The herald., 1894-10-10
SAN BERNARDINO.
A Wing to tho Asylum to bs Built.
Notes.


SAN BERNARDINo, Oct. 9.-An important
meeting of the board of directors OF the asy-
lum for insane and inebrates at Highlands
was held yesterday, and the matter of prepar-
ing the new wing for occupancy was discussed
and acted upon. The asylum is crowded to
oyer1owing and the rate of arrivals is from
10 to 20 week, which, if kept up will soon
necessitate the construction of another insti-
tuition the SIZE oil the present one. The matter
will be brought up at the next session of the
legislature, and large appropriation will be
urged for it in the count OF humanity, for If
there is class of people that demand the
best OF care, and appeal more strongly to our
sympathy than any other, it is those whose
clouded intellects have shut. them in from
communication with their fellow creatures
as completely as though they were removed
from this world to world of their own.
Even the most savage nations on earth exer-
else the greatest care for those thus afflicted
and pay them the highest respect.
Our asylum is now crowded to a very un-
comiortable degree, and they keep coming to
is done it W i'll soon be necessary to refuse ali
applicants and turn them loose upon their
friends and the community in general. The
present accommodations are crowded that
patients have to be put on cots in the corri-
dors and any place where they can be located.
This is not only injurious to the patients. but
dangerous alike to their lives and the lives of
the attendants.
The board yesterday had under considera-
tion putting in heating apparatus for the
new wing and the necessary water, sewer and
gas pipes, but were confronted by. the fact
that the appropriations were all used up and
there was no money for these necessary i'm
provements. In this emergency they awarded
the contracts under the proviso that they
were to be paid when the legislature makes an
appropriation for that purpose, which it is
expected will be done this winter.
The bids for the heating apparatus complete
%Sass as CoasS wHox Sa R9 cotOn
$l99s; Byrne & Drew, Redlands $2923
Byrne Drew being the lowest were award
ed the contract, subject to the state of affairs
were: Wilcox 4 Rose, Cotton, $l575; George Gorge
N. Cooley, San Bernardino, 1880; Byrne &
Phe contract was awarded to George NJ Coo
ley, upon the same. conditions as those affect
ing the bid for the heating apparatus
NOTES.
Mrs. W. A. Selkirk, wife of the editor Of the
Sun, arrived in the city Sunday evening.
Clark Albert, the veteran newspaper corre-
sFondent. has returned from San Francisco
The Young Mems Estee club will rally at
Central school house, corner Wightmen ave.
nue. and Base Line, tonight.
Fhis morning Mrs w. IT. Russell presented
aer husband with a ~ pound boy.
farewell reception will be rendered Cap
tain Ried and Lieutenant Dimock at our Saliva
ton army barracks this evening.
senator Stephen M. White Will address the
people OF this vicinity at the pavilion Wednes-
The ordinance of baptism was dispensed in
the Presbyterian church on Sunday, and five
new members received into the church The
congregation is having quiet but rapid
growth
Cotton capitalists are about to build first
class raco track to run in conjunction with the
Twenty-eighth district agricultural fairs,
which will be held in that city for some time
TO come; The track will be laid out just east
ana back OF the pavilion, and will be full
mile track, level and laid out upon a soil sus-
hardness and yet retaining the property of
elasticity which goes to make up fast tracks.