Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-18
VISIT INSTITUTIONS
Board OF Control Making Tour
of Inspection of State
Institutions
TO- TAKE UP HOSPITAL SITE
Not Likely That Much Will be Done
This Season Toward Building the
State sanitarium-PIans and Spec
ifications May be Got Ready and
Site Chosen During the Summer.
ecial to Times-Republican.

Special to Zines
Des Moines, May 1s.-The state
board of control left last night for its
trip to the state institutions IN the
northern part of the state and will
visit also the orphans home at DAY.
the board will likely take up the selec-
ton of site for the state tuberculosis
hospital number of sites have been
offered close to Des Moines and 1t is
not at all unlikely that one of these
may yet be accepted. The board rec
ognizes that Des Moines has central
location, that ii Is reached easily from
all sections of the state and has an
abundance of interurban lines and is
getting more These interurban lines
appeal to the members of the board. If
the institution can be located on one
of these interurban lines where the
price of land is not too high it would
be In many respects ideal as the ship
ment of goods to the institution would
be greatly facilitated. 1t is more than
likely that the board will be able to
do little more than select the site and
get the plans and specifications for
some buildings drawn this year. BY
the custom of years the appropriations
are made by the legislature the last
thing in each session. 1t is thus the
middle of April before the board knows
how much money it will have for build
ing purposes.
The board is allowed but one archi-
tect and this architect then has all
he can do for the next few months get
ting plans perfected for the buildings
for which appropriations are made.
The plans and specifications must be
perfected before the bids can be adj
vertised for and there is then some de-
lay before the bids are all in and the
contract can be let 1t will be well
into June this year before the con-
tract can be let for the building of
the laundry and other buildings at
Council Bluffs and those buildings will
be the first for which contract is
let. There is a large custodial build
ing for boys to be erected at Glen
wood and probably more buildings at
Marshalltown than at any other state
institution. These contracts will not
be let till later in the year and hence
it is quite late in the summer before
some of the largest buildings can be
contracted for.
The largest single appropriations
We're made by the last general assem-
bly, for Glenwood and Council Bluffs.
The Glenwood school for the feeble
minded gets $4,000 for boys custod-
ial building and the Council Bluffs
school for the deaf gets the same
amount for a boiler, laundry building
and machine shop which Is to be
combined in one building.
The Soldiers Home at MARSHALL
town gets total of $64,100 Of which
100000, the largest single item, is for
the erection Of a freproof hospital
building. 1t is recognized that as the
average age Of the veteran soldier in
creases the Soldiers Home becomes
more Of a hospital till it eventually will
become nothing but a hospital. The
erection of the hospital necessitates
more nurses and hence $4,000 will
this year go to a dormitory for women.
State Architect Liebbe is now at work
on the plans and specifications for
these buildings and it is the hope of
the members of the board to get the
work progressed to the state of letting
the contracts for the Marshalltown
buildings in June or the first of July.
The contracts for all the boilers for
number of the institutions was let
the other day by the board but none of
the work can be commenced till the
buildings are i'm readiness.