Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-14

at Columbus, are built on what is known
as the Ohio plan, providing for the COM
plete separation of each prisoner; but the
system Is not carried out by the officers of
elther prison. The Jail at
cleveland cost about a quarter of million
dollars. There are four stories of stone
cells, set back to back in two tiers, with a
corridor through the middle by which &C
cess IS gained to the cells by solid doors.
SO that no prisoner can see any other
brought IN. Light is gained through the
grated front of the cell, separated from
the outside wall and windows by another
corridor. There is an entirely separate
female department and another for boys.
The prisoners are allowed to carry on con-
versatlon with each other at the top of
their voices and are set loose in the CORR
dor for an hour and half each day for
mutual association and improvement
The boys department is useless in winter
L made special inquiry as to the proper
construction of small tails, and gained
some ideas which hope to present to the
board at length, after farther study.
visited five children's reformatories.
Of these, the most interesting was the in
dustrlal school for girls at Adrian, Michi-
but two years. 1t is built strictly on the
cottage plan; there being four cottages,
and four corresponding grades. Girls
enter IN the second grade and can go up or
down. The lowest grade is kept entirely
separate, having its own school room, The
others have common school room. All
girls are taught homework and plain sew
ing. a few learn dress making. A
rotary plan is adopted, whereby girls
spend month at time in different de-
partments of work. The four cottages
now IN use accommodate about thirty four
pupils each and cost about $4,000 each.
or $500 per capita. A fifth cottage is now
being built to accommodate girls at a
lower cost per capita. Girls of the high
est grade may be discharged on ticket of
leave when judged expedient by the man
ayers, suitable places haYing been pro-
vided. found no officer in any public
Institution who told me the things want
ed to know more succinctly and clearly
than Miss Hall, the superintendent.
The Michigan Reform School at Lansing
combines the associated and cottage plans.
The school rooms are in the various cot
tages, which seemed to me q bad plan,
since 1t made it necessary to grade the
pupils on the basis of scholarship rather
than character.
The Houses of Refuge of Cincinnati,
Louisville and Cleveland are all managed
on the same general plan, and in all of
them the same great evil exists, namely,
| the association of criminal children, va
grant children and orphans IN the same
school, and under the same conditions
In Cleveland, this evil is aggravated by
the fact that the House of Refuge
is IN the workhouse. The children are
within prison walls aud behind prison
bars. The administration of these insti-
| tutions is excellent.
The State School for INDECENT Children
at Coldwater, Michigan, is a highly inter
| esting institution. 1t was inaugurated ten
years ago as the pioneer institution of its
| kind. The state board of charities, at the
inception of its work, found a large num-
Der of children in the poor houses, grow
| ing up to pauperism and crime. The
| question arose: What shall be done with
them? The answer was this school. 1t
receives all children between the ages of
| three and fourteen years of age who are
declared dependent upon the public for
| support and who are in suitable condi-
ton of body and mind to receive instruc-
| ton" 1t is declared to be the object of
| the law "to provide for such children a
temporary home only in said school until
homes can be procured for them in good
| families;" and the law now forbids the
keeping of any such child in any poor
| house.
The school Is managed admirably. The
children live in cottages but take their
meals and attend school n the main
building. The cottages are real homes,
accommodating thirty children each, IN
der cottage manager, who acts as foster
mother. The best feature of the school
Is that the children remain SC
short a time. Children are being
| placed in good homes at the rate of one
each day, through the county agents OF
the board of charities, and the number OF
| children at the school is actually diminish
| ing. beautiful hospital has Just been
built of wood, with small building close
at hard for contagious diseases. Vicious
! children are not retained, but transferred
to the state reform school. Idiots have to
be left in the poor houses, there being nc
provision for them. The school is very
economically managed.
In Ohio, the same class of children is
cared for in county homes, which are en-
tirely separate from the poor houses, and
are said to be admirably conducted. l was
unable to visit one of them, although |
greatly desired to do so.
L had the pleasure of visiting the Cleve.
land orphan asylum with DR.. A. G. Byers
and Mr.. Joseph Perkins, of the state board
of charities. Its building is probably the
most complete and perfect one of the
kind in the country, if not in the world
My imagination was not able to suggest
anything desirable for such an institution
which was not there. The greatest care
is here exercised in placing the children in
homes. Last year the managers placed
out one hundred children and rejected
eleven hundred applications for children
The Retreat is an admirably constructed
institution in Cleveland for receiving girls
who have been seduoed. They remain
until after their confinement. The baby
is given away to some one who will ado pt
1t, and place is found for the young
mother to earn an honest living.
visited the Cook county hospital at
Chicago, but can attempt no description
OF that great institution in the narrow
limits of this report. 1t seemed to
me thoroughly organized and well admin
istered.
The school for the deaf and dumb at
Jacksonville, Illinois, has the reputation of
being one of the best in the country. The
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