New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-28

Prom the St. Louis Republican.


The preliminaries which present them
selves preparatory to the police convention
| to assemble in st. Louis on the twenretn Of
October, as they do in all other similar pro
| ceedings of national character, are Delng
worked out with industry and success the
amount of correspondence held throughout
the country and in Europe Is Immense, ana
whatever information the laws OF the several
countries and the writings Of their ststlsts,
| on the subjects of police cooperation and
| educational and industrial refOrmatOries for
| the abandoned or neglected youth Of the
| community, contain, will be collected and
condensed for the use and disposal of the
| convention.
The year 1871 appears to be convention
| year, and St. Louis seems to carry the sway
as the locality from which. a. a centre, the
proceedings Of these bodies can best radiate
| through her press this is complimentary to
that branch Of the public service, the press.
No keener avidity has been fell in the
proceedings Of other bodies, scholastic, pro-
fessiOnal or mercantile, than what the &C.
ton OF the coming police convention on
youthful industrial reform will elicit; it
is the question of the age, forcing itself i'm
peratively upon the attention Of men for
final settlement, and the suggestion of Gov
ernOr b. Crate Brown to Chief McDOuough
to incorporate it in the deliberations and
the chiefs Of the police force Of the country,
best qualified from constant experience to
deal with the subject was q stroke of prac-
teal wisdom. The convention, when it as
sembles, has q work thus imposed upon it
which claims to know all the examples of
the past in order to remedy and improve
the condition of the future Of society.
Let the best qualified men from the sew
eral cities of the Union come forward to
sist ~, a ;c< In,
cities, the dense communities that are most
interested in the procedure; they are the
jungles, as it we're, which neglected youth
resort, and in which they lind cOncealment;
they are the repositories in which the ma
terial is stored, and which must be removed
therefrOm to industrial institutes for reform
and instruction.
The railroads respond literally to the ap-
plicatiOn Of Chief McDOnough for free
Charles f. Candee, general ticket agent of
the Toledo, Wabash and Western railroad
Mr.. Charles f. Toilet, general ticket agent
of the Vandalia road, and Mr.. Arthur w.
SOper. of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain
railroad, have taken lively interest in this
question, and will give passes over their
roads free, and will procure the same over
connecting roads for the delegates. Every
railroad in the country should exercise the
same liberslity for convention that is not
political nor special in its purposes, but
from whose deliberations every community
in the Union derives corresponding bene-
fits, is truly national, and the time expended
by the members is the only expense they
should be at. The hospitality of the city of
st. Louis will respond to the national occa-
sion in betting form.
1t is proposed to inaugurate the occupa-
ton Of the costly structure on Clark ave-
nue. by holding the session of the conven-
ton there. The county court should
draw not ON its combined wis
dom. but on its joint or separate good taste
to give the building a name. To invite a |
national convention to hold their sessions |
in Jail, new or old, would be to the out
ward world a scandal. although the build |
ing, in massive proportions, architectural |
skill and appearance, would do credit to a
Statehouse