Evening star., 1901-08-06
INSANE HOSPITAL EXTENSION
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS HORTON
& HEMENwAY FOR BUILDERS.
Prepared to Begin Work I'm Thirty
Days After the Contract is
Signed.
Signed.

opened the bids for the extension TO the
Government Hospital for the Insane has
recommended that the work of construct
ing the new buildings be awarded to Hor-
ton & Hemenway of Providence, r. l., at
100000. The recommendation was fer
warded TO the Secretary of the Interior,
by whom, it is believed, it will be approved.
The original bid Of Horton & Hemenway
on the fifteen new buildings was s1,351.os
They were the lowest bidders. The board,
after careful consideration, decided to
omit three buildings-the administration
building, a three-story structure, cottage
for the accommodation of a medium class
of female patients and the male employees
building, another three-story one, these
being rather expensive buildings. the
board then considered what changes could
be made in the specifications of the re-
naming buildings SO as to bring them with
In the appropriation, which is 1925 eco
For one thing they decided that the stone
trimmings should be of Bedford limestone
in place of Ohio buff stone. Slate roofs
were substituted for tile ones, and by max
ing slate take the place of marble in the
lavatories difference of over $4,000 was
made A change in the bathing apparatus
made another reduction of 81 Goo By
working along these lines the figure of
the Horton Il Hemenway Company was
brought, as stated, to s91QC09 leaving the
sum of about SO 1000 or possibly s200o0.
for incidental work, with $4,000 for grad
ing. making approaches, etc. The archt-
tects work and fees and similar expenses
Will be in the neighborhood Of S5o,0GO.
1t IS understood that the company is pre-
pared to go ahead with the work within
thirty days after the contract is signed
1t is expected that an application for per-
mission to construct the subway that Is to
connect the buildings on the main grounds
those Il UT0D0SeG
adjoining Congress Heights will be made in
a short time. The time named for the
completion of the work of building the eX-
tension is put by the successful company
a $50 working days.
Exchange May BE Made.
There is reason TO believe, it is said in
official quarters, that some new move Is in
progress relative to the exchange of ground
between the owners of Pencote Heights
and the government, under authority
granted by the last Congress, to enable
the Government Hospital for the Insane
to secure a suitable site for the construc-
tion of its extension. 1t is stated that an
understanding may be reached that will
be the basis of effecting an exchange even
at the last moment. Two months since
there went from the Interior Department
to Mr.. A. E. Randle of Congress Heights,
one of the parties having interests in the
Pencote land, the last proposition made by
the government proposing terms upon
which exchange would be made but
since then nothing decisive has been known
with regard to it. and, as far the rep
resentatives of the government We're con-
cerned, all hope of making the trade was
abandoned. Mr. Randle is absent from
the city, having left shortly before the bids
for the construction of the extension We're
opened, and. while he made statement
of the fact before leaving, it has come to
be generally believed that quite naturally
the terms of the proposed exchange will
be fully discussed between him and Mr..
K. t. Wilson, another owner, whom Mr..
RaEdle met at Newport. Officially the
representatives of the government know
nothing of this, and have no information
To impart upon the subject.
It is known that the plan of having a
number of these new buildings adjoin Con-
gresS Heights, making the avenue to and
from that place lead through the asylum
grounds, the buildings to be occupied by
class of the most violent patients, is
the intention, instead of keeping the struc-
lures on the west side of the road in a
continuation of the institution, is extremely
obnoxious to the promoters Of the town,
and this, il is said will have much to do
with any exchange that may finally be
made. While it is deemed that the terms
last named by the government are equita-
bic, still. if a fair counter proposition is
now returned by Mr.. Randle when he
riveS here it viii be given consideration.
While it is admitted by the authorities of
the institution that 1t will be unsatsfac-
tory and disadvantageous to divide the ad-
dition, as is shown in the plans yet prep
aration to this end viii not be stopped un-
Ill there is ground for believing that the
private owners of the Pencote Heights are
disposed to make an offer In connection
with the exchange referred to.