Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-09
10 SEND Blind hone
Board Of Control Will Close Indus
trial Home For the Blind at
Knoxville.
The Late Legislature Provided That
the Institution should Be
Abandoned.

Members Of the Board Of Control
Well Pleased With the Gen.
eral Assembly.
Des Moines, April Gone Of the tasks
imposed upon the board Of control by
the general assembly is the closing
down OF the Industrial home for the
blind at Knoxville. The bill passed by
the legislature for the abandonment Of
this institution provides that it shall be
done as soon as practicable. The
board will take hold OF the matter
without delay and by May expects tosI
close the school and send the inmates
to their homes.
The effect of the measure VII, be to
put the blind back upon the counties
from which they We're sent, but iii
view of the fact that the institution has
not been financial success the only
feasible course seems to ne to abandon
I il. The board SO recommended and the
assembly followed the Recommending
tion. The property will not be allowed
TO run down, as the board is em-
powered to appoint a custodian of the
buildings and grounds. Superintendent
llCulbertson was up from Knoxville re-
lscently to discuss with the board the
plans for closing the school and send
ling the inmates home. There are more
| than forty inmates. OF these about
third have NO homes or do not care to
return home. The state will pay the
1 Incidental expenses incurred in the re-
turn of each inmate. but not to exceed
S25. There has been some misunder-i
| standing of this provision in the bill
lust passed. 1t WAS thought by many.
and It appears the inmates OF the.
school gained the impression that the
state would give s25 to each inmate.
I This is NOT the case. The state Will pay
the incidental expenses of returning
home, but in no case will more than SIS
be allowed any one person.
The board of control is not COM
planning over what has been done for i
}by the TwentS-eighth general assem-
| bly,. The members of the board say
While they have not been given every
| thing they asked for they are we'll
| pleased on the whole With the work of
the legislature. In appropriations for
land the board was not allowed as
much as 1t asked 1t wanted $4,000,
| but this vas cut to $4,000, to be used
| for the purchase of land for the SOL
dicrs orphans home at Davenport On
\ the other hand allowances were made
| in some instances that We're not asked
\ for by the board. The additional APP
precipitation OF Sill 900 for the old peo-
Il pies building at the Soldiers Home
was one OF these instances. 1t is a mat
4 ter of comment that thruout the session
Il the legislature has evinced entire con-
i fidence in the board of control and
that those opposed to the board two
years ago have become, in many cases,
A its warmes supporters.
\ The board says it Will not be affectes
4 for the present blythe Titus bill to pre-
4 Vent the manufacture of pearl buttons
4 and butter tubs at the state peniten-
4 .tiaries. The prescntslcontracts Will be
y comnleted. The contracts now in force
4 Will not expire for ten Years. There
q are plentysUf applications for Further
Il contracts, but these Will not be granted
The tMentN-seventh annual meeting
4 of the National Conference of Chari-
4 ties and Correction will be held in. To-
4 peka, Kas., May 1Sstog24. Judge Kline
u has been invited 10 deliver an address
4 before the meeting on board of control
A work. His subject Will be, THE Iowa
4 Board Q. Control of State Institutions
i and Its Work. = The subjects that in
a terest the national conference are
a those the board of control is engaged
in handling. tits possible other mem
4 bers of the board aside from Judge
Kline will attend. The board was not
represented at the las, annual meeting
4 land the fact that Judge Kline has been
. selected for a place on the program is
= evidence that the boards work is att
tracing attention outside OF Iowa.
The National Conference of Chari-
ties and Correction was organized in
lisa. 1t has q membership of about
l,500. 1t is composed not only OF rep
4 resentatives of charitable and correc-
tional institutions and societies, but
also of other men and Women inter.
8ested in the broad field of charity in
& this country. Mexico and Canada.
The annual meetings of the confer
q ence are usually attended by number
charitable institutions The meeting
a. oHrhti Viii pIEuDdUlS Dest GIIeHEeC
by several Of the superintendent ii,
this state.
The board is preparing for ar inspec-
a ton Of the institutions in the southern
, half of the state in few days. The
schedule has not been made out but /;
& is probable the tour Will be begun mex,
. Wednesday. Davenport will be the frs,
point visited. where the Soldiers Or
phans' Home is located.
\ While not fully completed. 1t is the
understanding the monthly balance
shee. of the board will show consid-
8 cradle saving effected in the manage
ment of several of the institutions.
Indictments Dismissed
Sioux City, April e.-The pending in.
dictments against absconding 5ex-Cash.
Ter Edward p. Stone. of the defunc,
Sioux City Savings Bank. We're dis.
missed by District Judge f. r. .Gayno,
Lon County Attorney Haliams requesl
n Saturday