New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-11
Mr.. KeDock's financial

safely omit any description here Mr. KeBocks financial
report for the year is as follows
donations, including Twelfth Nineteenth and Twenty.
second Wards S25,948 65 cldren's nursing, a 315 NJ.
S5093 Is coal and wood and carriage for 1906 including
Twelfth, Nineteenth and Twenty-secOnd Wards, SEQ,
455 81; expenses OF Office extra compensation 1885,
81 5 stables feed horses, stationery, fuel. oOiins &c
S252 70 total payments, $4,000 % less cash receipts
Children sent to Randalrs Island 1459; taken on trial
81 Western States l5G discharged TO parents and
friends, $50; died, 1Oi; eOped, 80.
MIDNIGHT VISIT TO THE MoRGUE.
II was midnight when the figures for this compilation
curiosity aud at that hour our reporter accom-
panied Warden Brennan into the M0igue. The marba
slabs where0n the bodies Of the unknown aead are kept
for recognition bore but single copse-that Of man
rather below the medium stature, but oil massive fore
head and features Indicative Of decision OF character
The unknown had been found by tine police dead in ths
street not two hours previous TO our Nlst His
,nents had been taken from the person and searched
for clue his place OF abode, and IN the morn
ing the keepers would expose them near the CORPSE
aids in establishing identity. From the opening Of the
More on the DIST June last down to midnight on the 3t
of December the keepers received Y bodies, which the
olcc had fond In the streets and elsewhere and of thIs
number about onehalf claimed BY friends aud sur.
rendered to them. The edfce Is OF pressed brick with
stone trimmings and has three stories Tie uppermost
of which is in the suddenypOpuar French style Of archi.
lecture, and quite appropriate on AZ institution whose
name was imported from France The ground floor CON-
tains large for corOners nquess an autopsy room
%pen"vy5 dead are exposed TO vew-tie bodis hi ia
shielded from touch by enormous glass wlencs
the outer atmosphere Is eXcudeda room for the Keep
apd s1s5e5 with Hfe Go Sss w nfed re gas can and
story contains the Hospital Museum, and the third fha
diss6ctngro0m The DOrgle was completed and opened
Oh the 2lst OF June last and cost about $4,000
OTTER INSTITUTIONS.
The institutions under the control OF inc Commissioners
Of Charities and Correction, which we ave not described
are the ColOrcd Orphan Asylum the C00ied Home the
TOmbs Prison, and the prisons altcled 10 the other
three Police Courts. The Asylum and Home have an
average Of about 100 inmates, the T0iDs usually Contains
about OO and the other police court prisons places
for temporary commitment only. II all the buildings
which are controlled by the Commission had been built
by contract, they would have cost about S3O0O,00O
THE COMMISSIONERS.
Under act OF the Legislature, dated April IT, 1879
! Mrssrs Simeon Drapcr. Moses il. CTinBcn, james g.
Nicholson and Isaac Bell jr, OF the lth Of the month
named, organized the Commissioners OF Pubic Chair
ties and Correction for the City Of YORK and as such
they became custOdians Of all the cltyS property which
had been held and msgOycncd by the Oh Board OF Ten
Governors Tns was our first commission from Albany
the initial move i'm that radical form in our city gov
! eumcnt. The incumbent COmIDlSso nerS are; Gen.
James Bowen, PRESIDENT James Il. Nicholson, beero-
/ tuy; Isaac Bell owen W. Brennan.
These gentlemen meet daily nj their Office, No. prop
morning at least Of their number, and often the four
depart for the islands leaving the city Office IN the tfsty
hands Of their venerable clerk, Mr Joshua Phillips They
keep constant every one OF the extensive lnstl
of their waIdens TO make out OF routine without
their knowledge and consent The zeal with which they
have exercised their uIcons be inferred from the
fact that In 1865 they cancelled debt OF Sl27 81 ana
last year they closed their accounts with handsome sur
luS which warrants them in reducing their demands
mon the Controller for the current year The total cost
OF the institutions under their chargc-includng the DO
/ nations To the Outdoor POOr-Was about St0COO Last
wear and as have ntmard II 10 be less TINS year.
The daily cost Of each inmate Of the institution is ex-
returns for October month Of about average eApend
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