St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-07
WHERE TR4mpS BRING UP.
A Showing of the BOarders and
= LOdgers at the City WOrkhOuse
- SOr ~ inter Months.


- LOdgers at the City WOrkhOuse
= fOr ~ inter Months.
lWorkhouse Directors George W. LAM
sen, Mark Costello, Louis Engel, c. j.
MOnfort and c. II. Petsch have submitted
their annual report to Mayor Rice, fol the
fiscal year ending Oct. 81. They say that
good order and good health have prevailed
to an exceptional extent, and that exact
discipline has been enforced. Nothing
other than for the knitting machinery has
been invested in manufacturing machinery.
so that the $4,000 city bonds authorized
by city legislation, have not been needed.
The directors think that the crippled, blind
and aged inmates are great expense to the
WorkhOuSe, and they say:
Some other destination should be provided
for ali Migrants unable to work. 'Five-dsy
men continue TO draw upon our resources,
and to receive Il large part of our attention.
We battle them, shave them, rest them
feed them. laundry their clothing re-
store their shattered nerves with medicine
ami then turn them loose inYigorated, for d
fresh dehaucl. This may seem an admirable
arrangement for the vagrant and a humane
one. but it is not 1t promotes vagrancY,
ma e. it easy, makes it professional. Legis-
laiiOn should abaJe his evil.
An extension Of the water service for fire
eXtinguiShing is recommended. They con-
Guide their report with complimentary ref
erence to Supt. John Fitzgerald and Secre-
tary Charles kOehler.
FINANCES.
The financial statement balances S44,-
1862 10. the receipts from warrants being
S:4. oj2.42 and from prison labor S16.-
Sol 20. The wOrkhOuse has turned into
the city treasury in cash $500 90. The
statement for the knitting works balances
ST., 643. SO. The inventory shows Sc, 1876. II,
and the goods sold amounted to So. 5O7. 95.
The net gain Of that department for the
fiscal year was 1924. 81. The knitting
WORKS are credited with Sc 74S. % worth of
yarn on hand. 81. 031. 80 of machinery and
Sl.357 receipts from prison labor. That
department was started last February, and
Superintendent Fitzgerald says: while
the financial receipts are not SO very large,
it has helped TO keep some prisoners, which
we could not work outside, occupied"
COST OF MAINTENANCE.
The cost of keeping the inmates, includ-
ing officers and employees. amounted to S4,
271.69, the cost per capita per diem being
1887 cents, per annum S36.6715. For the
maintenance of the workhouse S13 033. 50
was needed but the credits have overbal-
anced the expenditures to the extent of 81,
S43. II.
In the item of prison labor, the total re-
ceipts of which in money or equivalent
were SIC. 864.20, 50, 466.40 was received
from routine work. S717.6O from improving
grounds, 1895. 20 from building and repairs,
1868. 20 from making and repairing clothing.
81. 00S. so from grading grounds, S775. &c
from the farm and garden, 81, $50. 40 from
clearing park, 20 from Como park
road. S1l5.20 from the fair grounds road,
4, .a-Nn 1.
gross results of farming have amounted to
S1.610.30, requiring an expenditure for
labor seeding and threShing of $685. 40.
WHAT CONSTITUTES THE PRISONERS.
On Nov. l. 1885, there were "a prisoners
in the workhouse. and the total number re-
ceved since then was l.345. OF the total
Of l. 439 there has been l, $50 prisoners re-
leased, leaving 50 in the wOrkhouse. Under
90 years OF aye there were "a. and over 60
years there were 16. Six were sentenced to
one years servitude, 357 to five days. and sos
to thirty days.
Ninety four were natives of Minnesota.
124 of Germany. 234 of Ireland. 70 of Can
ada, 40 of Norway and Sweden. 80 OF
England, 20 OF Scotland. and SO of other
foreign nativity. the balance being Amer
dearborn. There were S22 who professed
the Catholic religion, asa the Protestant 2
the Jewish. and 81 who denied all religious
training. AS to education 1,201 could both
read and write. Thirteen hundred and
thirteen were white. Regarding theil
habits 46 claimed to be temperate. and i. 29s
admitted themselves to be otherwise. May
has the biggest monthly record of inmates.
being 155, and January the least. rs. The
total increase of weight of the inmates was
8, I62 pounds
The physician. DIR. Gustav A. REM. has
attended GA patients, 90 being placed III
the hospital wards. There were only two
deaths. He says the hygienic condition OF
the institution reflects great credit upon the
management. the food is wholesome and the
water pure. Sixteen of his patients bad
delirum tremens and so were doctored fol
alcoholism, these cases being confined to the
hospital.