Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-10-20
State Board of Control On Tour.

Plans for Improvements and additions
at the Moundsville State prison which
will include a hospital for women
prisoners, will be made by the board
OF control Thursday during an inspec.
ton trip to the institution, it was an.
nounced at Charleston, Monday by
James S. Lakin, president Of the board
In making the announcement, Presi-
dent Lakin said number Of additions
at State institutions are contemplated
and many are already in progress. Be-
ginning Wednesday, the members OF
the board will start on an extensive
inspection tour which will include all
the State institutions in the northern
section OF the State. During this trip
plans for new buildings and improve
ments will be made.
The inspection include the normal
school at West Liberty, penitentiary at
Moundsville, university at Morgan
town, normal school at Fairmont, hos
pital at Spencer and State farm at Mag
gle.
The board Wednesday will view the
reservoir and physical education build
ing under construction at West Liberty.
The apartments for women at the
Moundsville prison are overcrowded,
President Lakin said, and plans will be
made to relieve the congestion. Means
to secure an additional water supply
also will be discussed with Warden
]. L. Terrell and a conference on the
proposed hospital for women will be
held.
Architects who designed the law
school building at Mrgantown will be
consulted at West Virginia University
Friday and Saturday. 1t will be nee
essary to prepare another set Of plans
for this building to get the site recent
ly acquired. Preliminary plans for
the physical education and chemistry
laboratory will be viewed also.
The meeting at Fairmont will be held
October 10 and the new dormitory for
girls at the State normal school will be
inspected.
The superintendent of the three hos
pitals for the insane will meet with the
members of the board at Spencer Mon
day and Tuesday Matters affecting
these institutions at Spencer and Hunt
ington will be discussed.
From Spencer the board will 20 to
the State farm at Maggie, where the
hospital for the cnlored insane is to
be erected. Officials of the experiment
station at Morgantown will meet with
the board there and a decision will be
reached relative to two small tracts OF
land which will be given to the station
for experimental purposes. Prelimin-
airy plans for the hospital vii be gone
over.
Returning no Charleston October 20,
the board will meet with President C.
c. Rossey, of Concord State Normal
School, and civil engineers who are
planning the new waterworks at Athens.
during a recent visit the board in
spected the site of the proposed water
! works at Concord Normal A dam and
reservoir will be built and the surplus
supply will be sold to the town of At
hens.
The dormitory for girls at Athens is
almost completed and the finishing
work is now in progress.
President Lakin and ]. S. Darst,
member of the board, have Just return
ed from Huntington, where they in
spected the installation of two swim
ming pools, showers and other work on
the physical education building at Mar
shall College.
The new dormitory at Huntington
State Hospital has reached the second
story and the work is progressing salts
factorily.
They also visited the Welsh State
Hospital, where general repairs are in
progress. A cottage for the engineer
and one for the ambulance man are
being built and scales for weighing
coal are in course of installation.
AT Bluefeld they found much pro-
gress has been made on the erection
OF t"o-room building for the model
school at Bluefeld Colored Institute.