The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-15
BRIDGEPORT HAS
 BECOME DUMPING
 GROUND FOR H0BOS
"Let's Go To Bridgeport, It's Pretty Soft For Char
 ity" Is the Slogan

Bridgeport is becoming the rendez- vous for thousands of persons who, in police parIanee are termed tthoaters'' and who are filling the jails, hospitals and institutions of this city to an ex- tent never before known.
 Nineteen cases received at charities head dQuartersAT Tuesday and sent to the local hospitals for treatment at the expense of the city money for which will not be collected from other cities, caused a stir of excitement in charity circles that revealed a unique prece-. dent in the affairs of the city,.
 That there are a class Of persons who make, it a business to go from city to city attempting to gain rest in a hospital by real or pretended ill., ness, that towns surrounding Bridge port are repeatedly sending their paul pers to this city in the hope that Bridgeport authorities will care for them without ascertaining their real homes, and that since the establish ment of a joint charities clearing house thousands of cases have been foisted upon city rather than upon private charity is admitted to-day by Superintendent of Charities. Spencer R. Gordon, who defends the increas- ing expense upon the Fundamental principle that humanity requires ev- cry town-to broadly accept their share of responsibility and while 
 their eyes as this city has done in the past it is not charity to turn down any case where death may result from petty hagg1ing.
 Speaking of the 19 cases received yesterday, against the average of five weekly in months gone by Superinten- dent Gordon said that these could be accounted for by the fact that the un- precedented prosperity of Bridgeport has spread far and wide in the news, offering an excuse for thousands to come here.
 He admitted that during, last win ter many churches in Bridgeport had found themselves unable to care for charges they had on their charity lists and had turned them over to city care.
 It is likely that the matter of float ers'' will be taken up at a special meeting of the charities board at 2 O clock to-day when the matter of changes in the wiring system of Lake view home will be discussed and an economy of $320. by cutting out about i one third of the proposed lights will be considered
 One of the most radical eases where the charities societies of other cities have attempted to dump paupers into Bridgeport came to light yesterday
 when the Charity organizati ton so- Kciety of New York notified this city ! that one Edward Larson, aged 30, is in the .Btoom1ngdaIe asylum and IS a charge upon Bridgeport. The let 1 ter had scarcely been received when
 an agent of the New York society ar
 rived here with Larson and left him
 in the local charities department In vestigation of his case showed that 1 he had not been in Bridgeport for about 20 years, having lived here
 when youth with his father, who died last year leaving three other
 children. An uncle lived in New Lon don, and was reported to be well off. $ So rank was the imposition that | the New York associated charities l had attempted to practice on This city that Larson was not permitted to remain, but was taken to New Lon don where he belongs.