Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-15
JOHN MORTON, Secretary.

The citizens of San Bernardino will
give banquet during the evening, in
honor of the event, and invitations to
that effect are out as follows:
The presence of yourself and lady is re-
quested at a banquet, rendered by the citizens
of San Bernardino county, to the governor and
governor-elect of the state of California, the
members of the state legislature and other dis
tinguished guests, in connection with the cere-
mony Of laying the cornerstone of the state
hospital for insane Monday evening, Decem-
Der 15th 1890, at hotel Stewart San Ber-
NJ A. Remission, Seth Marshall Lewis Jacobs
John NJ. Davis, Geo. K. Otis, committee on in
vitation.
The card of admission to the banquet
is in this form:
Banquet rendered by the citizens of San Ber-
nardino county, to the governor and governor
tinguished guests Monday evening, December
18th, 1890.
Admit Mr.. ........... and lady.
There will be great concourse of
people in attendance at both events to-
day, and all San Bernardino will be in
gala attire.
A short historical sketch of the con-
Germ may not be out OF place. The last
Legislature passed bill appropiiating
the sum of $3.50, 900 for the purpose Of
establishing the institution. The selec-
tion of a site was put in the hands of
James Kerr of San Diego, John Brown,
.Jr., of San Bernardino, Mark Sibley
Severance of Los Angeles, and two 9TH
ers, one from Ventura and the other
from Santa Barbara. These gentlemen
at last selected site near the city of
San Bernardino, comprising 120 acres of
fine, well-watered land at a cost of
$1l5,000. Plans were then invited for
the first buildings, and those drawn
by Curlett q Eisen of this city were
adopted. The contract for the erection
of the edifces was finally let to
Peter Chrichton of San Francisco, the
man who put up the great Chronicle
building in that city.
The plans as adopted, call for great
central building of three stories, base
ment and attic, with central tower of
great height. This will be the admins
tration building and will be connected
with the ward building on either side,
and with a rear extension of the main
building, in which will be the kitchen
and dining rooms of the institution, q
large social hall and rooms for other
purposes. These will all be inter-con-
nected by means of an ambulatory, part
of which will be under the grand central
tower. These plans cover the general
center, or nucleus of all the build
ings contemplated for the institution.
Some of these will be constructed under
the existing contract with Mr.. .Chrichton
and others will be put up as the de-
mands may arise. This contract calls
for the construction of the rear central
edifice, part of the ambulatory, the CEN
trail tower and one ward building. The
cost of this will be about $4,000.
Thara .rnl,,IaI - A., al
workshop building and a power
secondary tower over its central portion,
which will be the ward dining-room.
Future ward buildings will be placed
some distance to the rear, 80 as to break
the line of the main facade. The struc-
lures will all be of solid masonry and
brick work.
Climatic needs call for certain features
not heretofore known in buildings of this
sort. From the power block fans will
be operated to force air through iron
pipes which pass through large troughs
filled with ice or cold water, as the tenn
perature may require. From these
troughs the air is led into all the corri-
dors of the buildings, where it is al
lowed to escape at temperature of, say
60 degrees. This system will supply
81 cubic feet OF air per minute for each
patient in the ward. In cold weather
this system is used to heat the building
by means of heated air. Besides this
system there is subsidiary one of draw
ing vitiated air out of the wards by
means of heated draught chambers as
cending through the roof.
Each ward building will accommodate
$50 to ITS patients.
Another new feature of this institu-
ton is the social hall of 10Ox6O feet, the
finishing being of a highly ornamental
kind in Mendocino pine, polished to a
high degree. The roof will be high and
arched.
The stairs will be of natural or patent
stone, and semi-detached from adjacent
parts of the edifice.
The towers will be used to get a
greater water pressure than the general
system affords, and the tanks will be
connected with, fire hose in all parts OF
the buildings.
These notes are sufficient evidence OF
the Importance of the institution, and
proof that San Bernardino is fully justi-
fled in the efforts being made in honor
of the event.
The ceremonies begin at p. m.