Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-24

capaeIty IoF lOU patents, ana the state
board will furnish them.
Mr.. McFall-If we go on and make
this addition, will we be in time, con
sidering that other counties are build
ingP
DIR. Vivian said yes; the state board
would fill it up. They would stand by
any county that would build according
to their recommendations. The county
system is 9 success,
Mr.. Giles said asylums built after
this must take their chances, but those
built or in progress will be kept full by
the state.
MIR. Elmore said the state had $50 in
sane now in county jaIlS, poor-houses
and private families. They are toler-
ably well cared for, most of them, but
as soon as asylums are built, these in
sane will be put in the asylums.
MI. Vivian: You must not put this
off till the meeting of the board next
November; for then the building can
not be done till next year. We cannot
promise you to wait that long You
must go to work and build this summer.
Mr.. Grimm said the committee would
not do it on their own responsibility.
They had received abuse enough for
what they had done in building the
asylum.
Mr.. McFall said he was convinced,
and the other members of the commit
tee were convinced, that from finan-
cial point of view it would be big
gain for the county to build the addi-
ton, but the committee would not take
the responsibility of building.
Mr.. Vivian said to the state board
the matter of dollars was the smallest
part of it. Ii was the humane care of
the insane. Great improvement had
already been made in that respect.
Wisconsin is now caring for her insane
better than any other state and for half
the cost.
Mr.. Gilmore said Grant County was,
with the exception of Waukesha, the
most economically governed county of
the state, and the state board wanted
to show the county, and could show,
that it would be economical for them
to build this addition. He would like
to talk to the board of supervisors on
the subject Many would not believe
the figures the state board presented.
One member of q county board had
told him he didn't believe his Gilmore 81
statement about the money the county
had received from the state for care of
the insane, but the county treasurer had
brought forward the records to prove
it. Some of the Grant County folks
are probably equally incredulous and
equally without reason. With this adj
dition Grant County will have, in pro-
portion to its capacity, the cheapest
asylum in the state, by $4,000. He
said La Crosse County is not going to
build. The board had got into an ire
concilable difference about the location
and had dropped the project of build
ing. The La Crosse people were salts
| fed to leave their insane in the care OF
Grant County.
After some further talk the commit
tee and the members of the boarC
agreed to go down to the asylum the
next morning ard look over the ground
The three members of the state boarc
were all very earnest and perfectly
agreed among themselves. DR.. Vivian
is well known personally to the mem
bers of the county board aud many Of
our citizens. The tall, angular form
thin face, prominent nose and Ions
white hair and beard of Mr.. Giles il
less familiar, while Mr.. Elmore is
stranger here. He is man rathe
under the medium hight, white-haired
with an alert, self-assertiye air. Hi
talk is vigorous, positive and emphatic
and sprinkled with words printers usu
ally spell with dashes. His sincere ant
deep humanity is evident, but it show
as an odd and amusing mixture Of pep
perry and pugnacious beneyolence an
ferocious philanthropy. When he an
the aggressive and self-confident, bu
good natured little English doctor shal
tackle the stubborn county board i
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