjects"—peasants, shopkeepers. and artisans dependent on Inin for their existence-—assemble to honor him, hut the sheriff of 1 pper Austria was represented by Max Mavis Professor Von Wendt of fielsington, a Nobel prize-winner, with many a local mayor and qualified practitioner, also attended lie ceremonies. It was announced ihat tin* fantastic building, with its towering architecture, marble balls, and violet ceilings, contains tin.' largest consulting room in the world. When the hotels, pensions, and boarding houses, now nearing completion in Galspacli, are ready to admit the flood of patients who have booked accommodation for the spring and summer months, no fewer than 6CCO persons will be treated daily. The ancient castle of Ga.lspiich, oldest m Austria, for 25 years the laboratoryhome of Zeileif. only accommodated 1.200 patients a. day. When night fell Galspacli became a magic city of light. Flags fluttered in the glow of fairy lamps, searchlights and fireworks flashed over the dark waters and grey walls of the old castle, and a torchlight procession passed, singing, along (he half-completed modern street . Standing on the steps between bis wife and son, who helped him in his giant labors, was Zeileif. a smile on his broad bearded face. The scene closed at midnight, when a detatehinent of police, stark and solemn in the half-glare of lamps, fired a salvo in honor of Zeileif.