The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-28
IMPROVEMENT AT pI0NEER5' HOME
 IS RECOMMENDED
Superintendent and Doctor Are Given Praise for
 Excellent Work

The committee of the Territorial House and Senate, visiting the Pio- neers' Home at Sitka over last week end. today submitted the following report addressed to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House.
 We. your committee of the Sem ate and House of Representatives designated to visit and inspect the Pioneers Home at Sitka, respectfully report as follows:
 That on Sunday, the twenty-sec- ond day of January, we visited such home at Sitka and made as thor ough and careful examaination of the Home and the general condi- tions existing there as the time at our disposal would permit
 There are at this time one hun dred eighty-four Pioneers, residents at the Home, and there are some twenty-five or thirty who are wait ing to be admitted thereto.
 While at the Home, we visited each room therin and talked to practically all who are there, and outside of the general statement of an overcrowded condition, we heard nothing but expressions of satisfac- ton with the Home, its management, and the care given to the Pioneers therein.
 "On the first floor of the Home there are twenty-two rooms now oc- cupied by fifty-one persons. On the second floor, there are twenty-six rooms occupied by sixty persons. On the upper floor or garret of the building, there are ten persons liv- ing largely in open spaces. On the basement floor, beds are crowded into the available rooms for the ac- commodation of twenty additional persons. In the hospital wards, there are over forty persons under medi- cal treatment.
 A hospital which is well equipped for the care of the sick is main- tained on the second floor of the Home, and is under the direct care of Dr. William C. Charteris, very enjoys the entire confidence of the Home.
 Great satisfaction was expressed of the conduct and management of the Home by Filler Hansen, its Sup erintendent, and we commend both he and Dr. William c. Charteris for the efficient service rendered to this institution, and we further com mend the efficient servcies rendered by the staff of such Home.
 ''The over crowded condition at the Home, we believe to be injurious to the health and webbing of the Pioneers resident therein and great ly adds to their discomfort, and we strongly urge that such condition be remedied as quickly as possible. To accomplish this, MT Hansen, the superintendent of the Home, has recommended that an additional two or three story unit be erected ad- jacent to the Home, between the garage and nurses quarters. The ap- proximate expense of the erecting and equipping for which unit would be about the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars t$l25,000).
 We strongly recommend that Legislation be enacted at this ses- sion, authorizing the building and equpping of this additional unit to the Pioneers Home as recommended by it's Superintendent.
 Respectfully submitted this 28 Day of January, 1889:
 Senate Committe on Education. Health, Morals, and Territorial h. stitutions include O D. Cochran, Norman R. Walker and c. H. La Boyteaux.
 House Committee on Territorial Institutions include: A. A. McCut- cheon, A. P Walker, Wallace Porter and Chester T. Spencer"