The evening world., 1894-09-29
GRAND JURY REPORTS.
Advises Mothers to Keep Their
Daughters In Evenings.
Admonishes the Police in the Matter
OF Fanlights and Doors.
And Recommends Changes in Sew
eral Public Institutions.

The Kings County Grand Jury, which
broke the record of Its predecessors by
filing batch of ninety-one indictments
In the Court of Sessions, in Brooklyn,
yesterday, concluded its work to-day
by handing up 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,
so that parental control may be exer-
cised. which will result in better morals,
If not absolutely prevent crime.
:" In one of our public institutions the
Grand Jury found an unmarried mother
of fifteen years of age, with a babe of
seven months-the father of the child
is said to be eighteen years of age"
The Grand Jury admonishes the police
to see that all doors and fanlghts of
houses and stores are kept closed. as
many burglaries and robberies are d.
rectly due to favorable conditions,
The attention Of all good citizens
out the policy gambling evil" says the
Grand Jury. THE efforts of the police
in this direction may be we'll inten-
toned, but they continually lack In well
al In iirft m, nr
The Grand Jury cites the instance re.
ported in yesterdays Evening World"
when Justice Walsh was compelled, be-
cause of a technicality. to discharge five
alleged policy dealers.
The Grand Jury recommends that the
woman's prison IN Raymond Street Jail
be provided with Microscopes, as 1t Is
tilating facilities should be improved.
At the Flatbush Insane Asylum. the
Grand Jury says, they found employees
mechanics work, in violation OF chap
ter 622, Laws of 1894 They also found
that a nurse or attendant was acting
in the capacity Of private s SoaehT ssI
vester. The Grand Jury says these
practices should be stopped at once:
They also recommend the dismissal Of
one Simis, minor. who is employed In
the County Storehouse, and that citi-
zen be employed in his place.
The dismissal Of one assistant store
keeper ana one STOZltT 10 ittoii-
mended, and their duties imposed on
Assistant Storekeeper Sullivan, whose
salary. the presentment says, should De
increased from $500 to $500 year.
BY this change the taxpayers would
save 81 200 a 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-
dition 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 It's 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 called the St. Johnland steal; the in
vestigation of the storekeepers' books
and vouchers. the chief engineers de-
partment of the county buildings of
Flatbush and Kings Park"