Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-26
BOARD OF sELEoTmRN.

A Complaint From the Annex-What
 Shall be Done With the Outside
 Poor-Lawyer White Speaks for the
 Taxpayers Association.
 A regular meeting of the Board of Select men was held last evening. Present, Select men Tyler, (presiding) Reynolds, Feldman, Treat, Beecher, Brown and Klenke.
 James E. Futile, of Fair Haven East, ap- peared before the Board in regard to the sluiceway that empties into the Quinnipiac river near Grand street. He said that par
 ties were dumpingin and filling up near the sluiceway to make land and it would finally close it up unless it was bridged over. The selectmen gave it as their opinion that the harbor commissioners having establish
 ed the harbor lines, property owners had the right to build out to those lines and that they had no control over the matter. It was thought if anyone had any power over the matter it was the harbor commissioners. Henry O. White appeared and said he understood that 8 committee of this Board and citizens were about to visit other cities with a view to looking up plans for new almshouse buildings He said that he had some comparisons to submit of New Haven with other cities in the case of the poor. He then proceeded to discuss of of the town poor. He said he came not only in tue interest of the Tax payers association, but also because he felt a deep interest in the proper care of an unfortunate class of people. MT. White then gave the cost for support of the poor, and showed by comparison the difference in
 various cities and States as to cost The
 cost per capita, of cities and towns in this
 State was given as follows: New Haven $1 30; Hartford $2.O7; Bridgeport $1 03; 80. "A; New Britain $1. 39; Norwa1k 80 62; Dan
 bury $O.73; Derby $0.S2; New London $1. Il. His comparison with other cities in other States showed that whereas it cost $1.22 per capita for care of the poor in Connecticut, it cost only 60 cents per capita in other States or nearly twice much in Connecticut. MT. Treat inquired of Mir. White if he had any figures showing the proportion of pau pers in other States with those in Connectj- cut. He said if he had not the figures did not amount to anything.
 MT. White said that from many cities he
 had the number of outside and inside poor, but 1t was not complete. He said he pre- scented the figures for what they were worth Continuing MT. White said there were no cities outside of Connecticut that did any where near as much for outside poor as here He said the great cost resulted in spending so much for outdoor relief, which he con sidered an injustice to the poor themselves, as 1t increased pauperism. He then read from the opinions of prominent persons who had given the subject much thought, who said that outdoor relief was an evil and tended to increase pauperism. He said that his investigations showed that in cities where outside relief had been abolished the increase of paupers in almshouses hal not materially increased. MT. White quoted largely from ex-Mayor Lows report of the successful operation of the suspension of
 outdoor relief in the city of Brooklyn. In conclusion, MT. White said the commit
 tee of the Taxpayers association had unan- imously voted that in their opinion the sys- tenn of outdoor relief should be abolished. Also that the town should erect workhouse
 for outside poor.
 "What is going to become of these peo-
 ple?' inquired MT. Beecher
 ''Well, I think, said MT. White, ''that great
 many of these men would find work some
 where if they received no relief from the town"
 After discussion MT. White withdrew and the Board proceeded with it's regular busi- ness.
 John Williams who wrote letter to the
 Board last week asking for help to send him to Mexico or some other place, was before the Board to inquire what had been done Tn his case. He was informed that his case had not been considered further. After he had made statement his case was referred to the Committee on Almshouse and Outside Poor.
 Voted that the town clerk be instructed to notify the civil authority to meet on the 7th of June to select Superior court jurors.
 Bills were approved and the Board then adjourned.