The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-03-11
EXPENSES At
COUNTY ARM
ARE SOARING
Each Year Shows An Increase
in the Expenses And a De-
crease in Receipts From
Infirmary.
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Other times it is awfully slim. l need
shoes. My shoes are worn out |
have asked for shoes lots of times but
he will not give them to me"
Johnathan Fay, 6S, Richmond-'I
get little to eat"
Irving Hadlock, 70, Richmond-"I
have been here a month but l would
like to get back to my friends in Rich
mond."
John Helms, 56, Richmond-"I have
been here ten years. l am not treated
good. You have to nave a good man.
ager before you can expect the right
kind of treatment don't have
enough to eat. l don't get good
clothes All of my clothes now are
second handed"
What Bennett Says.
Monroe Bennett, 60, Greensboro
Poor care is taken of me. I am para
lyzed and nearly blind The food is
poor and is of poor quality. I have
gone to bed hungry many night and
have got up hungry many a morning,
! have been here twelve years. I have
offered to buy eggs lots of time if they
would cook them, because 1t is hard
for me to eat some of the stuff. But
they won't cook them. l went without
a coat for three months. | told Com
missioner Beeson about 1t and he told
me that he told Brumfeld to get me
coat. Three negroes died and tried
on each OF their coats. None of the
coats fitted me but I took the biggest
one It's better than none. They
don't give us anything but cheap socks
and kick If wear them out
John Turner, 73, Richmond-"I'm
not we'll fed. I'm able to make out with
the clothes given me-"
Charles Morrison, IA, Richmond
1--WE have bread, tomatoes and stewed
bread. For breakfast we have rice
which is only half done. The superin-
tendent is cross and crabid.'
Henry Morgenroth, SO, Richmond
II have been here twenty-four years.
The food is slim and it's hard job to
get clothes"
Martin Hatmaka |, Richmond
Il have been here twenty years.
don't get enough to eat. What do get
is only half cooked. don't get enough
clothes. I have asked for shirts and
he would make me no answer. He is
crabid and cross. Once he raised his
first as if to strike me because l mis-.
understood him.
Aged Mans Complaint.
Henry Rothert, 79-"Tve been here
- ~ two tnI 7
get enough clothes. You can see that
they are torn and tattered. Sometimes
L get enough food and sometimes l dc
not"
Lewis Richley, 76-'I don't get very
much to eat Brumfield never gives me
anything
Katie Vansant, 65, Richmond-"l
get all want to eat. l have been here
eight years. Mr.. Brumfield treats me
all right
Mary Pettiford, 70, ex-slave, born ir
Nashville-'I get enough to eat"
Katherine Trueblood, Sc, Franklin
near Dalton-"Ive been here clever
years. Sometimes l get enough to eat.
Nancy Webster, Sc, ex-slave, Rich
mond-"I get plenty to eat"
Marial L. Davenport, rs, Dublin
81 get enough to eat"
Carrie Wysong, 40, Richmond
have no complaint"
Rosie Graham, 45, Richmond-"Hav,
no complaint
Cornelia Hunt, 81. Richmond
am able to make out, that's all
George Dowhewer. II, Milton
Sometimes the food is good; othe
times it isn't"
John Piersen. 46, Dublin-"We ge
rice, bread and coffee. l am not a.
lowed to go to church I want to go t
the Centervflle M. E., but the manage
refuses to allow me to go. l starte
to go Sunday night, but he stoppe,
me-"
Adam Wolteman-"Other men both