Smyrna times., 1886-03-31

inmates. There is chapel were the
Rev. John Irwin holds religious service
every other week. The Mansion"
building where the keeper resides
two stories, six rooms on fOOr,-is
nicely furnished and contains the Trus-
tees room where they meet monthly,
| transact the necessary business that
comes before them and follow 1T
with big dinner.
One of the features in relation to the
aims houses of both Kent and Sussex
connties that struck Secretary Frazier
forcibly was that they are nearly self
supporting, and soon he thinks can be
made entirely so,-a feature widely diff
ferent from that of New Castle county
with its piles of brick costing three or
four hundred thousand dollars. The |
farm on which the buildings of our |
moor house stands contains 300 acres |
and has Is milch cows, one yoke of |
oxen. 8 other cattle 10 head of horses |
and killed the past Fall 5000 lbs, of |
!, pork. They raised wheat enough for
use and some to sell, besides corn, oats, |
! beans, peas and the necessary vegeta-
! bles for the inmates.
At Harrington at the depot he found
the need of deOderizing, and the Sussex
county Aims House three miles from
GEORGETOWN. he found in an excellent
sanitary condition with 80 inmates.
g Twenty people died in 1885. The $50
acres of the farm make it almost self
suDDorting. The amount of corn
grown last year was 2,400 bushels, and
# 345 bushels of wheat were grown on
Is acres.
At Lewes he visited the school which
q has a capacity of $50 scholars and 2I5
"a in attendance, The cOlored school had
. 5Oscholars. He found no nuisances to
ar take note Of
,e On Thursday he came to this town.
,e He had heard that Undertakers w. A.
A. FAIRIES & Bro, had not reported to the
m Recorder some burials which they had
" in charge. but instead found the record
Nv full and the best system Of blanks(which
in were printed for them at the TINES
ls office) of any that he had met with
a. The public school building was spoken
in of in high praise. The pump was how
in ever. found dry or broken Ia chronic
re- condition of school pumps) and haC
or been so it appears for Il week or two
rls but which the President of the BOart
,es of Directors says had never been re
yiIl ported to him for repairs. The ashe
all of the coal burnt this winter was fOuu
1m in the cellar in a perfectly dry cOndi
,er ton, and will doubtless be removed be
ION fore warm weather. The outhOus
i'm on the boys side was found in an III
lue clean state, among the contents beln
the a dead cat. How the latter got thei
is not known, but we are told that OF
,ev who ought to know as much about
hev as as any one else shrewdly suspec
ore that it was thrown there to get up
the sensation over. The commissions
fro have a man employed to scrub al
ling clean these premises every week al
in it in part seems well attended to, b
the the rear. as is the case with many
the those of business and we might az
tbe private places also, are not seen aft
new as carefully as they ought to be. I
mid Board of Health and probably t
wl,s Board of School Directors were III
,ort- ware that there was anything to co
the plain of in their condition
From here Mr. Frazier went to NJ
dletown where the academy was tou
to need better ventilation and imprOv
au- stairways, those now in use being
Ion- narrow and steep. Water closets W.
five in ii very filthy condition, and the 10
first board of health and town commissl'
r Of ers were notified to have them put
bird. good order. During the trip Mr.. +
,anv Zier held consultations with thirt'
. in physicians on the subject of saints
Der- reforms.