The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-20
FOR THE AFFLICTED
The Progress of the Deaf and Dumb
School at Boulder.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
They Recommend That the Word
Asylum BE Not Used i'm Con-
nectIon with the institution
Helena Brlef News.
Itch TO the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena, Feb. 19.-The trustees OF the
state deaf and dumb asylum of Boulder
submitted their annual report to the
governor to-day 1t included an ex-
haustive report from Superintendent j.
A. Tilinghast, which showed the insti-
tuition to be in a flourishing condition,
I'm spite of the difficulties that have be-
set ii i'm the way of limited funds from
the time it started. In regard to the
site and proposed buildings, the report
says: we are not at present writing,
in actual possession of any real estate,
buildings or other holdings, but nego-
tiations are almost completed for the
purchasing of a 60-acre site, located
just southeast of town, on the north
side of the Boulder river. The contract
has been let for the building, to cost
37,911.3S. and to be finished Sept i, 1896.
This building, ii is calculated, Will &C
commodate comfortably, from 60 to rs
pupils. If all goes well. we shall be
able to speak in our next annual report
of the finished building. heated and
lighted. comfortably furnished, and
shcltering within it's walls between 80
and 40 children busily engaged in learn
ing those necessary elements of educa-
ton and good character without which
they would be, indeed, irreparably cut
off from all real human society. and
become. ultimately, costly charges upon
the state"
Referring to attendance. the report
says For the present session of 1S95-96
there are q pupils enrolled and in &C
tual attendance. with one more to
come. OF the number thus added
to those present last year, four are
deaf boys, two are deaf girls, and two
are blind boys. Our present list of II
pupils is therefore made up of Is deaf,
six blind and tive feeble-minded child
rem. AS regards sex, there are 10 boys
and eight girls"
superintendent Tillinghast says the
name of the institution should be
changed, as the term asylum" is
highly Objectionable. On this he says:
1T is a matter of regret that the name
of cur school had to be changed, of ne
cessity, in order to conform exactly
with the name designated in the enab
ling act. which donates $4,000 acres of
public lands to the Montana deaf and
dumb asylum The word asylum is
misleading and unjust. This institu-
ton is but part Of the great system
of free public schools. and children sent
here are not pauper wards of the state
or imbeciles of any kind, but they come
pupils to be educated under the only
arrangement practicable for the state
to carry on. Such a name naturally
crates to prejudice parents of many
deaf or blind children against sending
them to the school, and thus works ir-
operates to prejudice parents of many
question. 1t is to be hoped that this
name will be modified"
City Marshal Mccain returned this
morning from Great Falls with Charles
Stone and Charles Hogan, who are be-
lieved by the police to have been impl-
Gated in the burglary of F. l.. Feist's
tailor shop last Sunday night. An over
coat was stolen from the shop, and Ho-
gan, IL is said, disposed of it in Great
Falls.
John Paulus, 65 years old, was ad-
judged insane to-day and will be re-
moved to Warm Springs Paulus has
been living the life Of a wild man in the
mountains about Colorado gulch. He
lived on berries and buds from pine
boughs, having gathered and stored
away about so bushels of them. He
imagined he had fine ranch and Gull
tivated with hoe an acre or two of
rocky mountain side. on which nothing
could grow.