The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-31
IMPROVING THE INSTITUTIONS.
Contract for the School Building at the In
stitute for the Deaf aad Dumb.

Contract for the School Building at the In
stitute for the Deaf aad Dumb.
The erection of a new school building,
long greatly needed, will be begun at once
at the Institute for the Education of the
Deaf and Dumb. The contract for its erec-
ton was awarded yesterday afternoon by
the trustees to Louis Burtin, contractor, of
this city. as the lowest of the nine
competing bidders. The bids were as fol-
lows: Charles Pierce, S55. 400; w. Rattan,
$50. 1872; f. c. Griffith. Charlottesville. $751;
600; Shower 81 Christian, S54, $50; Neurge d
Reinking, $40 o Peteri REUTER-, $4,000;
Jungclaus g. Schumacher. $4,000; Louis
Burtin, S45, 995.
The appropriation made by the Legis-
lature to erect this building was
$4,000, and the plans and specihca-
tons were prepared by Scherrer d
Moore, architects. of this city. The
building is TO be 162 feet long by 95
feet wide, with q basement. four feet OF
which will be above ground, with. three
stories above that. and a mansard roof
covering the whole. The basement will be
of rough stone, the upper part of the build
ing of brick. There will be four fronts to
the structure, and the whole will be sur
mounte by a cupola. On the first floor
will be ten school rooms. OF the second ten
and on the third four. On the first floor
there will be rooms for two principals, and
OH the third library and art rooms. The
greatest length of the building will be from
east to west. facing north, and 1T will be
located to the west and south of the south
wing of the institute building:
There Is a great need for other improve
is most wanted is a kindergarten cottage
to take care of from seventy-five TO one
hundred pupils. and this can be built for
$4,000. AT present children are not taken
under ten years old, and teachers of deaf
m utes are of the opinion that their in
structiOn should begin at the age of six
years. Acting Superintendent johnson.
who Is much interested in thisw work, hopes
the next Legislature will make the neces-
sary provision. Another building needed
ed from the main building. This, too.
would cost Sl0,0 600 and a gymnasium would
cost perhaps $4,000 more, the
last-named being considered a neces-
sity for the proper physical train
boys. Another requirement will be an ap-
preparation of S25, 900 to make necessary al
IeratiOns and additions to the old building.
These expenditures will, i, is believed, give
a group of buildings as good as those of any
institution of the kind in the United States.
and will accommodate all the deaf mutes
that will come during the next quarter of q
century.
There will be s25 pupils at the next ses-
sion of the school, which is really more than
the institution can we'll care for. Hereto
fore articulation, which has been growing
in Importance, has been taught by only one
teacher. but next session will open with an
additional teacher of this branch, Miss
Lucy Robinson, of indianapolis, having
been employed for the purpose. The %institu-
ton, during the vacation, has been re-
painted and renovated from top to bottom.
summer in the way of renovation than in
any four years before. .