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The L'Anse Sentinel
November 11, 1893

              
                           What Judge Hubbell Says.
                           
              To the Copper Journal Judge HUBBELL expressed his
            opinion concerning the location of the asylum as
            follows:
              "We have been working for a long time to get an
            insane asylum in the Upper Peninsula and finally
            succeeded in getting a grant last winter, but the
            action of the board with whom was lodged the author-
            ity to locate it, has about nullified the work of
            the legislature. Our reasons for asking for the 
            asylum were that Traverse City was too far away
            but to place it in a wayside village that in the
            very nature of things can and never will be any-
            thing else but a small out-of-the-way country town,
            is not what either the legislature or the people
            of this district expected. If we need an institu-
            tion of that kind at all, we want it somewhere near
            he center of population, and at a point easy of 
            access by the entire district. The people of Hough-
            ton county generally favored L'Anse because from a
            sanitary point of view it is unsurpassed and is
            probably the nearest to the center of population
            of any of the places named that had good shipping
            facilities, and both rail and water transportation.
            Anywhere, however, would have been better than New-
            berry. We would rather have seen it go to the Soo
            or to Menominee, for they offer good sites, and
            the patients at least would have cheerful surround-
            ings. What this board saw in Newberry the Lord only
            knows; I can think of no reason unless they thought
            they could turn the lunatics to a profitable account
            by turning them out to pick cranberries in the 
            marshes."
            
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