Year: 1879




Girl.


In the REPUBLICAN, of Tuesday we al
luded to the binding over of Street
Commissioner Lynch before Esquire
Hagany on the charge OF having be-
trayed a young woman who had been
employed at the City Hospital. In
yesterdays paper we stated that Mr..
l.. branded the proceeding as an effort
TO levy blackmail upon him. This led
us to investigate the matter, and in
that investigation we procured evi-
dence to prove that the City Hospital
has been for months past the scene of
the most disgraceful proceedings, in
which members of both political par
ties have participated.


City officials have debauched them
selyes time and again and sacrificed in
their drunken orgies every feeling of
honor and self respect. The response
bility for these outrageous proceedings
rests in great measure on the former
members of the Hospital committee at
the head of which stood Louis p. Lynch.
Sunday after Sunday the members of
the committee with their friends as
sembled at the institution to pass their
time in drinking and social converse.
Even had the wines and liquors been
furnished at their own expense they
had no right to resort to a public insti-
tuition on the Sabbath tor such pur-
pose. 1t is positively stated that the
refreshments served on these occasions
were bought at public expense, and
the bills were passed by the City Coun-
Gil with the full knowledge of the en-
tire committee, if not of majority Of
the members of that body.


Time and tins again we referred
to these exorbitant bills but the only
answer We received was that the
"liquors were for the use ofthe patients
at the hospital" AS to the truth Of
this stat ement we gave no judgement
tut now say that we are prepared to
show that the liquors were not used
for the well-being of the patients but
were taken there to be consumed by
city officials from the highest down.
ward.


These orgies there through last
winter were frequent, and in addition
to them, at irregular intervals, the
officials and their friends would have
an oyster supper. Frolic and fun
would be the spirit Of the hour, which
spirit was enthused by too frequent
potations of drink, would, as the time
advanced, generally culminate into a
midnight revel, breaking up late in the
morning. In fact it is positively stated
that in several instances some OF the
bachanals were carried to bed, and
left there to sleep of the effects OF their
debauch.


In order to be concise we will give
few incidents by which the public
may know just how far these public
outrages have been permitted to go on.
When Evan Rice the Brandywine
Bank defaulter was released from Jail on
bail, just previous to his trial, the
event was celebrated by a big "set-
out" at the Hospital. As usual the city
officials were present and none were
more active than was Mr.. Rice himself.
The entire committee was there and a
number of others. The Superinten-
dent and his family did not receive am
pie notice and consequently there was
not the usual extraordinary array of
roast turkey and chickens. Dinner
begun at one o'clock. There was
plenty of "the stuff" present however,
and of this they all partook so literally
that by eleven o'clock the company
was pretty we'll soaked. Many of them
however, were wise enough to forsee
the result and they had conveyances
at the door to take them to their
homes.


On the Saturday evening following
the date on which the CityCouncil went
to Dover in a body the city officials had
another grand drunk, and the same old
party were present.


On another occasion there was anoth-
Or evening social at the institution, at
which there was full attendance. At
his party it was determined among
hem to make certain Republican so
Trunk that his powers of locomotion
would be seriously impeded. Whether
I was their own indiscretion or the
superior carrying capacity Of that gen
.leman that caused the effect, we are
Unable to say, but be it as it may the
whole party got drunk and the Repub-
ican was the first to start home.


To say that the same parties were
present at every gathering would be
most too sweeping. They might have
,een but we have no authority to say
hat they were. Among the names
handed us as being visitors were most
If the city officials. The frequent Wis
is of the former chairman Of the COM
nittee led to the betrayal of the young
woman alluded to.


ONE OF THE WATERS FALLS.


This unfortunate female went there
IS she says, an honest upright girl,
beloved and respected by everybody.
hire she was ruined. The affair is
delectable one. By this act an insti-
ution devoted to public benefcence,
nd supported by public patronage was
and that through the al
eyed Illicit intimacy of man who is
n the public employ. Hence its enor-
aity. As it is but the elimination of
he outrageous proceeding which took
lace last winter we are compelled to
llude to itin detail in order to more ,
llly expose the sad condition of affairs
a that particular institution.
The girl is about twenty-five years old, ..
f medium heighth and possessed of an
Interesting countenance. We let her =
oil her own story: =


81 have respectable family, as re-
pectable as that of my betrayer. l
'ent to the Hospital to work about
ha fret of last u n,camhar aaw Mr. |