The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-11-01
$4,000 FOR DE-
TENTION HOME
HUMANE COMMISSION ASKS THIS
AMOUNT FOR NEGROES.
Prays City Council to Make Appro-
priatlon-To Be in Budget for 1918
Annual Report Submitted
Home for White and coIored
to Be Located in the Sub
urbs-Mayor Howse's
recommendation

Including in its recommendation an
item of $4,000 for a detention home
for white boys and girls, including in
fants, in the custody of the juvenile
court and commission, aDd half as
much for a colored institution of the
same kind, the humane commission
presented to the city council Thursday
night its estimated budget for 1912.
The total was $98,980. The budget
went to the finance committee.
The commissions report was as fol
lows
1--WE submit herewith for your con-
sideration and approval statement
covering the appropriation which this
commission asks and recommends
shall be included in the 1913 budget
prepared by your honorable body.
The items hereinafter set out are
necessary in the opinion of this com
mission for the proper maintenance
and conduct Of this department. of
your city government:
w. b. CLEARWATER, secretary
and executive officer of the
commission, salary ......$ 10000
F. A. Gear probation officer,
salary ............... l,2O0OO
G. w. Brown, probation Off
Ger, salary !. ........ 100000
]. J. Killen, Juvenile court
judge, salary ..... 10000
! G .Wasserman, clerk juvenile
court, salary ............. $4,000
Rentals juvenile court room
and commission office -. 100000
Miss Evelyn Darlington, pro-
baton officer, salary .... 10000
Incidental expenses, includ-
ing care of children, trans
portation, etc. ,...,.... 2,5OOOO
For the purchase, appoint
ment and maintenance of a
home of detention for
white boys and girls and
especially including in
fants in the care and
custody of the juvenile
court and commission ... 20000.00
|, For the purchase appoint
ment and maintenance of a
i. like home for colored boys
!. and girls, including infants
the juvenile court and com
mission ...... 49,. ...... 100000
Site for Home.
These homes should be located in
the city or it's suburbs, with every fea-
ture essential for the health, care, ed
ucation and wholesome control of the
inmates and with ample land for cul-
tivation to materially aid in the main
tenance of the inmates, for buildings
: for industrial labor, instruction, play
grounds, shade trees, flowers and or
namental plants, this that every day
of the life of these boys and girls may
be improved morally, physically and
mentally.
"The homes for the white and col
ored should be wholly separate and in
different sections of the city.
"The tract of land for each should
be sufficiently spacious to also en-
able the city to use them as homes
for those men and women, boys an(
girls who, through adversely, are made
and become charges upon the city fol
support, care and maintenance.
"Tis honor Mayor Howse, has rec
commended a board of charities to b'
established and maintained as a de
+ partment of the municipal govern
1 ment. this that all the people of Nash
: Vile should contribute to the expense
of maintaining those people instead
! of as now leaving them dependen
: upon the charity of a limited numbe
of the property owners and citizens o
Nashville, operating through a limite'
number of the good women and men o
{ Nashville. This commission is of TIL
K opinion that in the establishment o
/. these homes we should provide am
= pie space not only for the present, bu
S for many years ahead in the life of tn
l. city.
h 1--WE trust that your honorable bod
e will unanimously join the commission
n in this necessary step for the prope
n care, education and maintenance q
S those of our city children herein abov
d mentioned, and as well also for thos
0 dependent upon the charity OF the city
d In submitting this report and budget
r we are pleased to state that we hav
G fully conferred with his honor Mayo
r Hilary E. Howse in regard to thes
+ matters, and are gral.fied to say tina
q he readily and heartily approves G
the plans and recommendation herei
o contained of this commission
@ Respectfully submitted,
4 HUMANE COMMISSION.
n cry ~ w Wrenne Chairman.
"W. e. GILLENWATER, Secretary
q BIG RALLY IN THIRD WARD