Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-29

! often when he would have cough he
would arise and attend to the bows. Pun
| lshment with the strap on the hands is the
usual mode. Sometimes they are made to
stand in the yard for day. but it is not
| severe Father Croke takes the bows into
ms office and gives them advice. When
boys are very incorrigible they are sent to
the principal, who decides in regard
to their punishment. Father Croke has
! always been opposed to corporal punish.
ment, and has reprimanded the teachers
for 1t. Never knew of any case where un-
due punishment had been inflicted. Some
OF the boys are sent here whose parents
cannot control them. Had not heard that
Frank Wilkinson and Willie Busteed,
who were implicated in setting the asylum
on hre, did so on account of any hard treat
ment. Never saw Whelen in an extraor-
dinary passion. He generally used a
larger strap than the other teachers.
Never saw him whip the boys in
discrimlnately in the yard Never
heard of any system of tagging"
whereby the larger bows could control one
OF the smaller ones. Some of The bows
seem to devote their whole time to think
ing of some manner of creating a dissen-
sion. Consider the average of boys, in
regard to truth and veracity, very good,
except some few new arrivals who have
graduated from the Police Courts and have
always been subject to contaminating in
fiuences. / understand that most people of
the Catholic religion believe that if they
send bad boys here there is such restraint
that they will be Immediately bettered in
morals and condition, but owing to the
number we have to deal with, such meas
ures take great deal of time for their ac-
complishment.
Henry Budding, the cook of the ASYLUM,
was then called and sworn. He testified
IS follows: Am native of Luxembourg
have been here eighteen days; am going to
leave, because there is too much work for
one man; have no assistance, except what
| receive from the boys. The place is very
dirty. and there is no help 10 clean it.
Never saw any eggs here. The food for
the last two days has been very good, and
If 1t would continue the same there would
be no complaint. Never knew of waters
to fill dishes twice at the table until 10. day.
Have seen vermin on boys and in the
water closets. ! cooked lis pounds of meat
to day, although the general average is
about $50 pounds. The bill we receive
h ere is for 300 pounds of meat, which is sup
posed to last from Monday to Wednesday,
To-day we received FIVE quarters of beef,
weighing nearly 4,000pounds. Hot dinner
Is never served, as there is no help to get it
up. Stews are cooked in boilers large
enough to hold enough for 1000 people.
The kitchen is very dirty. Boys are de-
tailed to clean it, but make it dirtier on
account of no. knowing how to work.
Supper is generally tea and bread. Some
times they are given mush. The meals
for the priests and Sisters are cooked
separately from the boys meals, and are
of good quality. The boys are given
cheap tea. 1t is made IS follows: Two
tive-gallon cans of milk are emptied into
cauldron. One gallon OF tea and one gallon
OF sugar are then added, after which the
hose is turned on and the mixture left to
boil l have worked in the Chicago
County Asylum, and there were four cooks
for two hundred patients, including the
physicians l consider this institution
very poorly managed. could not properly
mould the bread last week on account of
the floor being damaged by the fire.