Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-08-15
the STATES WARDS.
state oficers Inspecting the Orphan
Asylums : Their General Condi-
ton How they are Conducted
and the Good Results OF the
States Assistance.


ton How they are Conducted
and the Good Results OF the
States Assistance.
Hon. w. w. Moreland and Col. j. ].
Ayers, commissioned as special agents
of the State Board of Examiners to visit
the orphan asylums and other private
institutions receiving State aid, arrived
here last Sunday. and have since paid
their official visits to the two orphan
asylums in this city. A representative Of
the HERALD found Col. Ayers at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel last evening, and
interviewed him upon the subject of his
and Senator .Moreland's mission;
REPoRTER = Would you be kind
enough to give the readsrs Of the HER
AID general idea Of your duties, under
the law, and the results Of your visits
to the various institutions.
Col. ArERs-With pleasure. Orphans.
half oroh.os .aa ah.naon.a cb;ldran-
that is those who have no friends to care
Co. ,hau sna No means aeacend;no 70
tha, ors oons;darad a. wards If The
state Tha. ia tbav would have 60 be
wholly cared for in State institutions, If
there ,vsro M nr;vata a.v,ums in which
tbav oonla hs maintained Henoe II
ba. b.en deemsd bv the law.makinp
nower Init int that the State should
extena aid 10 those institutions. The
law allows one hundred dollars DER
wear for each whole orphan waif, and
seyentv.fiye dollars DER year for each
half orphan and abandoned child, and
Last winter n law was passed allowing
twelve dollars and fifty cents per month
per caoita to each Institution for found.
lipos where thew have received and
cared for over twenty each wear. There
are about twenty asylums for orphans
in the State and we have visited them
all but two.
RrpoRrxR-Wbat has been the gen.
aral rasult Of vour observations.
Col. AyERs-We have generally
found that the asylums are well kept,
and that the children are we'll cared for.
There are different degrees of excel.
lence in their management; but no
.erion. faplt in the ;nt.rnal management
has been discovered nv ma. we have
,n;ver..llv found that where the asv.
Inns have been under the care and con.
trol Of ladie. thew have been better
kent cleaner and neater. and the chill.
dren Misunderstanding than where men
have had the control In al of the
institutions conducted bv the Sisters we
bav. found scrunulons neatness and
cleanliness, and 40 with those in charge
of secular laf];e. The Ornbans' Home
here i. admirably conducted and con-
sidarino the short time It has been in
er;,tenc. II stands forth eoual with the
hast os the old asvlpms The children
tbara ara robnst cbearfnl and bealtbv
and the internal ARRANGEMENTS of the
bnildiny are excellent The Institution
ba. 4 whole ornban.. % half orpbans
and abandoned child The dorm;tor;e.
are large and wall ventilated. the beds
warm and clean. the recreation orounds
.mnls tina rooms commodious and the
,v.tem Of MANAGEMENT and finance
erad;tahla and sat;sf.ctorv Thu onlv
faul1 to find ia in the dra;nsoe and that
i. tba far,t AZ the c;tv which has fa;lad
20 ,rox;da . sawer .lono v;ro;, strset
With which tn. wa.ts mines of the
Home conld he connected Asitis all
the wastaoe has to he RIM into barrels
which ara carried off and emptied onoe
a dav.
Rrpr. thara No w.v in which thu
manaoers can .acure DRAINAGE which
vorld ha lass sx,.ns;xe and more eff.
Giant than this,
Avrps-Nona And If sickness sbould
occur among the cb;Idren at this insti.
tut;on the rssnons;h;l;tv viii ba Mt the
door ~ voue C;tv Fathers
Prp.D;d Won find the s;ster.'
Asv,um in a baaItbv condition,
4vrps-Evtrsmaiv 40 Thara i. no
case AZ s;ckna.s tbera and the children
bava beon excant;ona,lv healtbv We
found thsra 90 cb;ldran ant;tled IN aid
Thew b.v. 25 whole ornhans al half
orrban. and tbrs. abandoned ch;ldran
Tha .d,c.t;on ~ The it'll. ono. hare !. at.
ta,,.,aa 10 in tba bn;ld;no. wb;le tboss at
The Home on to the nubl;c school The
s;.ter. ara carrv;oo ! beavv dabt. Int
thew have vary e,tan.;va Grounds and
the nronsrtv balancing to the Asvlum i.
v.,,sh,s Th.rs a.. tws,vs s;sters in
all in the ;n.t;tut;on and thew do all
the vork of the establishment bes;des
teaching the several olassss.
Rpp-From what vou have .esp won
would not consider IL advisable for the
stots 70 ,aka charoa of ;ts wards ;tself ,
Av,.sNat a. al Thsr. .rs .hont
fon, tbon.and ch;,dr., carad for in these
v.r;or. on.,;nnh,;c institutions tn
eon.truot state building, for all these
cb;ldrsn j, wonld rson;re an exnend;.
.nr. a. thr.. ar fo,r rn;l,;on dollsrs 10
.tort w;th Thar Il won,d co.t Tho
s,.ta frou h.lf - thraa.o,.rte. az a