The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-17
CHARITIES BOARD ANSWERS QUESTIONS Catechised by AIdermanic Com mittee on AImshOuse
 Site Etc.
0'hEIL'S RESIGNATION
 ACCEPTED WITH REGRET
Requests For Salary Increase - Supt. Johnson Wants Woman
 Investigator and Stenographer

mFCSt1SdtVl dlIO StS14OSI dplAE1 Four matters of importance were brought before the regular monthly meeting of the Board Of Charities vest terday: S
 E 1. A conference between the Board of Charities and a delegate from the lAldermanic committee who presented a. list of pertinent questions relating to the necessity, cost and convenience i of the new alnshouse site 2. The possible albolish1nent of the present office of clerk in the Chari- l ties department to be replaced by combined clerk-stenographer. 3. The acquisition of outside wo- iman visitor to aid in the supervision | of minor charges
 1 A. Increased salaries for the super 1 intendent and matron at Lakeview Home as well as an additional or deriy and nurse at the institution. l All four commissioners were present at the meeting yesterday when it was 1 expected that the budget for the en- suing year would be taken under con sideratton. Matters relating to the new classification of accounts both in /. the main office well at the town farm, which first required the con ton of the budget until an adjourned meeting scheduled for Friday, Decem-
 Der 27.
 A report was submitted by supt. I classification of the present accounts | was needed, It was unanimously voted to permit the drawing of com 1 ing requirements under the suggested classification dividing the outside poor | account into three sl1b-heads ern!orac- ing general office expense, hospital and asylum expense and outside poor expense
 The request for additional steno- | graphic help as well as woman wis l ftor entailed discussion and was with ] fsth ar lai Qr consideration at the ensuing meeting, when the committee upon ambulance
 posed the additional services would in | volve salaries of about $65G per annum
 for the stenographer and approximate
 ly s9o0 per annum for the visitor It | was proposed if necessary to abolish l the office of clerk, distributing the
 present detail among the staff and
 simplifying the clerical work by
 means of typewritten duplication. As advocated by Supt Johnson, rather than becoming an additional expense Il the appointments of3Sa stenographer l would result in financial saving. x l A woman visitor is greatly needed here according to tfIef head of the de- pertinent, who said that. Connecticut is greatly behind other States in it's
 care of dependent children. One of
 the chief advantages of such a visitor l would be the systematic supervision
 CT than kept at the Home, and she
 would also be able with woma nly 1 sympathy to reach a class of families
 which the ninistrations of a man that over 75 per cent. of the eases
 visited in Bridgeport include no male
 member in the family In remarking 1 favorabIy upon the request Commfs- l sioner Patrick Kane produced paH11ph- I let's bearing upon charities in various States and comparing Bridgeport with | other cities in Connecticut more ad-
 vanced in their facilities for housing children, and recommended that if
 special buildings could not be fur
 nished at least som ething should be I done to anneliorate conditions
 Alderman Thomas Stewart. repre- senting a committee appointed at the | last meeting of the Common Council to confer with the board upon site
 for the proposed a1nshouse, was in | troduced by President F. w. Behrens,
 Jr Alderman Stewart stated that at l a previous meeting the committee had on Saturday last accompan nfed Presi-
 dent Behrens to the Home and had
 at a Subsequent meeting. in effort l to facilitate heir report had fOrnu- lated a list of questions which 1t was the desire of the A1dernlanic commit | tee be answered in detail. A query by Commissioner J. M. Richardson as
 to whether if submitted tonight a re- i port of the committee could be placed before the Common Council, was re- piled to in the negative the com
 nnittee had arranged to meet at later date Alderman Stewart re- |
 resulted in the following answers be- ing formulated to questions propound-
 ed:
 l : o. How many, acres are now owned l by the Lakeview Home and for what
 purpose are they now used? A. One hundred and thirteen acres.
 only 70 of which are ti11able. l e. For what special purpose do they require more land and what are the advantages of such new land? 1 A. For the erection of a new aims house. The only available site upon their own land being in close proxina-
 ity to powder mills property and dis
 ment on account of slope and also be-
 ing within 500 feet of g. garbage plant. Q. What amount do you require? 1 A. A minimum of eight acres with
 as much additional ground the l joint committees may concede ade- quaIte for the contemplated improve
 ments.
 system at the farm?
 1 A. An eight inch main with 8 fall | of inches in 100 feet
 I o. What valuation is the proposed
 land listed at?
 A. A 36-acre tract listed upon the last tax lists at s8,eO0-
 Q. Who owns it?
 A w. J. Nichols and Mrs. Fred Lockwood.
 Q. What is a fair valuation of the
 A Between $500 and $500 per acre. | Q. Should it be purchased or con-
 demned?
 A Prefer to purchase
 | o. What fire protection will the
 new site have contrasted with the 1 old?
 A A fire-proof building, city wa