gar, bread. Supper: String beans with milk, spiced beets, radishes, bread, crackers, tea, milk, sugar. Thursday. Breakfast: Oatmeal, milk, sugar, coffee, bread, butter. Dinner: Roast beef, rice as vegetable, brown gravy, boiled squash, bread. Supper: Egg omelet, sliced cucumbers, bread, spiced prunes, tea, milk, sugar, molasses fruit cake. Friday. Breakfast: Rice, milk, sugar, bread, butter, coffee, milk, sugar. Dinner: Fried fresh fish, boiled rice, cucumbers, bread, cottage pudding, chocolate sauce. Supper: Rice, pancakes, bread, butter, sugar, cookies, tea, milk, sugar. Saturday. Breakfast: Farina, milk, sugar, wheat bread, butter, coffee. Dinner: Beef stew, with potatoes and onions, beet greens, vinegar, bread. Supper: Beef hash with potatoes and onions, bread, butter, radishes, tea, milk, sugar. Sunday. Breakfast: Hot muffins, bread, butter, coffee, milk, sugar. Dinner: Roast beef, gravy, boiled potatoes, creamed string beans, bread, tapioca, cream. Supper: Fried potatoes with onions, bread, butter, marble chocolate cake, tea, milk, sugar. The following appropriations are recommended for this institution: 1. For maintenance for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1911.. 2. Purchase of land.... This is to make it possible to produce home products and overcome present expenses for those things which can be raised on the land by the labor of the institution. 3. Cottage for inmates and outside work for the same, including grading, steam connections, The capacity of this institution was reached early this year. A new cottage will be filled. within the next thirty days and then the institution will have made no provision for future commitments. The capacity at this point should therefore be increased to meet growing demands. (This note was written October 21, $72,034 43 40,000 00 35,000 00 4. Hospital building The present hospital, built when this institution was first started, has a capacity of eight beds only. This appropriation is to provide a hospital with a capacity of forty beds, which it is believed will be sufficient to accommodate the sick patients commensurate with the institutions population which is at the present time between 350 and 375. Obstetrical cases cannot be properly cared for nor is there any opportunity for isolation for either the new born children or the inmates standing in need of segregation. This item was recommended to the Legislature but cut by that body last year. 5. Additional boiler in power-house to meet future demands .. This is to meet the increased demand made upon the heating system by the additional buildings proposed. This also was cut by the Legislature last year. 6. New conduit, power-house to first man-hole... This is deemed necessary by the State Architect in order that the proper heating may be furnished to the two new buildings. 7. Extension of laundry A boiler from the Thomas Indian School, not in use there, has been transferred to Bedford, and this is to provide an extension for its installation in the laundry. Steam facilities, $2,500 was vetoed by Governor last year, it is understood, because of lack of funds. This is deemed necessary by the State Archi- $40,000 00 3,000 00 3,400 00 1,500 00 13,000 00 9. Two cottages for employees. This is to overcome the difficulty this institution is experiencing in securing help. The property in the vicinity has been largely acquired by wealthy New Yorkers for summer residences and the people employed at the institution cannot be boarded in the vicinity as formerly when farmers were the near neighbors. The result is that it is most difficult to keep employees and the cottages asked for are to overcome this growing problem. 10. Repairs and equipment... This is to keep up the institution generally. There are eighteen buildings and the real estate valuation is $463,355.18, including the buildings. 11. For removal of imperfect gutters on ten buildings and substituting concrete surface gutters; for replacing unsanitary plumbing in Reception house; for painting exterior wood-work of all buildings, and for other extraordinary repairs. . $2,500 00 2,000 00 2,500 00 The following statement of the disposition of the appropriations for extraordinary repairs and improvements is brought up to the date of calculation, which is February 1, 1911; this having been done with a view to giving an exact knowledge that subsequent requirements might be more closely estimated: (Chapter 461, Laws of 1909.) Cottage for inmates.. $30,000 00 Approvals, $28,038.80; balance, $1,961.20. (Chapter 433, Laws of 1909.) Reappropriated from Chapter 571, Laws of 1907. Board of Managers.* † Mr. Henry Melville, President... New York City Mr. Frank B. Hoornbeek, Vice-President..... Ellenville, N. Y. Mr. William N. Eastabrook, Secretary and Treasurer..... New York City Mr. Marvin Olcott . . ** *Mr. Charles J. Liebmann.. Superintendent, Col. Joseph F. Scott. Capacity of institution, 1,440. Average population for the fiscal year, 1,265.55. Total net cost of maintenance, $245,105.12.§ Chapter 684 of the Laws of 1906 created a State Board of Managers of Reformatories which serves for the New York State Reformatory at Elmira and the Eastern New York Reformatory at Napanoch. One vacancy according to law requiring seven members. ** Resigned January 3, 1911. § Exclusive of coal purchased under chapter 17, Laws of 1910. |