St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-26

of DR.. Archibald and closed in these
words: "We have found no evidence that
support such charges, and we believe
from the testimony we have taken that
the said DR.. Archibald is well calculated
to fill the position he now occupies"
While this would seem to settle the
question, it does not seem to have been
sufficient to overcome the craving for
office of the doctors detractors, and the
statement having been made that fresh
evidence could be produced, DR.. Archl-
bald has requested that the investiga
ton should be reopened and the matter
prODed
TO THE BOTTOM.
Coming just at this time it was
happy coincidence that the legislature
should be able to pay visit to the in
stitutiOn on their return from their trip
to Grand Forks, and by the old test that
"Seeing is believing" be able by ocular
the condition of the institution and the
comfort of the patients. As the visit
was made on a Sunday the city was
not able to make such elaborate
arrangements in honor of our
visitors as they might have
desired, but all without exception
seemed thoroughly pleased with their
reception. The special train arrived at
2 o'clock in the afternoon, and the legiS
lators were driven at once to the asy-
lum for dinner, and as the train did not
leave until midnight ample time was
given for investigation of the institu-
ton, The buildings as seen from the
railroad, while making a handsome and
striking object in the landscape, stu
ated as they are on the high bluffs
about mile south of the city, yet do
not, from their peculiar ground plan,
give an adequate impression of the
extent and. completeness of the whole,
which is gained by a nearer acquaint-
ance. The general idea is to have the
different wards isolated from each other,
as at Kankakee, ILL.,, SO that in case of
fire the flames would be confined to the
building in which they originated, and
the patients could be transferred to the
other wards with celebrity and safety.
The ground plan may best be described
as letter x with five arms radiat-
ing from central point, at which
is located the brick water tower, which
supplies and gives fire protection to the
whole institution. At the end of each
I of the five radii is a three-story brick
and stone building, each of which Is
connected with all the others by the
arms meeting in the center. These
arms are covered ways. about eight feet
high and ten feet wide, and sink about
half their depth below the ground.
The roofs of these passages, being fiat
and rallied in, can be used for communi-
cation, or as promenadeS during fine
weather, while during the winter the
inclosed subways practically make one
building of the whole.
THE DANGER FROM FIRE
is in fas treduced to the minimum, the
whole institution being heated by
steam. and lighted by incandescent
lights. with all the latest improvements.
The bOiler-house is detached from the
main building. and also contains the
engine room and dynamos for the cleo
trio light. At present four boilers
are kept going all the me,
the steam pipes being conducted
through a five-foot brick tunnel
to the intersection of the subways I'M
derneath the central water tower, from
which they radiate through the passages
to the different wards. The same con-
duit serves to carry the electric light
wires and the water pipes, which are
thus protected from frost. The furni-
are substantial but plain, and the most
prevails throughout from kitchen to
dOrmitories. The cooking and baking
for the different wards is all done at
central kitchen, as well as the wash
ing-no small task for $50 inmates.
DR.. Archibald, the superintendent, is
one of the foremost advocates iu the
United States of the non-restraint sys-
TEN. The patients are treated as human
beings-sick, of courSe-but not as i'm
capable of cure, or unworthy of respect.
The doctor has certainly most re-
markable power over them, even the
most violent. though the cases OF acute
mania are not frequent. A very large
the Scandinavians being in the major
ity. The number of patients discharged
cured is above the average, proving the