Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-08
TIE REFoRM SCHOOL.

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visit of the Legislative Committee Xester-
day-An Inspection of the Wo rkshOp and
schooI-Che Party Well Pleased with the
Institution.
The legislative committee on the state
reform school consisting of Representa-
tives Conrad Gotzian, chairman, and
Messrs. Linnell, Carson, Sampson and
Dilley and senators Billson, Mclaughlin,
Griggs, Goodrich and WEIGH, with the ex-
ception of Mr.. Dilley and senators Nc
Laughlin and WEIGH took advantage
of the milder aspect of the weather
on yesterday afternoon to visit this most
interesting of all of our charitable or edu-
cational institutions. President D. w. In
gersoll, of the board of directors, ap
2eared in front of the state capitol at $50
D. m. with covered sleighs for the use of
the committee, reporters and such of the
members and senators as had accepted the
general and generous invitation of the
management to accompany them. A half
hours drive brought the party to the beau
tiful grounds of the institution, now bur-
led deep beneath our plentiful blanket of
snow, where they were met at the door of
the superintendent residence by DR..
Riheldaffer, who conducted them into
his spacious Office, where the cheerful
glow and genial warmth of his we'll filled
CRATE soon dispersed any lingering chill
the trip had engendered. Accompanying
the committee were four press representa-
tives, Senators Sackett, Stevenson, Houl-
ton, Sergeant and Hickman, and Repre-
sentatives Cornish, Patterson, Dyar, Farrar,
Baumgarten, Morris, Crawford, Barker,
Daniels, Anderson, W., Peterson, j. A.,
Becker, Burmester, Seymour, Paulson, T.,
and Doyle, which latter gentleman was &C
companied by two ladies.
The party were first conducted by the
doctor to the shops, which were found to
be in full running order,a which proved
both novel and attractive. AS is well
known the institution manufactures i'm
mense quantities of hand sleds and e1
press wagons, and a vast amount of all
kinds of tinware, certain kinds of furni-
ture, and various other wooden articles.
On the first floor were the gig saws, plan
ers and lathes, while on the second floor
were the prepared parts being put
together, and on the third floor
the finishing and painting and the storage
rooms. From top to bottom the shop, a
large brick structure, was hive of indus
try, and as the visitors passed through and
saw the interested, happy expression on
the countenances of those at work-noted
the zest with which they entered
into their work and the skill with
which they acquitted themselves,
the expression was involuntary.
II don't care whether this shop pays one
cent or not; it is one of the grandest educa-
tors for boys in the world"
From the shop the party went to the en-
CINE room, and thence to other buildings,
being led finally by the doctor to his parlor
and thence to his dining room, where
a most elegant lunch was served
by his estimable lady, after which they
were shown to the school room, where,
were marched in in excellent order and
quickly took their seats. The exercises
were opened by song from the scholars,
when they were appropriately addressed
By Senators Billson, Goodrich and Steiner
son, ana Representatives BARKER, MOTIFS
and Dyer, the superintendent and D. W.
Ingersoll. The remarks of the superin-
tendent, though brief, reviewed somewhat
the record of the Institution and closed by
telling the visitors that besides filling al
most all of the honorable stations in
common business life, seven of the former
scholars were now officers of the school.
The institution is evidently under excel
lent management. Everything is neat and
clean, the boys look happy and contented,
and are well clothed and evidently we'll
fed. That it possesses great capabilities
for doing good and can and does
turn out young men fitted and
disposed by its teachings to lead
honest, efficient and honorable lives no one
who visits it or examines its records can
for a moment doubt. Our present legis-
lature ought, however, to adopt the exam
pie of older states and change the name of
the institution to the industrial school,
thus removing the last vestige of the idea
of its being a criminal institution.
The visitors all returned much pleased
with their trip and the admirable state in
which the institution is managed.