Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-09-11
Mayor, City Engineer and Council
Committee TO vlsF A!mshOuse,
MUCH INTEREST N THE REPORT
jcommittee VIII Advise Council
Whether or Not Present Site Can
be Put Into HsbStabIs Condition
Special Meeting Next Week.

Mayor Marquis Jones. city Engineer
T. +. Pearse and Counciimcn Fellows,
Ford, Via. Christie and Whitley, CON-
posing special committee Of the
common council, will make an in
spection of the city almshouse pro
perty in Elizabeth City county, near
Riveryiew. this afternoon. The COM
m.ttee Will meet at The city hall at z
O'Clock and will make the trip III
automC biles.
A thorough inspection of the build
ings and the entire sits vii be made
and the committee will m et later TO
formulate a report to the common
council. AS soon as Ihis Is done,
President L. 5. Jones will call a spc-
cial meeting OF the council to act upon
the report. The meeting will be held
sometime next week, probably next
Wednesday night.
Much interest in Report.
Much interest attaches TO the re-
rort of the committee. Besides con-
tanning a complete statement OF tae
condition of the buildings and the
ground, It will embody a recommrnia-
ton as to the disposition OF the site.
II il is considered practicable To ok
up" the property at a comparatively
small cost, the committee will recon-
mend that the work proceed and the
a,mshouse be opened. Otherwise IL
will recommend that the proaer.y
be disposed of and new site pur-
chased.
The appointment of the committee
TO inspect the almshouse site was the
outcome of lengthy and heated dis-
cussIon on the floor of the common
council last Tuesday night. Neati!
every member OF the council hau
something to say about the site ana
only one member, NJ. wallace, CHAR
man Of the committee on almshouse
and poor, defended the site. Others
made vigorous attacks upon 1t, some
declaring that the place was totaiS
unfit for the location of the buii1-
ing. Some members suggested tha'
the property be disposed OF and one
or two declared that they did no'
believe the land would bring $40 an
acre.
Home for Pauper consumptives.
When the property was oougI
about a year ago. the council had IN
tended to erect a pest house ior
small-rox cases on one end OF the
site and also to build a home tor int
pauper consumptives, but the super
yisors of Elizabeth City county re-
fused to allow the city to quarter any
persons on the property who were
suffering with any kind OF contaglor
or incurable disease. AS pest mouse
and home fer the pauper consump-
tives are badly needed. IL Is prooaoie
that the city will buy site elsewhere
TO locate those buildings
Report on Sand Base.
Resides the report OF the speciai
committee appointed to inspect the
almshcuse. the council, at the spe-
ciaI meeting next week. VIII take W
the. report OF the committee on hisn-
WAYS and sewers on the investiea-
tion into the amount Of sand oase
used under the vItrified brick paving
recently laid here. This report was
read at the meeting of the council
Tuesday night and was laid over I'M
I'll the special meeting.
When the committee on highways
and sewers was formulating It's re-
mort on the sand base, Councilman
Christie announced that he would
submit a report on the sand base
ana Intimafed that II might be sensa-
,,onal 10 a degree. This report was
not made Tuesday night and II can
NO, be considered by the council at
the speciaI meeting unless its con
sideration is embodied in the call lot
the meeting
Tha; a further investigation INTO
the paving matter than that msde
nv the committee on highways ana
sewers will &c ordered By the coun-
ell seems almost certain. Since me
meeting Tuesday night sversi mem
hers have expressed the cPinion tn'
a further investigation should b
made. tUt