The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-09
HERE AND THERE.
SOLDIER Home Warrington Has
the Lowest Death Rate.

HERE AND THERE.
soldiers' Home -washinxton Has
the Lowest Death Rate.
visit to the Soldiers home at Orting, Pierce
county. demonstrates how much good can b
accomplished with a little money If Its expendi-
ture Is guided By intelligent, charitable and hui
name motivea The frs; legislature of the state
Oh washington wisely thought 1t best to COM
memorate that important event In the history
OF the young state By the establishment OF 3
home Tor INDECENT and disabled soldiers OF the
late war. In conformity with that worthy reso-
luton an appropriation OF $4,000 was made
Win which to locate aud purchase site end
creek building that would properly accommo-
Gate the poor soldiers. A board of five trustees
was appointed and instructed TO proceed and
act Act they did. They procured q donation
OF lSo acres OF good land one mile west OF Ort-
ing, nice little town In Pierce county.
With that money the board cleared about
thirty acres Of land, erected two-and-a half
story building, forty two feet wide and eighty
feet long. Three sides of the house Ia sur
rounded by awide, double comfortable veranda-
Iney furnished the building with a. good bed
room, Kitchen, dining room and laundry turni-
ture as can be found in any comfortable unpre-
tentious home. They erected four cottages
and outhouses and developed q spring on the
top OF a hill about thirty feet above the top OF
the main building and put In q complete water
sS-sACS oUbu iOI QomestC cOpsuIiptloH
ample DIRE protection. They supplied the main
building with steam heating apparatus and at
the completion OF the work, having $3.50 left,
e very unusual occurrence) they turned the
amount into the treasury and reported the home
In readiness to receive inmates.
The second Legislature appropriated 5000 to
maintain the home for two years. When the
appropriation was made no ono thought that
more than twenty-five or at the utmost thirty
INDECENT soldiers could be found in this state
who would avail themselves Of the privileges OF
the home. and the appropriation was intended
to cover the expense OF maintaining that num-
Der OF soldierR But as soon a. the institution
was opened, June Is, 1891. the trustees saw that
they were mistaken. for from the day of open
Ing until date ninety-four poor soldiers sought
and obtained admittance to the home Not oil
stayed the time, but on an average the inssitu-
ton takes care OF forty-five old soldiers.
In consequence thereof the home will have
deficiency Of about 500 at the end OF this year.
But the trustees claim that this deficiency Will
be more than made up by the quarterly pay
ments that the national government makes into
the state treasury. To all states that maintain
Soldiers home congress pays one-half the
actual cost OF maintenance, provided the
national governments share must never exceed
800 per annum per inmate. Thus, there is at
present in the state treasury $4.l00 paid in BY
the national government toward the mainte-
nance OF the old soldiers, and IL that amount 10
sufuS0 ONSK W ZIG uOule, a. tl0 tLuSteeS CldlNU
II ought to be, there will be no deficiency.
The Soldiers home should by right DO called
the soldiers farm. for. while the institution
does not lack in any OF the ordinary comforts of
q city home, il IL surrounded with all the
healthy influences of q well-cared-for farm. In
Guiding pasture, there are about twenty-five
acres under cultivation, producing not only oil
the vegetables and berries of all kinds that fifty
or sixty people can consume. but enough also to
feed the forty-two hogs, the hundred and more
chickens and the dock OF turkeys that the homo
owns. The home also owns two horses and five
cowa Atpresent not . penny ID expended for
either vegetables, small fruit or milk. The
trustees expect, with the aid of additional appro-
priations, to clear enough land upon which they
hope to raise enough of everything needed in
the home with the single exception OF dour,
which can be bought cheaper from our fertile
wheat belt east OF the mountains than it would
cost to raise on the farm.
IQuote article of the rules that govern the
home. In full, which will beat explain the terms
OF admission:
Until the home Is filed to the number therein
to be supported. and thereafter whenever Q va
war OF the rebellion who il sick or disabled by
wounds or old age. and who Is destitute OF other
o, support; , and Who has been honorsbiy
the United states. and also any member of the
state militia disabled while in the line of duty,
may be .omitted TO the home upon the recon-
tees Endorsed upon the application, provided the
applicant has been one year . resident of the
probationary until the next meeting Of the board
OF trustees, when such application must be APP
proved by three trustees Endorsed thereon; aud
If not SO approved. the applicant shall be dis
charged by the commandant
1t IL perhaps needless to add that no restraint
II placed upon the inmates, with the exception
Of . few simple rules necessary to maintain
order. The food is excellent give the bill of
fare Of two days, October and 3, picked up a.
random from large number Of bills Of fare:
BRxAKTAsr
Oatmeal Mush.
BAKING POwssr biscuit Pssd FFss
Butter Tea Coffee
DINNER
Vermicellt Soup.
Roast Loin Beef and Dressing.
stswsd Tomatoes Chill Sauce.
Bread. Butter. Tea Coffee
Pumpkin pis
Potato Balls. stswed Tomatoes
'p'' sponge Cake Bread .A'D su tier o''-"'
Tea Coffee.
BREAKFAST.
Dat Meal Mush.
Butter. Tea cons~ ~
Rice Tomato Soup
Corn Beef and Turnips.
Lima Beans. Potatoes
Rice Pudding
Bread. Butter. Tea. Coffee
SUPER
Beef Stew. Lyounaise Potatoes
Lima Beans Stswed Apricots.
Bread. Butter. Tea Coffee
In addition to the usual furniture provided by
the state there are several rooms Iuxuriantly
furnished by the relief corps OF the Grand Army
posts of this state. Some OF the rooms are as
elegantly and AZ comfortably furnished "a can
be found In the best residences of our city.
The home was opened on June 25, 1891. Since
then it has had, of and on, ninety -four in.
mateA The average 10 about forty-fve, though
In the winter months the number IL usually
larger. Five old soldiers have died at tae Home