The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-02-24
Wild ORGIES OF
STATE employees
ALLEGED MISCONDUCT OF JACK
SONVILLE ASYLUM ATTEND
ANTS GETS AIRING.
STRONG DENIAL MADE:
BY Doctor in rae---Irvestigatino
Committee Follow Up Action at
Lincoln and Seize Some
Of Supplies,

:. Jacksonville, ILL.,, Feb. 23.-Tha
g wild orgies have been INDUCED III b.
= nurses and attendants from the iii
! nois. Central Hospital fer the Insane
G located here, is the information whicl
mas been received by Representative.
Hope and Mclaughlin, who arrived Ii
: JacksonVille yesterday morning Ii
their tour Of investigation of the state
asgums
7 Stories have been reaching the ears
81 the representatives far the East
two days in regard to the conduct of
certain attendants, and the legislators
intend to make thorough investiga.
ton in regard to alleged scandals. Stl-
porintendent Carried and other OFT
clals Of the insane asylum deny that
any Of the employees under their
charge have been guilty of holding
these midnight revels and say that the
runners have been given currency by
persons who are unfriendly to them.
Wine Party in Resort.
| According to the stories which have
reached the ears Of Representatives
! Hope and Mclaughlin. notorious re.
| sort conducted by woman who has
been IN trouble several times In the
past Is the rendezvous fer certain III
PENDANTS from the insane asylum. This
resort Is said to be located in one OF
the best residence sections OF Jack.
sonVille, only short distance from
the asylum. The resort is said to be
q residence. To all outward appear
|ances perfectly respectable. All Jack
'sonyille is a dry town the saloons
here having been voted out of exist
ence last fall, the resort conducted BY |
this woman has grown into favor be- |
cause Of the fact that wine. beer ami |
whisky can be obtained If a person
is known to be 'all right
Several weeks ago according to the |
stories which have reached the ears
OF the legislative probers, a wine
party was given at the resort and the
revelry lasted until the early dawn.
Stories of Cruelty.
Besides charges of immortality, Rep
resentatiyes Hope and Mclaughlin are
quietly looking into statements which
nave been made that some of the
nurses at the asylum have been cruel
n their treatment of patients Nurses
ire said to have become enraged and
pulled the hair of their women
s11TpA1 and In tn !
s accused of using towel to choke
rebellious patient. t.
Superintendent Carried saws that +,
hese stories are malicious distortions
# real facts and that the only In.
lance where a nurse ever used a
Dwell to subdue a patient was after !
he nurse had been bitten severely \
y the insane woman and had wrapped i
towel over the woman's head and \
Mouth sc that she could not bite her Il
gain. !
Seize Food Supplies.
Representatives Hope and McLaugh- v
n spent the entire day at the asylum C
ollowing their action at the Lincoln Il
5ylum, where they seized a lot of Il
ipplies, they made seizure here to- tC
ay. The goods, which consisted of "
othing shoes and foodstnffs. were ~
laced in sealed packages to prevent 81
leir being tempered with. They will N
> taken to Chicago and examined bv n
iperts in order to determine If they -
e up TO standard II
There has been some complaiut
'out the food served at the asylum ~
Is claimed that the steak served to =
e patients is steamed and that the -
ocess takes all the nutrition out of 49,
g meat, leaving IL "a tough as scle ar
lther. Superintendent Carried says
at the beef steak is steamed because
is impossible to fry enough for the n
90 inmates. because of the lack OF u
Dper kitchen accommodations The
endants. however. have objected 10
2 steamed steak so strenuously that Tw
sir meat is fried.
Coffee Is Bad.
Complaint has also been made in
sard 10 the coffee served. and sam
s Of il were seized with the other I
.dstuffs. The objection to the COT. W
is that il contains too much chi far
=. II Is alleged that attendants tv.
! nurses do not drink the same tob
de Of coffee which Is given to the mig
tents. the
There are three Institutions here VIII
De Nisitel by the legislators Be G..
ss the insane asylum there is the rift
TOOL for the Blind and the School hon
the Deaf Il was reported today to
{ there was an outbreak Of ,iiph- of
ria at ali the Institutions. but Il sun
; found tiat the Outbreak con ritt