The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-12-29

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nlent, buying brick, lime, cement, and
gravel, for the foundations, and other
material for the construction.
"The expenditures Of the commits
sion during the past year, for the va
rious items of expense, have been ap-
proximately as follows:
equipment, which includes the
purchase of ten mules and five Wag~
ons, S5,6242S.
Brick, about $780,
Labor and superintendent of con-
struction, about $4,000.
"Engineer, architect, landscape
architect, etc., about $4,000.
Deep we'll for water supply, about
$4,000.
Tile expenses of the commission
have amounted to about $1,000, includ-
ing the trip to Boston and New York,
to Inspect certain hospitals and to
consult with the architect.
'This, with the $4,000 spent for land,
makes about $4,000 expended by the
commission this year. The other ST.
900 necessary to make up the approx
nation of $4,000 which I gave is
composed of sundry items of ex-
pense which will appear on the item
!zed report now being got in shape
and which will be submitted to the
legislature next month"
In discussing the plans of the COM
mission, Secretary Aull said the COM
mission had decided upon the colony
plan and was attempting to carry out
the plan in such manner that no mat
ter what might be the needs of the
future, what was now being done could
be used as a basis for all future work.
The plan now, he said, includes six
buildings, with central kitchen and
dining room for the negro colony.
This colony is located on what is
known as Lilleur Hill, just beyond
the six-mile post, from Columbia, on
the Asylum road. The colony which
has been selected for white men is on
the same road, about mile further
from Columbia, on what is known as
Pisgah Hill. These locations are
about on level with the seventh story
of the "skyscraper" in Columbia, and
command a beautiful view of the sur
rounding country.
The farming operations at estate
Park" for the past year were turned
over to the regents of the State Hos
pital for the Insane, and Secretary
Aull, who knows something about
farming himself, says the regents
made as fine crop of corn as he has
ever seen, even on bottom lands, and
that the entire crop was most excel
lent.
"The commission" said Secretary
Aull, has been trying to lay the plans
and to get the work we'll under way
for a hospital for the insane which
will meet the present needs, and
which may be used as the foundation,
without alteration, for whatever need
the future may demand. To get rid
of the prison idea, to use the colony
plan, to segregate the patients and to
give them fresh air and the best treat
ment which the State can afford her
unfortunates, has been our view.
"The act of 1910 gave the commits
sion of that year the power to use
100000. They used something over
$4,000. The Act of 1911, under which
our commission is working, gave the
present commission the right to bor-
row 100000, in addition to the some
thing less than $4,000 left over by the
former commission-nearly S250,000.
What the present commission has used
of this amount and what it has used
it for, and the plans the commission
has in view, I have tried to tell you.
II trust" concluded Secretary Aull,
"that, however next years commission
may be constituted, the newspaper
men of Columbia will ask the commits
sion for facts in regard to its expendi-
lures if they desire to publish the
facts. This commission has been glad
at any time to give the people all the
facts, and to let the people know ex-
actly what the commission is doing
about the peoples business.
"The commission this year has tried
to serve the State as best it could,