Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-13
EXP[ND A VAST SUN
Over Half Million Dollars for
improvements at State In
stitutions in Iowa
THE LIST OF EXPENDITURES
THE LIST OF EXPENDITURES
The Sum Of ss1,o5s.e5 Expended for
Work Done at Soldiers Home, Mar
shailtown-Permanent Improvements
Alone, Not Having to Be Repeated,
Represented by Following List.
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| ing the special appropriations for per-
manent Improvements at the various
| state institutions in Iowa, paid for per-
manent improvements more than naiI
million dollars. This includes the pur-
chase of land at the state institutions
and the erection Of new buildings, pur-
chase of additional or new equipment
improved plumbing and heating ana
sewage plants, books and supplies, mu-
sical instruments, vehicles. live stock of
every description, furniture and repairs
to buildings and machinery. The eA-
penditures at the various state institu-
l,tions under this head for the season
were as follows:
Soldiers Home, Marshall-
town.. .. ...... '..'V osA'0oeSo
Soldiers Orphans Home.
Davenport ....... 14'ooV.I !
coIIasa far Rlind. yinton -. 4,6T4.16
Rlmrrs ~. 1,0si.73
School for Deaf, providential
fund. .... @o'ooo.1o
% Gianwood -. 15,05s.76
BOYS Industrial School, FL
10 ,,nr, ...... 14,9s7.Se
Girls Industrial School, Nit
cneHVflle. -. yo
State Hospital, Mt. Pleasant lS,557.tS
Satte Hospital, independence 44,Sio.a2
State Hospital, Clarinda.. 33,464.0o
State Hospital, Cherokee SS4,
. ~ tN-n ar
penitentiary. Anamosm 7.2I0.29
panitent;ary Fort Madison. 1,213.06
Total expenditure. .... .$562,OSS.3l
In many cases payments have been
maa,. in previous years on the same
i. -, an 4 III others The work is not yet
complete, or not yet paid for. The list
includes the purchases of land at five
of the institutions aggregating $97, 11S,-
IS, but not the land purchased more re-
Gently at Mt. Pleasant and GlenWood.
The legislature gave $129,00O for the
purchase of land. and the board will
make some additional purchases this
year. These items in the list of perna-
nent Improvement do not include any
of the larger items of clothing. food and
general support which passed thru the
hands of the board during the year, but
merely the expenditures which will not
have to be repeated again, save for re-
newals.
The largest sum was, of course spent
on the state insane hospital at Chero-
kee, and this represents the completion
of the hospital and erection of many of
the secondary buildings. Some of the
larger items or more important are: On
t1H,,;1I n y
ings, s66.525; heating and ventilating,
s24,579 boilers and setting, $15,124.17:
engines and foundation, $S,102.50.
generators $4,000; electric dumb wait
ers. $500; three electric elevators, So
500: steam pumps, s2.015; laundry ma
chinery, $500; deep well, $2.549.97;
electric wiring, s7,114o6; plumbing,
s11,260; window shades Q,526), S1,100.-
70; electric light fixtures, $4,000: chairs,
S4,T47.36; beds. s4,596.40; blankets. s2.--
079.30; sheets, pillow cases and spreads,
S2,253.31; tables. S1,750.5O; desks, $780,
95; five pianos. s1,775; carpets and
rugs, $S.762.9O: thirteen horses. 81, 1876;
sixty three cows, s2.245.50; hogs, ST.
307.72; six sewing machines. $222.15;
landscape work, $500: surgical instru-
ments and pharmacy supplies, $1,033.66.
The expenditures from the providen-
tial fun& at Council Bluffs We're made
necessary by the fire which destroyed
the main building. The contracts for
building, and heating, plumbing and
wiring same called for the payment of
$l6,936.S2. The other payments were
for the interior fittings, including beds,
tables, furniture and desks. Out of the
regular appropriation there was paid
$500 for annex to the Industrial build
ing and s24O.59 for school books and
supplies.
AT vinton boilers, CRATES and porch
repairs explained most Of the expen-
diture
At Davenport there was $4,000 paid
for land and s10,125.97 for raising cot
tages and furniture, with SS4l.2S for
books and magazines.
The Glenwood expenditure for land,
which does not include the last pur-
chase, amounted to $5,400.20. There
was paid for roofing buildings $7,S29.S6.
There was paid on the contract for
the heating station, laundry and tunnel
at Eldora S3,567.45, and on
and boilers at heating plant,
s9,765.l2
The sewage disposal plant at Mitch
ellvile cost $1,000, and the sewage dis
posal plant at Mt. Pleasant cost ST.
9S7.57. There was paid for printing |
press and outfit at Mt. Pleasant S5S1.4S;
for motors. $i,O56.55; exhaust ventila-
ton, $2,6059S; new we'll. $3.50; furniture
and carpets, $5,S59.14. AT Independence
the land bought cost $3S,S07.75, and
there was maid for rent of land $1,345.
The radiators and connections cost ST.
906.36; carpets and rugs s1,S34.4s. AT
the land cost s27,911; the cold
plant s1,020; the thirty closets.
complete. $1,000; trees ana shrubs,
$500: hook and ladder truck, s575.
The board paid at the Anamosa peni I
tertiary s1,11O74 for books on warden's
residence and administration building.
s911.7S; purifying plant for water, So
$50, and for carriage, Sl6o. At the
Fort Madison penitentiary there was