Public documents of the State of Connecticut. . quired. Our farm is upon an elevation sloping gently towards theeast, and offering good air, with facilities for easy drainage. Through its convenience of access to the city, teacherscan be obtained in the mechanic arts and the Englishbranches for evening work, thus saving about eighty percent, of the cost in this important item of expenditure. City water is also available, and the cost of an inde-pendent water supply will thereby be saved. This, in oneof our public institutions, has already nearly reached thesum of $40,000 for the plant alone, b
Public documents of the State of Connecticut. . quired. Our farm is upon an elevation sloping gently towards theeast, and offering good air, with facilities for easy drainage. Through its convenience of access to the city, teacherscan be obtained in the mechanic arts and the Englishbranches for evening work, thus saving about eighty percent, of the cost in this important item of expenditure. City water is also available, and the cost of an inde-pendent water supply will thereby be saved. This, in oneof our public institutions, has already nearly reached thesum of $40,000 for the plant alone, besides entailing a steadyexpense for maintenance. City gas is laid to within a third of a mile of the centerof our main front, and will be furnished us if desired. Electric cars pass one of our fronts, and will probably intime pass the other. A careful consideration of these advantages and of theeconomy of administration incidental thereto led us to preferthis site over the many 1 examined by us in other localities. 1 Seventeen; in nine SITE PLAN. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation Guided by the experience of two of our number whohad been directors of the State Prison, and by the earnestadvice of Warden Woodbridge of that institution, as well asof Superintendent Brockway of Elmira, Superintendent Scottof Concord, Mass., and other experts, we have prepared plansof a comprehensive character which will admit of systematicdevelopment with time and growth. For lack of this at theoutset, many public institutions, and notably our State Prison,are now found to be disjointed, inconvenient, and needlesslyexpensive of administration. It has been our design from the first to complete onlya fraction of the buildings at present, — barely enough toallow the institution to be fairly started; counting upon theinmates learning building, with other trades, and thereafterdoing the m
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