Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-04

onoNe water lDe legislature has the
right dispose OF ali flats thus belonging 10 the COM
wealth NAV, by the acts and at tic discretion of the ecs
lature, cause permit them to be excavated or embank
them to Hothers, limited. whether as 10 time person
quantity reason consideration peeuniary Otherwise
the exercise OF its own sound constitutional description
ture to manage and dispose OF these public lands as well
as any other public property that prescribed by it
own judgement and discretion the prescr
walton of ali our harbors is public trust of such nc r
emptory necessity and such Unreasonable Importance
not merely to the seaport towns but to the convenience
happiness, and prosperity of all the people, and Tic
wealth and growth Of every town and section inland as
Wen as seaooard,-that this paramount obligation should
always be first regarded in the disposition aud manage
men OF the fiatsespeciay when ii is considered that
the interests of private individuals lead to continued
encroachments on the tide-waer
GRAFTON general and systematic provision for tSe
protection and ervaon of proprietary rights
also the establishment of careful scientific and eco
nomica system for regulating the disposition any such
property, whether by the extension OF private Warves
or otherwise so t. avoid dangerous invasion of public
interests by encrOachment and respasse and inadyer
tant grants; and so surveying such flats and ofe-
ing them for sale where is proper sell them under
also for the building of wet docks and the making of 9TH
or important harbor improvemt which PURPOSES
the net proceeds realized by the tho
sales Of such flats and lands, should be dedicated
In these suggestions, do but repeat the eas, opn
IONS warnings, and advice of most eminent iurisIs
cyl engineers and ta-s6hted citizens, who have here
roe 70 tne iellsature III the capacity OF
msslnners OF the commonwealth and eff committees of
the general court
re Otnteu TO unity and
OF plan and direction TO any int est of which the Com
mOnwea has the proper oversight. And in all that il
power Of the people, and the method of their best dcve
opment keeping in constant view, both the individual
renoWn Of the state.
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
per othe various penal refrnatory
sanitary and eleemosynary institutions under the ma
nseent OF the at the present time tour
Of their support to the state than 100000 ex
elusive OF the interest upon personal and real estate in
S6OO The number of officials attached to these inst-
tutiols Is not far from three hundred whom there is
PAID annually IN salaries the sum of SIS 600 In addition
TO board There are also fty-one inspectors and rus-
10 whom Is annually pad in addition to contingent
mus II appears mat an average of Official is emno
ed for the every fifteen Inmates and one
lor every ninety persons
Excluding the cost the support of the inmates oftbs
state prison. which Institution is disappearing it ol
lows that the average of maintaining the resinng
nuih3er IS about one hundred dollars per attnum or
Two uOllBrS week, for each inmate.
The state prison. with five hundred nifty inmates Is
IN good condition. its affairs are we'll mauaged ia
~ III uurg the past year has been betrayed
The state Reform School, at Westboroueh now nun,-
bers wo hundred and sixty Inmates the
Pst ear by an outlay OF S47634 OF which SlOtIS is
OF me farm ana the house. ard in tile manufacture of
eialis aug shoes They appear 10 healthy content-
VINO was appointed at the commencement Of the last
nave eecn discharged 50 as to show manifest i'm
p.aVeht III he ulsclpllne and management the in
sututon, commend to your consideration The rrpoIt
To Inc ~ and especiay his suggestion
duetve Of the highest good where Young and eo1,para
vey gultess youth are neces ary exposed TO the cor
aslon OF evil example from those Older and more recK
The Reorm School Ship, with its one hundred and NJ
teen boys mostly from the cstborouch Reform School
nus, anlng inc pat ear, Developed The wisdom OF inc
M anu lrust mat further experience will
nrm inc entire praccaby and usefulness Of This novel
vnrie V sScg me walls Of human society from the
vortex ol crime and dissipation to which they are ex-
S anu placig them at once in the track usefulness
he number of patients at the institution for the in
az o,nt m ire Is three hundred ard thrty-one
a. it2n loar hundred and twenty eight and at North
ampton three hundred and fiffeen-n All one Thousand
an and the apgres ate cost Of their
greatly IN excess of proper accommodations and il ia
Ioua heeeSsarx to aband, in great measure that ap
so essentially depend W "e
The thr anshouses and the hospital at Ra,n,tord
island contain at present two thousand tho hundred
anu inmates and these institutions are sup
nosted at cost OF sl50GOO annually.
Al Monsoon on the day OF recent visit there were six
nuhueu ana l9rtv inmates. of whom four hundred and
ntyseven were children under fifteen years Of age OF
ms latter class one bundled and sixty mad been re-
eehuy transferred from the anshouses at rewksbury
a.; anu pii1seWaiefi which removal had Involved,
~ many cases, a separation of families painful
e. 60 coMttmplate inc alleged reason for such trans
hi',o mas beeli customary since the Monson
AnslQuse was erected is the betieror more convenient
ba lacliiles provided at the Alonsoninstltuton;
M c,,. nv, ~ &c we reason the fact itself suggests
~ tnoashtiul mind, that such system based upon
seNeranc1 OF so many domestic ties must De RADICAL
nor M 4' oniy IN We present but in it's future results
d lny o. anlcatlon which, herewith transmit adj
10 ie 10y the foreman of grand jury in
he4eseA county you viii perceive prescntment
curly IL It's construction and arrangement and com
II en- me subject to YOU attention.
me RainSord Island Hospital seems to be under good
zen Dui rs benefits are almost exclu.ivcy en-.
ready expended more $50 900 on the buildings con
neEteu WIN til Institution. wuile its title to the land is
eileHG Gu 70 Ne not ully established.
me industrial school for girls Lancaster the most
recent q our reormaory Institutions has net reached
t pelQo IN ITS history watch woHd justify the state
!lat ue experiment OF its establishment a SUE
cess nt Is one ofthemot interesting all Our chart
sj con % 9,lluai EXPENSE OF the institution about
SIsW Inc number Of inmates at present is one nun.
anu ntFi WHO are divdc into five iani les each
~ y H laIate ouulng under the immediate charge
n marion and assistant the whole estab ishmcnt
lsunaer inc control and direction superintendent
toT * perlehced III the conduc. OF refoma-
Ioy institutions for the male sex have distrusod the
80 L ms l'stt' itlO IN aeco nlishng the purpose
lor winch II was designed Present circunsI aces are
e.rtamy favorable for fair test the question: but in
time alone must determine believe il is cavabe Of
great results; that the family there adopted is
correct N prncipe and that its reforming piNer has
already been manifested 1890 ~
The bounty of the state which appropriaes $40 600
ANNUALLY Tor the education and supnoit deaf utes
" ms commonwealth, shared. the past year by
Shout eighty children Of this unfortunate class They
9re wen aud wisely for in ADDITION to the rl
eimehis o. common school education boI males and
tenles are graduated with knowledge OF useful
L itne OF habuicraf by which to gain honest ye
The number of inmates of the institution for The blind
aVeral es rom one hundred and to and
tAwenty, o. whom from seventy to Ell hty laced
there by the authorities the commonwealth as y pub-
NC charge The policy OF the Institution receive all
lnei nu then oppoi tuntl To poftably whatever
sAi they may have acquired. About TWENTY-FIVE blind
duuit are, on Tue average employed the
Cd wages Many others established in country towns
rning living by some handcrait. Very many become
teachers OF music. And such as are fctdrned 10
ther Iamies, mud not sent into the world for liyei-
hood are not only more cultivated, mentally than they
Moulu nave Oeen without the training they received
mere put more active also, and industrious The gen.
eTa eject q the Institution especially by the sending
into Inc community OF mans blind persons trained to
work is to stimulate ali the blind aud lit them OF
Tue class OF the idle ana Improbable: and IFS example
mas ,lve much TO encourage similar undertakings 9TH
er states and countries.
AT the mslitution for idiots the average number IA
ABOUT eighty ana Of these Massachusetts furnishes about
hity all OF them INDECENT To some persons lnslcd v
school lhe fesuts OF the Institution nay not
correspond with their unreasonable expectations that
idiots as class, by any process OF discipline be
transformed into person average superior inelli.
gence but The effect Of the institution really
lew are kent from sikinr mo Tho lass Of iots tr iio
be and the elects OF culture and instruction the
same nero as elsewhere though from the nature the
material they less obyious the and cutiva-
teu ldot quiet docile and industrious, while tn idiot
VINO seHlected tends surely to brlt sness Industri
than skill IN school exercises Trades have been
daced Many girls are prepared ioF considerable de-
gree OF usefulness, as huusen aids, most Of whom would
certainly have been degraded and ruined if leit outside
women IN the state amshouses affords illustration;
several boys and girls have made such progress that
they capapie being useful in farm labor or do
nestle work. If proper fnil could be found in which
they could be placed; aud generally society has been
bettered by this institution for it withdraws from the
community the presence of many who being themselves
abandoned and brutazed, would otherwise by an inva-
rable law Of Daure have tended to dcmoraze society
around them.
10 these institutions and the support of the inmates,
f)r which the people without regret devote nearly hafa
million Of dollars annually, must b. added. in the cafe
CORY Of penal establishments the several houses cor
recion These however supported andc ntrolied by
the counties. BUTTS reconsideration avoid men.
tioning thtt while person for the same offence, may
large number ofcases he sentenced IN the us the
courts to the state prison. house Ofcorroeon or
Jail he will only in the first aeratis be subject TO pris-
on the state under whoselaws con-
demned, maintains the oversight Thus prison discipline
as a science gains nothing from all the mass fexperi
enee o. which these prisons the repositories nor
anything leaned at one then to the benefit of