Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-06

them for that. Haughter).
Now No. 23S, the resolve in favor of
the Chase Island hospital carrying $4,000
for 1909 and $1,000 for 1910 for the use
of the convalascent insane of Chase Is
land, for salary of caretakef, for trans
portation of patients, officers and en-
ployees, furnishings, repairs, and so
forth. There is a salary for person to
care for that property. Of course if
you have a large property there you
would like to have somebody take care
of it, For that salary and for taking
down to Chase Island 100 patients it is
$4000-S0 patients from this hospital
and 40 from Bangor. They are in hopes
that the sea air will be a benefit to
them; and 1 think. gentlemen, if you
can take down 120 patients and give
them summer outing for $4,000 and
repair their barn and wharf and run a
launch with the amount, it is cheap
enough. 1t would be in my case be-
cause l think it would cost very near a
quarter of that to go out myself
No. 339, $3S for use at the East
ern Maine insane hospital for 1909. For
concrete walk $500 | think that is a
very small amount for what they have
put in there For grading, $4,000
have had some little experience in grad
ing myself $1,000 would not go a great
ways on moving dirt. especially when
you employ Italians as we have to do
for that kind of work Painting, amount
required to paint wing D and tubercular
hospital. $1,000. | don't see anything
wrong in that. If you have Il building
you have got to have it painted. Fur
nishings including all furniture bedding
dining room equipment kitchen utensils,
telephone and watch-c!ocE system, $500
l think that is a just claim: and 1 would
say as to the rest of the items that they
have been gone over with me and think
they are proper
The gentleman from Auburn moves to
indefinitely postpone No. /240. THAT
there be and hereby is appropriated the
sum of two thousand one hundred dol
lars annually for the years nineteen
for additional compensation for phys-
clans, interneS and chaplains, at the
Maine Insane Hospital, to be appor-
toned by the Trustees of said institu-
ton l want to say in regard to that,
that is all apportioned now, $500 Cor
that. They found, owing to the increased
number of patients and changing them
around and putting them in different
buildings, that they had to hire three
doctors. and that is what they want the
$4,000 for is for those three doctors
whenever they want them; and think
If they can get three doctors for $4,000
they are doing pretty good job. There
is an item of 500 for chaplains 1 I'M
derstand they got $15 a year They go
there three months in the year for SIS
L don't know how many sermons they
preach, but they are there three months
in the year and I think there is no man
who wants to deprive any minister of
raise of $25 on his salary. + think
that will take care of the gentleman S
objection in regard to 24O.
In regard to PAL / believe the gen-
tleman asked to have it put upon It's
passage.
Number 242. "Resolved, That there
be and hereby is appropriated. the
sum of $685. for the use of the East
ern Maine Insane hospital in the year
1903, and $4,000 in the year 1910, for
the following purposes:
Purchase of a steam sterilizer tools
and machinery, construction of vege-
table cellar with wagon and tool shed
above, and extension Of piggery" For
steam sterilizer, hospital size, to dis
infect bedding, clothing, and so forth,
5000. Is there anybody who wants to
go into that hospital or send one OF
his friends to it, unless there is such
thing established as steam sterli-
ger? I think that item will take care
of itself. Vegetable cellar, concrete
cellar to store farm and garden pro-
ducts, and have a cheap wagon and
tool shed above $4,000. I don't KIN wv
how large that vegetable cellar is but
according to the way they are raising
stuff, as I have seen by the report, it
takes quite cellar to hold it all. and
| don't think there is anything out of
the way in that item. Piggery extern
sion, $500 We have been told about
their hog pens. that they have electric
lights in the hog pen and they eat
their supper by electric light Oaugh-
teri. while the men pay the taxes have
to eat by candle light But $500 will
not build a very extensive pig pen on
the style that we build them down our
way because C[C bOdfu Oh f1tdllIl won
allow it, Tools and machinery to fur
nish equipment needed by mechanical
departments and farm. $775. / will
say that I think that that amount Is
none too large for such an extensive
farm as that. The amount includes
item OF $500 to provide engine and
pump for deep we'll water supply, $1,000.
Being in the water business myself
think $4,000 is cheaper than / can put
it in, so | think they have done that
pretty we'll.
Number 243 he says ought to pass.
I want to say here that l think the
Judgment of the gentleman from Au-
burn has not been very much exercis-
ed in CITY affairs as mine has not been
in State affairs, but in city affairs
know that all money is returned to the
treasury and is part of the city funds.
7 suppose in the case of the State it
goes back to the treasury AS he SAID,
we have passed a resolve to sell a lit
tie over an acre of land for $4,000 be-
cause the city OF Bangor wanted 1t for
their water works and we have got
an option on farm of so acres with
two barns on it near there for $45Oo
I don't think there is much graft in