The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-06
EDITORS CORRESPONDENTS.
Correspondence OF the Uulon.

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Baekwels island This Is the building for the accommo
dauon OF females, with the offices apperainins. which,
however, are common also 70 the ed ee Tor the males
These Offices chapel, standing near the western
Shore and bakery the Shore in which all the
prison, hospital, aud charity bread required in all the n
sttuons OF the cooperation is prepared In fact in this
mammoth bakery the baking for some six thousand per
done daily This building is 40 by 80 feet and three
stories high 1t has five located in the story
The second story arranged for storing -four and bread,
and the third is used for carpenters cooper and shoe
makers shops. The chapel building is fitted and
church (wth and gallery 800 persons) only
in the upper story, the basement being ware
house and offices for the stores &c. of the
establishment The cooking, washing and Ironing the
whole establishment performed ia separate build
cg about 10 feet in length located the female aims
house. The female amshouse and indeed, all the build
ngs belonging the establishment built of blue
stone rubbe masonry-he material being quanied the
island. 1t consists Of bading with wings The
building 80 feet square and 81 feet high the
conice and 81 the top cnpola The wings
10 by 80 feet and 10 feet high the roof cornce The build
provided with four tower affair in 'front.' and
in the which each IL feet square and 50 high
There three stories above the basement in the WINGS
and tue basement hoor is step above the ground The
centre building contains apartments for the officers. The
wings being occupied by the each divided into
four hoor-ma king twenty-iour rooms in the
two wings 22by Sc feet; in each of which twenty-five
grown paupers comfortably accommodated These
extend from front entirely through
the building. The huge windows each end of all the
open upon spacious and admirable verandas In
this anshouse for females there appear to be but four
classes of inmates: LIST, children under years of age
born in tho Bellvue Hospital, in which the corporations y
hospital is kept others picked in the Streets de-
serted by the parents again, taken from them
their lives. There always from to two hundred
such children in this house, large number being boarded
the corporation, provided with per week
The children in the house mostly those OF unmarried
females, who finding themselves pregnant. and being pen
niles and friendess, apply to magistrate for permit
commitment TO the Bcllvue Hospital from whence they
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they may with sal go work. Married women desert
ed by husbands and others abect perjury with
out the means Of ynsn Comfortably elsewhere) come
into the establishment in the same way. Such do
the cooking, washing nursing, and indeed OF the &
work of the establishment The superintendent, with
the consent of the authorities, has power to keep them
premises for months liter their confinement
These persons seldom of i'll fame understand,
rather Ignorant and inexperienced girls from the
y and ems of them having been employed
omescs The mothers OF nine-tenths of the children born
the corporations establishment (other than in the emf
grant hopitas) OF this character. THIS proves
that all married persons here able to bear this pense
such the people OF New York privately boun-
tiiny charitable more ceoniy, hearty, rosy, and hap
py troupe petit youngsters are these
children Of shame and misfortune. Tho of the
Enlistment all alike. and in describing the urni-
OF you have description of all, thar in
the three four appropriated to these mothers
ieir infants the beds made amply large enough
for pesons-a mother and child. All the but
person. The bedsteads all of iron, and the
erlets--as clean and comfortable be. 1t did my
heart good the lite children dinner, each
in the of mother How they enjoyed
he simple but nutritious soup, and milk and bread,
spread before them! While their mother at work.
proper persons (pauper detailed take them
Another Glass; evidently comprising full half the inmates of
the house, aged females and quiet ceanly. orderly,
and respectable these too-seemng far happy
contented than they could possibly be if the world
their time OF life without property friends soohe
the OF their declining Books knitting, and
sewing appeared form their whole pastime. Some of
the devoted to the lame and the blind and
used hospital for the sick There appeared to
quite number Of these, though, under the rules all
qurng the attention Of physician should be
Belvue Hospital There is resident physican attached
this particular institution, though in the female aims
there 600 inmates, and in the aims for the
males some 5O0-l, 100 in the two buildings.
Indeed, since il has been the practice have patients
well paupers in this establishment the deaths hav
earuly increased in number hear ship fever scourpe
always prevailing in New York of late years. being the
sickness with which they 20 Off The inmates of each
take their meals here-ther food being coffee beef
pork SOUP vegetables with tea and milk for such as
require them. The grounds around the are
under high of cultivation, producing all the vege
tables consumed therein with the exception of the pota
toes, of which larger supply is required than can be
grown them. 1t but year or SO since the paupers
removed from Belvue this point and within this
such has been the management, that the liite gar
den farm looks though had been years years
systematic cultivation In the second story of the
building the cutngout Here assistant ma
| irons all the clothes required by the inmates
| and in the other city hosptals and after they are
made up by the paupers, those for this building are
slowed here and given out by book Nothing can be
more comfortable than the clothing furnished The head
matron, Mrs. Hagermau, has been in her present posi-
ton for twelve years more, and admirably does she
appear calculated for the and responsible duty
of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of large family. To this
lady, and Mr.. M. Ellis, the supente of the whole
establishment who resides with his family the grounds
the city and its poor much for cleanliness content
men and industry evidently the regnng
tics Of their charge. never strongly npre ssed
with the Importance of placing such charities under the
management of mdde-aged persons of active habits,
strong minds, and sufficient and rea ling to
thoroughly acquired the science of properly conduct
such institutions than going this branch of the
confusion observable anywhere from the the
basement, except where the children, then eating had
dropped crumbs, there spot upon the aoor that
would have soiled linencambric handkerchief Every.
thing appeared to like clockwok and with as little
show of the machinery by which the estab shment was
made regularly Reconty, keep pace with the
march oil Improvement the corporation undertaken
heat the two main buildings by furnaces and to have
The cooking done by steam machinery. With these inn
| provemens came a heavy crop of sickness arising
from the inhalation of coal gas and with
vapor OF the steam the part those employed in the
cook house. Congress may draw wisdom upon the sub
ec OF its arrangements for heating tho Capitol from the
perience here. am satisfied that the ode Of baking
in the hall by furnaces OF hard coal in the basement OF
the Capitol, must be productive of much injury health
la WATER tho building is hardly free from smell Of