The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-11-13

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The select committee to whom wa!
referred the resolution to inquire int
the expediency of establishing Hous
Of Refuge in the city of Wheeling, il
Ohio county, have had the subjec
under consideration and directed me t,
report. At the last session of tn
General Assembly the subject was sub
mitted to the Senate, for which a bill
and favorable report was made, bu
it was not acted on, and some additiona
, facts and statistics are now submitteC
to the consideration OF the Senate.
The establishment OF educational auC
industrial institutions for juvenile de
linquents, has of late excited the in
terest of the friends of humanit,
on both sides of the Atlantic
and enlisted the advocacy of tn,
purest and wisest men in both hemi
spheres. The immense number o
youthful offenders without parents o.
protectors, with the pressing wants o
the needy and destitute. ignorant anC
uneducated, and the very many who
were consigned to the jails and State
prisons to be pupils of old convicts
presented such a revolving picture O
moral desolation that it suggested the
necessity of these reformatory institu
tons. They are OF recent origin. They
originated in the private enterprise and
the voluntary contributions of the be-
nevolent and humane. The rapidly
with which they have multiplied, and
their eminent adaptation to the END
to be accomplished, have been recog
nized and sanctioned by the legislative
interference of most of the enight
ened governments Of the age. The
first establishment in Germany was
that of Dussell, On the Rhine. 1t was
founded by Count bon Der Richie, who
had, before entering upon this estab
lishment, opened similar one on his
own estate, in Westphalia, as early as
1916. The second was at Benggen, in
1920. In 1925 another was established
at Beren. And the last and most dis
tingulshed is the one at Rawbe Hans,
in 1888.
But the great impulse was given to
these institutions in Germany, about
the year lS4S. Their efficacy had been
satisfactorily demonstrated. The hid
den depravity of large portion OF the
youthful population was brought to the
public attention, and the best men OF
the country became interested and
engaged in sustaining and advocating
this great practically tested scheme for
correcting and arresting it. At this
time the number of retormatory estab'
lishments, including morally destitute
children, as well as criminal ones, and
including those Provinces of Russia
and that part OF Europe which usually
follows the reforms of Germany, the
whole number Of refOrmatory lnstltu
tons would amount to about one hun
dred.
In France there are now seventeen
of these institutions under government
control, and thirty-five under private
management.
The English government within the
last fourteen years has been aroused to
the importance Of these institutions
althoug h it's legislation has not been
distinguished by that character which
has secured the confidence of then
friends, as those which are best calcu
lated to attain the end in view, still the
parliamentary acts Of lS40-47 and "a
is a complete acknowledgment of the
adequacy and utility Of the system. anc
the great statesmen Brough ham anc
Palmerston have publicly approved o
it, BY their efforts to sustain and Tor
ward it.
The crown has been 10 the habit, re
Gently, of granting conditional pardon'
to such juvenile offenders as was re
commended by the inspectors, on con
dition of their remaining at the Phi
lanthropic Societys Farm School, a
Red Hill. This institution was founded
in 1888; it was removed from Londor
TO Red Hill in lS49. The society ha;
two great objects-the reformation o
the children it receives, and the anne
Iteration of their condition generally
About one hundred are sent thither an
puslly, and for these the government
pays e 25 q head. The establishment
of Parkhurst has existed about tour
teen wears. 1t is intended to accommo
date about CPS inmates. They are al
BOYS. They are sent to Parkhnrst oy
order of the Secretary of State, IRON
Mill.bank prison, where they are col
lected from all the prisons OF the
country. They are all BOYS under sen
tence of transportation. They are Sc
lected by the directors OF the convict
prisons at Mill-bank. Any boy under
eighteen years of age, who may be sen
fenced to transportation, is eligible
for Parkhurst. When their con
duct is good at Parkburst' the
Governor recommends them to the
Secretary of State for the indulgence Of
a leave ticket that they shall De EN-
barked to Australia, there to receive
their tickets of leave.
The Scotch act extends the provision
Of the law to Migrants as well as con
victed children, and empower the Edu
cation committee OF the Privy Councl'
70 aid in the establishment OF roforma
tory schools. ,. :, s,o.sm has
met a very general legislative endorse S!se,
ment and popular approval. The st .n'
Of Connecticut at the session OF one
Assembly in 1851, appropriated $lo'oVl
for a State Reform School; RHODE
Island established the providence ne &c
form School in 1850. New jersey au
tborized the establishment OF m no as'