The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-29
GRAND JURY REPORTS.
Advises Mothers to Keep Their
Daughters In Evenings
Admonishes the Pelice In the Matter
Of FanIights and Doors.
And Recommends Changes in Sew
eral Public Institutions.

The Kings County Grand Jury, which
broke the record of its predecessors by
filing a batch of ninety-one indictments
In the Court of Sessions, in Brooklyn,
yesterday, concluded it's work to-day
by handing up a long presentment to
Judge Moore, recommending the elimi-
nation Of many abuses.
After urging the authorities to pro-
vide more school accommodations and
better ventilation in the present schools,
the Grand Jury says:
"Our attention has been called by
citizens to the fact that many girls from
seven to seventeen years of age spend
their evening walking up and down the
streets, meeting and sporting with boys
and young men who are not in any
way family acquaintance.
The attention of all parents, espe-
cially mothers, is called to this matter,
80 that parental control may be exer-
cised. which will result In better morals,
II not absolutely prevent crime.
:" In one of our public institutions the
Grand Jury found an unmarried mothe
OF fifteen years of age. with a babe of
seven months-the father of the child
The Grand Jury admonshes the police
, see that all doors and fanlights of
Houses and stores are kept closed as
many burglaries and robberies are di-
,rectly due to favorable conditions.
The attention of all good citizens
should be directed towards stamping
out the policy-gamblin evil says the
Grand Jury. THE efforts Of the police
In this direction may be well under:
stood, but they continually lack In well
directed instruction or support
The Grand Jury cites the instance re-
ported in yesterdays Evening World"
when Justice Walsh was compelled. be-
cause of technicality. to discharge five
alleged policy dealers
The Grand Jury recommends that the
womans prison IN Raymond Street Jail
be provided with fire-escapes, as it is
now in a dangerous condition. The ven
At the Flatbush Insane Asylum, the
Grand Jury says, they found employees
rated as nurses and attendants doing
mechaniGs work, ,i in violation no, Of chap;
that o nurse or attendant was acting
in the capacity Of private coachman
in livery to the he. family nn r Of svpt ,S Syl
practices should be stopped at once:
They also recommend the dismissa! Of
one Sims, minor, who is employed IN
zen be employed In his place.
The dismissal Of one assistant store
keeper and one crozier Is also recon-
mended, and their duties imposed on
Assistant Storekeeper Sullivan, whose
salary, the presentment says, should be
increased from $500 to 81 200 a year.
BY this change the taxpayers would
save 81 200 year.
The County Hospital is greatly over
crowded. Rooms intended for ten or
twelve persons are now occupied by
from twenty to thirty.
At the Almshouse the tinware and
dishes were filthy and the general con-
dillon of the building showed negligence
and lack OF discipline.
The Grand Jury favors having the
Charities Department being put under
one Commissioner: also the repeal Of the
law making the chief engineer and GER
tain other officers of life tenure
THE Grand Jury regrets exceedingly
the limitation of Its time, as 1t is COM
PEELED to leave much necessary work
unfinished, such as the proper investi-
CATION. Of that which in common fame
Is ca lied the st. Johnland steal; the in
vestigation of the storekeepers' books
and vouchers: the chief engineers de.
Elatbush and Kings Park