The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-19
TIE INVESTIGATION HAS ENDED.
FoundIings' Home Directors Lave
Their Innings.
The Charges of Immorahty-Dr. Rug
giles VIII Report His Findings
to the Governor.


the statement that his daughter had re-
ceived $50 a month as Secretary. He
said that she only received $40 month
and that the statement was made in
the way of an insinuation that his
charges were made through spite or
that he had been Influenced by them
Mr.. Lord admitted that her salary
had been only SO.
Mrs. Clayton was called as a witness
by DR.. Waggoner and recited the man
ner in which the home was founded
and the bill passed making an appro-
priation for it. She thought that there
should have been a home here as Well
as in San Francisco.
In response to a, question about child
zen taken out from the home and plac-
ing them in the hands of private parties,
she said that she obtained permission
from Mr.. Pratt to take some OF them
out during the cholera infantum NOR
tally, in order to save the epidemic
from spreading. Some of them died;
several, however, We're kept by the
parties with whom they had been
placed, and are still living. She thought
that in some cases the isolation favored
their recovery. She could not tell what
the comparative mortality was between
those thus put out and those left in the
home without looking up the matter.
MRS. BOWLES' STORY.
Mrs. BowIes said she was employed
In the home as nurse during the month
of October. She found the home in a
very unsanitary condition. One of the
directors asked her when she came
there what she wished to have done in
the nursery. She told her that the
nursery must be cleaned, and was told
that the directors had been discussing
the matter, but could not do it just now
as they had to build a schoolhouse
The bedbugs were so bad that the child
rem used TO cry from being bitten. She
killed 100 on a child in one night
She insisted on having the room
cleaned and the filthy carpet taken up
that was reeking with disease She
was told that if she insisted on these
things she would lose her position She
answered that she would do so if ne
cessary, and as she could not get it
done she left. She was not discharged
Inc doctors instructions as TO steriliz-
ing milk were not carried out during
the time she stayed, as the purchase
OF the boiler was deferred from day to
DAY and was not sent for until she left
the home. She could not bear the wav
things were conducted there and hoped
70 God she never would be in such a
place again.
NFI4N AM HAhE1(TORlC.
The nurse from San Francisco whom
she succeeded was there for three DAYS
after she came, in order to induct her.
into her duties She fixed up a bottle
OF gin and paregOric and gave to wit
ness. with instructions to administer il
TO the babies. They had been dosed
with gin and paregoric till they were
haI dead. She refused to use it, and
the babies cried just as a drunken man
h.l.r1 n ice ,-.v-g-~
OIL she was forced to give them small
doses OF Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
instead.
No physician had ordered the admin
1stration of opium, as far as she was
concerned. The children We're not well
nourlshed, and would steal anything
eatable they could get their hands on
as they were hungry all the time
Some Of them told her she had better
food on her table than they had These
children were from : 10 IL years old
She talked with them about stealing.
but said nothing to the Matron. because
she was always sat down on when
ever she made any protest or asked for
anything
The supply Of milk was increased
after Dr. Waggoner's visit from two
and half gallons until it amounted to
seven gallons
IMMORAL DOINGS.
The immortality that exists among the
boys and girls, she said, was something
awful. The Oldest ones are Is or Il
Years old. being half orphans. One
night when she was going through the
Lall she found a boy coming out of the
girls room. She shook him and warned
him never to do so again. She often
saw girls coming out Of the boys room,
which was across the hall.
One girl was especially bad and cor
Tupted the smaller ones by the vile stuff
she told them She heard boys invite
girls to their room, and heard the vilest
stuff talked on the playground. She re-
lated several cases where she had
caught girls in compromising situa-
tons. After she had spoken to the Ma
tron several times about these things,
she locked the girls up in their room,
but she locked the bad girl in with
them. The Matron was badly handi-
capped by not having enough author
ity, but could have done better. There
We're two deaths in October, instead Of
one.
She resigned on November It'll, but
went back again by request for another
week The first chlid died in October
from heart failure, and the second from
spinal meningitis She found children
s or 9 years old stealing the babies
matted milk because they were hungry.
She saw oneof the girls in the brush near
W street one afternoon with three boys,
who got to fighting for her favors.
one OF the boys belonged to the institu-
ton.
SPECIFIC CHARGES.
She only saw a boy come out of the
girls room on one occasion, but she
twice caught the girl before spoken OF
getting out of a bed in the boys room.
The door of the room was open. She
also caught a boy ana the same girl I'M
der the front porch one evening. The
boy was an outsider. She did not tell
the Matron about what she had seen
till a week afterward, as her assistant
nurse had told her il would DO no good
To make complaints. When she AID tell
the NatrOn. however, she found that
she was q different woman from what
she had been told. and she threatened
70 whip the girl.
She called the Matron's attention 70
the dirty talk between the boys ana
girls and she whipped them. She
seemed TO try all she could to break
Up the state of affairs, except having
them sent 10 the Orphans Home or the
Reform School. She believed the Matrou
had done wen in her position.
In regard 10 the infant said TO have
syphihtic sores on its body. she said
that the child weighed nine pounds
when brought there, a few hours after
birth. 1t was fat and the beaithiest
child she had had anything TO do with
in twelve years. The turning point
with It was when the under nurse gave
It a nipple that had been used by other
babies who had sore mouths. SIZE did
not believe that 1t had any syphilitfC
faint she thought its sores were trans
mitted from another child.