The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-28

the last meeting or the present Boar of Charities in four hour session yesterday afternoon passed the gen eral budget appropriation requests fo the ensuing year. as well as making the most radical changes which hav recently been inaugurated by the de partment.
 Among the most important feature passed upon yesterday were the fol lowing:
 The request for s10.00O from the
 Board of Apportionment for the
 purchase of land and $175,oO0 with
 which to erect a new a1mshOuSe.
 The denial of requests for in
 creased salaries to Supt. Merle
 Cow1es and the matron at Lake
 view. Mrs. Cowles is the matron.
 The appointmen ent of Supt. Cowles'
 son, Fred, at a salary of $500 per
 annum, to the position as assistant.
 The establishment of the posi-
 ton of orderly at the Home at an
 nual salary of s360.
 Appointment of the pharmacist,
 Thomas Cox to the combined posi-
 ton of pharmacist and clerk to the
 Board of Charities to conform to
 present charter requirement.
 Elimination of the present office
 o'Neii.
 Creating of the position of steno-
 grapher at $720 per annum.
 Elimination of present post of re-
 lief surgeon now filled by Dr. H. R.
 Bennett.
 Creating of position of woman
 visitor at $1,200 per annum.
 Increase of day surgeons sa1ar-
 ies.
 Approval of the purchase of
 new automobile for the depart
 ment.
 The discovery that barrels of
 whiskey are annually consumed by
 inmat of the Home for purposes
 other than medicinal and a. check
 placed upon it's purchase.
 The discovery that the city has
 had to borrow farm implements
 from nearby neighbors owing to
 parsimony of the Apportionmenr
 present time the Lakeview Home
 cellar is flooded with sewerage to the depth of six inches.
 It was a full meeting of the board and the first matter for discussion came up with the budget request for money with which to erect the new almshouse. Commissioners Judge and expressed themselves as in ;avor of securing this money by direct taxation. stating that as the people 1ad once voted the project down in referendum it seemed hardly fair to petition the legislature for the issu- ance of bonds It was finally decided o ask the Board of Apportionm ent 'or the amount, in the belief that packed by the ation of the special committee appointed by the Board of Aldermen, should the Board of Charities again be advised that the proper method to secure money was 1y issuance of bonds, the Board would oe absolved from the stigma attach ng should they now ask the legisla- ure to issue such bonds.
 Supt. Merle Cowles, called upon to Iubmit his requisition filed application or $32,935 with special appropriation
 G<>.- I e. machinery, teams and. fencing and a alary list of $5,100.9
 It was shown that a manure preader, seed-dri1l, corn harvester arm The startling statement was made by Supt. Cowles that for the past year, even with the free labor ,mp1oyed in farming operations. agri ,n without the aid of modern instru- nents, and that owing to the refusal ,f the Board of Apportionment last rear it had been necessary to borrow leeded instruments from friendly leigh bors.
 After a prolonged discussion as to increases in salary asked by the Su- ,erintendent of LakevieW and the natron, in which the per capita cost ,f living at the farm was freely dis ,ussed, the Board in executive session lenied the applications for increase, although creating the position of me- ,hanic for Fred Cowles at a salary of ;600 per annum, as we'll as allowing 1880 per year for the employment of m orderly.
 Commissioner Richardson observing lnder the head of Drugs and Liquor hat $170 had been expended for during the fiscal year. in Luired if this had been dispensed tlp- m prescription. The Lakeview super ntendent explained that its present purchase had been made by the bar nf he fyUO "a n iS ear possibly 1-2 barrel had been used or me edicfnal purposes. while the bal nee had been freely distributed as an Incentive to get better work from the inmates. It had always been the cus- om at the institution and other in titutions also adopted the same means. Commissioner Richardson ontended that theoretically at least 1coho1 was today recognized as more arrnful than helpful and desired to now whether the rest of the board wished to commit themselves to the anction Of such practice. Commis- toner Kane had made investigations nd found neighboring institutions ermitted the use of but four gallons er month, and after considerable dis ussion it was unanim ous1y voted to urtail the consumption this year to ut one barrel with a possible de- rease during the coming year. Dur ng the consideration of the subject upt. Cowles strongly defended the ractice and it was incidentally shown hat no substitute of tobacco or like timulant could replace the use of Thiskey as a, work-producer among he aged.
 For Lakeview Home appropriations f $32,8o5 were sanctioned as against 33,000 asked last year, of which but 27,390 was granted by the Board of 
 Appropriations for Outside Poor ras next placed in order and Supt red Johnson submitted a salary re- uisition for $4,320, including $2,OOO s heretofore for himself, $600 for an dditional clerk, s1,200 for a woman isitor and s720 for stenographer It 7as explained that with, the more arefu1 supervision of the applicants Q the department great saving had lready been effected and much great