Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-22

Monroe street, from Wellington TO the
Charleston Railroad. The report was
read. including the assessments of the
BOARD of Survey, W. L. Guion, p. H.
Davis and W. 4. Hardin, amounting TO.
S4l64. Alderman Vincent moved to
adopt the report.
menence, and said that when the Improve
ment was talked of the property holders
! were going TO donate the necessary land
all except n or two. Now they are
coming up with a bill of four or five thous-
and dollars for assessments. He should
oppose the whole thing. In the present
condition of afiairs he opposed appropriate
ing ono cent tor anything. If these par
ties would take their pay in taxes he
might possibly vote for the Improvement.
The city was in no condition to build
roads. Paw your laborers first, said he,
and then talk about opening streets.
With q Finance COMMITTEES not north
shucks, members of this Board come whin-
ing up with four or five thousand dollars
assessments. He'd have none of It'll
Alderman O'Donnell said that the very
mem some of them whose names were on
the list of parties to be paid, had offered
TO donate the necessary land. One man
in particular, from Texas, had told him
that he would donate the property, and
vet he had been waiting in town for six
weeks to get this appropriation from the
Board.
Alderman Vincent asked if that was
Mr.. Jennings, and said if it was, he had
been grnmbling about the assessment not
being half big enough.
After some further debate, the report
was referred to the ImproVementeeom-
mittee.
The following report was received from
the m on siu1h 6llfs.s
A woRKHoUsE.
To the Honorable Board of Mayor and
Aldermen 4l e. = A E4I
Your Workhouse Committee would
make a preliminary report, as follows:
Since the appointment of your commit
/ tee we have communicated with thirty
| four cities In the Union. OF these fifteen
answered that they had no such institu-
| ton; eleven answered by sending us an
annualr report of the officers of their work
houses; and eight have not yet answered.
After a partial perusal of these reports,
we find that many essential points neces-
sary to be known in the commencement
OF such an enterprise are ignored. Differ
/ ent cities apply different names to such
| institutions executed for the sacred pur-
pose, as Work House, Industrial
School, Reform School, House of COrree-
ton. etc. In some States these institu-
\ tionsa are established by State legislation
and State aid, some by county aid, and
| others, again, by municipal authorities.
We find a majority of them established
by municipal authorities, receiving pecu-
/ MARY assistance from State and county,
while all are under and subject to munie-
ipal management. Every report speaks
in glowing terms of the success of their
/ work houses; first, as a reformatory insti-
tuition; secondly, as a literary institution,
while some of them add to these features
| the fact that they are self-sustaining.
/ Others tha a handsome revenue is derived
from them zr nH.A 4. IA.
Your committee is of the opinion that
| the necessity for a work house in Mem
phis is apparent, there being SO wide a
/ field for reformation in the jnYenile
! classes, and the assurance derived from
such institutions, that the adult conyicts
NAV be made to contribute to the public
purse by their labor, that public demands
the same. The first and paramount object
in the establishment of a wOrkhouse, in
| connection with an Industrial School, for
the two should be united into n institu-
| tom is.Fefprmation and instruction. The
second object is punishment for pettyOf-
lenses.
Your Committee is preparing a report,
as il has, which is very Imperfect and I'M
satisfactory, that will throw much light
on the subject, and will give much valua-
BILE and useful information.
The Committee can assure the Board
that they nave not been idle, and will
promise to continue their labors as expe-
ditiOusly and successfully as possible.
The printed reports from other cities are
all we have to work from, These, OF
course, are all full and explicit for their
\ own authorities, but very imperfect for
us, Just starting in the enterprise. Thor
ough, careful and personal Inspection and
examination are essential to a correct
knowledge of such .~institutions. This
your Committee has never enjoyed.
Respectfully.
l.. ID. VINCENT.
1T. CARTWRIGHT,
J.. G. DYER,
Committee.