Fres.
9,632.60
and
under
Maintenance
fres.
81,275.60,
imaking a total
of F.es.
111.928.20,
or
$22,585.64m
all
f.r-
the
Richmond
»iciaonuses;
that's
what
it
has
cost
10 keep ninety-six sick
pzrsons
for six
mcnths
if the
means
are
aiready
expended.
:
for ‘more
than
thirty
years
1
have
beena
member
of
this Counci!,
and
my
belief
during
that
time
has
been
that
when
an
amount
iS
appropriated
tor
a
certain
institution,
that
institution
had
to
be
maintained,
and
it
1s
no:
in
tae
power
of the
head
of
any
depariment
to c.ose
an institation
withont
firsc
ob-
taining
the
sanction
of
the
Governor
and the
Councii.
If the
amnount
alioted
to that
department
has
been
exponded
in
half
the
financial year,
which,
to
a
certain
extenr,
mav
be du:
to the
pre-
sent
rate
of exchange,1 believe.
under
such
circumstance,
i
the
Government
had
come
before
the
Co'onial
Council
and
ask
for
an
additionai
money
Bill,
the
Council
might,
indeed,
have
ex-
pressed
its
surprise
in
the
usual
mald
tform which
the Council
always
adopts,
but
would
vote
an
additional
sum.
If
the
Sickhouse
was
left
open
it
would
at
least
have afforded
them
shelter
and
even
a
little
** ungi’’
and
herriv g
the
people
would
have
been
thankful
for;
there
is
no
donbt
that
many
of
them
g 0 to
bed at
nights
hungry
Formerly
we
gavea good
deal of
alms
to
these
people,
but
today
we
are
not
able
to
give
as
much
as
we
di
formerly
as
our
means
are
getting
smaller
and
smaller
every
day
owing
to
existing
circumstances.
A
most
laudable
work
is being
done in regard
to children,
but
don’t
let
us
forget
those
who
are
old
and
are
almost
as
helpless
as
the
chil-
dren.
I strongly
recommend
that
Govern-
ment
look
into
this
matter
as
soon
as
possible
and
re-open
the
Richmond
Sickhouse
so
that the
people
can
geta
little
food,
if
not
an
elaborate
meal,
but
a little '‘fungi’’ and herring.
Despatching
Secretary
(Colby)
re-
marked:
Mr. Chairman.
His Excellency
the
Governor
is
ready
to
reply
by
call-
ing on
Dr.
Olephant
to
make
a
state
ment,
Accordingly
Dr.
Olephant
gave
the
following elucidations:
There
in
real-
ity
e was
no sorefoot
hospital,
there
was
what
was
commonly
known
as
a
Sick-
house
and Insane
Hospital; this hospital,
the
origin of it is from
what
I
unaer-
stand,
an
overflow
of
the
Christian-
sted
Hospital,
and
there
was
sent
patients
who
are
able
to
walk
around
and
not
confined to their beds.
Some of
those patients
had
sores
on their
feet,
others
Elephanthisis,
and
some
what is
known as Tropical, and
not
very painful.
Those
people
were
dressed
in
the
dis-
pensary
and treated
there.
The
Doctor then gavea
statement
of
the number of Mental and
Sickhouse
pa-
ST
Chau
i1 2
AN
S
tients also number of patients
discharged-
which
1s as follows:
Richmond
Mental
Sickhouse
Hec.
81919
... .-
8.
..
... . .48
e
AR
...
...
S e s
s
g 8 3
.
W
4B
s W..
& 5 .
CT T R
e
e
B
.
s
e
esl
e B
s¢ R
G
and
continving
sad.
There
are
at
pre-
sent
11
cases
in
th:
Insane
Hospital;
they
are
all
de nented
cases:
we
have
spme
that are
having
different
forms
or
nerveus
diseases
and
are
not
discharged.
Os the 38 cases
cured
and
discha:ged
all
are receiving
pension
Ist Member for Christiansted
Country
District [Stakemann]
would like to know
if the people
from
the
Richmond
Sick-
house
and
who
are
now on
the
streets
begging
are capabie
of working?
-
Doctor
Qlephant
answered
yes,
and
furthermore
said
that
they
were
doing
light
work
in
the
Richmond
Sickhouse
yard and
cited a case
where
he
offered
one
of those
men $4.00
per
month
to take
care of flowers around
his
yard
and
the
man
never
turned
up.
[To
be
Continued.]
OFFiCIAL NEWS.
March
9,
1920.
The
Ameri~an
Consul
at Port au Prince
requested
authority from Governor Oman
yesterday
to send
via U. S.S.
Henderson
for trial, if possible,
three
aileged
mu-
tineers
from
Shipping
Board
steamer
Giltedge,
andfirst officer
of
same
who
are
charged
with killing
a
member
of
the erew.
The anthority
was
refused
on
the
ground
that
the
local
courts
were
without
jurisdiction.
The census
enuraeration
of
the
U. S.
Naval Station,
St. Thomas
has been
com-
pleted and shows
atotal
«f
officers
and
enlisted personnel
together
with
depen-
dent members
of their families
residents
in the Virgin Islards
to be
561.
Census
was taken as of January
1,
1920, by Phar-
macist
Wiliilam C.
Van
Norden,
U.
S.
Navy,
who
was
detailed
by
Governor
Oman
as census enumerator.
The
Code
Commission
appointed
by
Governor
Oman reported
great
progress
being made by the Colonial Council of St.
Thomas
and St.
John.
That
Committee
having
completed
all drafts
so
far
sub-
mitted to it. The Committeciis
now meet-
ing daily to draft {a few re\laining
sec-
tions of the code.
.
U. S. NAVY PRESS
NEWS.
Mareh'
7,
1920.
NEW
YORK:
New
York’'s
White
Light
district
was
given
a
new
thrill
last
night
when
a
twenty-inch
water-
mail
bursted
in the
vicinity of
''Times
Squarz""
and
flocded
the
streers
for
several
blocks.
Traffic
was
tied up
by
the flow
of the
water
which
turned
to
ice,
DAYTON:
Fire
of
unknown
origin
last night
completely
destroyed
the big
tobacco
warehouse
leased
by
the
Amer-
ican-Sumatra
Tobacco
Company
of
New
York
causing
damage
to the
extent
of
nearly
o e Million dollars.
NEW
YORK:
Aliec
Joyce,
motion
picture
actress,
was
married
heve
yes.
terday
to Jame.
Reagan,
son
of the
pro-
prietor of the
Hotel Knickerhocker.
The
couple left
immiediately
on
their
honey-
moon.
BIRMINGHAM,
AtA:
Mrs.
Brax-
ton Comer,
wife cf
the
newly
appoint-
ed United
States
Senator
from
Alabama
died
ye:terday
morning
at
the
Comer
residence
here.
Mrs. Comer
was Sixty-
seven
years
old and
had
been
ill
a iong
tae,
NEW PORI'
NEWS,
VA.,:
The
dss-
troyers
Welden
C. Woed and George
E.
Badger
were
launched
here
yesterday
morning
at
the
Newport
News
Skip
Building and Dry Dock Company.
They
are the
last of
the
group
of destroyers
which
were
contracted
for during
the
war.
NEW
YORK:
The
storm
king
paid
another
unwelcome
visit
to New
York
yesterday
just
as the
city was commene-
ing
to recover
from
the
effects
of
the
five million
dollar blizzard
of
a
month
ago and
within twelve hours
the
metro-
polis
struggled
with
=
driving
sleet
storm
and
a
biting
snow
squall.
Ser-
vice
on
nearly
all
the
trolley
lines,
Manhattan,
and on
some
of the elevated
lines
was
crippled.
Ferry
transporta-
tion
was considerably
impeded.
Trains
into the
railway terminals
were report-
ed
to
be considerably
behind
their sche-
dule.
ANAPOLIS:
Closing
thair season
in
that
branch
the
Midshipmen
defeated
Penusylvania
at water polo here yester-
day afternoon.
Twenty-two
to
six.
In
the best
contested
wrestling
match
held
here for
many
seasons
the midshipmen
noted out
a victory
over
Pennsylvania,
seventeen
to fourteen.
The Naval
Aca-
demy
swimming
team
defeated
Har-
vard
by
a
score
of
thirty-six
to eight
points.
In only
one of
five events
did
Harvard
win first place.
The midship-
men relay
team established
a New Navy
record for
the
ore
hundred
and
sixty
yards
event
which
was finished
in
one
minute
nineteen
seconds,
one
fifth of a
second
better than the record.