The Press., 1892-01-28

that case the cottage system will be adopted. Wide piazzas have been erected on the south side of the building, afford ing an excellent place for the old veterans tQ lounge in pleasant weather. Under the whole of this building is we'll lighted basement occupied as kitchen, dining room and store rooms for clothing of all kinds, blankets, bedding. tobacco, medi- cal supplies in bulk, vegetables, canned goods and -four purchased by the quantity and of the best quality. The bread is all made on the premises and Is as good as that of any private family. A large re- ! lfrigerator to keep fresh meats, also pur- chased at wholesale, stands near by. The kitchen Is furnished with the ranges, steam cookers for vegetables, coffee, etc., necessary to provide for the large family. under Captain Coe's charge. The dining room occupies 8 large space. The tables looked neat and clean, as did the dishes and plated ware, which is used as being more economical than common steel knives and forks. The food is good in quality, abundant in quantity and plenty, and there is plenty of milk and coffee to wash 1t down with.
 To the rear of this building is the car penter's shop, two stories high. The first floor is occupied as g carpenter shop; the upper floor is dormitory for six work ing men, five of whom are inmates. Earth CT to the rear Is the barn, ambulance and hose carriage house.
 To the south of these buildings is the laundry building, equipped with all the necessary implements for. heating by steam.
 Near by are the amusement and smok- ling rooms. Smoking is not allowed in the wards or buildings. Tables for games, Q library of considerable size, Git was be- ling catalogued when your correspondent was there,D magazines and papers, and arrangements were being made to keep local and daily papers on file; and here let me say that newspaper publishers in this state would be doing a kindly act by placing the Fitoh's Home, Noroton Heights, Conn.,, on their mailing list.
 Any family wishing to contribute read ling matter in the shape of books, maga- zines or illustrated periodicals, can leave the same with Comrades Druley of Staf- ford or Phelps of Rockville, or any mem- Der of the Grand Army of Rockille or Stafford Springs, and the same will be forwarded to the home.
 Near the amusement hall is building called the old mems ward, occupied by the more aged and infirm, in rooms con- taining from three to six cots each.
 Not far from these buildings is the boiler and engine house and frame coal shed adjoining, capable of holding 400 tons of coal. The three boilers supply steam for heating all the buildings and what is necessary for cooking and the laundry, also to ruin the pumping engine, which pumps water from bored wells in a fine grove on the opposite side of the street into tanks in the water tower, with a capacity of some 10000 gallons, from which the water is distributed to all the buildings.
 South of the boiler house and facing a lstreet on the southern line of the grounds, Is a pretty cottage for the superintendent
 Having made the circuit of the grounds, lot us return to the office in the main building and register our names. Over the adjutanIt's table nRAss fuff ii length lpainting oA Benjamin Fitch and two ol three others Of the paintings left by him grace the walls4 Adjutant Dart, refer. 1rfng to his booksl informs us ,thare Esrl on the rolls that day as follows:
 Present, 6.s: 22e Absent with leave, 4( Absent without leave, At insane asylum, & I Total, 3Os
 To gain admittance to the home, the lapplicant should secure from a physician where he resides certificate of his phy- sical condition, blank form of applica- tion, which he may get from the adjutant Igeneral.
 The rules and regulations stipulate that duplication for admission must be accom- panied by surgeons. certificate and a certificate showing that the candidate en- listed from Connecticut. All inmates are required to conduct themselves at all times in an orderly and soldierly manner, and at no time are they allowed to have spifituo'ls or malt liquors in their posses sion. AS will be seen by the rules and regulations, one drawing 8 pension must make 1t over to the home, but this is moi so hard as 1t would seem at first. In g book kept for the purpose is each pen sioner's name, the amount of his pension, to whom paid, that is, dependent rela- tives, pensioners and the home,. The account of the last quarter, ending Dec. 4, showed but an insignificant fraction oi the whole charged to the home, the de. pendant relatives and pensioners receiv. ing the whole of 1t very nearly. I cannot give the amount, but there were two items only in the ''home" column.
 The larger percentage of the inmates who are insane furnishes subject for re. fection and sustains the theory of Dr.
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