| Show VISITED VISIT f THE TH t ME INSANE IN SA NE State Asylum lum Inspected by liy the Legislature o I VAGARIES V OF PATIENTS PA STEEDS NEEDS OF ARE ABE POINTED OUT OUTi 4 1 i Gods and goddesses kings kIe and pres and multimillionaires bowed bow and 4 t t before legislature It was as legislators day da at the insane i asylum Ont hundred and fifty of the senate nate and aud house bous of representatives and their friends went t 7 Provo o oa ca the special train over ever V r the Rio Grande Western railway which left Salt Lake Ike City at 8 45 and nd arrived at Provo at t bout about 10 The 8 were w re met by the B S Y academy y band bend bendat at the depot They Tiley were conveyed in n buses to the state asylum Here the visitors V were received by Dr M HL ii aBard Hardy Bard superintendent of ot the tI I institution f tion Uon and arid a reception committee con eIting s ting of ot Mrs Hardy Haldy and the ladles I of Provo I Tour of Inspection It was 11 1 I 1 before the tour of o inspection was vas wa welt well under way In I or order order order der to facilitate matters mattera the visitor tOI were divided vito several parties Gov Governor Governor GOVernor Wells who is chairman ot of the th I board of or asylum commissioners comm s toner pilot piloting piloting piloting ing the while bile State Treasurer Tre Tre n Jon lonn Jonn a Dixon nao and end Auditor I L ti Tinsey Of the board nt and nd Dr Hardy explained I things thin 8 to other groups groUP The was to take tn in the Ute bueme tor the bis bI M building first Ant end and I then go through the wards and see ee seethe seethe the Inmates a afterwards aft s then dinner and off for tor a brief visit to 10 the B Y N academy at it t Provo In the kitchen where Will Logan the official chef wee was we preparing the dainty viands and aDd substantial foods which wl ch were to be ie served up later several everal leg er legislators t who had tome come away without their breakfast found an opportunity to catch up with their appetites From Prom the kitchen they went to the bakery where the baker b ker explained that the big Wg ovens had a capacity for MS 8 loaves at a time and that the daily dally I output for the consumption con u of ot inmate is 18 W 0 loaves beveL I When they came to the library con stating chiefly of a row of ot books cow com comprising the government report on Oft the war of the rebellion Speaker Glas Glasmann GI mann said urn Til ru give ve you for fOl those re reports reports ports porta Its Ita a bargain pIn said the governor So the dal was wa completed and aDd the t party parly was hurried to the laundry where a i touching incident occurred Emma Johnson of ot Tooele one ne of or the ironers a refined looking patient broke down while talking to m the governor vernor an and l leeping weeping bitterly and pleading to be re released released leased from her incarceration had bad to tobe tobe tobe be ed led away That was w the too first shock the Investigators received but before bet ore they completed the tb rounds of the eight I wards with their IU inmates thy they th y saw more pitiful sights In Ia the th Kale Wards The mens men wards were the first to be gone through In the r t of ot these then after running the gantlet of furtive trUve o glances between rows of cOrio cOr men who lined line either side of the han hall they t ame came upon a figure sitting Bitting on the floor in the middle of the halt hall and rocking himself elt back and forth holding hoMing his feet in his hands bends b Then through other wards lined with W 1 cells cella some sonic of them tr itc e y Jent patient t some s me manacled end and one q e these thee was w e I hands were sheathed in ln leather lesther r rTh Through Though Th ough V tb t j bars of ot this mans cell the visitors i could see Bee him trying to wear vear the leather off by rubbing It against the window ledge an occupation tion he keeps up continually Senator Bvans Evns Downfall In one oHof of the wards President ent Evans came ame upon a party of patients playing checkers President Evans thinks he can play c checkers eckers He accepted a challenge made by Speaker Glasmann to play pyo Nathaniel Green a patient from Payson Green is one of the crack rack players of the tM asylum After a afew afew afew few moves in which Evans lost sev several severa eral era pieces he became interested ted in the game and the rest of or the party left him studying his way out of a clev cleverly cleverly erly laid trap Fifteen minutes later he caught ht up with the head of the pro procession I cession which by this time was strung out alt all over the building t How did you come out asked ked Rep Representative Williams President Pre Evans looked loo ed sheepish s Well he said he had six men nien left when we quit No I have any why I quit But y you u uee ue see ee e I play my any best bast t I play a avery avery very good game of checkers Some s me of the Patients Many Y of the visitors discovered 1 among amOD the inmates people they had bad 1 John ohn C Murphy the rubber stump manufacturer of Salt Sah Lake City w wa a recognized recognised by many In Nat Green Sam am Page recognised a Payson matt mali who nho after living tving a den rate life lite sud aud suddenly denly became ultra religious and ancl went crazy over oer the subject four years ago In going through the M omens wards they came upon the woman who w o laughs She sits in hi the middle of ot the I f floor behind a locked door dOIl do through the theiron 1 iron bars bani of which she Ibe he looks with ex exA exal J A al pre s eyes her lips Ups drawn rawn back in perpetual grin From this spectacle the visitors IW r turned turaH to I look Jook upon another violent woman who was Waa studying the arrangement of a system of clothes clotheslines clotheslines lines made macle of cotton cord Her Hei occupation pation day in and day out is to t string and retiring lines Jines One OIT of the women who were at large in the halls balls threw a crust eru t of breed bread at atthe t the governor hitting the chief executive tive in the neck She ran screaming and giggling and hid her face in a cor ocr corner corner ner ncr Senator to was wan 88 introduced to Mr Ci i neney To his bis surprise e the in insane Insane sane woman said Bl Id d Im delighted to I meet you senator I have bave read reed your JOur I book Senator Whitney thought that Woman ought to be released I On every hand the governor was wae ap al appealed appealed pealed to by Inmates inmate seeking to be re released released leased He was implored and threat threet neil ned and numerous notes and one bulky package were handed him The Tile package turned d out to contain a t Calico waist a necktie tad end a suspender buckle Accompanying it was wae a letter Jetter like the others asking that the writer be released oed d the Governor When a old women woman sight t of him ate he rushed hed u up and throwing her arms arnie around bs b neck wept for joy oy and anti called him hili hit her darling governor He Re responded to these affectionate over overtures et tures tuns by patting tile the oW oki woman on the theY Y IJ beak bask and find she kissed his hand band and would not let him go till tie he tied I Ij j d to come Orne and see his girl agar Herb Pine former steward at the II 4 asylum and now mm county recorder of or Provo had a more m spirited experience with a woman vho when she be caught cau ht I sight eight of him rushed the length of tb the han hall exclaiming He is therefore king of England Lunch and Speeches When they all aU got sack back to the start stat starting statIng startIng ing point an luncheon was announced an four long tables were ere quickly filled by toy hungry legislative visitors v The e re reV reI pet pat t was as followed by bV b speeches be beDr I Dr Hardy Haidy spoke first tie ie said what the tho institution needs is two 3 to the present building build i ni These I w t o r hr m t pi e and he heH I H I realized the legislature could not well spare that much in view of the big ap appropriations appropriations appropriations which h are in demand from L all 11 state tate institutions I What we a ask k for said he Is 1 about to enable us to tj erect ered right away I two detached deta hed cottages each with a ca c capacity c fur for or thirty pa patients paI I tints ti The Th present building is in over overcrowded crowded I Governor Wells after alter saying that 15 would not be an extravagant de demand demend mend mand in addition to the OO asked I for fur general maintenance introduced President Evans who pointed out the requirements of other institutions but Id that the asylum is jg i deserving d of all aU aUt that t the legislature can possibly po give Glasmann who followed l de tie deC C himself elf in favor of giving all 11 that tile the board of ot commissioners asked Senators Thomas Mayor Taylor r and Representative Eph Homer i Is chief engineer of the asylum also aIM spoke in favor of the proposed e Im Improvements f and weeding out of inmates tl t really relly ought to be cared cOred for In county institutions j for the infirm After it was waa alt all over oyer the Ute legislators repaired d to the B Y N academy where there dIen was a pr of ot music and end by Governor Wells Welte Meyer Mayer 1 r rr Taylor r lor President John Axton and Mr Kirkham on behalf of the stu students dents |
