The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-26
WESTYILLE SITE SELECTED
BY COMMITTEE ON LOCATION OF
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL.

announced at Meeting of the Mayors
Cabinet Last tNight-Suggestion to En-.
p'oy Able Bodied Men in Almshouse and
Jail at Breaking Stone-Thc Appropria-
tion for Parks.
Inc regular monthly meeting of the
mayors cabinet was held last evening
IN the mayors office in city hall. All
the heads of departments were present.
PRESIDENT Whitney of the board of edu-
cation was present for the first time
since the cabinet meetings have been
held, he only having taken office since
the last meeting was held. Mr.. Whit
ney at the close of the conference last
night stated that the meeting had been
most interesting one, and that he
thought that much good would come
from the heads Of the departments and
the mayor thus comforting together.
Judge Baldwin, the recently elected
president of tine park commission. was
also present for the first time. Ha
stated that his commission would prob
ably ask for the appropriation for next
year of the full amounts mentioned in
section 95 of the new charter. The seq
ton referred to reads as follows: "The
board of finance shall annually appro-
pirate sum of money not exceeding
$4,000 for the care and maintenance OF
East Rock park, and an additional sum
nfa nj O q
care of all other parks under the care
Of said board
The matter of contagious disease
hospital was discussed at the meeting.
ana 1t was announced that the COM
mittee appointed to select a site and
report back to the common council had
decided to recommend the acceptance
of the site on Jewell street, in West
vile. During the discussion Of the
matter nearly every gentleman present
expressed himself as convinced Of the
need Of such hospital, and the general
opinion seemed to be that a hospital
should be built as soon as possible. al
number of cases were cited to empha.
size the need
Controller Brown spoke in general
way of city bonds and of the money to
be raised next year by taxation. 1t
was stated by the representatives of
the police board that the board hoped
to make savings enough SO that the
lay-offs now being given may be stop
ped some time before December l.
A suggestion made in regard to en-
ploying the ~able-bodied men at the
allnshouse and the jail was received
with favor. Section of the act of con-
solidation, referring to the board Of
charities and correction, provides as
follows: "Said board shall provide
suitable place where shelter and food
may be furnished, at the discretion of
said board, to any destitute person tenn
porarily within said city, but no able
bodied person, whether resident or
nonresident Of said city, shall be fur
nished shelter, food or relief in any
form, unless such person shall render,
in labor or otherwise, as full an equiva-
lent for what he receives as such board
shall consider reasonable under the CIR
The suggestion was that as every
winter, a greater or lesser number Of
able bodied men are In the almshouse
or the jail-often in the latter place
for the sake of having a comfortable
place in which to stay-these able-bod-
led men be set to work breaking stone
in some suitable place. The gentleman
who made this suggestion called atten-
ton to the fact that every stone so
broken would be clear gain to the
city, and that in the spring considera-
BILE pile of broken stone would be on
hand for park roads or other uses.
The park commission is yearly hans
dicapped by small appropriations, and
a great part of the appropriation is an
nually spent in repairing park roads
washed out by storms. 1t was suggest
ed that if the commission could obtain
broken stone in the way above men,
toned there would not only be a con-
siderable saving in the expense of re-
pairing washed-out park roads, but
hat the roads repaired with the broken
stone would be made good, permanent
roads,
In line with this it was suggested
that the park commission might have
stone hauled into a pile at some place
as, for instance, West Rock,
and that a shed might be erected to
keep the storm and wind off the men
while they were at work breaking up
he stone
1t is very probable that some definite
will grow out Of the sug-
,estion.
It was announced at the cabinet meet
ng that a hearing on the estimates for
he department of charities and correc-
ion would be held by the board Of
nance on the evening Of November 6.