The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-02-03
Letter from the State Capital.
CeLUMDUs, JAM. 25, IS7G.


CeLUMBUs, JAM, %, 1876.
Ed. PREss.--One of the grandest of
the many noble institutions. benevo-
lent in their character, of which the
bonny Buckeye State may well be
proud, none in more worthy Of atten-
ton and respect tii,n th. Institution
for the education of the Deaf and
Dumb" So long ago as 1929 the
General Assembly of the State appre-
priated Eve hundred dollars for the
founding of such an institution. mea-
ger Gum, as the matter looks to us to-
day, but creditable to the faith of the
men OF those days. With three hum
dred dollars of this money ten acres of
land, where the institution now stands,
was purchased. This price was not
considered the full value of the prop
erty, bnt the purpose of the purchase
being as then considered, purely phi
lanthropic, the land was sold for the
intended purpose cheaply. The next
year $500 was appropriated to open
school. Ill. M. Hubbell was the first
Superintendent employed, at a salary
of $500. His superintendancy en-
braced only three pupils, whose care
and board cost the State $75 yearly.
The work was done in a rented house,
and yet the encouragement was such
that the trustees ventured to ask the
next year, for an appropriation of five
Thousand dollars TO erect "a building to
accommodate both the school and its
superintendent. From this point the
work went steadily onward, blessing
this most unfortunate class of our race
until to-day the present structure is
one OF the finest of the kind in the
Stale, being built Of brick and trimmed
with stone. The building, apparently
one, really consists of seven, and cost
more than six hundred thousand dol
lars. The roof is covered with slate.
the cornice is of galvanized iron,
while the balconies, pillars. railing and
floors are of iron. The number of
bricks required to build this immense
structure was eight millions. The roof
cornice is almost four thousand feet
long the gas pipes necessary to light
this little world of house are two
miles in length. The gas to light it's
various rooms is manufactured at the
Penitentiary. The interior walls and
ceilings have surface of twelve acres,
and the floors u surface of four acres,
The windows number eight hundred.
The trout building is go feet long,
by a tower 115 feet high. |
The front building is divided by hall
ten feet wide running its entire length |
On every story. Besides this monster
building, or aggregation of buildings,
here is the shop, one hundred and
hirty feet long and thirty-fve feet
wide. This little world in itself is
by steam, generated in still
mother structure, located upon the
ame lot. Every thing about the
and premises is kept in the
most perfect order. The number of
attendants is something less than three
hundred, while many of the teachers
nd attendants are mtites as q conse-
|uence there is more "fingering" going
n wilhimth grounds and build
ngs than in all the rest of the State.
he pupils iarry here ordinarily from
our TO eight Years. Portage County
J not a. present represented. The ,
veraye cost 10 the State, of each pu-
il tor the past year is $l97 81, being
omeiiiing less than last year. The
unning expenses OF the concern for
ne year TO come, is estimated at SSl.. .
10. H H4,.=f l.tI
The Legislative ship is making com
.endable progress, considering its
arden OF bills and resolutions, TO saw
othing OF tendency to Aeod of ga6
II which. probably there is no cure
! certain foreigner, visiting our
Duntry, when asked of its char
;teristics, repliel th,t we were
Il speech makers. He claimed thai =
e only met one American who was
ot aching to makea speech, and he
as dead, but had man making Il
beech foi h IN. This ,ceahneSs is not IA
y any means Il party measure for "
lis tendency no hidden power OF Re- T
or Democracy can DIR,
W then the State leased the pnbih; :
orKs it was supposed that big eic-
lant was of the hands of the people :
large. But while the res es,onsibility
looking after tolls is i'm the hands "
private enterprise, all damages for 6
:. aking banks and consequently
,oded farms stand charged to the !,
ate. And the sufferers are clamor- al
e at the deor OF the State Treasury
r compensation. The last cry OF this e
nd comes from two farmers down
ar Cincinnati, on the Miami and
lie Canal, where the "watery war; d
,m break in the canal has, as rep
sented, completely demoralized two 7
rye farms and all the crops-"farms
III soil as rich as the delta Of the :.
le,' using the language of their a
ent. y.
A BILL has been introduced in the we