Library Collections: Document: Full Text

In view of these considerations your committee have obtained the privilege of another year's occupancy of the present buildings, at a moderate rental. This privilege is also with this condition, that any needed alterations or repairs to the building shall be allowed to apply on such price of rent.

Your committee would, therefore, recommend to the Board to ask the Legislature of the present year to appropriate the sum of $15,000 for the maintenance and clothing of the inmates of the Newark establishment, for the year ending September 30, 1881. This is based upon the expectation that the number of inmates will exceed one hundred and ten.

It would be unjust in closing not to bear testimony to the excellent management of Mr. and Mrs. Warner, who have had charge of the Newark branch from the outset. The main work of organization has been theirs, and all the details of management have been carried out under their constant and careful supervision.

The building and grounds are in good condition. Every part of the interior is scrupulously clean. The dietary is ample and varied. The inmates are neat in person, happy in appearance and growing orderly in deportment. And the general discipline of the house-hold is praiseworthy.

ALFRED WILKINSON,
N. F. GRAVES,
H. B. WILBUR,
Special Committee.

REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Report of a committee of the Board, to whom was intrusted the expenditure of the special appropriation, for the erection of a boiler house, the purchase of three new boilers for the same, and such alterations of the steam heating apparatus, as were made necessary by the new plan of heating the buildings of the asylum.

At the June meeting of the board, plans were submitted by the superintendent, and discussed, for carrying out the intent of the special legislation. In accordance with your instructions the work was divided. Separate proposals were invited for the construction of the building; the required boilers (three in number), and the necessary steam-fitting. Bids were received from various parties for each division of the work, and the lowest bids in every case were accepted. All the proposals are properly filed in the office of the Asylum.

The parties to whom the several contracts were awarded were as follows:

Mason work in building and setting boilers, Moore & Carr; carpenter work, Charles Doll; boilers, Porter Manufacturing Co.; steam-fitting, W. H. Warner; steam pump, I. I. Brewster.

The work is now completed, except some little adjustments of the steam-heating apparatus. No difficulty is experienced in forcing the steam to the buildings most remote from the boiler-house. Two boilers will suffice to do the work, except in the coldest weather, when it may be economy to run three. The pressure of steam at the farthest building has been only 1.11 pounds less than at the boiler-house.

The bills have all been paid except a small sum withheld on account of the steam-fitting contract. There are remaining sufficient funds of the special appropriation of $12,000, to meet all that the contractor still claims.

A schedule is added of the several amounts of expenditure.

With a little farther opportunity for testing the completeness of the steam apparatus, the only bill not fully cancelled can be paid and then the vouchers can be sent to the State Comptroller and your committee make a final report.

N. F. GRAVES,
ALFRED WILKINSON,
Executive Committee.

H. B. WILBUR,
Superintendent.

THIRD NATIONAL BANK,
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Jan. 12, 1880.

To whom it may concern:

This is to certify that there is to the credit of H. B. Wilbur, superintendent "special construction account," this day a balance of $715.63.

G. S. LEONARD, Cashier.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

Allen Munroe, Treasurer of the New York Asylum for Idiots, in account current with the State of New York, for cash received and expended for the general supplies, and the salaries and wages of officers, teachers, attendants and servants of said asylum, during the year ending September 30, 1879.

RESOURCES FOR THE YEAR.