The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-16
FLINN FARM FOR
WORKH0USE.
Trustees Announce Their
Intention of PurChas-
ing the Site.

Several weeks ago the Republican an'
nounced that the trustees Of the New Cas-
I'll, County Workhouse had decided to
purchase and erect the workhousa on the
Finn farm at Greenbank yesterday nfter-
noun tho trustees announced the purchase
Of ,hs property. The transfer has not been
made, however. The farm contains 40
acres. No price is mentioned.
Abundant in rock is part OF tho forty
acres which was just what the trustees
desired, us the prisoners can be placed to
work cracking this stone for tha improve
mont of the country roads. The tlinh
farm ia tho property of Miss Anu Cathe-
rine Finn, and Is situated near Green
bank, about five miles from This city.
One cd:s skirts the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, while ths Red Clay creek also Is
a short distance away, hakinga natural
receptacle for drainage. Likewise, tho
new road is but a shurt distance away,
along which the Wilmington and Brandy
wire Springs railway passes. This Gives
tho trustees a site that affords steam rail-
road, wagon iroad and electrical railway
transportation advantages, and with nat.
ural drainage fer all buildings that may
be erected. beside sufficienCy OF stone.
Another meeting of the trustees will bo
held in the near future, when an architect
will be authorized to draft plans and speci.
Il 'ations for work house that can bo ere
cted with funds available Tho trustees
were allowed one hundred thousand dol
lars for tho erection of the necessary build
ings, and out OF this tho forty acres OF lani
for his sito is to bs paid for. While moth
ing definite has bscn done in tho way OF
drafting the plans, the trus ees seem agreed
that tho work.house shall DO stone
strucur with the building for the SUPER
iutenuont and wardcns at ono end, from
which will lead II long corridor, along each
side Of which will DO the calls for mon.
At the other ond will be another building
in design similar to that for the officials,
which will contain tho c,iIs for woman
prisoners and also will be furnished with
heating apparatus, and any otl'r ma
chinoiy that will DO necessary, Tho stone
with which the works house Will be b lit
is TO be uuarried ON tho site decided on yes
terday.
A now condition has arisen which the
trustees have to consider Thoy have the
opinion that tho work-house shall be fitted
with s;col c,lls, and the recent increase IN
tho price Of iron and stoci has caused an
increusc in tho price OF lho cells desired.
Then again the number of prisoners in
N1w Castle county seems to be on the
ncrta G. as there has Deen an epidemic of
crime recently and thu trustees fear that
with the lin; o appropriation ut hand
they cannot provide an institu ion of
sufficient Dimensions to accommodate all.
They rcnlizo that the workhouse Is to DO u
permanent institution, and that 1t should
be erected durnbly and OF proper size at
the beginning. Just how to DO this is the
problem they have to consider, and 1t may
be several months before decision to
commercu work is reached. Under the
act authorizing the work-hOuse the tru:-
tees are given two years in which to com
plnth IT.