The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-04-24

emit OF the nOSplJal, SAID the provision
of such building had been long I'M
der consideration, but it had not been
possible heretofore to discuss it as
possibility, because 1t was not known
whether the funds available would
allow it's inclusion in the present pro-
gram. Certain changes now practi-
cally assured, in other tentative phas-
es of the program, made it possible
to announce, however, that at least
the initial unit of an industrial build
ing would be provided. While DR..
Curry could not go into details, it is
understood that the probable sum to
be allocated to this purpose out of the
$z,250,O00 to be expended, may reach
$500, 900.
Occupational thereapy is the use Of
various industries, such as the max
ing of willow furniture, the manufac-
ture Of brooms, and other handicrafts,
to restore the mentally unbalanced to
normal functioning by remaining their
mental coordination through the man
ual arts. 1t has been credited with
very large contribution to the recov-
cry and improvement rate at Morris
Plains under the especially adverse
condition of overcrowding.
BIueprInts of Program
Blueprints submitted at the meeting
show that the program of improve
ments at the hospital include a $50
bed reception building, with modern
equipment for the treatment of acute
disturbed patients and the classified
ton of new commitments. This will
be placed some distance in front of
the new clinical treatment building
completed last year, and there will be
between the two a odern kitchen and
refectory building fitted to serve the
new group of buildings
A feature of this equipment will be
vacuum system of delivering hot
food to the various buildings to be
served, the wheeled containers being
taken through tunnels to be provided
for access between the various build
ings.
In addition the plans call for two
convalescent buildings, one for males
and the other fore females, each to
provide accommodation for thirty pa
tents, and both, to conform as nearly
as possible to home-like conditions.
Designed for patients under final OBJ
servation before discharge, these
buildings are planned along the lines
which Commissioner Burdette G. Lew
is urged upon the Essex freeholders
when they were considering additions
at Overlook Hospital.
Feel Loss of Canal
Many farmers who used the Morris
Canal as watering place for their
cattle are disturbed by the passing OF
the old waterway. In some cases they
will have to go considerable distance
for a supply. Trappers also figure
they are losing out, as the canal banks
and its environs have always been
plentiful in muskrats.
James Campbell, colored, who was
employed on the canal for nearly fifty
years, thirty as captain of a boat and
afterward as a teamster, sees his
means Of earning a living gone. Camp
bell is still employed by the canal, but
does not know how long the job will
last He has added considerable to
his income by trapping. Last winter
he captured thirty muskrats and re-
ceived So pelt for the best. He also
was paid $40 for a mink he captured
last winter and the same price for one
trapped along the canal the previous
winter.
Two old scows are stuck in the mud
in front of the canal stables near Glib
sons bridge and are the last remind
ers of what the canal was. At that
place the coal was loaded on the boats
and the men employed at that work.
fifty years ago, received as high as SIS
a day, big pay for those days.
The water is nearly all out of the
three-mile level of the Morris Canal
between Washington and Port Golden.
and workmen have opened the gates
on the eleven-mile level from Hack
ettstown east The iron work and
other fittings are being assembled
along the route, and will be sold by
the state There are also two brick
offices here that will be sold in set
thing up the canal accounts.
Devoe Pictures Relief
Taking recent decision of the Su-
preme Court of Indiana as text, AS
semblyman Frederick w. Devoe, mi
nority leader in the House, issued a
statement picturing the benefits which
have accrued to New Jersey if the
Legislature had passed his two bills.
House 277 and 27S, designed to carry
into effect Governor Silzer's recon-
mendations to tighten the tax burden
by limiting expenditures. The Devoe
measures were patterned after the In
diana statutes, the constituionaliy of
Hhich has recently been upheld by the
Indiana Supreme Court.
Mr. Devoe said the essential feature
of the Supreme Court decision was in
holding valid the statute empowering
the State Tax Board to review local