The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-10-14
columbus sunday Capital (IndsDendent).

Columbus Sunday Capital Independently.
The officials of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum have been endeaV0ring to con.
Ceal pitiable case Of child scaidlng,
which occurred on Thursday morning
last, through the negligence Of one or
the new attendants who has been re-
Gently appointed in conformity with
the new plan adopted to make use Of the
public institutions for partisan purposes.
The attendant In question Is named
Doeble and the most skillful question
ing by his fellow employees has so far
failed to elicit any information from
him as to where he halls from or by.
whose influence he was appointed ex-
cep the inference that the Y. NJ. G. A.
secured his appointment, as that
respected society has a monopoly Of
running the public institutions in and
around Columbus, and 1t Is therefore
supposed that DOeble Is converted
tramp whom this society has picked up
and provided with situation which
calls for special qualifications to fill sat-
isfactOrily, and which DOeble Is evident
ly deficient in. The circumstances Of
the scaldtng OF the child, whose name Is
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follows:
DOeble was instructed to give the
child q bath as often as the unfortunate
youths afflictiOn made such aulutiOn
necessary for his personal cleanliness.
This 1t may be inferred, was regular
and frequent Hence DOeble, tired Of
the job, manifested his disgust by the
most culpable negligence, which Cul.
untnQfoh In thu nh1IADo hIa Fatal
scaldlng on Thursday morning Last,
whether accidentally or not, our readers
must determine for themselves. Doe
BILE placed the lmbecile child in the
bsth-tub, and, instead Of remaining
with the boy and assisting him In the
bath, walked cf, leaving the poor little
imbecile alone. After some lime, Ero-
badly half an hour, DOeble was at
tracted by strange cries from the bath
room, on entering which he discovered
that the child had left the bath tub and
WAS standing on the floor In perfect
cloud OF steam and jibbering with pain
and fright. An examination developed
the fact that the poor boy was scalded
from the waist to his feet, the flesh peel
ing off him in large fakes. The hot
water faucet had been turned on, so
Doeble says, by the imbecile during his
(DOeble's) absence and the little fellow
remained In the bath-tub until the
agony OF being boiled to death drove
him cut! Whether an inbecile, child
of tender years, could turn the faucet is
a question.
This institution for the past yeaE has
gone from bad to worse, and instead of
being under the supervision Of Superin-
tendent Pratt, 1t Is run by clique Of
women who not only employ and dis
charge attendants, nurses, etc., at will
and sweet, capFici0us will this
female clique has-but they also boss
the Superintendent, who is now In real
ity their Obedient and submissive agent
instead Of the head of the institution.
Any male or female employe obnoxious
to this woman clique has to walk the
plank, and re0ently Mrs. BOalt who for
the past eight years has been an efficient
nurse and who understands the mute
language, was discharged and an utter
ly Incompetent person given her place.
In this way, also, an old and efficient
emplOye, Mrs. Grant, who had charge of
the sewing room, was discharged and
Miss Pratt's private seamstress given
the position. The private seamstress
boarded at the institution all last win
ter while engaged by Mrs. Pratt In fami-
ly sewing. Mrs. Schrum and Miss Rose
also got their walking papers because
they were not c0ngenial companions to
tie clique. This occurred some time
ago. So much for the women, who are
not voters. The men have Jared as bad
ly. Every Democrat has been fred
since the Inauguration Of Governor For
aker. That is, every Democrat who
could be fred without the action Of the
Board Of Trustees, to whose credit, IL
must be said, that they have resisted the
deCspitation Of those employees under
their authority.
Marion, the brutal mute employe,
who sRvsgely beat Miss Pennell and
pounded her face into q mass of jelly,
mention Of which was made In the
Capital at the time, is back again at tho
institution and has been promoted over
the head OF Q more deserving emplOye.
1t will be remembered that
owing to the exposure Of Marrlons,
brutal treament Of Miss PEN
nell, that bully was discharged, but the
authorities were 80 annoyed at Miss
Pennell, whom they blamed for giving
the thing away that they also dis
charged herl Marion Is now back again,
as large as life. and, as stated, has been
advanced instead Of the emplOye who
never whipped woman nor disting-
ushed himself In physically chastising
those obnoxious to the women CLIQUE
running the institution.
Among other Democrats recently and
siuce the Foraker administration who
have been discharged, are Edward San
to, foreman Of the carpenter shop, and
his place given to the old Republican
foreman, whose knowledge Of che craft
will never hurt him. Zimmerman, the
butcher; 6chweenberger, the baker;
Henry j. Swords, assistant baker; 0p-
penhemier, an attendant; John Taft, OF
the wash house, who has served under
four administrations, and several others.
The scandals connected with the in
stitution since Pratt took charge are
numerous and varied. II is not our
purpose, however, to ventilate these
now, except by slight reference to the
Bgltati0n caused In mute circles and
among the members OF the woman's
clique, because Of the late hour Super
intendent Pratt returned from sleigh
rides last winter with one of the lady
teachers.
The Blind Asylum ls also agitated and
torn up with the political dickering 90
Ing on, whereby faithful and competent
employees are discharged because of
their politics, and incompetent strikers
given their places