The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-04
NEEDS OF A REFORMATORY
Hutchinson Board Will Make Num-
erous Recommendations For Money.

Hutchinson Board Will Make Num-
erous Recommendation For Money.
In the recent report of the board of
managers of the Hutchinson reofrma-
tory to the governor, the attention of
the chief executive is called to the num-
Der of needs of the institution. The
board will ask the next legislature for
some special appropriations. One Of
the most important of these will be an
appropriation of $95,550 for new cell
block, to be a duplicate to the one now
in use. This improvement includes the
completion of kitchen, dining rooms,
bakery, etc, and is estimated as fol-
lows in the boards report: Cell block,
$4,000; bakery, 81, $50; corridor, 81, 200;
kitchen and furnishings, $4,000, and tow
er. LOO
aggregate OF S26,14O, which is consider
ably in excess OF the pay roll of the
present year. One addition asked is
for salaries for cook and assistant
cook. In the past the cooking has been
done entirely by the inmates, but it is
deemed advisable by the board to have
the work in the kitchen directed by
competent persons, both that the food
may be properly prepared and that the
young men in the kitchen may have
proper instructions in cookery. The
board also points out that careful man
agement in the kitchen by competent
persons would save the salaries by
avoiding waste.
Another addition asked is a musical
director and teacher for the institution.
For this an appropriation of $500 per
year is asked. The board in their re
port suggests an increase of $500 per
year in the salary of the superintendent
and an increase of $500 per year in the
salary of the assistant superintendent
The former now receives 81, 500 a year
and the latter $500 per year. An in
crease is also asked in the sa aries of the
school teachers, and also that the sala-
ry Of the physician be raised to $500 per
year. Other officers are also requested
raised The total amount for salaries
for the next year is $26 14O. The total
pay roll for the year ending June 80,
1897 was s13, 1875.
The board also recommends that the
state establish an electric light plant
for the use of the refOrmatory. Their
report states that for the past two
years the lighting of the institution has
cost 81, 600. The estimate of cost of an
electric light plant sufficient for the
needs of the institution is placed at
The board recommends further that
the shoe making and tailoring depart
ments be extended so as to employ
from forty to sixty men each. suggest
ing that this institution might, in ad-
ditiOn to its own needs, furnish some of
the other institutions with shoes and
made up clothing. For this plan an ap-
preparation of $40, 900 is asked.
One point which the board deals with
at length is the recent decision that in
mates from the reformatory cannot le-
Sdlly De transferred 10 the peH1tenlldTy.
And in summing up they make an ur-
gent request that the governor ask the
next legislat ure to frame such an
amendment to the laws as will without
trespa ssing upon the constitution, re-
store the right to transfer all incorrigf-
bles and fneligibIes from the reformato-
~ to the penitentiary.
The appropriation for sustenance and
all material, goods, supplies. fuel. etc,
asked for the coming year is S36.77 and
for the year following S3S.775. The en-
tire appropriation asked for the next BIZ
ennial period is $22S, $50.