Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — REBUILDING WORK STARTS. [ARTICLE]

REBUILDING WORK STARTS.

Foundry at Indiana Reformatory May be Completed in Sixty Days. Jeffersonville, Ind., Nov. 24. Work has started at the Indiana Reformatory on the rebuilding of the foundry buildings, destroyed by fire a week ago (Sunday. It is hoped by W. H. Whittaker, general superintendent, that work may be resumed in the foundry within sixty days, probably under a temporary roof over which a permanent roof will be built later. Governor Hanly has given assurances that the cost shall be taken care of until the Legislature meets and it is expected about >IO,OOO to 315,000 will be spent by that time from-the Governor’s emergency fund. The plans are much like those of the buildings destroyed, but the entire place will be fireproof. Six hundred feet additional hose and a, chemical engine, costing about 3300, will be here for the approval of the board of trustees at their next meeting.

Nearly all the idle men will be employed in the work of rebuilding the foundry.