The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-25
PUBLIC STONE YARD.
New Means to Be Used to Pre-
vent Mendicancy.
WORK FOR ALtAsLE-BoplEDM MEN
County and City to Unite In Facilitates
the Work Of the Bureau Of Asss.
siatcd Chayttiss.

For some time the proposition Of pub.
lie stone yard has been under considera.
ton by county and city officials in con-
nection with the Board of Associated
Charities, and 1t will probably take def
mite form IN an ordinance which will be-
presented to the city council by the
board OF public works next Tuesday night.
The matter has been thoroughly looked
into by Chairman Fred Gasch, of the board
OF county commissioners; j. w. Van
Brocklin, member of the board of public
works, and Rev. d. c. Garrett, Jerome Cat
lin, Jacob Furth and +. T. Dooley, of tho
Bureau of Associated Charities. The pro-
lect has grown out of the large number of
applications for relief from abie-bodied
men received az the Bureau of Charities.
These men all profess to be willing to work,
but the bureau has no means of putting
them to test only SO far as they can secure
situations for them. 1t is thought that with
a stone yard to furnish employment at
wages upon which men can at least 1.-Two
there will be no longer any excuse for an
able-bodied man to be out of work.
Mr.. Gasch, speaking OF the matter yes
terday. said: Applications to the Bureau
OF Charities for work have been SO COM
mon OF late that it has become almost a
necessity TO find employment for those
who are idle and thus to keep off pauper-
ism and to encourage honest labor.
therefore talked the matter over with the
members of the board of public works
and suggested matchmaking the streets.
A few days afterward, in company with
the board, visited stone quarry on the
Duwamish river, about six miles from the
city, from which the county had taken
considerable stone for use on its roads.
The quarry is right on the edge of the
river and the rock can easily be loaded on
scows ana brought to town at a very small
expense"
Messrs. Rinehart. Van Brockln and
Cochran, OF the board of public works.
said that they had plans under considera-
ton, out had not arranged all the details
yet. nor made estimates as to the cost.
They said, however, that they hoped to
have matters in such definite shape as to
be able to apply for an ordinance from the
council next Tuesday evening empower.
ing them to act in the matter
They also said that 10 was suggested to
them by the chief OF police that city pris-
oners be also used for this work, the city
to be paid for them at the rate of about
o0 cents day, or just enough to cover the
cost Of their board.
Applicants for work would be EMPLOYED
In breaking stone, bur would be kept sep
arate from the prisoners, and divided into
two squads, one of which would work at
the quarry, and the other employed break
ing rock on the streets.
wooden shed and cook shanty would
have to be built at the quarry, and those
who worked there would be given three
meals day and from IS cents to 81 day
as pay. Members of the other SQUAD.
who work on the street, would be paid
$Loo. but would be required to board
themselves.
The stone should be taken from the
quarries in blocks not too large to be easily
hauled and shipped in scows, borrowed
or hired for the purpose.
The board is heartily in favor of the
scheme, and claims that not only will it
be of the greatest advantage to the city,
but that IL will also do away with all ex-
cuse Tor begging, as any able-bodied man
will be able to get work by applying for it.
Mr.. Rinehart said that Jacob Furth was
enthusiastic over the idea, and had prom
ised to have Ninth street, in front of his
property, macadamized, and others have
promised to do likewise.