The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-12-07
SPEEDY BUSINESS
New Board Of Freeholders
Gets It's Work Done
in Short Order.
REPORTS OF INSTITUTIONS
Statistics Regarding Inmates
of the County Asy-
lums.

The way business was disposed of at
| yesterday afternoons meeting of the
Board of Freeholders made it apparent
that expedition as well as reform and
/ economy, was to be a feature of the new
county governing body. 1t was exactly
| five O'Clock when Director Michael Holmes
called the meeting to order and in fifteen
minutes all the business had been disposed
of and the board adjourned.
| The special committee on the revision OF
the lists of supplies required for the
county institutions during the coming year
submitted it's report, which was adopted,
an on motion of Freeholder Capran the
clerk was instructed to advertise IN
the News" and several other papers, for
bids for the supplies specified. These bids
will be received at special meeting of
| the board to be held at four o'clock on the
afternoon of December 27.
The contracts for supplies expired on
December l, and in order to provide for
the immediate needs of the several in
stitutions resolution was adopted au-
thorizing the different committees to pur-
chase said supplies as were absolutely
necessary until the new contracts are
made.
Freeholder James ]. Kelly offered a
resolution setting forth the inadequacy
of the present system of manufacturing
and distributing Illuminating gas at the
Snake Hill institutions and calling for the
appointment by the Director of a com
mittee of five to investigate the same and
recommend sucn improvements as it saw
fit.
The resolution was adopted by unani-
nous vote and the chair appointed as such
committee:-Freeholder Ellington, Kelly
Kuper Moran and Nolan.
The annual reports of the wardens of
the several institutions were submitted
! as follows:-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., December l.,
1899, 141; employees, December l, 1899, 81;
prisoners received during year. AT; ad-
ditional employees, /; prisoners dis
charged 4S7; pardoned, 2; died. 2; escaped,
| l; employees resigned, /; number of pris-
oners remaining December l. 1900, 123;
employees, 81. Cost of maintenance
Prisoners, $10,769.S5; clothing s2,o6O35;
miscellaneous. s13.21S.O2; salaries, s22 994.94;
COAL s6s54.o2. Total, s56,4s7.1S.
Of the prisoners confined during the
year, 257 were first offenders; As had been
| in the institution once before: rs were
there for third time; Is for a fourth, and
II for fifth time. There were 337 in
temperates; IS moderate drinkers, and "a
prisoners who did not use liquor at all.
All told 2,94s days work had been done
| by the prisoners during the year, away
| from the penitentiary.
a1I a AZ i
! sent away from the hill during the year.
| OF this quantity 2,3441a yards went to the
| Boulevard, 1880 yards to Secaucus, 99S
yards to North Bergen, SSS yards to Pat
| erson plank road, 7S51k yards to Kearny,
| 5S31s yards to Paterson avenue.
| The moneys received from all sources
| during the year were:-From sale of
| crushed stone, s1,S31.50; old materials,
| $191.49; costs collected from prisoners,
s3O7. AS; board of U. S. prisoners, $l,153.70;
total value of work done by prisoners,
| $12, S43.75.
| OF the years prisoners, came from the
| Trenton prison. from the General Ses-
sions, and 93> from the Special Sessions
Court. The Jersey City police courts sent
1856; Hoboken, 145; Bayonne, 10S; Union
Hill, 27; Kearny, %; Harrison, II; North
Bergen, Is; West Hoboken, g. West New
! York, East Newark and Secaucus, each.
| The health of the prisoners has been
uniformly good, and the report says that
| the two prisoners who died during the
year were broken in health when they
| were received, at the penitentiary.
/ Asylum.-Patients, December l, 1899, 5SS;
admitted during year, 125. Total, III.
Discharged as cured, So; died, 5S. Total,
121 Remaining December 1, 1900-Males,
! 243; females, 3OS; employees, Al. Total, 5s2
Cost of intenance-Provisions, $780,
COZ 50; clothing, s2,779.s4; miscellaneous,
S., s,oe6O7; salaries. s22,561.04; coal, s1o,27 154
4 Total, sS3,2s5.T9.
! Almshouse-Inmates, December 1, 1899
/ Discharged during year. 592 died, 104 to-
| tai, $50.
i Remaining December /, 1soo-Male
| adults, 31S: female adults, ISL; male
minors, 112; female minors, Y; employees
27, total, $50.
i Cost of mintenance-Pfovisio $780,
O91S3; clothing, s5,441.94; miscellaneous
$11,5S5.74; salaries. s17,oes.s7; coal, s1O,-
! 1872 10; total, sS3,sS5.08. Average per capita
i s12l6s.
i Warden Ryan collected from various
sources S706.64 during the year. The work
done by the inmates of the Almshouse
was as follows:-Filled eco feet land
| graded 40G feet road; excavated 5000 cubic
yards. of stone and dirt; made 800 bells and
4 s77 pillows; repaired 275 pairs of shoes. A
new road to te small pox hospital was
also built by inmates of the Almshouse
$50 wayfairers were fed and rs We're lodged
over night. Du ring the year 25 inmates
took French leave of the institution
The report concludes with the sugges-
rion that a quarantine be established fol
new arrivals to prevent possible con.
tagion.