Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-09

doubt that with normal ScaOOlS TO /
educate teachers and superintendent |
we should reap from the money now !
double the benefit we at
present enjoy. Until we have such
our Institutions. our
schools viii always be inferior. l
respectfully urge this subject upon
your attention, and take pleasure in
referring to the very able Report of
the State School Commissioner,
which will soon be laid before you.
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AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
The Agricultural college will. at
no distant day, be ready for the ad
mission Of students. Generous pro
vision has heretofore been made for
it, but the fostering care OF the State
whose child it is, will be required for
some years to come. IL is expected
that the State will extend the same
liberality to this that she does to her
charitable institutions. The Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College
should be something more than q
model farm, illustrating the art Of
cultivating the soil, and the methods
of improving breeds of stock. If
this shall be the limit of its ambition,
few young men viii resort to it, and
these. it is feared, without great pro
fit. It's foundations should be laid
broad and deep, and within its walls
should be taught the principles which
underlic all the industrial, liberal and
ornamental arts. It's curriculum
should be so extended that young
men may there be educated for all
the ordinary walks Of life. II if
shall be dedicated under generous
system, and conducted in the right
way, it will soon attract donations
from liberal and public spirited men
will be an honor TO Ohio and q
blessing to our people. If we fix q
low standard, and are content with
small results, it were better that the
peoples money were expended in
some other and more profitable way.
Il is not, of course, expected that
the College shall be, when it oreEs,
all that we hope for it finally; it is
not likely that all it's departments
will at once be but in successful op
Grafton. But let it be started with
the intention Of making it, ultimately,
a grand State University, whose in
struttions shall be thorough and com
prehensive.
INsASE ASYLUM,
There exists very pressing and urgent ncc-
essity that immediate provision be made for
the confinement and care ofthe insane people.
Within alittle more than four years two OF the
State Asy yIUms have been dcstTO ed by fire.
The new building at Athens will not be re ady
for the reception ofpatientS before September
and the one at Columbus not before two years
from this time. The central portion OF the
Newburg Asylum must be rebuilt and the wings
covered with new roof This work will occu-
py at least one year. In the meantime, we
have in the State to day insane persons enough
10 fill all the Institutions whei completed, aud
four hundred in excess. Many CT these uaiOr-
tunate men and women are now confined in jails
Infrmaries and Work-hcuses, or are receiving
such inadequate care it is possible for friends
relief must be afforded. or their VIII he great
suffering. Ii has been found Impossible To Sc
cure ior temporary occupation and use any
| building which was regarded as suitable und
safe. The only one offered for rent was the \eif
House as yellow springs, which, with an outlay
of twenty-five or III rty thousand dollars cXclu-
sive OF the of furniture could be made ready
| for the accommodation Of four hundred and
! twenty-five patients. This property is offered
| for rent. upon IL i've years lease, for fifteen
thousand dollars per annum- II Gould un-
| doGbteuly. be obtained iaG a much less price.
| But il is a frame structure. designed for sum
| Iner hotel, and it would as think. be exceed
ing hazar Gus TO ill it " it'll dean tnted persons
| many of whom have already had the experience
! OF two fires, and " hose crazed minds are filled
Nrt4h vii 4t rrF NJ hf
! tended upon great cOIfid=ration. In tile Ii -hS
Of past ex experience, it is objectionable ii the in
sane are confined In any other than buildings rs
| nearly hre-proof as they can be made. There
| are brick buildings at Circlcville and Alliance
which can be purchased, but not rented, and
| which could be made safe 1t is possible there
are others in the State. This subject, should
| however, receive the immediate attention OF the
| Legislature.
! In rebuilding the Newburgh a,yIum. and in
| finishing those at Columbus and Atheus. great
care should be taken to guard against fire. Ii
| is believed that the present design OF the he "
| buildings even does not make them fire proof
or as nearly 50 as possible. And 1t is certain
| that the Dayton Asylum needs very consida ra-
| BILE change to render it reasonably secure
Plans ana estimates of cost will be furnished bJ
! the Trustees of the SewbUrgh and Dayton Asy-
| iuus, for rebuilding and changing these Institu-
tions IN accordance with the present require
| ments.
| CONTRACTS FOR THE ERECTION OF PUB
Lie BUILDINGS
| Tou are requested to consider whether this
resent law, under which our public building,
are erected, cannCt be 80 changed as TO render
their construction more expenditious and at tn,
| same time more economical The law as il nov
| stands, WAS intended to guard against peculs
| lion ana fraud, 1t is believed that this enc
| could be as well secured were the law mo lifiet
| IN some important particulars. That provis
| ION which requires, or has been understood (,
require, the contracts for different kinds o.
Work 10 be awarded to seperate bidders, when
ever the sum total is less than the amount of am
single bid for the VIII o,e work is Of doubtful uti
lty, large number OF contractors, acting in
depenuently, with no community of interest ant
often In each others way; responsibility, when
ever there is unnecessary delay, is shifted from
one to another; If any one contr lctor is unable
or for any reason neGlects to fulfill his agree
ment, the whole work is retarded. nore Cspcc
tally, as the trustees in charge of the work,
no power under the construction which the,
have given to the law, to substitute other en-
ployeeS fol- those who fail in their duty, withou
|. ! re-advertisingJ and proceeding as with an orig
lnal contract think il would be better, Whel
the discrepancy is not very great, to allow th
Trustees discretion, either TO sub-Givide tn
work, OF to let the contract as an entirety. y
| when any contractor fails, the work shoult
restrictlcnS, without delay, and with
out readvertising, the original contractor 9
ing made reliable upon his bond for the al Her
ence in cost, il there should be excess.
tions could be awarded to single responsible
business man, who should be required to Civ
good and su ficient bond foi the faithful pc.
nance oil his uuty, much time aud uOney car
be saved. Tie Interest upon yearly expendi
lures which bring no retuI IA, on account of tn
great length oitime consumed in erecting on
, of our public buildings. would amount to a
enormous sum SO Tar rom saving money b
the present system. the loss j. great and inev
table v c have recently seen magniiicen
city, with immense blocks Of buildings, 81
spring out of the ashes in six mouths time: yt
we consume i've six wears in cOpstructln