Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-03-30
Editorial Notes from the State Capital.

COLUMBUS, MARCH %, 1870
The House has passed a bill estah'
fishing a Home for Soldiers Orphans,
The place chosen is the White Sui.
phur Springs property, situated in the
county of Delaware, about % mile:
northwest of Columbus. The place
embraces one hundred and sixty acres
of land, beautifully located on the
west bank of the Sciota river. The
grounds have been tastefully laid out
in carriage drives, walks, avenues, and
has other attractions in the way Of
fountains, groves, park, etc. White
Sulphur Springs was for a number Of
wears a favorite fashionable watering
place, and has hotel and cottage ac-
commodations for upwards of fveh hun
bred guests. The property not prov
ing remunerative a q pleasure resort,
the proprietor offered to sell it to the
State, last winter, for a Reform School
Home for Girls. Authority was given
by the legislature to purchase it for
that purpose, and accordingly a Girls
School was started there late last fall,
and was only getting under way.
when a scheme is contrived by which
it is diverted to another purpose, and
the girls school is to remain on a
small fraction of the property tempo
rarily, until other provision can he
made for its accommodation. The
Governor will probably be authorized
to receive proposals for the donation
of suitable site and property for the
Girls School. gainesville, we learn,
will bid for the location. Why can
not Warren put in a bid? The White
Sulphur property cost the State $780,
600; an offer in real estate of $4,000
to SIS, 600 would probably secure the
location of the Girls School at the
point making the proposition. am
taking it for granted, as l write, that
the Senate will also pass the House
bill locating the Orphans Home at
the Springs. The question will prob
ably be decided by the time this is in
print. Twas the only plan f~Orsecuring
an Orphans Home that seemed likely
to succeed. And although the build
ings at White Sulphur are all frame,
and erected for summer use and there
fore not well adapted for winter occu-
pancy, it wasassumed that they would
be better than no Home, and that the
Republicans in the legislature had
better consent to take this property
than fail in making any provision
whatever. The bill provides that
when 500 children have been received
at White Sulphur, donations for
another Home may be received. It is
thought this will eventuate in seeur-
ing to the State the present Home at
Xenia, under the charge of the Grand
Army of the Republic. I would state
in this connection that The Demo
Gratis would have bitterly opposed the
purchase or acceptance OF the Aenla
Home by the State, because Of the
connection of the GA. R., with that
institution. 1t was our misfortune to
have a few balky, stubborn Republi-
cans in the Senate, who united with
the Democrats in this opposition, and
forced the nine-tenths of the Republi-
cans to accept terms which would Sc
cure the cooperation of the more lib
eral Democrats. There was but one
vote against the Orphans Home bill
in the House, and that was from a
lignum vitae copperhead, who thought
the orphans had better be bound out
to service to task masters, instead OF
being cared for by the people of the
State.