Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-24
for industrial purposes as the present

LOT INDUSTRIAL purposes DIS tHe PICS
quarters for industrial training are al
ready overcroWded. The school asks
! for $4,000 for the construction and
equipment of one horse barn to &C
commodate Il horses and one pair or
oxen with manure shed, room for car
riages, sleighs, harnesses, hay ana
grain and quarters for two teamsters.
4 The present horse barn is unsafe and
unhygienic, the stables are so small
that there is no sufficient air space nor
! is there room to lead the horses in or
out without danger for both men and
horses of being kicked by the other
horses.
| The institution also asks for $4,000 for
the construction of a bridge across
Collyer brook below the dam for an
approach to the pumping station and
$4,000 for an extension of the electric
| lighting system to the two farm colo
MES including the Morse house, the
girls cottage and head farmers cot
tagc.
Pres. Blake explained the needs for
| a greenhouse at a cost of $4,000. He
said the greenhouse was needed to
start vegetables and plants for the
grounds in the spring and to furnish
plants and flowers for the unfortu-
mates.
He then took up the erection ana
equipment of a two-story brick or con-
crete building, 125x40 feet to be used as
a paint, carpenter shop and storage
room for lumber at a cost of $4,000. He
said the present carpenter shop is
menace to the building as it is over the
boiler room and there is more or less
lumber stored there and separate
building was needed because OF this
menace to fire. He also thought they
should purchase a herd of cows at $4,000
and make repairs to their large barn
He believed the cows would be good
paving proposition inasmuch as they
consume 100 gallons Of milk per day
at a cost of "a cents per gallon, he be-
lieyed they could also have better con-
troll over their milk supply and that 1t
would be purer; he stated that II the
COWS are purchased it would cost $4ooo
to purchase additional land and there
was land available for this purpose and
that it would not be any cheaper.
| About 20 acres lay adjacent and could
be purchased they thought The last
item was for $500 to provide rooms
in the attic of building c for the Wo-
men night nurses. He explained the
nurses are under heavy strain anu
should have quarters by themselves
Instead of on the wards ana that all
the comfort that could be given them
should be. DR.. Haskell said IN 1919
there were 513 patients and there are
now 647, an increase Of 81. Gov. MILL
ken asked what proportion OF those
patients received State aid and the an
ewer was approximately 525, either
wholly or in part.
DR.. Forrest l.. Tyson. superintendent
of the Augusta State hospital, explain
ed the needs of special appropriations
totalling $4,000, which are asked for
by the institution.
OF this amount s225,000 is required
for a new building for the reception
and treatment of new patients. rms
will be of two stories and basement,
made of brick and concrete, absolutely
fireproof. OF the present quarters. DR..
Tyson said: "They are seriously over
crowded and it is a question OF but
a short time, if no remedy is provided,
when the institution must stop fecelV-
ing certain class of patients alto
Gether.
1--WE need this proposed building,
said Dr. Tyson, more than anything
else. 1t is vital necessity
$4,000 for the construction of q
nurses home is asked.
ut is increasingly difficult" DR.. Ty-
son said, "to engage a sufficient mum
Der of competent nurses, in fact it is
almost impossible and for three months
last summer the institution was run
with less than the required number.
when Massachusetts and New York
hospitals advertise in Maine papers for
nurses, offering much higher wages