The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-15
NEEDS MONEY FOR MEALS
CITY ADMINISTRATION CALLS FOR
ANOTHER APPROPRIATION.
Claims the Account for Feeding Pris-
Oners Was Exhausted During PO-
lice Station Building.

The Board Of Public Safety will ask City
controller johnson to recommend to the
council special appropriation of 500 for
meals for prisoners confined in the police
station This was decided on at a meeting
of the board yesterday morning. The ne
cesslty for this has grown out of the con-
hnement of the city prisoners in the county
Jail during the time the new police station
was being built. The original appropriation
for prisoners meals was 81 300 The esti-
mated cost of a meal for a prisoner at the
police station is 10 cents. When the prison.
ers were at the Jail Sheriff Shufelton
charged the city 40 cents day for every
prisoner. If prisoner were brought to the
jail half hour before Police Court, it is
claimed, it cost the city 40 cents, just as if
he had been there day and had eaten
three meals. The sheriff received $3.50 from
the city during the months of 1897 in which
city prisoners were confined in the Jail, and
$Sl2 during the months of 1898 which elapsed
before the new police station was ready for
occupancy. This expense during 1898 swal-
lowed up more than two-thirds Of the ap-
preparation for prisoners meals.
Edward Davis, clerk of the board, saws it
is not probable the department will require
any more special appropriations during this
year. Transfers of funds from one appro-
priation to another will likely have to be
made, however. This will not be done at
present. The hay market has lost money
during the last two years. The city pays
weighmaster 500 month, and his re-
ceipts average $50 a month. The outlook Is
that the deficiency in the police salary fund.
which would have amounted to $4,000 by the
end of the year, will be made up by the sys-
tenn employed of filling vacancies and ask
ing the patrolmen to take vacations for
which they are not paid. The impending
$I1,OO deficiency in the fire department SAL
airy fund will be avoided by the present sys-
tenn Of cutting salaries one-seventh by fore
ing the. firemen to- take .oned day off each
Joseph Hulsman, who was found intoxi-
GATED and sleeping on duty, was yesterday
formally relieved of his power as a police
man. The resignation which he offered was
accepted. A bill was presented for Sc which
Hulsman owed a clothing firm on his uni
form, and the board ordered the amount de-
Quoted from what salary is coming to Huls-
man.
Chief Barrett, of the fire department, was
instructed to look around for a building in
which loose hay may be stored and baled
by members of the fire department. This
would be saving of 81. so ton over the
present method of buying baled hay. There
is not enough room in the engine houses to
store loose hay. For use in the meantime
the board bought ten tons of baled hay at
$3.50 ton. Twenty-Five tons of straw was
also purchased at $40 a ton. Bills were
sent to the Citizens Street-railroad Com
pany and the Big Four Railroad for $45
each. This is damages for sections of hose
cut by cars Of both companies passing over
them There is an ordinance against this,
and the corporate might have been taken
before the police Judge.
Chief Barrett recommended that the board
ask the Council to pass an ordinance requir-
ing persons who use the public dump to
burn the rubbish Immediately after dump
ing 1t. Great piles OF dry rubbish are set
on fire at times, endangering the surround
ing houses and factories. Besides, it has
been necessary for the fire department to
make runs to the dump to put out the fires.
spent by the department working with a
dump fire.