Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-12
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1909. 1910.
For construction of
schoolhouse and manual
training building for
For the construction of
cCw-barn and stable. 4.OO0
For the construction OF
building for storage of
provisions and supplies
and various equipment. 5,O0O
For the construction of
new kitchen and bakery X
for group of buildings
For the construction of
new laundry .............. 400 ~HS
For water, to include dig y.
ging of wells. pumps. a.
purchase and laying OF
pipes, building of reser-
s yS5r "e to p the var frSm
buildings ................ QUO -uVV
For construction and
equipment of dormitory
for older girls, dormto-
ny and equipment for
school girls and dormi-
tory and equipment for
school boys, each to
accommodate so persons $4,000
For construction of farm
colony and its equipment
for girls, and dormito-
~ and it's equipment
for low grade boys,
each to accommodate
about so persons 40,oO0
For building dam and
penstock and installing
a hydro-electric power,
setting poles and wiring
to school for power and
lighting purposes 1000 22,ooo
For salaries of officers,
attendance, wages of
employees, food, clothing,
furnishings, heat, light.
farm expenses, live
stock, feed. fuel. house
hold furnishings, re-
pairs to buildings, post
age, stationery. print
ing. travelling expenses.
express freight, truck
ing, and other necessary
expenses incident to the
conduct of the affairs
[. of the Maine School for
Feeble Minded .......... $4,000 5000
The annual appropriation
provided in Chap. A.
Pub. Laws 1907, was..... $4,000
From the sale of farm
products and the use of
the same at the institu-
ton Observation-Disclosures. 6,uOV o,VVo
/ will say that the committee that
was appointed by the Governor pur-
chased in the town of StandiSh some
400 acres of land. and that there are
applications now-so many of them
that they have no room for them.
Economy to the State requires at our
hands liberal appropriation in my
Judgment, for that institution. l can
conceive of nothing that will do so,
much good to the State of Maine as
this institution. Those who have Wis
tied the Waverly institution and seen
those little. unfortunate children who
are brought there. under the discipline
and tuition of their masters. could not
but feel impressed with its import
ance, and impressed by the good that
is being done, and the discipline they
are receiving.
You know, as I said that there are
$500 in the State of Maine today. 1t
has cost the State year in and year
out $4,000, from my investigation and
by that of the committee. for the sup
port of the feeble minded by the diff
ferent towns of the State.
Besides that we have been paying
Massachusetts some $4,000 every year
1t is not a question Of money. If you
Will go to this institution and see how
those little children are strengthened
and how hundreds of them come 20
the Waverley hospital almost every
year, and how their minds are
strengthened, you would confess that it
is not a question of money 1t will
purify our towns in Maine Today we
have from so to 100 more applicants
than can possibly be taken care Of un-
til those dormitories are built We
have one of the best men as superin-
tendent.
If you give them the 100000 asked
for this year, and the 100000 asked
for next year we shall go home feeling
that we have done a grand thing for
the feeble minded and unfortunate of
this class which we have among us.
When this matter came before the
committee. they thought they ought TO
have $235,000. The committee thought
they would cutsit down $4,000. but we
agreed. and we believed
they ought to have this 100000. be-
lieve you cannot appropriate too much
money for that institution. to relieved
the different towns of the State in
the care of this class. Humanity re-
quires it, justice requires it. t;duca-
ton requires it, have been very much
III Ills i uIeW
the bill that made it law. / have
examined the institutions in different
states, in New Hampshire and Massa-
and l came, home impressed
with its Importance. and with the fact
that it was the most humane institu-
tion that | ever visited. / know the
finance committee, two years ago came
home impressed with the great good it
had done to the people of this State:
and l plead with you to give them this
100000.
DR.. Sanborn tells me that in the in
stitution across the river, five per cent
of the inmates there would properly
be inmates of this institution. I do
not know how it is in the Eastern
Maine hospital, but l apprehend that
the same is true Of that institution.