Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-20

make wide street. General Echols said
there would be no trouble with the q. u
o. r. r. A committe was appointed to
confer with Mr.. Bumgardner, and Presl-
dent Garrett, and the Cs & o. r. Il. Co.,
and report at a called meeting of the Coun-
Gil on the opening of the new street.
THE CITY PooR-sHoCKING OFFICIAL
| STATEMENT.
| A communication was received from the
overseers of the poor of the city, saying that
they now, for want of other accommoda-
tions, had five grown persons with three
| children. and four other persons, one OF
them dying of pneumonia, in little
building owned by the city, containing two
/ rooms, six by eight feet in dimension
/ They asked for an appropriation to build
frame addition to the house. MI. Harlan,
one Of the Overseers, and MI. Burke, the
| Chairman of the committee on the Poor,
! said it was impossible to get colored per-
sons to take paupers OF their own color to
\ board. though the same trouble did not ex-
! list with the white paupers; and this re-
! suited in the crowding of the dimlnutive
rooms owned by the city.
i Mr.. Echols said the statement OF tn
| overseers showed state OF affairs shock
4 ing. unchristian and inhuman, and no
! matter what was the condition of the
i city treasury, it should exist no longer
j We have provided for education, and for
4 the accommodation of the citizens with
4 streets and otherwise, and here we have
neglected to the point Of inhumanlty those
who are helpless on our hands.
| Mr.. Burke-The committee on the Poor
1 long since reported plan to relieve all
| this, but the Council did nothing with it.
! Mr.. Echols offered a resolution author
| izing the committee on the Poor to adver-
| tise for bids for the erection of brick
4 a Inns house. to cost not more than $4,000,
! which was adopted.
! Mr.. Evans understood that the poor this
winter had been comfortably cared for
F! No legitimate case OF pauperism had sui
fered, only those whose condition had come
| from depravity.
The matter of the burial of the poor at
| Thornrose Cemetery. came up by the refu-
sal of the Company to take city scrip for
digging graves. Rev. R. II. Phillips, the
Treasurer of the company, appeared in the
| Council and said he had authorized the
| city's poor to be buried without prepay
ment. and the city could pay in money
| when it was able. The company could not
take scrip as it did not suit their purposes.
The price of digging and filling a grave and
keeping it in order for all time to come,
was $3.50 which was reasonable enough.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The petition of Walter S. Stutz. so modi-
fed by himself as to ask for license to be
fixed on the sale of fish and oysters only,
was referred to the City Attorney for his
opinion as to the legality of fixing such
| license.
The petition of Capt. Garrett Gooch for
permission to burn brick in the fire limits
was withdrawn by the petitioner.
There was much complaint about the
wood wagons blocking up the principal
streets.
line p6ClUlOn OF MIS-. t. baHCL lOI dlu3
was referred.
A petition for the grading of Fillmore
ST., was referred
The petition of Mr.. Ed. Burke to erect
another story on his stable which has been
swamped by the New st. improvement,
was granted.
| The petition of Mr. J. D. Shomo to erect
a frame dwelling in the fire limits, was
referred.
The sum of 500 was appropriated for a
crossing at railroad bridge.
Adjourned.