St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-05
THE STATES WARDS.
The Legislative Committees Visit the In
stitutions at Faribault.

The Legislative Committees Visit the In
stitutions ut Faribault.
A special train on the Milwaukee road at
$3.50 a. m. yesterday took the legislative
committee and members OF the house and
senate, to the number of forty, with about
the same number Of invited guests, TO Fsri-
bault on the biennial visit of inspection to
the three prominent state charitable institu-
tious located there.
The train arrived at noon, and the visitors,
quite a number Of whom were accompanied
by their wives, and among whom were State
Auditor Braden, State Treasurer Kittelson,
and Rev. DR.. Dana. were taken 10
conveyances TO the state school for imbeciles
presided over by DR.. q. II. Knight. II has
seventy-six inmates With thirty applications
for admission accepted and an average de-
mand for admission Of about ten per month.
Here the visitors were shown the school,
lodging and exercise rooms Of the in m ates.
which were in fine order, the idiOtic children
being cared for in the more spacious depart
ment Of the institution and the more piiiabe
and hopeless cases Of epileptic idiocy in an-
other.
Here the visitors were met BY VI. J. DAN
iels, OF Rochester, president Of the board Of
directors Of the state insane asylums; Hon.
T. 3. Clements, president, and r. A. Mott,
secretary, OF the institutions visited; Mr..
Barron, their stewart: Hon. Geo. b. Skinner,
Sheriff Barton, Editor McKinstry, Capt.
James Cavensugh, and quite number of
other citizens Of Fari5ault aud their ladies;
and after full inspection Of the Institution
and its inmates sat down to the number Of
100 to bountifully spread lunch in the din-
ing ball, TO which they did ample devoir.
AFTER LUNCH,
DR.. knight invited the assem- blage 10 one Of
the school rooms, where the inmates gave an
exhibition Of the results Of their training
and teaching In song, defamation, dialogue
and gymnastics under the direction Of their
accom- plished instructress, Miss Powers. To
say that the spectators, after viewing these
moeciIe children In their rooms, were thor
oughly astonished at their accomplishments
is putting the truth very mildly. DR.. Dana
called upon DR.. knight, who said that the
teaching Of these children is accomplished
inch By inch 10 teaching to exercise their win
power by species Of Kindergarten instruc-
Hon. He made the startling statement that
there were 80, SOS imbeeiles In the United
States, Of which only .42o we're in iustitu-
lions, or little over 3 per cent Our popu-
laiion increases at the rate Of 20 per ceDLper
snn1m, and these defective children al the
rate Of 155 per cent They average one TO
every Loo Of population, which would give
Us about 1,5O0 in Minnesota, while Kansas
has 1850. We have accommOda-
tons for only 105, and q new building
should be provided for them. The
imbecile could be taught and in many cases
rendered seIf-supporting, while the epilep-
tics shO1ld have refuge for the treatment
Of their peculiar disease, instead Of being
KEEP; at home CT Consigned, as uzs 50 often
tie case, 70 insane ssyluns-
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