The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-03
THEsOEDIERs, HOME.
Interesting Items from the Home st Nor


 Interesting Items from the Home st Soro'
 The several buildings which comprise the home are heated by steam from two fifty-four Inch and one forty-four inch boilers. using 1000 tons of coal a year. Gasoline Is used for lighting pur- poses, and there arc in and about the grounds $50 lights. "A large water tank stands in nearly the center Of the grounds which holds 2s.0o0 gallons of water. and the capacity of the pump which forces the water into 1t from beautiful spring quarter of mile distant Is 5000 gallons m hour. The sanitary condition of the home Is a model of ncatness, and the men are re- quired to take bath once week. Elegant bath rooms with modern con- veniences are provided for that purpose Mir. M. E. Datton of Winsted has charge of the laundry department and seven men are detailed to assist him in the work. which takes three days each week to do 1t. The wash com prises upwards of 1,600 pieces a week and each piece has to be recorded and credited to the ward from which 1t was taken. Everything in this department Is run by steam and the work is done without manual labor. The "wringer" makes 1900 revolutions a minute. The ironing machine Is a very ingenious contrivance; 1t Is round and wide enough to take whole sheet at time. MT. Dutton informed me that one hun dred and fifty sheets could be ironed in thirty minutes This beats my wife by one sheet and she is pretty lively with a fiatiron.
 From the laundry we were taken to the hospital. large. new and commo- dious brick building. Passing through this building we saw quite number of the old veterans who will soon answer to the general roll call. The physician has his office here, before which those under treatment, appear every morning, or are attended in the ward as the case requires. Two lady attendants are en- ployed in the hospital, the only two we saw on the grounds.
 A new kitchen has recently been add ed to this department, finished in the natural wood and modern in every par ticular. Large copper boilers bound with sheet brass polished to a luster that would answer for good mirror, serve for the purpose of coffee, tea and water. The large range with its elab- crate nickel trimmings occupying one covered with zinc rubbed to a surface that is almost transparent, long rows of shelves filled high with beautiful white crockery, with cupboards and closets at every convenient point, con- stitute magnificent room, and all for the benefit and comfort of the old sol- diers. What thoughtfulness, what mag nanimnity has this government, this state, shown toward those who voluh- teered to give their lives If necessary, and sacrifice their health and homes and everything else for the love oi their country. Their names, every one of them, oughtGto be emblazoned with letters of gold into the rocks of the eternal hills as"'a monument to their fame and glory and thank God some of them are and more ought to be, and any man who will speak disparagingly of soldiers monument" (and there are some that dol is not worthy to be called an American citizen, and much less patriot. care not whether those men wore two rows of brass buttons at or served as mule drivers. They were enlisted in a common cause, and the same spirit of patriotism swelled in the breast of one as in the other and are deserving of the same recognition, and they are getting it at the Soldiers Home in Noroton," under the judicious and impartial management of MT. James N. Coe the efficient and warm hearted superintendent of the institu- tion, who personally looks after the individual interests of his comrades. Going into this institution not one cent is necessary to have the comforts and conveniences of pleasant home, not even two cent postage stamp, for if you haven't got 1t, go to the commits sary department, get your pen, ink and paper and write till you are tired of it, then drop your letter in the letter box and the state does the rest-sends' 1t on its mission. And then tell me this com monwealth is not generous in its dealings with the old soldiers and everything else is conducted in the same magnanimous manner, and we propose to let the-public know 1t. Not only at the home. but we have been
 through all the principal charitable in- stitutions in the state. We have seen their meals in course of preparation, we have been into their storehouses
 and looked intq their refrigerators, visited their sleeping apartments and into their sitting rooms and school rooms, and attended their religious services-not upon visiting day. when everything is fixed up for the occasion,
 but unheralded and taken through by invitation of friends in connection with the institution, and we know whereby we speak.
 Wa onlv regret that we are not more