Camden Post-Telegram, January 20, 1909View transcription
PRINCE CLARK IN SAD PLIGHT
With Mid-Winter Upon Him Leper Boy's Father Will Soon Lose His Home.
CITY WILL DESTROY HOUSEHOLD GOODS
When Prince Clark, the father of the negro leper boy at the county house is evicted from his home on Clay street this week, the District Court Sergeant-at-Arms will not turn the key over to the landlord as usual but will give it to Medical Inspector Dr. John F. Leavitt, of the Board of Health. This action will be taken so that the premises can be thoroughly fumigated and put in complete sanitary condition before the house is again rented.
All of Clark's furniture and household utensils will be sent to the garbage crematory and burned up so that all danger of contagion from that source will be removed. Clark will be indemnified for the confiscation of his goods.
When Inspector Leavitt informed Clark that he would urge the Board of Freeholders to pay his expenses back to his home in the Barbadoes he asked the unfortunate West Indian how much he would need, Clark replied about $600. Dr. Leavitt stood aghast and informed Clark that he would not get $100 let alone $600. The Board of Freeholders has expressed a willingness to defray Clark's transportation expenses and a few dollars besides to see him through and that is all.
Clark is not yet a naturalized citizen and if the Board of Health should regard him as a menace to the health of the community it might petition the federal government to deport him under the provisions of the emigration laws.
Withal the unfortunate negro's plight is a pitiful one. Willing to work no one will give him employment and now perhaps in almost straitened circumstances he is turned out of his humble home in the dead of mid-winter.
— Camden Post-Telegram, January 20, 1909.
PRINCE CLARK IN SAD PLIGHT
With Mid-Winter Upon Him Leper Boy's Father Will Soon Lose His Home.
CITY WILL DESTROY HOUSEHOLD GOODS
When Prince Clark, the father of the negro leper boy at the county house is evicted from his home on Clay street this week, the District Court Sergeant-at-Arms will not turn the key over to the landlord as usual but will give it to Medical Inspector Dr. John F. Leavitt, of the Board of Health. This action will be taken so that the premises can be thoroughly fumigated and put in complete sanitary condition before the house is again rented.
All of Clark's furniture and household utensils will be sent to the garbage crematory and burned up so that all danger of contagion from that source will be removed. Clark will be indemnified for the confiscation of his goods.
When Inspector Leavitt informed Clark that he would urge the Board of Freeholders to pay his expenses back to his home in the Barbadoes he asked the unfortunate West Indian how much he would need, Clark replied about $600. Dr. Leavitt stood aghast and informed Clark that he would not get $100 let alone $600.
Clark is not yet a naturalized citizen and if the Board of Health should regard him as a menace to the health of the community it might petition the federal government to deport him under the provisions of the emigration laws.
Withal the unfortunate negro's plight is a pitiful one. Willing to work no one will give him employment and now perhaps in almost straitened circumstances he is turned out of his humble home in the dead of mid-winter.
