The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-08
the roads to be better than for years.
Report received and adopted.
HOUSE OF CORRECTION.

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Report received and adopted.
HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
90 WHEELING, January Z, 1878.
To the Honorable President and Board Of
Commissioners:
GEsTLEMEs:-Your Committee on
Finance and Accounts report IN the mat.
ter of house of correction and employ
ment, IS referred TO them By action OF
your Board, June 4, 1877, that several
members of said committee and the clerk
left the city on or about October ., 1877,
on tour Of inspection of warehouses ssd
Institutions of chat nature at Baltimore
and Philsdelphis.
On October 9th we visited the house
of refuge for juvenile offenders st Bsltl-
more, under the superintendency OF DIR.
Less, who kindly showed us through the
entire building, aud think the discipline
perfect and belieye it TO be properly
msnsged. This Institution contained
| about 24Q youths. Their mode of opera.
tlons were thoroughly examised by your
committee, and copy OF their rules,
regulations and reports are herewith
filed. These youths attend school,
are required TO WORK portion
of the day and certain
time is allowed them for plsy. They are
divided into classes IS TO age and con-
duct, and are taught shoemskiRg, tailor
ing, baking, &C., and they do all their
| own work.
We next visited the House of Correc-
ton and Employment, situated at
Holmesburg, Pa, some seven miles esst
of Philadelphia, under the superntend-
ence OF Major Cotterell. This institu.
| ton contains some 600 inmates, n ale
| ard female, adults and youths. The
building is immense, having two wings,
700 feet long, with three tier halls, vel!
ventilated and very clean. We witnessed
the arrival OF some twenty-five cGnyics,
their exsmlnstioD and description, aud
then as each passed the vsrious officers,
they were taken 70 an adjoining ro9m,
where a large stone walled basin vas
butt in the floor, some forty feet long
and twenty feet wide, and four ieet DEF p,
with steam pipes passing INTO t1e water.
By this means they could heat It 10 any
temperature. III this the convict
was put and washed after which new
sui; OF prison Clothes were put on him
and then he was assigned 20 squad
which be IS mechanic or lsborer be-
lOnged 10. They were grsdej g. 10 con-
duct, those OF excellent conduct were IN
8 seperate hall on the family plan, IN q
room containing some 40 beds. They eat
from their own table and we're used
q overseers OF squads, guards 81 night,
and other officers OF trust IN the IDsIl.
tuition. Various kinds of work were
done. Some 80 shoemakers were on the
bench. All were learning the trade.
This room WAS presided over by a fore
man, who cut the work, &c. They made
only work for the use of the inmates and
did all the repairing. This wss the same
in other departments. The general
sewing was done by families, also TIE
laundry and ironing room. The next
attractions were the pig styes which
are cIsimed 10 be the most perfectly ar
rsgned sffsrs imaginable. A large
two story stone building shout lZ0 feet
long and rs ieet wide. the first story
contained stslls on esch side, feet long
and feet wide aid feet high,
q small doorway TO an outer stall, OF
! same size, between stalls inside an sisle
6 feet wide ran through this story. Each
pen contained fine breeding SOW and
little pigs The 'front.' of the inner stalls
contained trough the full width OF the
pen, and in this they fed. The outer
pen Yves filed with straw, and cleaned
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great value 10 the farm Is manure. The
second story floor had third floor built
about halt way 70 the ceiling, leaving g
foot sisle all around it. On these
floors were stored onions, 900 bushels
seed onio!s Oh the second floor. Next
was q frame enclosure OF about the same
length as the stone building, with apart
menls tor sll the pigs or shosts OF differ
ent ages. Then a similar enclosure Tor
I larger hogs. In this they were tsttened
! for market or for the use of the institu-
tious. These buildings were all put up
by the inmates, AID we were informed
BY the Superintendent that th,y derived
fine revenue from this source, also
from the manure. The greater part of
the TODD for these hogs was swlll or otfsl
! from the tables or kitchen OF the house
! The farm contained, in one tract, 400
acres and 100 in another, all worked by
| this labor A fine stone quarry on the
/ place was worked by some 100 men, also
3 cooper shop worked by the same labor.
! The men were all divided into squads,
under the charge OF overseers, some be-
ing employed ss overseers or officers
| Some were merltoriOus inmates in charge
vi the squsds. Thus this mammoth IN
silu;ion il worked. The inmstes were
sentenced from months 10 4 years.
| EsCh sentence for vsgrALcy or INSIDE
mesnor was for 3 or months, ii second
| time, another term Was added.
COUNTY ISFIRAABT.
Now We have poor farm and Nd in
frmsry that would, III our option, be
proper place for house Of this kind, but
On lar smaller scale, and We think the
foregoing plan OF raising hogs would be
splendid arrangement on our poor
farm, and recommend 1t to the consider
alton of the Committee on Poor House
and farm.
The rules, regulations and reports of
the Holmesburg institution are herewith
! filed.
Your committee next visited the Nor.
gsnza Reform School, situated about
miles from Csnnons burg, under the su-
perintendence OF Mr. Shallen berger.
This institution is the first your commit
tee seen, and very costly. II ls only
for children, or for youths, and for the
Western District of Pennsylvania All
the counties had stock in It, but have re-
| leased their claims in favor Of the State.
| In our opinion there was nothing in this
Institution that would meet the wants OF
Ohio county.
Your committee visited next the Ale.
gheny county House of Correction and
Employment, situated at Clairmont,
about miles from the city of Allegheny,
under the superintendeucy OF Henry Cor
der. Il is one of the best managed in
| situations o! the country. 1t is y very
/ large Affairs much larger one than We