The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-21
The Welcome Mission
Petitions the City
Council.
A CONFERENCE is ORDERED.
Telephone Company Grant
ed Location for Poles
in Many Streets.

The directors Of the Welcome Mis-
sion presented a petition to the cit!
council last night, asking that com
mittee of conference be appointed tt
meet committee from the directors o.
the mission. to consider the matter o.
having INDECENT persons cared for a
this institution, and what sum pei
capita the city is willing,to pay toward
the expense. The petition, which was
referred to the committee on police
follows;
Representing that, during the year
1898 there were 1900 transients cared
for by the city of Worcester at the po-
lice station and 5000 by Welcome Mis-.
sion, and as the number is increasing
and no adequate provision is offered by
which they can earn what they may re-
ceive; and as their presence, without
the application of the labor test, has a
demoraEzing influence upon the COM
munity, and should be obviated, so fan
as possible, by the municipal authori-
ties and the concerted action of all good
people of the city of Worcester; and
as the organization known as Welcome
Mission is equipped for the care of these
homeless people, and is willing to I'M
dertake the care of them over night
giving them food, lodging, cleanliness
sterilization of clothing, and requiring
them to work for part payment of what
they receive, we respectfully ask as
follows:
To the end that Welcome Mission
may relieve the city of this care. your
petitioners request that a committee of
your honorable council be appointed ia
confer with a committee from the board
OF directors of Welcome Mission, with
q view to agreeing upon some small pei
capita sum to be paid by the city as
part of the cost of the relief rendered
said relief to be given only on certif-
Gates issued by the chief of police, OF
under his jurisdiction.
We believe the above petition to be
Tor the best interests of the city, and
the probable solution of a very per-
picking problem.
The petition is signed as follows:
Spencer B. Meeser, George w. Kent
Charles L. Short, Eliot White, Edwin
I. Chaplin, Willard Scott, Stephen Sal
isbury, William H. Cook, R. B. Fowler
Lyman A. Ely, Francis H. Dewey, ]
Russel Marble, H. H. Merriam, A. B. R
SpraGue, Webster Thayer, H. w. Cobb
James F. Healy, S. r. Haywood
George P. Rogers, Daniel Downey
Charles L. Gates, Henry A. Marsh, Jul
nus Gafst, Charles L. Nichols Mrs. Sa-
rah B. Dewey, o. w. Norcross, NJ. P
Higgins, George I. Alden, Charles H
Morgan, Paul B. Morgan, George T
Dewey, G. w. Mackintire Henry S
Pratt. Nathaniel Paine, ]. P. Hamilton
Richard J. Healey. James NJ. brennan
William Woodward, Charles NJ Thayer
George F. Blake, Jr., F. P. Goulding
Albert H. Waite. E. W. Phillips.
Apart from the petition which oc.
casioned considerable informal discus.
sion among members of both branches
there was little out of the routine. Re.
ports of the committee on streets on the
part of the board of aldermen grant.
ing location for poles of the New Eng.
land Telephone and Telegraph Co. oc.
casioned considerable discussion. but
the reports We're finally accepted anG
the accompanying orders adopted.
Both branches had adjourned before
$50 o'clock, which is considered record
breaking time for the present board Of
aldermen especially.