Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-12
4. Z, ALDENl MayOr.
VIM. C. Kinney, NJ. G Thayer, H. d
Grant, WI. Emery.


Grant WI. Emery.
Hon. A. Z. ALDEN, MAYOR OF THE
CITY OF NAsHvILLE-SIR: Your special
committee appointed on the Sd inst, to in.
vestigate certain charges against the Work
house Keeper and committee, published ia
the UNION AND DISPATCH of the I'd inst,
beg leave 10 report, that Immediately upon
being notified of their appointment, the
committee was called together and repaired
to the workhouse in discharge of said duty /;
that they made thorough examination of
the books and papers, as well as in fact OF
everything connected with said institution.
Instead Of four or FIVE horses being kept
there at the city expense, as alleged in said
article, your committee find that two, and
only two, are kept there, they belonging,
one to your Honor, the other to the Work
house Keeper that said horses are not kept
in the public stable nor at the city expense,
but in stalls in the north end of the work
house building, prepared as your COM
miltee is informed for the express purpose
Of accommodating the necessary horses of
the various city officers, and fed, and cared
for at the expense of the owners of the
came. So far from making the workhouse
public boarding house, the present
Keeper, Immediately upon assuming con-
troll of the institution, turned off and drove
away at least one who had been furnished
with board and ROOMS at that institution
for two years previous thereto while rem
derlng no service 10 the corporation and
that now no loafers or loungers are toler-
ated about that place, unless brought there
by the police-and that the only persons
furnished board are the officers and neces-
sary employees and prisoners, except in
fact, an old negro, once the slave of the
corporation, who has made that his resi-
dence since being freed.
As TO the charge in said article that GER
tain stores purchased for the workhouse
had never found their way there, or to the
charge of fraud in the purchase of stores,
your committee have only TO say that if
any such frauds have been committed, they
were unable, after a careful examination,
to detect any evidence Of the same. As
an evidence Of the economy and honesty
with which the institution is being man
aged, however, your committee beg leave
TO submit the following extracts from the
reports for the months of January, Feb
ruary and March, the three months during
which the institution has been controlled
by the present keeper, as also correspond
ing extracts from the report for the month
of December:
Net expenses for month of December $2073 70
Net expenses for month of January ,... 1900 A
Net expenses for month of February. l7O5 So
Net expenses for month of March .-...;... 1869 70
1t will be seen from the above that
the net expenses for the month of
December, the one preceding Mr..
Flagler, the present Keeper assuming con-
troll, exceed those of any month since, by
over eight hundred dollars.
Your Committee beg leave before closing
this report, to commend the present Keeper
of the Workhouse and Committee for va
rious improvements made and reforms in
augurated in the management of said insti-
tuition. The building has been nicely
painted outside, and thoroughly cleaned
and whitewashed within. Good, substsn-
tial hunks with straw, ticks and blankets
are furnished for the prisoners TO sleep on
instead of laying on the floor, as formerly.
The prisoners are furnished with good, snb-
stantisl and wholesome fare, and are COM
PEELED 10 work nine hours per day in winter
and ten ia summer. The female prisoners,
instead Of being compelled to break rock
as heretofore, are kept al work, securing
and whitewashing and washing the clothes
of the prisoners and in this way the whole
house is kept as clean "a most of the first
class hotels in the city.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
VIM. G. KINEY, Chairman Com.
Nj. q. THAYER.
II. ID. GRANT .