The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-14
DELEGATES FOR 1.-THE INSANE.
BILB or 5000 FOR COSTLY WINES,
CORDIlLS, AND BRANDIE2
Gov. Flower Hears the Complaints or the
Trustees OF the MtddietoSp STATE Asyiuu,


Gov Flower Hears the Complaints or ths
Trustees OF the Middietowp STATE Asyiuur
Against the STATE Lusacy tommIssiop,
ATpASY, Dec. lathe trustees Of the Md
dletown state Hospital for the Insane. headed
by President GriHell Burt and Superintendent
Seldom II. Talcott. TO day met Gov Flower. DIR.
Carlos T. Mac Donald Of the State Commission
In Lunacy. and State Com ptroller Frank Camp
bell. Among the other trustees present were
Messrs Henry I. slote. John J. j.. $. Metros
key. Cornelius McArdell. +. W. DevTl. J.. w.
Wetmore. 7. T. Allen. W. \. Hayes. and W. II.
Clark. The meeting occurred at the executive
chamber beginning at . 80 p NJ, and lasting
until nearly 8 T. N. At the conclusion Of the
conference Gov Flowor summed up the result
by saying:
II think the Lunacy Commission held up It's
end very we'll. and It was demonstrated that
the system now pursued lie a good one aud
will benefit the State hospitals Such bill as
that wine and liquor bill presented to-day
would never pass the Board OF Audit we have
established under the laws OF last winter"
At the hearing In the executive chamber
Gov. Flower opened the battle. and for the
most part carried II on. whirling his chair
around a semi. circle and pouring voley after
volley OF sharp questions like some new kind
of Interroeativs Calling gun. After an ex-
change OF pleasant greetings. he said;
Gentlemen. / have seen In the newspaper
press a good deal OF criticism OF the State
Commission In Lunacy lately. much Of which
appears to have come from your Board. l
boards, as l have called you. that may know
the exact facts. and IL there are any rough
our new State eSfS syss% want o RSoW
where and what they are IL Is well known
supervision OF the Lunacy Commission the
various hospitals bought for thomselv what
they pleased and where they pleased. At
have paid too little and secured too cheap an
article. The State Care act was designed to
Gsent insane Better care than they lad been
at the county asylums and poor
houses. and to do this as economically as pos.
. The Governor then wanted 70 know about
those Christmas Rlits TO the MiddIetown At.
nurses frequently had to sit up nights with
sick patients and received no extra pay, IL
v was hard work to get good attendants for $50
Yes" broke In Gov. Flower. but where'll
HE end Sup.!os you give all faithful State Of
me and. give the Govsrnor s55 as a Chri stmas
Hift to exc out his salary for faithful work. and
s 'ne st was s
me and said disallow II. The States money
should not be given away ! can got you sny
$50 IN onth and board"
Gov. Flower then took up the blanket. salt, |
ore ed the reluctant superintendent to admit |
hat the 81. ~ per barrel salt might have cost |
over 80 after It reached QgiensburR. lust |
lion did. or the blankets. Mr.. Talcott said he |
Id not buy them but thought them better |
han the ones he put IN his estimate.
But he had another com plant. His estimate
" 5000 Tor Ice had been cut out by the Lunacy |
,on N ission. and he had been told to send the
inmates out IN the cold to help cut II. Cons
missioner Macdonald answered this 10y saying
hat TRlcotts estimate was not iiemiZet.
Ither hospitals contracted for their lee and
'ut II In their January estimates. lie had this
u mind when the item was diSailowed. Mr.
'alcot returned to the charge with an egg
tenn. He had estimated eggs at - cents a
oxen. aud when the Com mission got around
- allowing IL eggs lad gone w to 2J cents.
Here Is bill the Comptroller hesitHtcs
bout auditing" said the Governor. and lie be.
an to read from q Till for provisions and
torres" approved by stunt. Talcott for Septem-
er. Just before the State care audit began.
he bill amount ed TO between $500 and $500
Id most VI Its Items were Ike these:
y gallons French Crescent brandy. ........ SAL p3