The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-01-22


ly SHOWS n If the appropriation Is
close the school Twenty-eight hun
bred dollars was the appropriations
made by the last legislature and, &C
cording to the report of the Board. al
appropriation of $500 would be nee
essary to properly continue its oper-
atoms. With twenty-five pupils,
which would perhaps be dficult to Sc
cure, this would mean a cost of $500
per year to the Territory for each
pupil.
Ia most of large States the deaf
and dumb and blind are cared for in
one Institution There is no reason
why they should not be so cared for
il e Mexico and many reasons
why they should. Either of these
buildings would be quite sufficient to
take care of all the deaf, dumb and
blind children whom the Territory
should be called upon to educate, for
many years to come. the two ef1c-
lent chief teachers now employed in
both should be able to successfully
educate their respective classes of un-
fortunate children in one, I'M the ex-
pense of maintenance per capita, with
the same food and comforts, would
be greatly reduced. Certain of the
teachers and al l of the employees
could administer to the needs of all
the inmates.
l therefore strongly recommend
that these two Institutions be amalga
mated into one; that the Institute for
the Blind at Almagordo b changed
n the Institute for the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind" and that the laws
~ to bring about this change be en-
acted.
With the growth of the Territory
the increasing e of a Reform
School, properly conducted, is felt.
A considerable sum of money has
been spent for the building of such
a school at FL Rito, and, according to
h meagre reports available in re-
gard to the matter, it is still incom-
plete and would require further ap-
preparations to finish it. The building,
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excellent, but it's location is almost
universally conceded to be excessively
unfortunate. 1t is far from a railroad
and wen if it were completed, would
be difficult and expensive to operate.
Supplies would cost much more, the
transportation of its inmates to and
fro more costly, and on account of it's
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difficult to secure the services of the
proper sort of employees and teachers
and to carefully supervise it in the
way such an institution should be
supervised.
There are a number of inmates of
h ~penitentiary at the present time |
who should be in a reform school,
and l am told by the Judges of the
District Courts that there are a good
many youthful delinque1ts in various
parts of the Territory who cannot be
sent to the p~enitentiary, but should
be in such a school,.
The building at Santa Fe now used
for the deaf and dumb could readily |
be adapted to a reform school with
comparatively little expense. Its To-
cation is appropriate for such a pur-
pose and have the advantages of so
using it and of having the il
%stitution at Santa Fe and on
the railroad are manifest. While
1t may seem at first d~eplorable |
to abandon the building at e. Rito,
after the amount of money that has |
been spent upon it, it is still more
d%eplorable to follow up one mistake
by a constant and continuous mistake |
at the cost of the taxpayers of the
Territory. The building could be
cared for and prevented from deter
iorating and doubtless before long be
put to a better and more appropriate
use for the Territory or the County |
Of Rio Arriba, than thai for which |
it was first intended.
1 therefore respectfully recommend |
that provisions be adopted by you for |
he establishing of the Reform School
at Santa Fee in the manner indicated, |
for the reason that I thoroughly be-
lieve suoh an arrangement would re-
suit far better from a territorial point
OF view, and from the point of view
OF the economical and efficient
management of the institution and
Inv welfare of its inmates. than
il the present status of affairs Is
maintained.
Normal Schools.