The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-20

| pills, 81 girls ana lUo boys. Al the COL
ored department there are 80 blind girls
| IS blind boys, A deaf girls and SIS deaf
| boys, making a total of 165 colored pu-
nils both blind and deaf The institu-
lions have total enrolment Of 1852.
There are now 25 applications. The
average attendance has been 260, and the
cost per capita nearly 5000.
The current expense fund is $4,000 a
year, and there is a special appropria-
ton of $4,000 for improvements. The
large dining and music hall at the white
department has been completed during
the year.
Principal Ray states that there is seri-
Gus need of lighting plant, cold stor
age plant, additional machinery for
broom making and carpenters depart
ment, maps, globes, pianos and two pipe
organs, whose total cost would be about
S25 900. He also declares that if his
funds were large, he could improve the
diet of pupils. and introduce better VEN
tilation in the older portions of the
buildings. There are accommodations
for $50 of each sex at the white depart
ment, and 125 of each sex at the colored
department, if sufficient means were
provided for their support There are
at least 200 white and colored children
who need it's care and training.
The school for the Deaf and Dumb at
Morganton, has admitted thirty new
pupils. four have completed their time
and been discharged three were dis
charged as incapable of instruction, and
twenty three did not return after vaca-
ton. Three hundred more pupils can be
accommodated after the completion OF
the two small additions in progress.
These will give room for fifty children,
and furnish another exit, as recon-
mended by the Board of Public Chart
ties upon inspection
The present appropriation is $4,000
The per capita cost including amount
expended upon permanent improvements,
is $40; per capita of actual consumption
for support is $3.50
The superintendent asks for a special
appropriation of $4,000 for making road
ways, draining and improving the
grounds. -
The Oxford Orphan Asylum has 221 pu-
pills, an increase of six over last year.
The largest average number ever en-
rolled was 223 during the year. OF these
106 are girls and rs boys now present.
How well it is doing its work is
shown by the provision for fortyone du-
ring the year in approved homes, and
five others with employment on salary,
and one was received in the Normal and
Industrial College. At the date of the
report, for the year ending November
30th, the total receipts were $26,947.4O,
including $500 from the State. The net
cost of maintenance and education was
$16,014.51. The per capita cost of main
tenance alone was S50.S6. For main
tenance and education the cost per capita
was s63.1S Special instruction in
handicrafts, ETC.. is given to seventy
nine boys and fifty eight girls.
There have been important improve
ments, comprising a brick building near
ing completion, for industrial operations,
dairy and the introduction of a new
water supply by we'll, 256 feet in depth.
The superintendent needs more land, but
his greatest want is a hospital building,
fitted with. modern conveniences> for in
Urinary use.
The Co1ored Orphan Asylum at Oy-
ford has 109 pupils. of whom forty-nine
are males and sixty females. Twenty
were placed in homes. The receipts
were $7,5997S, and expenditures $S049.71.
OF this amount $4,000 was tbe regular
appropriation from the State, and 81 600
a special appropriation from the State,
so that the institution is practically
supported by the State. The present in
debtedness is s1,361 so. There are 1T2
acres of land, and the property is esti-
mated to be worth $9250.00, but it be-
longs to individuals.
| The superintendent states that chapel
and class rooms, fitted and furnished for
school purposes, and also buildings for
Shons are needed.
| The North Carolina Soldiers Home mas
seventy-pine inmates and six absent on
furlough The average attendance has
been about ,seventy-five. The infrn1
character of inmates received is indi
Gated by the number treated in the hos
pital ffty-two and at their rooms TWEEN
ty-two. OF these fourteen died, or about
20 per cent. This shows the average life
of the veterans of the Home, as only
five years. The number enrolled has
been limited by the removal of the old
dormit cries about to be occupied, but not
yet in use.
Theu chapters of the Daughters OF the
The chapters of the Daughters of the
Confederacy gave generously and
literally in the equipment of the new
building. The Secretary advocates the
appropriation of $4,000 annually for the
erection of suitable buildings and the
maintenance of the old soldiers of the
State
1t is proper to express the great loss
sustained by the State and it's veterans.
in the DEATH since the last report of
VIM. G. Stronach who as chairman of
the executive committee from the be-
ginning of the institution rendered so
much valuable service, without compen-
sation. except the pleasure of doing good
and advancing the public welfare.
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