Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-01-15

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PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
These institutions, through their SuperintenC
ents and Trustees have made full reports TO mI
giving history of their management and cor
ditiOn, which reports / recommend to your care
full perusal. They are all in excellent condition
and the inmates properly cared for. Many O
the reports show large decrease in their annua
expenditures, demonstrating that economy an
good administrative ability have prevailed il
their management.
PENAL INSTITUTIONS.
In my message year ago had occasion Il
call attention to the pressing need of additiOna
prison accommodations.
The penltentiary at Columbus now aggregate
1852 cOnvlCts, and is so OOVer-CrOWded at times a.
to demand relief by the creation of an additions
prison. This new prison should be refOrmatOry
III its character, and should be large enough tC
accommodate 800 conVicts, and should be located
at some accessible point in the northern Ol
southern half of the State.
ALI modern experience seems to indicate that
the best management of COnViCts requires suct
classification as will separate the inc0rrigiblt
from the hopeful, and afford good conduct q
| chance for receiving proper recognition. Two
refOrmatOry prisons have been established and
| tested in the United States: One at Elmira, N
Y, and one for women, at SherbOrn, Mass, and
their superiority over the old system is so appa-
| rent that have no hesitancy in recommend
ing their imitation in the erection of any new
prisons In Ohio. In fact, if we are to keep pace
with the best experience of the world in dealing
with the criminal classes, our entire system will
need revision, fact that should be kept clearly
in view in all future legislation in that direction
trOm penltentlaries down to jalls.
OHIO PENITENTIARY.
desire to ask your special attention to the re-
port of the Board of Directors and Warden of
the Penitentiary. l refer to it with pleasure,
having confidence chat its management has been
grand success not only financially, but in 9TH
er respects. 1t will be remembered referred in
my last annual message to the fact that the ex-
penditures during the year were 1858 70 more
than the receipts. l then showed that this de
hclt occurred under former management and
previous to its being under the preset Board Of
Directors. l may now add that the deficit for
this year has been $9,7l6.84, thus showing that
from the commencement OF the present manage
ment relative increase in the receipts and re-
ductiOn in the expenditures. Had it not been
for the very low price Of labor this excess would
have been much greater. Recently, however, the
price OF labor has not only largely increased, but
there Is Q very active demand for it at much
higher prices.
In the report of the Warden to the Board of
Directors, you will perceive carefully prepared
statement of the expenses per capita the past five
lta, while in l879-the year just closed-OnlV
$ll2.O8 This reduction is in some measure at
trlbutable to decline in the articles of susie
nance, but is more largely due to the close and
be observed also that quite large amount of
labor has been done for the State in the various
improvements which have been made, which,
when computed by the day, amounts to $l8 80.
INSANE ASYLUM.
The report of the Board of State Charities last
year presented the fact that over 500 persons en-
titled to State care are excluded, or confined in
our intirmaries, and for the most part are in
very distressing circumstances; The most cur
sorry examination of these statistics cannot but |
satisfy you Of the imperative necessity of imme-
diate relief. | therefore earnestly recommend !
your early attention to this subject.
The suggestions of the Board Of State Chari- |
ties, in which fully concur, are for the ereC-
6iOn of two buildings supplemental to our exist |
ing asylums, with a capacity of $50 each; a |
building upon the Central Asylum grounds for |
insane criminals, and separate asylum for the !
9pileptic insane Those buildings can be erected |
md, in view OF the fact that the present cost of
maintenance would be greatly decreased, this
would not only be just and humane
% these afflicted children Of the State, but would
llsO, In the end, be an actual economy of money.
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY,
The report Of the Board of Trustees of the
University is already printed, and will at once
De placed before you. Its condition and prog
ess are most gratifying, and especially so when
We remember it is one Of great family Of col
eges founded on the hberalitY of the General
Government, and in an honorable sense the
iVal of every other similar institution in every
state where this grant was accepted.
From our other State institutions it is pecu-
iarly distinctive. The protection of society in
he one case, and common sentiment of hui
nanity in the other, demand the establishment
nd maintenance of our penal and benevolent
but these seldom give back to so
lety any element of strength or progress, while
rom this comes the valuable contribution of
arnest and strong men, fitted and qualified for
very form OF industrial pursuit, looking to the
evelopment and expansion of every resource of
'ealth, and whatever goes to make up the dignity
nd excellence of people.
The fact that hfty-seVen counties of this State
nd five States of the Union, as we'll as two
Oreign countries, are represented in its class of
5udents, eVinCe an appreciation of its value and
i've assurance OF most gratifying results to the
tate.
INSURANCE.
The last annual report of the Superintendent
Insurance shows the amount of insurance to
e about $67O,OOO,0OO. Of this amount it is esti-
lated that
he Ohio Joint Stock Fire Insur-
ance Companies insured. .......... $95000,000
hlo Mutual Insurance Companies
insured OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. M0,0O,0OO
ire Insurance Companies of other
States and Governments insured . 25,OOO,OOO
hiO Life Insurance Companies in l
sured Observation-Disclosures. 100000
ife insurance Companies of other
States. lO3,0OOOOO
Total Total............:.............. $67O, 100000 8
The amount annually written in Ohio is about Z
i00 100000, or from ten to fifteen per cent. less
ian the amount at risk. l
With these statistics before you, no argument
needed to demonstrate the magnitude and i'm :
'rtance OF the insurance business; and that this
terest is justly deserving the thoughtful con- Y
Iteration OF the General Assembly. +
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. Il
The year 1873 will be a memorable one in the Il
story OF the industries Of the State, and es- b
Cially in those industries directly connected -
tn the manufacture OF iron. The beginning "
the year found numerous blast furnaces roll II
g mills, foundries and mines closed, and many
those in operation not running to their full
pacity, or on full time: and nearly every other q
dustry was affected iniuriOusly to greater or r
IS extent Many men were out, of employ T
erous that the General Assembly, in its wis g
m, sought to suppress the exCesses charged h
ainst this large body of idle men by the enact "
emit of strong repressiVe legislation.
The close of the year finds the number of fur k
ces, mills, mines and fOundries in operation n
'gely increased; those in operation worked to y
cir full capacity; wOrkmen more steadily em- b.
)yed. and their number increased to such an q,
tent that the vast majority of those who for =,
e years nave been denounced as tTamps"- u
men who preferred to beg or steal rather than fl
,rk-have secured employment have become h
DduCers as well as consumers, and their sud- ]"
n and willing absorption into the ranks of the II
rkers is the best possible answer to the whole st
e denunClation made upon the idle men traV- !.
ng in search Of employment. A demand for III
eir labor has done that which legislation never a
lld have accomplished ~
The passage of a law to prevent the employ VI
mt of persons to run stationary engines who re
not thoroughly competent by age, training, nj
d experience, might be highly. proper, mas Z.
lch as the large number of Workmen employ W
in factories and shops in which steam-pOwer al
lsed have their lives in great hazard from this A.
lse. VI
RAILROADS.
he railways of Ohio seem to be managed, ex- h,
TTnufn WrrTkn '4aI