The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-03
Charities Board Wants AImshouse
 In PaIisade Ave.
Father Judge Explains That Scheme to Sell LakevieW
 Came From Tax Board
Council Will be Asked to Send Delegates to Confer With
 Charities Commissioners

| semi-finals were played yesterday afternoon in the clash which has aris- en over the moving of the almshouse 1 to a new location. when the Board of | Charities met, with every member present Unexpected developments in | that it was discovered part of the site coveted had been planned for i building purposes by large interests | prevented final decision being reach | ed in the matter. With the exception
 of the exact @ extent 1 of land land required
 strip of land fronting at least 400 feet l on Palisade avenue and between the
 denarea tion of Bond street and thea l line which would be followed should l Granf1e1d avenue be extended. A
 communication requesting the Common
 Council to appoint committee to con l CT with the Board Of Charities rela- l tive to the purchase Of such lands as | it may be deemed advisable to secure [ for the erection of the new building that body The meeting which opened with the reading of it's previous minutes, was l followed by the reading of Supt. Fred
 Johnson's report containing a com | munfcation from the Chi1dren's Aid society relative to the care of depen- l dent children and requesting permis- sion to reclassify- the accounts under | the head of outside poor which at the present time were termed "very l much at fault. It appeared from l later explanation that under this head i
  comparative purposes of patients treated at local hospitels. the transpor-
 +7 tion Of insane to State institutions, | etc., which were not properly includ- l d under the appropriation head. Per mission to draw lip reconstructed |
 classification for future approval of | he board was granted. Much discussion upon the subject of | re1inquishing children between the ages of one to four years to the care of the Connecticut Children's Aid society, in Vhich the superintendent explained |
 the more careful supervision which |
 eould be given the charges under such Kane who questioned the legal right
 If the Board to dispose of children
 whose parents were stu alive. througn
 sent Of 6 court. Upon motion of Com |
 missioner Richardson the matter was
 referred through Supt. Johnson to the
 City Attorney for an opinion with fur tner recommendation that the situa- !
 ion be worked out 1ot tsally'' if possi- l that in view of practical investigation 1
 t had been found far more beneficial |
 to the orphans to be placed in home |
 ike surroundings ra ther than Tn state
 institutions. and that the method Of
 farming out the dependent children |
 now cared for at the home would would |
 provided adequate supervision could be | effected. This al present appearing inn possible with the staff at the disposal
 If the department, or without the |
 county, aid had been sought from the
 State society. who in their willingness to cooperate with the local Board had . nevertheless demanded all release of l
 parental authority. This it is bel1ev- 1 ed could not be secured without court
 action l
 The question of new site for the i Almshouse being introduced, Father | Judge requested that the minutes of
 joint meeting of the Board of Appor-
 tionrnent and the Health Board be read. None being on record he wished to state emphatieally that the Pu6F
 Charities had gone upon record, prior
 to the bonding issues being brought
 prominently before the public as being
 averse to moving the present aims
 house without the city limits or to selling the property. He explained that such suggestion had emanated from members Of the Board of Appor- tionment at that meeting, and that since that time the Board of Charities had expressed itself as being in favor of retaining the present location.
 It being the sense of the Board -hat more suitable site be procured for the erection of an a1mshouse than was at present afforded by any location up> on the town farm, a motion i'm troduced by Com1nissioner R1chard son himself restricting it's erection to the [ present property was carried. Presi- for removal from the present spot $ made it plain that proximity to the powder works, the cemetery and the $ garbage plant were sufficient reasons | for the purchase of the adjoining tract | ' of Il acres upon Pa1sade avenue. T Commissioners Richardson and Judd I A motion by Commissioner Richardson to purchase but 400 feet of < ground upon that street disclosed the : fact that large interests owned part of the coveted property and that should condemnation proceedings be- come necessary it would entail several individual suits. Much discussion fol- ' lowed as to the proper amount Of land T for frontage and out-build- ines with the result that it was con- ' ss ssdered advisa b1e to confer with a I committee from the Common Council g