The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-27
Lodging Houses.

and for Italians where the worst kind of imaginable filth was to be found. The man who kept the place was dead drunk even in the middle of the day when the professor and his assistant had called. After much persuasion he said he was allowed to take a pie ture. It was a deplorable scene that was thrown upon the screen. The bed was the worst looking affair you have even seen," he said There was the mans wife in dirty rags with three dirty children playing around on fourteen dirty beds that were rented out at night for Is cents apiece if one person was in a bed, or at 10 cents person if two went in bed"
 Downstairs were found two small filthy dark rooms with thirteen beds, No ventilation could possibly get into tho place. We were glad to get out of the place." he said in leaving the subject.
 Conclusions.
 T admit that the time selected for taking the pictures was a bad one. But We did not select it for that reason. You see the spring IS the time when cleaning up is done, if ever and we came just before the spring. l am glad to hear that within a short per jed Dr. Wright, the health officer, has sent out 400 orders that yards be cleaned up and $50 that garbage cans be obtained. But the matter should be kept up. Of what use are cans If they are not used or if their contents are not collected? Here is a picture of a goat taken in Prindle alley show ing conclusivcly that the species likes garbage to eat much better than tin cans But why should the keeping of goats be allowed when the keeping of chickens is only permitted when a IT, cense is obtained? A law to prevent the keeping of goats in the city of New Haven should be passed at once i in my belief. At least the obtaining of licenses should be necessary.
 What are we going to do? What I would suggest is a simple matter now Why can we not get the thous- and and two filthy back yards and the thousand and two unemployed men now in the city together? The men want the work and the yards certain ly want tho men. The conclusion is obvious Why can we not have, as they have in some of tho European cities. a City Cleaning Day, on which every one quits work to clean up the city and make it spiek and span for the coming year? It would be worth while
 Professor Bailey prefaced his re- marks with a general resume of the work of the civic committee. for which he was reporting. He said in part:
 The office of the civic committee is
 to investigate matters regarding the
 welfare of the city, and to follow this l by such action as Is deemed advis- able. Ii was felt to be the part of wisdom to act only after careful inves- tigation. and therefore large part of
 it's activity has been confined to col T In order to keep in touch with the policy of the city the secretary has
 been present at every meeting of the board of aldermen held since its ap-
 polntment The committee has been
 represented at the public hearings
 with respect to the inclusion of ar
 assembly hall for the Greene street
 school house, at the hearing to con
 slider the purchase Of land for Beaver
 Ponds park; at the hearing to prevent
 the distribution of samples of medi- cine on account of the danger to thu
 health and lives of children; at tho
 hearing devoted to the discussion o the awarding of the contract for th'
 collection of garbage. The committee
 was also represented at the hearins
 given in Hartford with respect to {
 public utilities commission. Activ'
 part has been taken in the movemen
 to have the electric cars in this cit!
 equipped with more satisfactory fen
 ders. During the past three month
 letters have been written and replie
 received from scores of cities in thi country so that when this statistica ranged for comparison we shall hay, fund of accurate information upol lenders second to none in the country The committee was among the first t call attention to the necessity of pro ! vidng work for the deserving unem 4 s,, rft fa ,af1 ip were suffering. Ii is noteworthy tha of the original committee of clever appointed hy the mayor to conside 1 this problem. five were members Q this committee, and that the secretar \ of the societies has served as distrib s utlng agent and secretary to the relic ' committee.
 It was the opinion of the committe that perhaps the most importan wor which could be done by it for som lime would be 10 endeavor 10 improv inc living condition of the tenemer q dwellers of the city. But the fir. need was for accurate knowledge C < conditions If they were satisfacotr, z the activities of the committee coul then he turned to some other uuarte If unsatisfactory We could then de termine whether additional legislatio ar better enforcement of the preser a laws was needed With this in viev a thousand blanks were printed Q each of which should be accurate ir i formation about the condition of tl wards. cellars and rooms. the nunobe of rooms together with that of the ot cupants. the garbage cans and collet lions. asn bIns. sinks. water closet bath tubs plumbing, etc The examir ation of the tenements in selected di! \ tricts was entrusted to the secretar Mir Warden. Tn this work he has rt ceived valuable assistance from a nun her of students in the Sheffield Scier I fife sc hool who. through the series S industrial meetings have been reused 8 active intrest in housing condition ] and have taken this practical methc $ of demonstrating it. Where extrem, l lv unsa tfsfactory conditions have bee H encountered, photographs have be- 4 taken Tn case the committee decid, S to take action when the investiga tic