Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-02-05
Industrial scho DOL for Girls.

of the Industrial School at Haowell. The arti-
Gle contained 50 many errors and misconceptions,
that onecan not but admire the ingenuity, however
perverse, which, with the report and the statute
regulating the school both at hand in the same
pamphlet, could 90 so far astray.
/. The writer contrives TO make even figures
lie, as to the average number OF girls IN the school
Taking the number IN attendance Jan. /, 1917,
and adding the number received since, he then
proceeds to deduct those placed in homes during
the past year, and not returned. SO far all is we'll
But when he further deducts the number linden
tured, he falls into a griey0us error, those n-
dentured are part of those placed 10 homes. The
girls are first placed with families on trial Of
course some OF them do not give satisfaction, or
arc found difficult to manage, add are returned
to the school. Others prove to be more accepta-
BILE, and in due lime are ndentured. This cor
rection being made, the average number, a1d the
number Dee. ), 1874, will be found to have been
accurately stated 10 the lepoIt Not only has the
school been lnil hut applications for admi,s
are constantly waiting for vacancies.
2. The average cost OF each girl ior the year,
As stated nv the Age, is of course erroneous. In
stead Of -22S, "a The writer has 1t, II was about
sl73, foi the eleven months included in the re-
port, or by estimate SlS5 tor the full year The
average cost ia the r. form school for boys is
clj9 each but the number OF inmates is very
much larger and this reduces the average eS-
pe nsc. The average cost in the Bath Otphsns
Home is Sl2l bat the number is more than
double THAT ~ the Industrial school, and the chill
dren instead If being instructed in school studies
IN the home are sent to the public schools. This,
from the Lature of the case, IN impractlcable IN
the Industrial School. Average expense OF Maine
pupils 10 the lla:iford Deaf aud Damb Asylum,
Sly3 IN the Perkins Institute for the Blind, SAB.
3. The writer goes on to figure up the whole
cost of each giil Ia tue Industrial school, from
TO - years of age, at SlS2i. 1bi- is more ex-
traordinaIy blunder than either OF the former,
though the girs would remain eight full years IN
the school and this blander he makes with the
report before him, from which he ought to learn,
that the inmates are constantly being sent TO
homes, and that at least one-tLrd OF the average
number or one fourth OF the whole number, have
been so sent during the past year, not Including
those who have been tetuineo.
4. The writer ml,apprehends the use OF the
words "irom to 10 Year" as though it were
the limit OF the time the girls are TO remain IN the
school. The statute accompanied the report and if
he had consulted it, he would have found that these
are the minimum and maximum ages for commit
ment, aud that every glr Is or may be committed
during her minority. Whilst homes are found
for these girls as soon as practicable, and few Of
them remain in the school more than year or
two at the utmost. the supervision OF the Mana
gers continues DUNG the tenn of their commit
me ut unless they are sooner discharged.
5. But the most surprising statement made by
this writer. is that "llailo~el and Augusta far
nish nearly one-half Of the gill, in attendance"
Uni. he saws 1--WE observe" Where did the
writer observe it The report on which he pro-
tesscs to comment, on page IL, states that the
whole number of girls received since January,
,,iI ard q tr,n Anous,a no more. no less 1t
H. ,,1, ,.,,,,i,o ,,ea, ,na hen,ti,l .kiU to de-
,,,r,no bn,, nesr 10 com. 70 br,u,r nearly one.
half OF Il. A. a III after t fact, at the present
time, there "a girls IN the school. OF whom
there are nom Augusta, and MT one from HdH-
OTeN.
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Ir - - ~ - l., 49,. no ,,s, Ya,r
,,a's c,r,y,i ratnrn.d 70 ,h soInol that .,the
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o ,d,ed ;, ,ronyea 70 for sncb
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an o'JeI'' ~ at;,n,,.i. -, 49,,
a "e aA ha nSbiar and h,,,her motivs. Tho 10.
~ - r. o. 1ho so,,nol a.. go;
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~ ~ AN az" ~ -. -; - nN,s hara ~ bom
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.l,.. 80 oh o. ciarac,,ri1e anil, Cbr;tian ard
W. 1870 or,,t;as ard Gov hicb we 1ooL i
ni.S ha,han. and i,norsrcs
ia ~ :, 800 'th ali onr hn.,1i,ais rbe sicL
-. Losni,ai. f,, H. insane and o,hcr
pua", i;', hn,f" ;n,, al r.J.m snd
@ ~ ah are Ins, and nm ont n Tho
sase o.. % ~, - Wv
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S-. ,'a "a s,oai ~ ,ho NyS,orn 500
hane ,,joJ :, fn, y4a,s and with snrcess Renorts
-, 49, - Ia ~, 90, -, nc - aJoi,,ad
ara so,',d and ma ns, al member. NJ snria,v
"a marv ,,,,ls uh., nave had vir,uou. homes. and
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