The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-21
GOVERNORS CHARITIES AXE.
FELL on APPROPRIATIONS AT
RANDOM, 4 carrie SAYS
Al Least IT Fell AT the Root OF Necessities.
Not supernuities. and Prolonged I'M
necessary Suffering and Deferred
Expenditure That Must Yet he Made.


necessary Suffering and Deferred
Expenditure That Must Yet he Made.
Gov. Odell's attempt to bring about a
more economical administration OF State
charities, which resulted in his looping OF
$,92, 900 Of appropriations for the state
charitable inst utions that had been pro-
vided for by the Legislature has been in
yestigated by a writer in the current issue
of Charities, who declares that the much
tatke1-of economy of the Governor is no
economy at all. but simply the deferring
of absolutely necessary expenditures. For
this reason aud because of the suffering
which the most unfortunate OF the state 8
wards must endure on account of the Gov
ernor's Economy" Charities regards the
Governors shaving down of the appro-
priations as i'll advised.
The amount of money asked for the
Women's House of Refuge at Hudson was
s?t,5Oo. The Governor cut of $500. Inc
money was needed for the reconstruction
of administration buildings and the con
struction of prison. The Governor said
that the abandonment of the plan to take
the inmates of the Bedford Home to this
institution made this expenditure unneces-
sary. Charities says that the money has
been needed for years and that the Gov
ernor's misunderstanding or the SITUATION
is a great misfortune. or all the items
in the appropriation bill, It says, these were
the most urgently needed.
The Western House of Refuge at Albion
asked for S., 900. The Governor cut out
s. 800, which was for electrical apparatus
and team of horses and carriage. because.
he said, they were not urgently needed.
Charities said the installation of the electri-
cal plant would mean big saving to the
State, which now pays 81 200 . year to a
private corporation for light In five
years, it says. the expense of a plant would
he met by this outlay. As for the horses
and carriage. it declares that investigation
has shown them to be absolutely necessary.
The case of the Refornatory for Women
at Bedford Chorit'es regards as especially
The appropriation bill d 6ro
the entire appropriation. 1t says Of this:
AS most OF the items were for urgently
needed improvements, the failure OF this
bill to become a law works serious injustice
10 the Bedford institution. 1t is the only
institution which has received absolutely
no new appropriation for anything but
maintenance
For the House of Refuge on Randall's
Island the Governor reduced the appro-
priation IS 500. which Charities says was
needed to keep the building in decent re-
pair OF the Governors act in cutting
81 $50 from the appropriation for the
tustodial Asylum al Newark, on the ground
that duplicate electric lighting plant was
not needed, Charities says:
1T is customary for such institutions
to have duplicate plant, SO that If one
part breaks down the work can he done
by another. On several occasions the
asylum has been left in darkness by the
breakdown of some part of the machinery;
and as many Of the inmates are hysterical
and have a child's fear of the dark the
health aud discipline, ~ we'll as the con
veniencc of the institution, requires that this
need should be met
Next to the Bedford home. the Rome State
Gust odia Asylum suffered most from the
sand three hundred dollars, asked for new
building for employees, for grading, for
flooring and for gravelling an ice pond was
cut out OF the appropriation bill on the
ground that these things. were not needed
Immediately. Charities declares tina, they
are needed Immediately and that the amount
asked for the work IL not at all excessive.
The $4,000 cut from ,he appropriation for
the Soldiers and Sailors Home AZ Bath
by the Governor was for much needed re-
pairp and improvements. says Charities.
and il proceeds to iell VIA, ,hcy are AT
elest length
Chcriiies takes each individual item in
the appropriations that were cut out by
the Governor and proceeds TO show the
Chief Executive of the State wherein he
has made mistake In the case of the
State School for the Blind, the Governor, in
cutting the appropriation $1,000 said that
a new power house, laundry and heating
plant we're not needed just now. Charities
says'
necessary to say that the present structure,
the upper part of which is used az a laundry
In so dilapdateG that the walls threaten to
fall The boilers are located in the cellar
ard are very old and worn and insult
ficient In capacity 20 provide the heat and
power required"
Charities says that the cutting OF Of
3iy2 400 may add to the administration e
reputation for economy. but it does not
benefit the taxpayers and causes unneces-
sary suffering and inconvenience to the
officers, inmates and patients OF the State
charitabl institutions. The hardest part
Of il all, it says. il that in many cases the
items cut out by the Governor are the ones
mcst needed by the institutions. In the
future. it odds, it would be we'll for the
Governor to consult the managers of the
institutions before exercising his veto
power In the somewhat indiscriminatina
way that has characterized his action this