Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22
JAIL AND WORKH0USE
Recommendations Of Charity Commit.
tee of Board of Trade,
SEPARATION OF INSTITUTIONS
Bills to Be Prepared to Garry Out
the Suggestions.
WORK OF SUBCOMMITTEE

AT a meeting of the committee on charl-
ties and corrections of the board of trade
yesterday afternoon a subcommittee. of
which S. W. Curriden is chairman, submit.
ted an elaborate report IN regard TO the
jail, alnshouse and workhouse Of this Dis
trict The recommendations of the report
were adopted, and it was directed that
bill should be prepared covering all the
matters embodied in the report This task
was assigned to a subcommittee. consisting
of Messrs. B. T. Janney, C. E. Foster, l. G.
kimball. H. w. Lewis C. H. Rudolph, W.
NJ. Shuster and T. W. Sidwell, with instruc-
tons to report at an early day.
The report stated that the three instItu-
tons referred to are under the control Of
two different branches Of the government,
and owing to the growth of the city east
ward and in the interests of the econor1i-
cal administration of the institutions and
the health Of the employees. II will be neces-
sary to remove them from the present To-
cations. The unanimous recommendation
of the report is that the authorities Of the
District government be requested by the
board of trade to formulate a plan provid.
ing at as early day as possible for the re.
moval of these three institutions from the
present locations and the separation of their
administration. The opinion is EXPRESSED
that the entire cost of the changes in loca-
ton and the erection of all needed struc-
lures can be more than met by the proceeds
OF the sale of land now occupied ny these
institutions.
Declared Unwise.
A map accompanied the report which, ft
was stated, was prepared under the direc-
ton Of the District authorities and which
shows the extent, as explained in the re-
port, of the present obstruction to the nat
ural growth of the city by the location of
these institutions. Reference is made to
a foo tod
cal year by the Management of one of these
institutions for the sum of $50 49, So for
the purchase of three additional squares.
bringing these places, the report adds, so
much nearer the Capitol building and fur
Their blocking the growth of the city in that
direction. The report protests against such
policy as unwise in every particular
reference is made by the committee to
the report OF Attorney General Griggs
dated November 80, 1898. in which he sug-
gests turning the District Jail into a penf-
Tertiary and jail and the possibility of de-
vising some plan by which prisoners-about
l2o annually-sentenced to the penttentiary
and now transported to such institutions
OUTSIDE Of the DISTRICT could be put to some
the opinion that the proposed removal of
the present Jail to some location along one
of the railroads where appropriate indus
tries could be carried on would enable the
suggestions of the Attorney General l.. be
carried out.
The Workhouse.
The report further adds that the work.
house, which is under the control of the
District Commissioners, should be removed
northward and eastward mile or two,
where the inmates could be given employ
ment In laying out projected thoroughfares
thus repaying to the taxpayers the cost Of
their maintenance. 1t is also urged in the
report that the almshouse, which is under
the control of the District Commissioners
as ii is a public charity, should be dis
connected from the present Jail and work
house systems thus relieving the inmates
who are in the main only unfortunate. from
all faint of reDroach. The opinion is ex-
pressed that this institution under a sepa-
rate management, should be located 10 The
northward some of the many eIieibIe
sites of high ground along the Bladensburg
pike.
New Charities,
In regard to the creation Of new public
charities which. the report states, have
during recent years been urged upon the
attention of the committee the more i'm
portant of which are a municipal hospital
and an inebriate asylum. the committee is
of the opinion that owing to the population
and taxable wealth of the city il would be
unwise TO multiply public charities The
report further adds that when the location
of the institutions is changed the aims
house might properly be known as the
Municipal Hospital and Home, and the
name of the workhouse changed to that of
the County Farm. The members of the
committee making this report are Samuel
w. Curriden, Charles F. Nesbit. William F.
Downey, A. S. Caywood and Thomas W
Sidwell.