The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-01-15
Total. $685. 1851 ~ $l9s,397 43
The estimated current expenses for the
next two years are:

| Current expns 1854 132.O46 40 81, 500 81
Total. .$3o6.s5l n $19s, 397 4s
The estimated current expenses for the
next two years are:
! First Second
Hospital Hospital.
15S%sS 90 90 f SSSs9 GO GO
Repairs, etc. ........ IL, 500 90 $500 O0
| The average weekly cost per capita has
been So. 81 ut St Peter, and So. A at Roch-
ester, for the past year.
| INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB AND THE
| BLIND, AND SCHOOL FOB IDIOTS AND RBE-
GILES.
The third biennial report of the directors
and superintendent of the instisute for the
deaf and dumb and the blind, and school for
| idiots and imbeciles, exhibits in detail the
affairs OF these institutions The same abil-
ity and success continue to characterize the
management of these schools, that have
given them the high standing they occupy
| among institutions of their class throughout
| the country: Minnesota occupies an ad-
vanced position in her work in behalf Of the
beneficient charity dispensed through the
agency of these schools. I have no doubt
fhey viii secure h such recognition at
! best interests and usefulness. There has
been moderate increase in the pupils of
each department., the proportion being
largest in the school for the feeble minded
Two hundred and ffty.three pupils were in
~; and feeble minded, so. A sub,
| stantial structure has been added
to the blind institute at a cost of $780,
57S;3!, which provides all needed accom-
for imbeciles has also been enlarged to
! nearly double its capacity. at q cost of
| about $4,000. The superintendent of this
| school reports that while the new building
will accommodate fifty children, the @ad-
| mittance applications" are already eighty
five, and that further accommodations are
imperatively demanded. The board are Of
the opinion that two custodial buildings
should be added to the present structure, at
an estimated cost of $4,000. I am per-
suaded that the work OF this school could be
organized upon q basis that would produce
better results as regards one class of its
pupils, il q separate building could be pro-
vided for them. and therefore recommend
an appropriation of 1925, 900 for that pur-
pose. If due regard to the condition of the
treasury and the wants of other institu-
tions and interests, for which the state must
provide. would permit, would be inclined
to indorse the full Recommendations of the
board You cannot, however, respond to all
ing the tax levy, and, in my view, moth
ing but an overshadowing emergency would
warrant you in doing that at this time. In
May, 1883, the shops attached to the deaf
and dumb institute were burned, and the
board asks for an appropriation Of SIC, 900
which is an essential part of the education
provided BY this school, requires proper
shops for the purpose. and therefore
recommend that the burned building be sre-
placed; Though no reference to the matter
is made in the report of the directors,
recommend that authority be granted them
to expend a sum sufficient to make more so-
cure the deaf and dumb building from fire.
The dividing stone walls that separate the
structure into divisions should be extendad
through the roof, and iron doors placed In
all openings communicating through them.
A precaution OF this character saved the St.
Peter hospital from total destruction at the
time of the fire in 1880.
The estimate for current expenses for al!
the schools will require $74, 500 for 1886.
and $77 800 for 1887. The expenditures
tho past two years were as follows:
Dumb Blind. 1mbecils
1885,. 16 1914 Is 6,917 80
1884,. 131 26 16,577 SO 124Sl a
STATE PRISON.
The report Of the inspectors and warden
Of the state prison fully informs you of the
catastrophe that nearly destroyed that insti-
tuition last winter and the measures that
were adopted for it's reconstruction. During
the night of the 9Th of January last portion
of the shops in which the convicts were en-
same month another fire reduced to ruins
the building of the prison proper, with nearly
all it's contents, The affairs of the prison
were, in consequence, necessarily reduced to
much confusion All provision for the Sc
curity and the employment of the convicts
was destroyed or rendered useless for the
time: The only barrier between the convicts
and their liberty was the prison wall and the
prison guard. These must have soon yielded
to determined effort OF $50 desperate men
had it been made, but for the GOODNESS and
exceeding good management of Warden
Reed and his aids, speedily reinforced by q
detachment OF the state militia portion
OF the convicts were at once removed to the
{a1is of Ramsey, Hennepin, Washington, Da-
kOta and WinOna counties, and such provis-
lon made for the remainder within the prison
walls as was practicable. Though the weather
was severe, very little discomfort was suf-
fered by the convicts, not as much. indeed,
as was endured by the militia in guarding
them. That portion of the prison building
containing the cells had lost it's roof, but
was otherwise not much injured, there being
but little cOmbustible material in its con-
struction. A temporary roof was soon in
place, and within o week the male convicts
were returned to their cells, and the work of
reconstruction commenced One of the
shops destroyed by the first fire was the prop
erty of the state; the others had been built
by the contractors for the convict labor. It
was determined by the board of inspectors,
after consultation with the attorney general
and myself, to rebuild the shop that had be-
longed to the state. and also to restore the
prison building upon an improved plan as to
It's interior arrangement and construction.
This has been done. and the structure are
completed and now in use Respecting the
new prison the inspectors say, @the building
as it now stands is a vast Improvement on
the old one, good, solid, substantial struc-
ture, all covered with heavy iron roof, with
iron rafters, and we regard it as almost abso-
lutely fre-proof;n For further details re-
following the fires, and also the work of re-
building, refer you to the report of the in
spectors and warden of the prison.
WHAT 1T COST.
The cost of the new prison building, in
Guiding the iron roof of the cell ro0m Ia
about $48, 900. The new shop was con-
pended in restoring the engine and boiler
room, making total OF SS73, 700 as the cost
OF replacing the structures destroyed by fire.
The loss on furniture and supplies destroyed
with the buildings was 81, 73S. So The in
spectors had placed $21 .O43 81 insurance
upon the property. which has been collected,
and to that amount has met the loss sus-
tanned by the fires As existing appropria-
lions did not contemplate such an extraor-
binary emergency, the financial problem
somewhat embarrassing, but was to some
extent relieved by an offer on the part of q
few public-spirited citizens of the city of
Saltwater to advance $50. 900 to aid in the
work The offer was accepted additionally,
ana was held In reserve as q resource II re-
quired Ibid not, however, use any part of
it The standing appropriations, together
with the insurance and the prison earnings.
have been sufficient to meet the cost of re-
building within about $4,000, which
amount 70 now due the contractors, and for