Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-28


CoLUMBUs, O., November 27.-The great
commonwealth of Ohio has just been ell Joy
ing the luxury of the destruction OF anOth
cr OF her palatial and gilt-cdged charitable
institutions. These accidents, if they can
be- called such, have occurred with such
alarming frequency of late years that they
have almost come 10 be annual occurrences,
and each succeeding legislature can count,
with absolute certainty, rs being called up
on To make
Insignificant Appropriations
to replace some burned building.
Ten wears ago the Central Lunatic Asylum
in this city was burned down with great
loss of life. 1t cost the State nearly s., CO.,
600 to replace it. The new building, or ag
gregation of buildings, standing on the
magnificent terrace two miles west Ui the
Capitol, is not fire proof and is in hourly
danger of being swept from the face of the
earth. In 1872 the Girls Industrial Home
formerly the White sulphur Springs hotel
near Delaware was burned in the dead Of
winter. In the spring the Northern Ohio
Lunatic Asylum, at Ncwbcrg, near
Cleveland. went up in smoke
and several lives were lost 1t only took
million dollars tn replace this refuge of the
afflicted. Later on ut several times the
workshop and other buildings ut the Boys
II
stroyed. Ejfty.tIIousand dollars will cover
this loss. Three years since the main build
ing Of the So-Callcd and miS-named Soldiers
Orphans Home. near Ncnia, WAS complete
~ destroyed. ~ often happens. 4 number
OF our
Dear. Devoted Legislators
were iunkctcd, Is many Of them often are
when the Legislature is in session
and they went out of the second
story windows. with their shirt tails float
ing on the sweet zcphyrs Of clustering
March. That great little politician from
your ncghbUriug city Of StcubCnyillc.
Reese q. Richards. Lieutenant Governor.
elect, was one oi the heroes al this Conlla-
grafton. The Democrats were in power
when this disaster bcfc this institution and.
the Republicans, with iicmdi>huc>> and
icrOcity that would bring shame to the
cheek I'll u tt" Indian, proceeded through
the press and their speakers, to per
>audc the people "f Ohio that
the Soldiers Orphrn>' Home had
had been fired 10y Democratic hatred, The
place was heavenly retreat for dccaying
and dead legislators and money tO rebuild
was voted without = dissenting voice. even
thrmu>l courageous and conscientious mem
hcrN FEARING Ia int"rpoSr an honest "hjrc-
tiun or modest suggestion, lest their mo
tivc> should br miSc"u>trucd, tu Il blind
and foolish constituency, \ palace was
speedily erected on the ruins; what i0r?
Soldiers orphan>H Bless YOU, no Tn"
heroes al the lat" war were and are
Flesh and Blood.
and can / bend forever. and twenty years al
tcrthr h"giuniugo thrrrbclIion and sixteen
years after it, close the crop uf genuine
Solirr> orphans must naturally begin to
diminish. But this institution, which was
founded to care for the wards nj the State
ha, now become Il refuge for Il mob ui
hangcrN-on, who must br graciou>ly cared
for at the expense of the State. This home
has long since ceased 10 br Il home for
soldiers orphans. 1t is filled up with in
mates oi county iniirnarcS from adjoining
counties and favored localities. who shift
the responsibility and expense OF
caring for their poor all to the tax
payers al the state, under the
law authorizing counties to unite and build
district homes for iricndlc~N and orphaned
child;ym. \ number "i counties have
handsomely provided for this class OF
society. but these coUmtic. are also BURDEN
ed and taxed +" aid in the care nnd main
trnamcr OF the poor Of other Countic, in the
>o-callrd >nldlicr> aud sailors orphans
home. Some oi the mos; infamous deeds
and shameful scandals hay" been repeatedly
enacted at this home. 1t j. only year
since lrgslatiy" committee succeeded in
uncovcring the fact that the physician oi
this home performed al ahnriUn upon on"
Of The
Lady Teachers.
Put the icotu, in the pD"Sri oi
his oy-rcuat. and walked through
- room containing thirty children. The
noble physician still holds hi, place with
Ei> crime known to the children, whil"
the UuiurIuatc wuluau was promptly
turned out. n Sh" ought tu have been, Tor
women unfortunate or otherwise, hay" no
rights that that noble and superior hrug,
man, is bound To respect in the hour Of
adYCrsity. TN" trustees ought tn have re-
Iaincd and promoted the woman aS well aS
The doctor, but the doctor could vote aud
pack grand juricS and conventions, and was
therefore useful. These facts would have
played prominent part in the last cam
paign mad not Garl"ld'> umtimcly death
prevented the di>cus~ion.pf all questions
But lcLInc return n.ihc lmbcclc ANyl-
um. Zig state has been lavish in its rX-
pcndituFe ul money upon this mysterious
experiment. The reader would naturally
thiuk that this Institution was founded to
afford shelter and treatment for idiots; not
-. The State uI Ohio is trying and has
been !"r twenty years to put minds into
being, that God deprived "f intellectual
right. The managers Oi this queer place
LAY it is part of til" educational system Of
the state, and every county inlirmary III
Ohio contains
Some Unfortunate
child VIII" is denied admission into
this marvellous asylum because
it, parents are not rich or
il iS poS>c>rcd ni diseased cCrcntrritv that
would CRATE upon the aesthetic atmosphere
and influences Of this heavenly college Uf
inhpTilitN tn 1iI n the rpHpln tI