Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-13

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has his separate cot. Two officers sleep
in the same room. The other L has
now two, and is to have four, school,
rooms, with So seats each.
The building is warmed throughout
with steam Water is heated for wash
ing and the clothes are dried by steam.
Tt is lighted throughout with gas, 1.-The
gas being manufactured in the building.
The fireman having charge of the steam
and gas works is one of the older boys,
promoted to this position Of trust for
his good conduct He is counted as
''furloughed boy and allowed $l2 a
month for his services. This item of ex-
pense (?) saves employing an addition
al officer at cost of not less than S25
per month.
In the upper story of the main building
is a cistern having capacity of 400 Gu
bic feet, and supplied with water from
an aqueduct from the hills in the rear
of the institution. In each hall there is
hose attachment with hose at hand for
use in time of fire.
The cost of the building, not includ-
ing apparatus for gas, steam and water
has been about $4,000. Its furnish
ings will amount to $4,000 or 10000
more. The old buildings were sold for
| $1,000.
The hospital is located in a quiet
part of the building and provision is
made for giving the sick the best of
care. Thus far only two deaths by
sickness have occurred at the Reform
School,
We were much pleased with the "Re-
fecting Rooms. five yell lighted little
apartments where boys needing special
discipline may be kept few days and
provided with work at the same time.
Each apartment will have its cot. and its
occupant will suffer no privation except
as to company. There are no dungeon
/ like cells in the Institution. Nota graf
ed window anywhere. There is no pris-
on-like air about the Vermont Reform
School. 1t is proposed to reform rather
than to punish the boys.
The ediGce was planned by the efficient
Superintendent of the Institution-W.
G. Fairbank. And it is about as near
a model of its kind as it can be. 1t is
to be hoped that the State will provide
generously for furnishing and duly orna-
menting within and without what has
been so well begun and is nearly COM
pleted.
As school it is one of the best in the
State. 1t is remarkable for good order
and thoroughness. Many of the boys
enter the school unable to read even with
tolerable accuracy Very few have pre-
viously studied even primary geogra-
ply or arithmetic. A half hours visit
in the school room will satisfy most any
one that the first four rules" of arith-
metic are better studied and more thor
oughly mastered here than in the aver
age of the best half of the public schools
of Vermont.
The following is the weekly bill of
fare for the boys;
sABBATH-Breakfast-White bread
and coffee.-Dimner-White bread and
molasses.-Supper-White bread, milk
and cake.
Y-Breaktast-White bread
and coffee.-Dinner-Salt beef and veg
etables.-.Supper-Indian pudding and
milk
TUEsDAY-Breakf fast-White bread
and coffee.-Dinner-Baked beans and
beets.-.Supper-Brown bread and milk.
wEDNEsDAY-Breaktast--Wh White bread
and coffee-Dinner-Beef soup and
vegetables -Supper-Indian cake and
milk.
THURsDAy-Breaktas White bread
and coffee. -Dinner-Salt meat and
vegetables -.Supper-Indian pudding
and milk.
FRIDAY--Bredktast-White bread
and coffee-Dinner-Fresh or salt fish
and beets.-Supper-White bread and
milk
sATURDAY-Breakfast-White bread
and coffee. -Dsnner-Baked beans and
beets.-.Supper-Indian cake and milk.
The cooking for officers and boys is
done by the same hands and in the same
room. Bread for officers and boys ta-
bic comes out of the same oven.
Under the present management 1t is
proposed to allow boys whose records are
good and whose homes will warrant it,
to 90 home on furloughs. And when
the work on the school farm will allow
it, the boys will be furloughed to suita-
bic places-the school retaining control
of their persons and earnings. An ac-
count of each furloughed boys earnings
and expenses for clothing will be kept
and on his discharge at majority, or by
pardon, he will 60 out with the balance
of his earnings in hand. Were the
school prison this would be strange
plan, but as it is means to reform
boys and make good men of them it viii
prove eminently wise thus to encourage
good behavior, diligence and ideas o.
; economy.
The boys gather in Sunday morn
ing Sunday School at o'clock. Al