Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-24
AN INEBRIATE'S HOME.
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the New York Asylum for the Slaves {
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New York Sun, June. s.
The Asylum for Inebriates on Ward
Islands practically commodioush hotel,
with no restrictions upon it's boarders
except that they must get passes for
temporary absence, and that they can
not use intoxicating beverages unless
by medical order. There are three
rates of board, $14 week, S. and So So
the So boarders having ample but plain
fare and plainly furnished rooms both
rooms and lodging probably are more
comfortable than can be had in New
York for So a week and the $14 board
ers enjoying table fit for men who are
accustom< d to sumptuous fare, the So
boarders having all Injuries of the $14
except the table. There are a billiard
room, smoking -rooms' a reading-room
and library; and spacious higher
priced apartments to be had for more
money. The asylum nearly sustains
itself; constantly improvingits grounds,
and aiming to be l. every way COM
Portable, pleasant and salutaryhome. It
was opened six years ago next July,
There were at first no restrictions, it
being taken for granted that each
boarder desired to reform. But appeal
to sentiments of honor was unavailing,
and the regulations aforementioned
were therefore established. It was
alike for men and women. For the
last two years and half women have
not been received, except as house ser
wants, from the Blackwell's Island
Work House, all the labor in doors and
out being performed by persons of this
class-persons arrested and on short
sentences for drunkenness or disorder.
The asylum has on the average hun
bred servants of both sexes. The Off
GERS Of the asylum are few, as it's man.
agement is simple and systematic. Dr..
William L. hardy, formerly of the
Park Hospital and of the Ship School
on trip to the North and South Pacif-
ic, has the entire superintendence.
There are clerk, engineer, 1natron,
lat1ndress, &C., and about forty board
ers. Some are permanently maintained
there by their despairing friends. Of
teher the inebriate voluntarily seeks
the refuge of this quiet home, feeling
the necessity of an altered life, and glad
to avail himself of the advantages here
provided.
The medical treatment is confined
to receiving the attacks Of acute alcho-
Iism which most patients are suffering
at the time of admission; and subse-
quently to repairing the ravages of
dissipation. Delirium tremens and CON
vulsions are familiar aspects Of human
life here; and Incl pient dilirium ire
mems.
Total abstinence is enforced except in
cases where it is necessary to bridge
over the debility, and then only IN the
form Of nutriment, as egg nogg; not
one patient in twenty needing the
nourishment.
The printed report shows that in the
first four years there were about 600
paying boarders in the first year "a ;
in the second 147; in the third 165; and
in the fourth 233. Of these 600, about
12O ran away. The deaths have been
very few.
The inebriate's only means of engag-
ing board is by application to Super
intendent Kellogg Eleventh street and
Third avenue.
One-half Of the building is used as
an asylum for disabled soldiers.
Great Difference in Temperature Be-
tween the Surface and Bottom of the
Pacific.
Between San Diego and Honolulu no
great obstacle has been found to the
successful laying of an ocean cable.
The bed of the ocean is nearly level, so
that cable would rest securely. The
bottom slopes downward very rapidly
for the first one hundred and fifty miles,
as found by the United States survey
ing party on the steamer Tuscarora. and
then the water increases in depth very
gradually to about nineteen hundred
miles from San Diego, where it meas
ures 1858 fathoms, or 1888 feet. It
remains at nearly the same depth for
about three hundred miles more, and
in the last hundred the bed slopes rap
idly upward again to the surface at
Honolulu. Distinct upper and under
currents were found by the soundings,
and the temperature varied much with
the depth and latitude. On the surface
at the eastern end of the route the tenn
perature was about So deg. Fahrenheit,
while at the depth of one hundred
fathoms it fell to SO deg. Near the
Sandwich Islands the surface heat was
recorded at "a deg, and that of one
hundred fathoms at 63 deg, while at
the greatest depth the water was at 81
deg. only 2 deg. above the freezing
point.
The proposed route of the cable in
full is from San Diego-with which San
Francisco is to be connected-on great
circle to Honolulu, thence to the BONN
Islands, near to Japan, and thence to
Yokohama. Another route is also pro-
posed on a great circle from Cape Flat
terry to Yokohama, which would pass
through the Aleutian Islands, but the
survey has not yet been finished. On
the side of the southern route is urged
the local traffic of the South Sea Islands,
especially Australia, which already has
communication with Singapore, and SO
with the west The climate is also Civ
en- as a reason for adopting this route,
for the water is always open, should re-
pairs be needed. On the other hand,
the northern route can plead a greater
regularity Of ocean plateau, shorter dis
lance between the termini, and less
depth of water. But it is further north,
and may be liable to Interruptions. No