The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-05-08
HE sEDALIA WEEKLY BAZOO TUESDAY, MAY g. 1883

and hearty. When asked what he got f.
dinner, that being the only nal the re
porter had seen with his own eyes, he All
swered, ga sup of weak stuff called coffee
but il is nothing more than water; pie,e O
corn bread, two praties and an ounce Of IA
meat"
well VIII 10 you have TO
breakfast -
Sour biscuits, sJme molasses and lit
tie of the same kind of colored wafer
called coffee"
"Don't you ever get any milk ?"
ayes, sir; at noon, forgot TO tell you
We get sour milk"
Wh.n asked with
REGARD TO vERMIN,
Canavan said the house had been overrur
with lice, but was not so bad now.
John Sullivan, an occupant Of the same
room, an old timer, sssenIed to what wa.
said by Csnavsn. but had no special
grsivances of his own.
Dan III, Olahan, another occupant Of the
same room, said he was needing suit ol
clothes badly, as he had moi
bren furnished with but one suit oil clothes
during his thirteen years stay i'm the poor.
house. There is DO denying the TACT that
the old man actually needs another suit.
In another room in the front tier was
found Jas. McDugsl, John Sugden, Dennis
Conner and James UBrien. McDugal is
The man who formerly clerked in the gro
CRY store of T. Brickel, and was sent 10
the pOor-house with delirium iremens
about four months ago. He is fat and
hearty, having entirely recovered from bis
mania, and is BY far the most intelligent
man in the po, r-hOuse. When conveyed TO
the poor-house he was literally covered
WITH GRAyBAcKs,
and says he was troubled BY
them for some time after arriving ut the
poor house, ss was the other inmates, but
that they have pretty well gotten rid of
them here of late. When asked 9, garding
quantity. His principal objection was
He would like to have soup once or twice
week, but a majority Of the inmates
would not hear TO soup being made OF the
potatoes. pr. ferring them with the jackets
on. He said he now felt able to perform
light labor ard would soon take his de-
parture from the poor house.
Mr.. John Sugdon, q brother OF the
we'll known property owner Of this
city. coincided with McDougal
a. TO the fare, but complained Bit
t-rly If the t-s a'ment received at the hands
OF his brother, who, Inc says, sent word for
hun to come TO Sedalia, where he would
give him employment. He came, and
worked for George four months, when he
turned him of without cent. He was
sick and bound to take refuge in the POOR
house.
Steve Hendrix and Henry Plumb, both
hopeless idiots, kept orIside the building
du.ing the reporters stay, but appeared to
be in good order"
THE FEMALE WARDS
were next visited. A negro woman calling
h. rself Nellie, who is in an interesting con-
d,tion, and an sg.d darkey, named
Aunt Phillis, occupied q small room,
which appeared neat and tidy In the adj
joining room was Mrs. Mary Brennan,
nearly blind, and suffering from rbeums-
iism. She has been bed ridden for ten
years. and was deserted by both her mar
ried sou and daughter in Sedalia. She is
very childish. and cries on the slightest
With tears in her eyes, she
said she thought the least thing the county
court could do was to buy her . little
house and lot in Sedalia, and get some one
to attend her. This is the poor old crea-
ture whom the Democrats reporter grew 50
pathetic over and that she is an object OF
pity, cannot be denied, but
that she is better cared for
at the poor house than she was
by her own flesh and blood, is also true.
In the same room with her was Sarah
Simpson, who does the washing for the in
mates, and q simple woman called Nancy
Skies. Neither had any complaints to make.
In little rear room was the mountain of
flesh, the crazy colOred woman, "Suke,"
who imagines she is 10 starve u death, and
besides eating ravenously hides about her
bed all the provisions she can lay her
hands or.
An idiotic colored bow sits around on the
aoor of the rooms occupied by the women,
md that he gets enough to eat is evidenced
By his sleek appearance.
DINNER WAS NOW ANNOUNCED,
and after the inmates had fled into the
kitchen and taken seats at the tables, the
reporter dropped in and looked At the par.
y while eating. Canavan, the man dying
BY slow starvation, had six larse-sized
potatoes in and alongside his plate, which
ne was despoiling Of their Jackets" Be-
tides this, he took q large piece of corn
bread, and was provided with the largest
ounce" of meat the reporter ever saw, for |
hree such ounces would make q pound |
He looked rather sheepish when he saw the |
eporter was observing his operations. |
n fact, all were literally supplied, having |
helped themselves. and it il safe to say
zone will die of starvation. Ii the |
ice eat them up. of which
ninent danger, it is the fault of
he inmates themselves, who are too lazy to
,eep themselves clean, and the overseer
annot afford to take the conh act of feeding
nd clothing them and killing their gray.
acks, too at 81 80 per week.
Returning 10 the overseer's residence,
he reporter asked Mrs. McFadden for adj