Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-11-22

Win Tue dTTifdi Ol the HOfulu6 pas
senger trains at 0:30, when about
thirty members of the fraternity ar
rived, and were taken charge of ac-
cording to the program arranged for
the day. Byrd Trego and wife,of The
Idaho Republican, and Mrs. Blanch
Eldredge had charge of affairs, and
they were taken Immediately to The
Idaho Asylum for semi-social visit.
After a short visit together, the party
was shown thru the institution, and
the gentlemen went out and saw the
stock and all the buildings about the
place. The crops of course have all
been harvested, and there was lit
tie to be seen in farm and garden,
but the following statement concern
ing the Institution gives the reader
a correct idea of some of the main
features of the work and condition
of affairs at the present time.
The Idaho Asylum
The institution is half mile east
of town, facing west, and a shady
avenue leading up to the building
from the entrance to the big farm in |
the edge of town. The cinder drive
way is bordered on each side by a |
belt of grass, and two rows of state
ly poplars, while plum and cherry |
trees form the background on one
side and pear and apple trees are
IN ~ a
Immediately in front of the main
building the pretty lawn is fringed
with flower garden, and stretches
away in well-kept groves with foun-
tains and rustic seats, the whole con-
forming in contour to the two wings
of the building, and presenting
homelike, restful view from the
many points of observation both on
the grounds and from the ward cor
riders.
At the rear of the building are the
energizing parts of the institution,
the great well and windmill, the
heating and pumping plants, the
storerooms, fire mains, coal bins,
barns, machine sheds, the twenty
acre garden and the several hundred
acres of crops, watered from ca
nails that tap Snake River and The
Blackfoot many miles up the valley. I
The old heating plant was put in I
by peace meal as the institution '
grew, and was getting leaky from a
rust, besides being expensive in S
maintenance, owing to the fact that +
it was fired in four different boilers t
distributed about the building, and 2
this also made the rate of insurance e
high, and the risk great. t
The new heating plant consists of Il
building separate from the rest of '
the institution, and a set of steam n
pipes laid under ground and cover b
ed with asbestos, to convey the a
steam to all parts of the building, v
where it is used in radiators and Il
governed by valves that can only be n
opened or closed with key. A set "
of water pipes accompanys the steam p
pipes, all conducted on the gravity Sc
system, to carry the water back to b
the engine room as the steam con- IL
denses in the steam pipes. A sys- a.
tenn of automatic valves and motors Of
connects the two sets of pipes, and g
when the water collects in a pipe. tt
the valve opens automatically to let ST
the water pass, and Immediately
closes when the steam touches it a tr
gain. Hot and cold water are SUP k
piled to all parts of the building, NJ
fine spray baths and tub baths are Sc
ready at all times, and large steel 81
storage tank is kept filled with wa al
ter under heavy pressure. for emer- to
gencies. 'H''-' IN
The sewerage is carried short st
distance from the building and dis be
charged into a septic tank where it Fl
Is entirely consumed by something W
yeast in its action, yet 81
differing from it in that it emits no fir
odor,' never increases nor diminishes Sc
in strength, and does not get stale en-
from year to year The striking &C
feature about it is that it feces and to
all waste matter from the sewer. ca
pass into the vault or tank and APP so
pear absolutely destroyed. Water VIZ
S the only residue that passes out of m'
he vault, and it is considered pure, be
or analysis does not discover any In
hing in it. The yeast or germ tn
70 In mn
lefinite period, and furnishes de- an
of a process that the wi
immortal Bellamy described the OPP tn
grafton of in his novel, Looking pa
but could not give the ha
ormula for. pr
DR.. Hoover, the superintendent Blu
bowed the party the institution, be