The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-30
INMATES CANNOT
DO Light W0R K
City Home Basket-M a ing
Plan Rejected by Council
Committee.
ENDORSED BY STATE BOARD
No Cost Attached to City, but
TIirschbcrg Leads Fight
to Prevent 1t.

nv n vote of to 3, the Committee
on Relief of the Poor last night re-
fused to appropriate $40 for the pur-
chase of materials for the purpose of
teaching inmates of the City Home the
art Of basket-making, according to
plan of tile state Board of Charities
and Corrections. The proposition was
made to the committee by Dr. Moses
d. Hoge, Jr, a member OF the board.
and was opposed on the floor by Coun
Gilman Hirschberg. MIR. Hirschberg
was of the opinion that most of tho
inmates were unable to work: that the
few who would be able to make baskets
had all they could do to keep the place
in n sanitary condition. Ii there was
any surplus of people able to make
living he thought they should not be
kept at the city's expense. He was
supported by superintendent Cahell,
who said that 1T took nearly all of
those able to work to keep the place
clean.
Wanted No Competition.
In placing the proposition before
the committee. Dr. Hoge stated that
charitable organizations throughout
the country were experimenting in this
way, and that .hey were meeting with
some success in such institutions as the
| City Home. All he asked was that the
committee appropriate $40 for tho
material. The State Board OF Charities
| and Corrections he stated, would fur
nish teacher, and would also take the
responsibility OF marketing the output
| the proceeds of which would be turned
! over to the officers of the City Home,
| to be distributed among those who had
| done the work
| Besides his leading objection, that
those capable Of making living at
such trade, should not be supported
by the city, ouncilman Hirschberg
opposed the proposition also on the
ground that 1t would affect the bus
mess Of firms engaged in the manu-
facture of baskets. He called for a
recorded vote on the question.
Bids for the erection of an operating
pavilion were opened, but rejected, and
the certified checks returned, as the
matter cannot be taken UP in the life
of this committee. There were only
two bids-G. j. Hunt. whose figures
were s10,6Sl. and E. c. Woodward
who offered to do the work for ss.222
AS both bids were more than $4,000 Il
would have been necessary for tht
Council to pass upon the award. Thi:
will come up among the early bushes.
Of the new committee, and will be car.
ried through with as much dispatch a!
possible.
Mrs. MncdouEnl Resigns.
Mrs Florence Macdougal, who has To-
number of years been matron of thu
city Homes rendered her resignation
to the committee to take effect Septem
Der /. No appointment was made las
night, but Superintendent Cabell wa
authorized to appoint her successor TO
the month Regret was expressed a
Mrs. Macdougals resignation. as sh'
has discharged her duties with grea
| satisfaction
4 1t was decided that the real estat
firms OF T. NJ. WORKMAN & Compan,
and Richeson & Crutchfield be paid So
each for services rendered in the re
, cent sale of city Home property to tn
Hebrew Cemetery Association. TIL
amount will be paid by the association
the committee having been selecte'
bv both sides to fix the compensation.
This, the last meeting of the com
mittee before the organization of tn
new Council. closed with a vote o
thanks to Chairman Hobson and Clerl
l Mcdowell.