, 1870-03-27


directed to the County Clerk It is prob
ab1e,> therefore, thnt'h special election for
Sheriff Will be ordered within q short time.
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= ABLEBoD1ED PAUPERs.
During the past week q report was made
to the Board of Supervisors, by hlr. Hol-
land, Of the manner in which strehef" has
been furnished BY the county to Eundry 60
called panpezs duritg the past winter. The
following are some Of the cases mentioned: ::
Patrick Wa1d, No 44Augussa street, has an ex-
pTeBs wagon; No. OF express license, 1,e12; has q
barn fna Of my; owns hls team; satd he owned the
Februa.y-half TON each time
Mrs Smith, No. 21a Milwaukee, avenue; she ts
entirely Unworthy: lives alone: has one sitting
cd, and she was very wen dressed. With nice cnris
On her head.
Mrs Q: Berrau, No es1 West Klnzle street:
owns the house aud lot she lives In; has no children
e Norack, No. 81 Ellsworth street: Visitor Ste
sens called therc and found Nosack had aold the
wood received from the county to Franz Tankey,
MIS-, No--Fourth avenue, called in Febru-
a1y and got two half tons Of coal; said she did not
both orders; she was . Iady Of about e4 years OF
age, well dressed, and did not look as though she
worked 1or living, or would earc to.
gtst; rcry nice store and house; 1ne Brussels
carpet on the floor: does not require aid; he has
received coal
Put Welch. corner of Latin and Taylor streets !;
is reported drunken brute; coal was delivered to
him on an order March s, and he still held an Or
der for coal that he did not need: he has been
drunk every time he called for coal this winter.
OConno1, the fellow who, as be testified, tnsti-
tinted The 1rst suit against the Hnrtwells, Was 30
deeply Interested in seeing them convicted that he
attended all through the last trial, occupying two
| 0t n
Mary Kennedy had hail ton coal sent, On Feb
Iuar5 16 TO No 69 ColDele street; was recelpted
"a Mary Kennedy does not 1--we there, and never
dldi the people In the house saw the whole trans
action.
There seems to have been some dispute
in the board on the question whether the
responsibility for this 1nisdirected charity
falls upon the t'visitors, F" or upon somebody
else; and also whether, in case it does fall
upon the "yizitors," the Committee on
Poor House and Paupers have the right to
remove them. As regards the latter ques-
ton we do not see any room for dispute. II
the :svisitors" are responsible, anybody
who removes them is, to that extent pub
Tic bencfactor. s'Stand not upon the ordez
of your going, but 60 at once, is the YER
dict OF the taxpayers
The Chicago Relief and Aid Society,
whose charities IRE dispensed fur more sys-
temntica1ly than those of the County
agents, hare also made discovery perhaps
not for the first time. With view to econ
ou,ize the fund intended for the deserving
poor, they instituted, some time
since, inquiries in ali parts Of the
West as to the demand for labor; and from
rarious quarters there comes back press
ing request not only for single men and
women. for boys and girls, but for married
men and their wives To these nre offered
wages and board, comfortable homes, and
fair treatment. A married man and his wife
can obtain employment in the country at
good wages, continuing MI the year round.
They can have their board and that of their
children included, or they can hare
comfortable houses, rent free, with
the privilege Of keeping a COW,
hogs, and poultry for themselves
The Relief Society has on its books offers
of this kind ior hundreds Of such families
who, confessedly, arc unable to support
themselves from the earnings OF their pre-
ca1ious labor, and who are descending reg
ula1ly to the lowest and most ahject Of all
forms Of poverty-able-bodisd pauperlsm.
Yet the answer which these mendicants
generally give to such offers is, ave viii
not go; we have as much right to live in
Chicago rs other people, and We will not
leave
Another class consists of women who
have one OF two children, who can get no
work to do at home, and who, because Of
their children, can find no domestic service.
These people suffer much, md yet every
one Of them can ind employment in the
| country at good wages, with board for hel
children free of cost Notwithstanding
this fact, they Will not go, but prefer to
live on charity in the city, to being inde.
pandent and comfortable elsewhere. Intel
Ggeuce Offices swarm with young women,
from II to 20 years Of age, vainly seeking
| high wages for domestic service, for which
they are not qualified by experience. Dur
| ing this time they have to Pay for board
These too refuse offers Of liberal wages II
the country, and, in the end, either fall vic:
tins to vice, orbecome applicants for charity
This Relief Society has has been coui
pelled to gre notice that no able-sodiet
person, mnle OF female, to whom respecta
BILE and remunerative employment has beer
offered and refused, viii hereafter be recos
nized BY the society. This rule is percmp
torily required by two considerations I
That 4ha .1,}p 1,odied apu1icanfs consume