Show NEWCITY G JAIL SITE Win Probably Be Built in Rear of Police Station EMERGENCY HOSPITAL PLAN Change Contemplates Tearing Down Old Jai Building and RemodelIng Entire Police Station Material or Old Jail to Be Used in New Structure Struc-ture Small Emergency Hospital With Theo or Four Rooms Being Considered Advance of Prices for Ground Near Joint Building I is practically settled that tho new city jail will be erected directly In the rear of the present police station on ground now owned by the city To accomplish ac-complish this the old Jail building will be pulled down and the material used In the construction of tho new building As C part of this plan the building now occupied as police headquarters and Police Po-lice court will bo overhauled and rebuilt to make It a model building of Its kind The new Jail building will be Joined on In tho rear to make ono continuous building the rear to be used exclusively for Jail purposes The front of the present pres-ent building will be modernized and the interior Avlll be completely changed SAVE COST OF GROUND The special committee appointed to decide upon a silo for the new Jail tried to have a meeting yesterday afternoon Robertson Spence and Arnold were on hand Cottrcll and Thomas failed to show up The three members present discussed the matter Informally and then made an Investigation of the buildings build-ings and grounds about the present city Jail I was agreed that the ground owned by the city there offered a better site than could be purchased for 10000 and by utilizing this ground the city would have just that much more money with which to build I was found that there was plenty of room for the Jail on the present site of tho old Jail with a good right of way out to Stato street and location as good as can be found In the cityEMERGENCY EMERGENCY HOSPITAL There Is still another feature to this plan that will bo considered the most Important by many people and that Is the establishment of an emergency hospital hos-pital In connection with this building The need of such an Institution has been sorely felt for years Dr King cites two cases that camo up very recently that Illustrate the urgent need of an emergency hospital Ono caso was that of a boy caring for I mans horses and sleeping In tho barn lie was takes down with scarlet fever Tho family could not take him into the house and expose everybody there to the disease The other case was that of n miner sent down to the KcoghWrlght hospital from EIngham When he arrived It was found that he was suffering from malignant ma-lignant diphtheria Dr King was called and requested to alto the man away Ho had no place to take him and was asked u ho wished him turned Into tbo streets After being refused at one hospital hos-pital and laboring long with tho other the man was admitted and cared for at a heavy expense to the city I is argued ar-gued thata small emergency hospital of three or four rooms could be fitted up in the new building and maintained to the great advantage of the city PRICES WENT UP Ono other consideration that led the committee to favor tho old Jail site for the new Jail Is the exorbitant prices asked for the ground In the block north of the city and county building The Impression got out last year that the new Jail was to bo located there Immediately Im-mediately tho price of the ground was advanced at least 300 per cent A piece that was offered last year for O has since been offered for 55000 but it Js still much too high and tho committee Is in favor oC turning all these offers down The committee will be called to meet In the Council chamber at 730 this evening when It Is supposed an agreement agree-ment will be reached along the lines indicated I In-dicated above There is practical unanimity una-nimity among tho Councilmen In favor of using the old Jail site for the new Jail |