The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-23
ALABAMA AND KENTUCKY.

In old Kentucky also move Is on foot to establish a home for Confederate Vete- rans. but unlike ours. the Kentucky move ment has the State and a State appropria- tion behind it. The Committee on the Home has issued an address, from which we take tho following, as explanatory of the movement:
 The last Legislature passed bill which the Governor has signed and Is now a law, establishing a Confederate Home. The provisions of the bill are that the Confederates of Kentucky are to secure and cause to be conveyed to the State of Kentucky property sufficient for the purposes of a home. Said property to contain not less than thirty acres of land, and have such buildings upon it as will serve for the care and custody of not less than twenty-five persons. When the Governor is satisfied that these conditions are compiled with, the following appro- priation becomes immediately available. viz: The sum of s10.000 year until at the rate of $l25 per head the per capita for the inmates will amount to more than 5000 (which. will occur when more than eighty inmates are in the Home) then $125 per inmate per year will be paid. The Home is to be governed by sixteen trustees to be appointed by the Governor, four each year after the first appoint ments are made It will be seen. there fore. that We have the home within our grasp as soon as we comply with the con- dition of conveying to the State a tract of not less than thirty acres of land and accommodations for not less than twenty-five persons. It is estimated that there will be required for this purpose the sum of s2500o. Of this amount. there was on June 1st. subscribed and reported to the corresponding secre- tary the sum of s13.299. This sum has been raised in sixteen camps with the Parr gift and Kern legacy. and by the efforts of a relatively few persons. It will be seen that there Is yet to be raised S11,7 ,7W in order to avail ourselves of the generosity of the State
 It will be observed that this State ap. propration makes provision for eighty inmates. at $125 per year. but if the num- Der of inmates increases. the appropria- ton is aso to be increased so as to keep the amount up to $l25 for each veteran. It will also be observed that those having the matter In charge. must, as a condition to make the appropriation available. pro- vide the thirty acres of land and accom- modation for not less than twenty-five persons To raise the necessary amount to comply with these conditions is the task of the committee and. to judge by the progress they have made, they will not fail.
 Unless land and building material are both very high in the portion of Ken lucky where the home is to be located. it is a rather eXtravagant estimate to say that 1t will require $25,0OO to comply with the conditions Thirty acres of land and accommodation for twenty-five inmates should not cost more than half that | amount. That, however. Is a matter for those most interested to settle. and we allude to it as d contrast to the conditions existing here in the movement to build a Veterans Home in Alabama. Here through the liDeralill of Captain Falkner the land has already been secured, and through the liberality of numerous other good citizens, material for houses has been secured or in prospect enough, in all probability 10 afford homes for as
 nanv as the Kentucky law requires. Whether the Legislature of Alaba-1a will loo as liberal as that of Kentucky has