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-slOiebt MEANS 10 DC adopted tC
Prevent the Esta abIishment of the New
City Prison. .t=...
The call Issued by the citizen, Of tho Third
Ward to hold an indignation meeting In re-
gard to the lato action Of the City Coun-
Gil In accepting the offer of the School Board
permitting the Third District School house ia
be converted into a Prison and Work house
for tho female city prisoners, drew quite Q
large number of persons last evening to tbt
High-street Baptist Church.
The meeting was organized by eleoting VIM
]. Schultz, Esq, to the Chair, and appointing
William Williams, Secretary.
Upon motion, O Committee consisting OF
Samuel Hirst, Lewis Hsnman, Conrad Schultz,
Frederick Schatzman and John Krauth was
appointed to draft set of resolutions expires
sive Of the sense of the meeting in regard to
the matter which had called them together.
During the absence Of the Committee Mr..
Kiersted, the Councilman from the Ward,
addressed the assembly, stating that he had
earnestly opposed the action of the Council in
accepting tho offer Of the School Board, but
that 1t had passed that body by large vote.
Thomas A. Logan then addressed the meet
ing, speaking of the injury which would be
done the neighborhood if the proposed plan
DO carried, and when he had concluded the
committee entered and made the following re-
port; .. ....
RESOLUTIONS OF rHR COMMITTEES.
WHRRR4s, By the action of the City Council,
at recent meeting, il was resolved to convert
the Third District School house into Prison
and Work-house for female vagrants, and tho
School Board, by granting the use of said
house for that purpose, have committed q
great outrage upon this community, and forced
upon US great moral nuisance, one which is
certain to be q source Of annoyance to our
selves and wives, and Of corruption to our
children, presenting constantly to their view
the lowest depths Of degradation, and a0cus.
toming their ears to the vilest kind of
language, tho location Of the house being such
as to render 1t impossible to seclude It from
the adjacent houses, and to present it in full
view to the whole neighborhood, aud
WHEREAS, We have suffered for a series of
years from course Of unjust legislation to this
portion Of the city, by having our principal
and only thoroughfare obstructed and travel
on 1t rendered dangerous by being converted
from its legitimate uses to tho conveniences
ofa Railroad Company, and its constant 90
cupation by locomotives and cars, in conse-
quence of which property has deprecated In
value and the vicinity become almost entirely
unfit for residences and manufactures, and
all other kinds of business driven to other
portions Of the city. Again, by taking from
among US our school and removing it 10 an
inconvenient and unsafe distance for many of
US, thereby almost depriving us of it's advan-
tages. And again, by giving up. to another
Railroad Company what little remained to us
of our street, making travel over it so incon-
venient and dangerous as tofitit for any other
than railroad uses, and by various other acts
Of unjust legislation have our rights not only
been disregarded but trampled upon till, by
this last and cunning act of Injustice, forbear-
ance has ceased to be virtue with us there
fore, be IL
Resolved, That we will resist, by every law
full means, the establishment in our midst Of
such moral lazar house, as this prison house
will certainly be, this receptacle Of the vilest
OF tho vile, the offscourings the city, thrust
almost into our very doors, subjeo,ing our
children to the cor'aminsting Influences of
such vice, the very sight Of which, and the
constant exhibition of its existence, will blunt
their moral sense and degrade their minds.
Resotred, That our Trustees In the City
Council and School Board arc hereby in
structed to use every means in their power to
induce those bodies to rescind their action
and save US from the infiction of 60 great
wrong, With all its demoraliaing influences.
Resolpea, That slthough we are O law
abiding, and have been a patient and long
suffering people, yet, if the city authorities
persist in forcing this terrible nuisance upon
us against our protest, then we will no longer
allow our rights to be trampled upon and our
selves to be treated with contempt, but will
resist its establishment In our midst by force,
and, If necessary to prevent it, will tear the
house to the ground, or burn 1t, sooner than
allow its use for such purpose.
Resoloed, That a committee OF three be ap-
pointed to take such action as to them may
seem best to prevent the establishment OF this
prison, and to call another meeting of the cit-
izsns Of the ward whenever in their Judgment
it may be necessary.
Resolped, That the officers Of this meeting
furnish the Councilman of the ward and the
School Trustees with copies Of these resoIu-
tions.
THE DISCUSSION.
After the report Of tho Committee had been
read, Mayor Bishop arose and stated the
grounds upon which the late action of the Coun-
oil was based, giving the motive that had promp-
tod 1t, and showing what he conceivedto to be tho
mistake into which the citizens of the ward had
fallen in supposing the projected prison would
be nuisance, saying that the terms upon
which 1t had been offered to the city would
protect tho neighbood, and asking them to
inquire Of those persons residing on Western
row, near the present City Prison, whether
they experienced any bad effects from living
contiguous to It. He was several times, how
ever, rudely interrupted, and was folio wed by
Mr.. Logan, who violently denounced the ac-
ton on the part Of the city, and favored the
passage of the resolutions, which we're then
taken up ssriatim, and passed vociferously.
After the resolutions had been passed the
last one was amended so as to appoint two
Committees, each to consist Of five persons ;
the first TO inquire into what legal measures
might be adopted to prevent the establishment
Of the the City Prison in the Third Ward, and
the second to provide the Council with copies
Of the above resolutions and make arrange-
ments for another meeting to beld on Monday
evening. The following Committees were
then appointed and the meeting adjourned
First-M. W. Meyers, William j. Schultz,
J. Wentworth, John Caldwell and John Will
liamB.
GlSecond- ..Hirst, Conrad Schultz, Will
liam White, Owen Williams and F. Schats-
man.