Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-10

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| harmless people are in our hospitals
| that should be kept at home and would
| be if this plan is enacted into law
| The board of control in it's report urges
this plan or one similar, and I trust
that you will give the matter most
| careful consideration.
STATE PRISON AND
BINDING TWiNE PLANT.
Owing to public criticism concerning
the management of the state prison,
and especially of the binding Irvine
plant, as soon as it was possible to
make a change Hon. Henry Wolfer
was reappointed warden. The new
mana gement took immediate steps to
remedy some of the evils complained
OF. That it was most successfully &C.
compllshed is shown by the following
facts:
During 1901 there was manufactured,
in round numbers, 100000 pounds OF
twine. This was sold at an average of
about 2 cents per pound below the
prices at which Irvine of equal grade
and quality was sold by jobbers and
manufacturers to the dealers of the
state, which would make an actual
j saving OF 100000 to the purchasers OF
| prison Irvine.
The profit to the state on binding
tW1ne, in round numbers, was $33 900.
The showing for 1902 gives better
! results than the preceding season.
Amount manufactured, 100000
pounds. The Irvine was sold at 214
| cents per pound cheaper than Irvine
! sold by jobbers:. This will prove an
/ actual saving of $125 900 to the farm
ers Of Minnesota who purchased Irvine
the present season, and if you consider
the reduced price, at least l cent per
pound, of all twine sold in the state,
some 1S,000,000 pounds, caused by
competition with prison Irvine, there is
further saving of $1S0,O00, or total
for the year of $305,OOO.
| Not only has the Irvine been of a
superior quality and thus great saving
to the purchaser resulted, but there
has been clear saving to the state OF
$64,000, which, added to the $33 900
makes a clear gain in two years in
favor of Irvine plant of $4,000.
The financial showing for the entire
prison, too, is most excellent.
The prison is overcrowded and add.
tional cellroom must be provided for
at this session of the legislature.
THE BOARD OF CONTROL
| A SPLENDID SUCCESS,
| At the last general session a bill was
| passed now known as the board of con.
! trO! bill and pursuant to it's provisions
a board was appointed and immediate
ly entered upon the discharge of it's
duties. The wisdom of the adoption
of the board of control system has
been amply indicated. A brief year
OF the administration of the board has
passed and it's work has surpassed the
most sanguine expectations of it's
friends. Prompted by the same abid
ing faith that recommended it's crea.
ton, which has been strengthened a
hundredfold by it's splendid work dur
ing the past year, it is safe to predict
that the board of control system will
be permanently maintained. The sue.
cess of this system in Wisconsin and
Iowa, coupled with it's effective work
in our state, will, in my Judgment
eventually result in it's adoption by
every state in the Union.
| | firmly believe that the institutions
in charge of the board of control have
never been in a higher state of eff
cheney and that the inmates thereof
are safe in the hands of the board, and
do not hesitate to say that the great
saving to the state has been brought
| about solely by the new departure in
the purchase Of supplies and by Ell.
larged and improved business Methods
and not in the least at the expense OF
efficiency.
The impression seems to have gone
out that under the present system our
home markets are Disseminated
against and that markets outside of
our state are unnecessarily favored
This is disproved by the report of the
board
WORK OF RAILROAD AND
WAREHOUSE COMMISSION.
In this branch of the state service
you will find the most thorough disci-
pine. Practical civil service prevails.
All high positions are filled by pro-
| noting men in the service. Helpers
are promoted to be inspectors only
after a thorough test and examination.
The cost of the service in the grain
department has been decreased in the
face Of the fact that the capacity of
| cars has been practically doubled.
The department is so well managed
that the grades established on all
kinds of grain are accepted the world
| over.
The railway department for years
has been hampered in it's work from
the fact that practically no two rail.
way companies have the same system
Of bookkeeping, nor have the same
basis for reDOrting the gross earnings