Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-13

winter OF 1895. including kitchen, dining
room, administration and sleeping rooms
for about sixty persons. The roof on this
buiicing was not properly put on as II
leaks badly. The plastering is also falling
on and viii very COON have TO be replastered (:
the plumbing Is defective and the water
pipes are g source OF much annoyance and
anxiety. The Kitchen has been furnished
With the beet and latest improved steam
cookers. consisting OF two boilers, one meat
rOaster one vegetable cooker and large
coffee, tea and hot water urns Also a
bake oven Of sufficient capacity for baking
i2j loarcs. giving both efficiency and
economy to this department and a saving to
The sCmI.
HEATING AND LIGHTING PLANTS.
THE north side of the main building
was ccmcnted and the roof repaired and
romodeled. An addition to the engine and
boiler house was built OF sufficient dimon-
sions to accommodate new boiler, pump,
engine and dynamo with capacity Of $50
inc1ndescent lights 16 candle power each,
afording light for all the buildings and
lawns. The steam pipe leading to the
post hospital, never having given satisfac-
tion, was taken up, rebuilt and repacked
thus giving sufficient heat and warmth
and comfort to those confined within its
walls. About 500 feet Of pipe leading to the
stock yards has been taken up and replaced
with new. The building near the hospital
used as a morgue, has been moved to a
new location, reroofed, loored plastered
painted and furnished stock shed large
enough to house 100 head of cattle, has
been enclosed and covered with the tin that
came off the roof OF the main building when
being repaired. New feed racks have been
erected"
The efficiency Of the laundry has been in
creased, a number OF large trees have been
planted on the lawn and a lake has been
made. with a capacity of $4,000 barrels OF
water, a fourteen-foot irrigation windmill
and pump sufficient to raise five barrels of
water per minute has been erected for the
purpose OF furnishing water. The lake Is
intended to supply ice for the use of the
home and to propagate fish for hospital use.
Great care has been taken with the farm and
results have been satisfactory. The home
has now a fine herd of graded cattle.
The fag has been placed at half mast
during the biennial period thirty times, and
thirty comrades have been called to answer
the reyelle, and there are now siXty-two
the reveille, and there are now siXty-two
place of those who have passed over the
silent river. Since the establishment of this
home thirty-one have been laid to rest in
other cemeteries, making a total of ninety
three deaths "
ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES.
The commandant says the estimates for
appropriations are based on what he believes
are the actual needs of the home. He says
the state. not the home will receive back
from the general government 500 per year
for each male member. He recommends the
immediate erection of a hospital building
with capacity to accommodate 100 patients
on the groU nd floor, with rooms on the sec
ond floor for the surgeon and employees and
that the two buildings now used as hos
pitfalls be converted into rooms for old men
and their wives. who at this time have no
suitable quarters. He asks that the adju-
tants salary be raised to 81 200 per year and
the surgeons to 81 900. He also recommends
that 81 900 be appropriated for an elevator in
the main building. Commandant Wilson's
estimate for the coming biennum is as
follows: