Delaware-Franklin County OhArchives History - Letters .....Proposed Reform School For Girls February 18, 1899
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Letter on printed business stationery: Richards & McCarty, Architects, The 
Ruggery, Columbus, Ohio.  Telephone 436.  C.E. Richards, J.E. McCarty.
Supt. Western Pennsylvania Reform School,
   Morganza, Pa.
Dear Sir-
   We are at present preparing plans for some cottages for a Reform School for 
Girls, and desire to have an expression of your opinion as to which you think 
the more desirable system for sleeping apartments in cottages, whether the 
single rooms or dormitories.  The cottages for which we are preparing plans are 
to accomodate twenty-five girls each.  We expect to use single beds and have 
heard many arguments from variopus people, both for and against each of these 
systems, and, having considerable confidence in your judgment in matters of 
this kind, we would be very glad if you would kindly give us a frank expression 
of your opinion as to which system you recommend, leaving out of consideration 
the cost of the building, as, of course, it costs considerable more to build 
separate rooms than to use the dormitories.
     It might be well to add in this connection that each building has its own 
dining room, kitchen and school-room, and that it never expected to accomodate 
more than twenty-five girls, and it is expected that each building will have 
three care-takers.  
     Thanking you for any information you can give us in regard to this matter, 
we are,
     Yours very truly,
          Richards & McCarty

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