Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29
spent will be as follows:

The most extensive Improvements
are at Council Bluffs and Knoxville,
where practically new institutions are
in course of construction. At Council
Bluffs there is a complete new admin
istration building, dormitory and main
building to be erected and besides this
there are to be other improvements
in the way of building a we'll house
and putting a pump in well that has
been flowing, but did not supply en-
ough water. At Knoxville the ineb-
riate hospital is now under contract
and three new buildings are to be
erected including an adnipistration
building, new cottage, power house and
remodeling of the old industrial home
building. At Anamosa the cell house
has been completed and $50,000 more
is being put in cell banks and plumb
ing and fixtures. The prisoners will
do all the work in this case and the
$4,000 will all be put in the material.
At Cherokee the new cottage Is to
be completed before mid summer and
besides this there is to be 1000 feet
of water mains laid for fire protec-
ton, a 600 foot tunnel built for the
steam pipes and electric wires, dup
licate well $40 feet deep sunk, a new
pump and new pump house, besides
Improvement of the grounds and erec-
ton of fences. The farm at Clarinda
has been4 surveyed and will be tiled,
an ash elevator put in and cottage
duplicating that at Cherokee will be
completed by the middle of the sum-
mer and occupied. The Davenport inn
provements are new laundry, cold stor-
age room and store room and remodel-
ing of present laundry into kitchen.
A cold storage and storehouse, inn
plement house, piggery, extension Of
the water mains, completion of a big
reservoir, new pump and the like will
be put in at Eldora. The fire protec-
ton there heretofore has amounted to
nearly nothing, but will be put in first
class shape.
At Fort Madison the power house is
to be used for a carpenter shop and
bath rooms in the basement and a
kitchen and storehouse on the first and
second floors. The chapel is to be en-
larged and the laundry remodeled and
new machinery put in. A cell bank
gallery will be erected and the new
building for hospital, school and IL
brary is nearly completed. At Glen
wood new power plant building, ice
plant laundry and new plumbing is
under way. At Mitchellville an ice
house and cold storage house. At In
dependence piggery, new fences, a
drainage system, painting, new carpets
and furniture. At Marshalltown, gate
house. stone gateway and fire escapes.
At Mt. Pleasant, closets, painting,
plumbing, heating system an addition
to the kitchen, spray bath in hospital
and extension of sewer system. At
vinton fire escapes.
The board of control has secured
eighteen carloads of material from the
Iowa building at st. Louis and all that
remains to be done there is to level the
ground off. The material has all been
shipped and is being used at the state
institutions where work is under way.
The board has not yet estimated the
value of this material but 1t will un-
doubtedly be great. Outside of the
eighteen cars there were some small
er shipments which, however. would
not make one car. Four cars were Of
furniture and the rest building mater
ial. The erection Of pump at one of
the state institutions is more than the
average person thinks. Many of the
institutions amount to small villages
in themselves, with over 500 inmates
and employees. A pump must there
fore be quite an affair and laundry
building must have considerable di-
mensions also.
The suggestion of Senator George
~ T,,fus of M,1scatine for governor.