, 1881-06-05
.:s< POVERTY FLAT. -
Such Is the Condition OF lemo1t,
According to Supervisor
Kelly.
The People Are Utterly Shame
less and Will Not Help
Themselves.
1.-THE Rankest Congregation Of Dead
| beats in America.

The Committee on Town and Town Accounts
met yesterday afternoon and took up the april
bills OF Supervisor Kelly Of Lemont- about
which considerable has been said lately, as 1t vas
believed he had used the county's money to Sc
cure his election to office There we're present
Commissioners kuopf, who presided, Purington
and Endcr; also Mr.. Kelly, Dr.. Root, aud several
other Icmont people. and 4. +. Chamberlain.
the .'vistor of outside towns, who looks after
the Supervisors with view IT, prevent their
6uuandertng money for relief purposes
!: Commissioner Purn3ton opened on Kelly by
asking him If all the people in Le1nont were poor
! about april /. In looking over the bills, it had
been found that nearly all the articles wore de-
| tiyered between the 1st and 9Th.
"That is all right said Kelly.
land that many of tho orders were given on
kunday-"
.tThat is all right" repeated Kelly "1f you
Twill refer to the bills since have been Super
i visor you wall find that neArly all the orders
have been given about the first OF the month
| As to the Sunday orders, he might have made
| mistake in the date
| Commissioner Pur1ngton called tor the May
}prders. and found that Kelly had spoken truly
as to their issue; but he also found that none of
them called for over s4.5o or s. while in april
some Of them, given to the same people, ran as
Eeiiv M Explained this by saying TINT they needed
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t6urplus during the winter.
| DO they keep bank account:" asked Com
20. answered Kelly; "but they have credit
and 1t runs out, and then they have TO 1all oack
y Mr. Chsmberlain called attention to the fact
that Henry Hopday got as much 1861 in May as
Eir April, though his wife was dead.
/ Kelly thought that was all right
Somt. talk then took place about the coal fur-
Ershe1i. the Supervisor saying it was soft coal,
/ and that be puid IS ton for It,
- COMMISSIONER PCR1SGroS
said tho Committee had sent for him t0 explain
how it caIue about tnAt Inc dp114 oA4s "e1c
I Kelly said there was but little difference, and
rhe reason pas that s5OOd many OF tue people
had ain1ust money enough TO carry: them
through the winter, and, when tne!r cIeo!t was
exhausted they couldn't starse; th a. e1aahh nm4hs
! would show that there WAS not Il variation OF
}more than aye persons In the nomoer VINO re-
NJ EhnmIerlafn remarked that 1t would be
cheaper for the county to take care OF them al
the Poor-Housc. a,~oa
NJ tAoout i ea W Ss9o @ a month";" replied Kelly.
"What was the amount In Apr1ls
~And s7I5 OF that was spent before the cleo
TOM ,ro,,,. ..hooa,,eo
It was the first Of the month. not because an
elecuon WAS to take place Few OF those WHO
receive relief are voters"
teal. From Sept 1ss T. Aug: u, lp; ~ EG f1e
From SEPT. i. 1879. to Auy. 81, 1880, which in-
cluded four months OF Kellys administration,
the amount WIS only 5.:4s5-a reduction OF oyer
5000. But he thought this vas due to me In IN
vestigatious OF the County Board and the iet-
ting of the contract for medical services foF
nine months of this year, however, under hens.
there had been expended $500, and g, as M pear a.
he could get at it the cost would be $l,oO
MORE THAN LAST YEAK
Kelly accounted for this BY stating that ne
had TO pay nearly double for coal. Each family
got one ton a month.
.How many families are there r
About seyenty-hve"
Everything is little higher this year., sala
great deal was wrong, but didn't know that
Kelly was to blame for it. He asked how the
county could get rid Of paying Sc. IS, $40, and