The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-18


will be built this year.
The I-arned hospital for the insane.
located on a 1000 acre farm four miles
due west OF Larned, Is the latest OF
the new state charitable institutions to
be opened to the public. Among state
officials and employees who are familiar
with the state institutions and state
property, the site of the new Pawnee
county hospital is regarded as one OF
the most picturesque and beautiful In
Kansas. And on the 1000 acre farm
the state will be able to produce any
thing that will grow on Kansas soil
and under Kansas sunshine and with
ample moisture.
Sometime in May, perhaps the state
will officially dedicate her new state
hospital. Already plans are being COM
pleted for a big celebration and Pawnee
county farmers and business men pro-
pose to make the event one of the most
memorable In the record of public
events in the short grass district. Gov
ernor Hodges and q number OF state
oHfcials have agreed to attend the
dedicatory ceremonies and q dozen men
prominent in the affairs of the state
will be guests of the Larned CONNER
cial organization at the dedication.
State Appropriated $3.50, 900.
For six months the state has been
preparing for the opening of her new
hospital. The $150,000 appropriation for
the new hospital has paid the original
purchase price Oh the 1000 acres of
land. has built and equipped the first
cottage, built and installed the heating
and lighting plant, purchased the big
engines. built the fumes and bitches
for the biggest irrigation project in the
state. painted buildings, purchased live
stock and farming equipment and left
surplus sufficient to build at least
ono NOVA coffo Oa nd m maintain the
institution and meet the payroll and
maintenance expense until after the
session Of the 1915 legislature. Situated
on what is regarded az one Of the
most fertile and productive tracts of
land in Kansas and on a site that il
both beautiful and Of historic note,
Larned business men dream of the day
when the Pawnee county institution
will become one of the largest Of the
state charities.
From the base of the historic Jen-
kins' hill-the site of the proposed
new administration buildtng-the land
rolls gently in an easterly and south
erly direction. affording just enough
natural drain to make practical the
big irrigation project which the state
has undertaken in connection with Its
hospital for the insane. Experts have
told state officials that the soil on the
farm will raise anything that can be
grown in Kansas Still other experts
have attested that the Pawnee river
which skirts the big farm on the west
and south. affords sufficient water for
all purposes. Deep water wells have
been sunk These insure the state
ample water in the driest year ever
known in Kansas.
New Hospital Model.
When Charles Chandler. state archt-
tect planned and located the buildings
at Larned, he declared that the new
f11A ut a
institutions Since that day Chandler
has worked to make the new asylum
site the most beautiful and valuable
of state properties. Now state officials
are willing to concede that Chambers
dream has almost come true.
Five big red brick buildings with
tile and concrete flors, fireproof walls
and tile roofs. That IL the plan for
the cottages. Modern in every detail.
we'll ventilated. electric lighted hot
almost perfect sanitation Those are
features.
The one cottage now opened, will
comfortably care for forty patients.
Built in keeping with the plans for
the modern new cottages at the To-
peka and Osawatomie hospitals, the
new Larned building is of the very
latest type OF hospital buildings
Cottage Big as . Hotel.
"Cottage?" queried a Pawnee -coun-
ty farmer. as he viewed the new
building from the roadside. why IL
as big as a hotel at the sea8hore.
And 1t ID.
The structure Is two storiea above
basement. It has large well lighted.
well ventilated rooms with high cell
ings, affording loun9ing and reading
rooms for patients, business offices.
big dormit0ries that are cool in the
summer and warm In the win
ter and a mammoth sleeping and
rest porch for the comfort OF the pa
tients when the sun hits the century
Of the five cottages will be uniform in