Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-07-06
Communicated.
MANSFIELD, TIoGA Co. PA }

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be of interest to some Of your nu-
merous readers.
Mansfield is beautiful little vii
| lage of about two thousand lnhabi
tants. and is situated on the Tioga
and Elmira State Line r. r., thirty
FIVE miles from Elmira, n. Y and
and ten miles from Bloomsbury, Pa,
and on the Tioga and Wellsboro
stage route, sixteen miles from Tioga
and twelve miles from Wellsboro.
Tie altitude is against this section
being frst-class for all kinds of farm
ing purposes, but Notwithstanding
this there are some very fine farms
| and good crops in the suburbs of the
village. But what they lack in that
direction they are wonderfully the
gamers in the matter of educational
advantages There are two grand
institutions located here, both of
which are in a hourishing condition;
namely. the State Normal, the second
in size in the State, and the Soldiers
Orphans School.
The South building of the State
Normal is of brick, one-hundred and
ffty-fve feet in length by fifty in
width; the North, also brick. is sit
uated one hundred and fifty feet
north and the same distance east OF
the South building; it is one-hundred
and ffty-ive feet in length, four
stories high, the rooms for students
are large with extra height of cell
ings; the building, ground and furni-
ture cost over one hundred and twen-
ty-fve thousand dollars; the board
ing hall which is in the North build
ing is so arranged that the students
are grouped in families of ten at ta-
bes, pupils both of sexes being seated
around each table. This grouping is
made with distinct reference to the
cultivation of social habits and the
rules of good society. There is now
midway between the two structures
new building, fifty foar by one
hundred and seventeen feet, three
stories high, which contains model
school rooms, society rooms, recep-
ton rooms, and a capacious chapel
one hundred and eighty by fifty-four
feet 1t is we'll equipped with all
the modern Improvements.
1t is conceded by all who are ac-
uuainted with Mansfield thai it is one
of the most moral and cultured towns
in Pennsylvania The citizens are
noted for their sobriety, Intelligence
and enterprise. There are perhaps
but few towns in the State where the
Young are less exposed to the inau-
eoces Of vice and immortality than
here By special act of the Le=isla'
ture no intoxicating liquors can De
sold or billiard tables kept within a
radius of two miles of the town
This being the case the friends of
your humble servant need have no
fears for me in that direction while
remaining here.
The Soldiers Orphans School, with
one hundred and eighty-fve children,
besides employees, making about two
hundred persons, is superintendent by
Capt. A. D. Wright, an excellent and
well qualified gentleman; his estima.
BILE wife equally as good bel p mate
Mrs. Jane Wilkinson, the very worthy
and capable matron, insures contln-
ued success to the institution. They
inform me that they are doing oil the
washing for their institution with
two of the celebrated Allen patent
washing machines This branch of
the institution they tell me cost them
about $500 per year before they got
the Allen Washer. Now two Of the
boys of the school are doing the
work
| had the pleasure of meeting Hon.
DR.. Elder, who was member of the
Legislature from this county al the
time of the Pittsburgh fraud investi-
CATION, and was o member of the
committee that made the roosters
squrm, I spent about an hour in
very pleasant and interesting conver-
sation with him. He is engaged in
the store business, is in good, COM
Portable circumstances and evidently
enjoys life, and at the time referred
to he was anxiously awaiting the re-
suit of the Chicago Convention.
Among other things talked about was
the happy condition in which we
found the children in the Soldiers
Orphans Home. They are all hale
and hearty, bear the evidence that
they are well-fed, and, not least of
all, are well-schooled in the rudiments
and morals of the times, and, as the
doctor remarked, what pity it would
be to turn them all out and close the
doors of all Soldiers Orphans Homes
in 1890. Why not legislate and con-
tinue in the good work, if not in the
name of Soldiers Homes some other
name? The boys and girls, many of
them. when they arrive at the age
when they have to leave, find ready
employment in the various business
departments of life, to become good
aud useful citizens through life; how
different would it doubtless be with
hundreds of them had they not had
the advantages of these institutions.
Would it not be better to legislate an
appropriation for these institutions
If not acceptable under the present
Civil Service Reform administration
why not in some other humanity?
Would it not be better to appropriate
money in that way than be compelled
to spend it in the Quarter Session
Courts? Yours, Y.
floods Sarsaparilla is the best
blood purifier" says Mr.. Z. s.
Phelps, Worcester, Mass.