The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-06

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Include all writs OF summons in civil proceed
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| recommend that in the department for women
In this hospital it shall be required by law that at
least one of the physicians shall be "A woman.
There are now IN this State not a few women
who bear diplomas from respectable medical col
leges, and who are qualified by professional at
talnnnents and experience to fill places as phy-
slclans IN public institutions with credit and use
fitness. 1t would be pecu iarly tit that their
services should be sought in cases of insanity
among members of their own sex.
Three claims Of considerable magnitude are
pending against the State for work and materials
unner contracts entered into with the provisional
board of the Insane Hospital, it being the board
charged by law with the duty of constructing
the building for the department for women. Two
or the claims have been refused. Ons has been
aiiowea Dy a compromise With the contractor,
subject to a c0ndIrlOn that the Legislature shall
make an appropriation for Its payment, there be-
ing now no APPROXIMATION available for that use.
The facts relating TO the case, briefly stated, are
these; The provisional board advertised for bids
for the brick work of the building, the work TO
be executed and paid for according tn the plans
ana specifications OF the States architect. Tie
specifications provided for "a measurement of
the work in the wall as the work progressed,
according to the rule of mason measurement of
work in The wall, then in use in Indianapolis.
Inc bid of the claimant, John Martin, was ac-
cepted. Before. however, a formal contract had
been entered INTO with him. the States Super
lntendent of Construction, himself "A member
OF the board. desiring that what were the rules
OF mason measurement of brick in the wall AT
indianapolis should be precisely defined in the
contract, requested the claimant TO allow a
ciauSe 10 De inserted, prOvlulnE that the meas
urelnent contemplated should be according to
the printed rules of the master builders and con-
tractors for brickwork in this city. The clause
having been inserted, the contract was reported
TO the board and signed on behalf of the State
by Governor Hendricks, the president,
ana by every other member. Before
made. for which he will ask an appropriation,
the work was carefully measured by the States
StOuiIeSt dIu ny Cwue perIS Speclally appointed
by the board for that purpose, and their several
measurements having agreed, the allowance was
made in conformity thereto.
IL Is ] perhaps due to Mr.. Martin 70 state that in
a report made 20 the Governor by the supeIin-
tencent OF construction, when the work was
nearly Completed, he referred to his work as
having been prosecuted diligently, and in the
most satisfactory manner, and added that he felt
1t due to Mr.. Martin to make a public record of
the fact that he had "frOm the beginning mani
rested a constant. active and earnest interest In
his work, with an evident purpose that it should
De an honest job, creditable TO the State as well
The capacity of the Institute for the Education
OF the Blind is now Insufficient for the accom-
mediation OF more than nalf of the blind youth,
vino, by law, are entitled to the benefits of the
institution. The editice was completed for the
admission OF btInd pupils more than thirty years
ago, and has never been enlarged. Applicants
are constantly refused admission to the instltu-
ton on account of a want of room. Provision
should be made by law for an enlargement of
the building.
The soldiers Orphans Home and Asylum for
Feeble minded Children should be regarded, on
account of the character of both classes of
pupils, with particular favor. IL has had to
struggle under the difficulty of narrow apprO-
prlations, aud, during "A part of its history, with
other difficulties hardly less serious. The i'll
structors have. however, been diligent and de-
voted To duty, aud the progress of the pupils has
heen mighty satisfactory. The soldiers orphans
nave been particularly proficient III their studies,
ana tine success attained in unfolding and
strengthening the faculties of the f~eeble-minded
children has been most encouraging. A sufficient
appropriation shuuli be immediately made to
provide additional securities against fire. The
means OF escape in case OF a sudden fire are
wholly made quate. Outside stairways at the
outer end of the main halls should he erected as
soon as possible: and, as the building is already
furnished with gas-pipes, II gas-generator should
ne erected so as TO supply the building with a
safe hght for illumination, so that the use OF oil
lamps may be discontinued.
PENAL n INSTITUTIONS.
Your attention is particularly invited to the re-
port of the House of Refuge for Juvenile Often
ders. The average number of inmates during
the year was 800. The expense of providing the
equipments and instructors requisite for teach
ing the boys in this institution the most useful
and manual occupations has been found too great,
in the opinion of past Legislatures, to warrant
them IN making the necessary appropriations. A
boy, as the case now is, though instructed in the
simpler branches of education, leaves the insti-
tuition, in most cases, lttle better fitted to earn a
livelihood, so far as manual skill In concerned,
than when he entered it. He is too apt, ON that
account, to fall back into a life uf crime. A system
OF industrial education has recently fonnd much
favor, which, not protesting to teach manual
trades, gives hoys a dexterity in handIcraft
which may he equally useful in many different
trades. IL instruots them IN the use of what, it
has been said, are tho "half dozen universal
tools, VIZ: Tue hammer, SAY, plane. chIs-l, file
and square" IL is said that lin demonstrations
"A certain number OF typical forms are round,
which, being more or less modified,
adapt themselves to special cases.
These forms Will also shape themselves
into groups, each TO ne worked ont in a certain
way and with special tools; and the student
funphT 70 work OnI these fOpIua. zach in tDR bpSU
way and with the tools best suited for the work,
will be far advanced in the skill winch will
make him available and useful in construction.
A boy instructed in this way in IA knowledge of
forms and acquiring aptness and dexterity in
the usa OF tools, would leave the Institution with
Il tseilng OF capaeillty ana or selt-con1dence,
could more readily obtain employment, and
could speedily qualify himself for almost any of
the various lucrative trades. One teacher, il
has been found, can Instruct thirty-two students
at a time in rms system, Rnd hoys going through
the exercises in separate slasses at different
times, the education can be i'm psFted with very
lutte cost either IN implements or inSteridlS. L
invite your attention to the schools 6uaT, al Bag-
ton, st. Louis, and elsewhere, have recently en-.
tered upon this new system of industrial e iuea-
tlOn for INDECENT boys, ana to the proprIetY of
such Legislation as will give it a far trial in our
House of Refuge.
Under the guise of committing children to this
institution as incOrrigible, or as Juvenile offend
ers. children are often sent TO 1t by the courts
who are simply poor, or whose parents, desiring
to get rid of the cost or care of rearing them, are
willing to make them IA charge upon the State,
Children merely poor should not be allowed 10
be thrown into association with juvenile Offend
ers, and the sternest vigilance should be prac-
uiced To prevent Negligent parents from shifting
upon the StaLH the responsibility of maintaining
and rearing their offspring. Besides, it IS not
possible To ascertain 10 what extent the class of
boys intended to he received into this institution
are reformed If children not criminal or incor-
rigihle arr admitted. Sufficient provision Shoald
prOmpily b. made by law against the abuse of
admitting boys not belonging to the classes of
criminal and incOrTigihle.
The Recommendations of the superintendent
that boys released from the institution upon
tickets-Of-leave shall be placed by law under the
surveillance of the township trustees in the
counties to which they are sent, seems to be a
most iudicious one. A knowledge by boys thus
released that their conduct was watched by per-
sons of character, for an honest purpose OF pre-
serving their morals, would help to restrain
them from returning TO crime. The additional