The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-03
NO HOMES YET BUILT
For The People Who Are Without Homes
Result Of the Storm.
A NEW PLAN HAS NOW BEEN PROPOSED
Warehouses and Vacant business
Houses to BE Rented and Parti-
toned for Use by Families.

Galveston. Texas, November 2.-Tho
central relief committee at its meeting
today devoted over an hour to the con-
sideration of claims passed up TO it by
the committee on claims and accounts.
| Two small claims were allowed; one
claim disallowed and the others re-
turned to the committee on claims and
accounts.
Mr. Jens Moller chairman of the com
mittee on labor employed in the removal
| OF debris and the cleaning of the city,
made report. According to the previous
orders OF the central committee, this
Work was to have been concluded to-
morrow evening; tne appropriation there
Tor is also exhausted. Mr.. Moller re-
ported that the recent rams have made
| the ground 50 sort in tie east end tnaL
at was impossible for the drays to maui
more than half a load and the general
efficiency OF the forces have been great
ly reauced. lie said considerable
amount of debris is yet 10 be removed
IN the Eleventh ward and some In the
lIweltth ward. and he deemed it urgent
that this work should be done. Bodies
are still being found. he said; one body,
! that OF a enid, was found only this
streets. right in the business district of
the city. where no one had supposed
there were any bodies. Mr.. Moller said
1t would take 200 men week to finish
the work in the Eleventh ward. and the
work would cost $4,000. All wards save
the Eleventh and Twelfth, he said. are in
lair condition. He thought IL essential
that the work oil draining the low places,
especially east OF Twenty first street
and south of Broadway, and the work OF
sanitation should be pushed.
An appropriation OF $4,000 was made
for Mr.. Moller TO carry on the work OF
removing debris in the east end.
An appropriation of $1,000 was made
to pay the expenses of distributing the
dislntectants under the supervision or
DR.. Randall. Mr.. McVitie was requested
to advise Mr.. Corwine that the Calves
ton committee would be glad to secure
the copperas of which he wrote.
The question of continuing the gem
eral sanitary work. recently conducted
by Mr. Molers department, was dis
cussed. Mr. Adoue suggested that it was
matter which the city government
should take hold of, 1t was suggested
in response to this that the city hasn't
the funds to pay for the work,
Mr.. Ripley said he thought it about
time for the city government to decide
what it is going TO do. Are they going
to try to run the city government with
out money or are they going to give up|'
Mayor Jones said the city government
couldn't give up
Mr., Sea.y ked what was the matter
with drawing on the emergency fuS<io
pay for the sanitation of the city He
said it seemed to him this is an emer-
gency If there ever WAS one.
Mayor Jones replied that the emcr-
gency fund had already been drawn upon
pretty largely. and there isn't much OF
1t left.
Mr.. Sealy said 1t had been drawn upon
to pay salaries, and it seeInei to him that
the cleaning of the city was more of an
emergency than the payment Of salaries
1t was ordered that all Of the forces
under Mr.. Moller. except such As would
be necessary to carry out the purpose
for which the appropriations of $4,000 and
$1,000 respectively were made, should be
discharged after tomorrow night.
Mr.. McVitie brought to the attention OF
the committee the great necessity for
providing pubic homes for poor peo l.
who are unable 10 secure any suitable
habitatlons for themselves. He said there
were many families living in houses which
had been damaged by the storm, the own
ers of which houses are unable or unwill-
ing to repair them. In some of tn 50
houses, he said, water stands on the floor
from six inches to three feet deep. Many
of the people are sick, and the houses they
are llNl0S III hIS NV III hAb4lSAIOHo lui II
dog He told of enc instance where six
teen people are living in two rooms. and
he said this was only one case of many
that might be named.
at is q disgrace" said he, that we
have done nothing for the housing of these
people
Mr.. Kempner said the committee had
appropriated $4,000 for the building Of
Temporary homes on the public squares for
einpn that tGma had
made an additional appropriation OF $780,
900 to be used by the building committee
as 1t saw fit. Nothing, however, hal been
done toward erecting temporary homes.
Mr. Adoue, chairman OF the build ng
committee, replied that the commit zee
had found 1t a physical impossibllty to
secure the mechanics and material 10
5 these buildings. The people who apply for
assistance to build little homes en- their
lots seem unable to make their arrange
ments and threw the whole thing on the
committee. The committee, he sad, had
after a great deal of difficulty succeeded
: in making 2 contract for the erecti-n of
sixty OF these homes. On account Of these
difficulties, and because also OF the fact
: that the public homes would only be tenn
porary he suggested that 1t would be In
advisable to build them There are va
cant warehouses and business buildings,
he said which can be cut off into apart
ments and in which the people can be bet
ter housed for than in the contemplated
, temporary homes. He moved that the
10000 previously appropriated for tho
erection of the temporary homes be trans
: ferred to committee, whose duty it
should be to secure the use OF such ware
houses and business buildings and ar
) range them for the housing OF the people.
The motion prevailed, and the chair an
pointed Mr. Kempner chairman OF the
committee. with power to appoint his as
soelates.
Recovered ValuabIes.
Galveston, Texas, November captain
]. p. Alvey, the custodian OF the valuables
that are recovered from the wreckage and
from the dead bodies, stated this morning
that after the election he intended to ap-
,'lply to the district court for the aprolnt-
ment Of receiver for the lost property
that is in his possession. II Is expected
that the receiver will be appointed ana
J that bond Will be required for the proper
distribution Of effects. Inspection OF the