The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-08
POOR BOARD MEETING.
Number of Applications for Relief
Heard Yesterday Afternoon.
Next Meeting to Be Held
at the Home.

The regular meeting Of the poor board
was held at city hall yesterday after
noon. President Brooks presided, and
Mr. Fuller was the absentee. The
monthly report of Superintendent
Beemer of the Hillside Home, was
read and approved. In the long list of
statements of Mr.. Beemer, it was
shown that on May 81 the home con-
tanned AL patients and at the close of
June there was nineteen less being
cared for. During the month ended,
eleven insane female and five male pa
tients were received; twenty-five sane
patients and one insane patient were
discharged from the home.
Two deaths occurred during the
month, one sane and one insane. At
the home now are 1O4 sane and 139 in
sane male, 100 insane and fifty-two
sane female patients, making a total
of 425.
Superintendent Beemer informed the
board that yesterday he handed the
treasurer of the district $2,3O6.76, re-
ceived by him for the maintenance OF
patients at the home during the last
three months. When the board ad-
journed yesterday it decided to meet
Friday next at the Hillside Home. The
members of the board will leave for
there at II o'clock that day.
The list of applicants for assistance
was not as lengthy as usual. Emanuel
Potts, an old soldier, who in his old age
Is without friends, asked to be ad-
mitted to the home. which request was
heartily granted. James Sullivan, OF
Orchard street, was re-admitted to the
home. James Casey, of SIC Broadway,
a cripple. who with his crutches is a
familiar figure on the streets of the
city, selling lead pencils. asked the
board for aid for his wife and three
children. DR.. Paine, in whose district
the family live, informed the board
that he has been giving the family or
ders, and it came to his ears that
Casey was unworthy. Casey vainly
endeavored to make a speech in his
own defense. The case was disposed
of by leaving the matter to the dis
cretion of DR.. Paine. Hugh Quigley
now Of North Scranton, formerly Of
South Scranton, asked for transpor-
tation to Newark, which was accorded
him.
Mrs. Kate McNulty of Fellows street
widow Of fifty-five years of age,
asked for aid. When a motion was
passed permitting her to go to the ITill-
side Home, she waived that privilege
and told the directors to depart for
that place. as she never would. The
applications of Mrs. William Thomas,
of Elm street, whose husband is ILL.,,
and Mrs. Robert Connors, of Maple
street, who has been deserted by her
husband, were referred to Mr.. Dickert
with power TO act
President Brooks called the attention
of the meeting to the fact that visiting
at the home has become almost nuis-
ance. On Sundays. particularly, he
said, the place was crowded with sight
seekers. On motion OF Mr.. Shotten, the
committee on rules was instructed to
investigate the matter and report at
the next meeting
Superintendent Beemer. before the
meeting closed informed the board that
excavations for the new stock house at
the farm were completed. The I'm
provements to the old almhouse erected
back in 81 are being rapidly pushed
| towards completion.