The herald., 1894-10-13
IMMORTALITY IN THE PARKS.
The Commissioners to Take Re-
pressive Measures.
East Side Police officers Scored for
Neglect.
The City Water Company Gets somo
Censnrs Water Meters
Will Tell the
Tale.

The report OF the committee appointed
by the park commissioners on i'm
morality in the public parks" was not
presented at the meeting of the COM
mission yesterday morning. The report
was ready, but the commissioners think
that the less publicity given this
matter the better it will be, and there
being numerous newspaper reporters
present the report was held cut.
The theory was advanced, and ap-
parently accepted by large majority
OF the commissioners, that ii the ef-
forts OF the bosed to suppress and pre-
vent immortality in the parks we're made
known, the unthinking public would
Immediately jump to the conclusion
that the parks are immoral places, and
nice people would therefore cease to
frequent them.
The report states that the immortality
exists to the largest extent in the Sixth
street park, and will advocate several
remedies. One is more light in the
dark hooks and corners. a stated hour
when all persona must leave the parks,
probably 10 O'Clock. and the appoint
policemen.
MIR. Mesmer said that the statement
given Yesterday in the HERALD that the
first complaints had come from people
around the East Side park, were in q
certain sense misleading, for while the
East Side park may have been included
in the complaint, that resort 10 more
free from immortality than the others.
,,1c inp oil iann
bru al assault made on Mr.. Winsell, the
manager uf the conservatory in the East
Side park on Saturday last.
Five young hoodums, it seems, from
the statement Mr.. Wiasell. approach
ed Mr. WinseIl without cause and after
calling him dough face" and applying
other epithets attacked him and alter
throwing him down one OF them struck
him on the bridge Of the nose with
brass knuckle. The nose was broken
and several other injuries sustained and
the unfortunate mnn's clothes we're
utterly rrined with blood and dirt and
torn to ehreds.
The commissioners severely censured
the police officers for the manner in
which they handled the case. Up till
Thursday only one OF the hoodlums had
been arrested and that one WAS young
Potts, the least guilty OF the lot.
Yesterday two more were arrested,
Mitchell Scherb and Joseph Scherb, two
brothers.
II the man assaulted had been any
other than park employee, the COM
missoners claim, the offenders would
have been in Jail long ago.
The commissioners decided that one
precaution against such conduct in the
future would bs the placing OF police
stars on the park attendants, and Park
Su perintendent La Grande will pick out
the men he wishes appointed in each
park and the police commissioners will
be asked to appoint them.
The City Water com pany came in for
q little censurs from the commissioners
or deal regarding the drinking fount-
aims.
The company has been making an at
tempt TO charge the commissioners 81
per month for each hydrant. The COM
missioners cay the parks are public in
etitutions and the people who buy
drinking water at their homes from the
City Water company also use the parks
and drink the water. A person only
drinks so much, they argue. and il he
can't get it in the parks he'll drink that
much more at home, and the company
gets no more money.
The commissioners propose to put in
spring appliances, 30 that Just the
amount OF water actually used is drawn
out, and then make the company pat in
meters and take meter rates.
The superintendent reported that the
water the people below Westlake park
claimed was running down on their