St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
The Poor Supervisors Adopt the Mayors
Plan Regarding the Bethany
Home.
Retail Grocers Meet and Receive Large
Petition Favoring Tax on
Peddlers.
The County Sunday School Assocta-
ton in Working Order-Thought
He Was Robbed.
business for Fridays Council Meet
ing-But1er Post Fair-The
Days Siftings.
THE BETHANY HOME MIDDLE.
The Poor Supervisors Adopt the
Mayors Plan Regarding It.

The Poor Supervisors Adopt the
Mayors Plan Regarding It.
AT the meeting of the supervisors of the
poor last evening, to consider the Bethany
home question, therD were present Aid.
Downs, Phelps, Cloutior and Merrick. The
bills for the month of July were submitted
and allowed. Upon the request of the
home In reference to the necessity of laying
III supply Of wood and coal for the winter
no one seemed inclined to speak, so Mayor
Ames left the chair and spoke of the man.
ner in which the Institution was first
started-a noble charity for the care
of the unfortunate women who
are there taken care OF. Then
it was dependent upon our charitably dis
posed citizens and wrought great good.
Subsequently it was found to be a burden
upon its supporters and by legislative act
certain moneys coming into the city treas
ury were deviated for its support. 1t was
soon thereafter found that the charities
dropped off and the city was found to be its
only supporter. AS public official the
mayor felt that we must meet this question
squarely as dispenser of the peoples money.
He did not desire to criticise the reform
atory methods of the board of
directors of the institution. and
while he felt that we were in
duty bound to contribute to the support of
these unfortunate creatures, still he was
not in favor of using public funds beyond
the point where the necessities of the cases
warranted it; that the reformatory part Of
the Institution should in the future, as in
the distant past, be provided for by the
charitably disposed. He was in favor of
paying SIS week for adults and So week
EgT.o bi 4Io FOR, nd
committee recently appointed from the
board should care for this institution and
the people sent there by the city's authori-
ties the same as those sent to hospitals;
that when they had recovered
and were able to earn their
own living. the city's responsibility in the
cases should cease, and from that time for
ward the reformatory ideas of the lady
managers should be heartily supported by
outside contributions. Further, that the
necessities of the institution, over and
above the prices paid by the city, should be
supported by the same source.
Aid. Downs said he agreed in every re-
spect with what the mayor had said.
Thereupon the mayor offered resolu-
ton pledging the support of the board in
all necessary expenses of the institution
until Sept 1, after which the bills of
the institution as contracted by the board in
patients sent them were alone to be con-
sidered as legitimate expenses upon the
city. The resolution was unanimously
adopted.
The appeal from the lady managers about
the necessity of laying in stock of wood
and coal for the winter at the city's ex-
pense was rejected. with a request from
the board for the ladies to make all appeal
to the public for contributions for this and
other necessary expenses. The board then
adjourned and attended a watermelon
feast