Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-11-03
THE REFORM SCHOOL.
Annual Report of the Board of Trustee

The report of the Board of Trustees of the re-
form school of the District of Columbia for the
fiscal year ending June Both, 1885, has been
submitted to the District Commissioners. The
report says "There have been no changes of
It's affairs during the year. Each department
has been efficiently conducted. The discipline
has been excellent. the general health above the
average, and the board Of trustees believe that
with some additional legislation the school will
be prepared TO render the most effective service
that may be required by the increased demands
OF the future. For the next fiscal year Congress
has made slight change in the control of the
revenues, other than those from the regular APP
preparations, by requiring that they be covered
into the Treasury of the United States for the
benefit jointly of the United States and the Dis
trictof Columbia. For the present fiscal year they
amount to S4.S35.49. including the receipts
from the farm and workshop, which amounted
to 81 ,26S.74."
The receipts Of the school from all sources
during the year, as will appear by the report of
the were as follows; From appro
subsistence, 500 900; appropriation for new
bell and painting, $3.50; Department of JUS
States courts outside District of Columbia,
S566.75; superintendent's sale OF farm products
and proceeds Of workshops, $4,263.74. Total,
$39, 1Ol.49.
The disbursements were as follows: For sala-
ries and wages S12,211 80; for subsistence, in
entd,ng d groeeries h1 -four, meats dry goods
implements and seed, harness and repairs, fer
tiliZers, stationery and books, medicines and
Guiding paving, &c, S6,655; new bell and cree
ton, $50: Total, $39, 10000. Leaving bal
ance of S1.19.
1.-The trustees have again most earnestly rec
commended to the Attorney General an increase
in the accommodations for the school. These
time past has at different periods of the year
been compelled to notify the Criminal and Po-
lice Court of the District that they could not,
for want OF room, receive com1nittals, thus
| compelling the courts to send Juvenile offend
ers to the District Jail, while the president of
the board, under the authority given him by
law, has likewise been unable to make COM
mitments for boys who were incorrigible, or
who were in danger OF leading vagrant life.
The additional room is also needed in order
that the school may be properly graded and
classified, so that the smaller boys may net be
| contaminated by association with those who
are older and more hardened. For this purpose
another family building should be erected.
Congress has been appealed to for four years to
make this heeueu APPROXIMATION Inc BOARD OF
trustees beg that you will urge favorable action
upon the coming Congress.
The school is exclusively a government insti-
tuition. under the direction OF the President,
who appoints its trustees and the Department of
Justice. The local government oil the District
of Columbia has no control over its buildings
and grounds, though represented OH the board
by one of its commissioners as trustee, IN the
management and maintenance of the school,
THE ESTIMATES
for contemplated Improvements, including the
ending June 80, 1887, are follows For one
chapel building of brick and stone, 81 800 for
one brick tank house, iron water tank, S4-
500; for grading and improving school grounds,
municipal control authority has been given to
the board OF trustees, in their discretion to give
absolute discharge, requiring them to report at
stated times. In case of failure to do So they
are looked after by the authorities of the
school. This, as the superintendent in his re-
port, a copy of which is submitted herewith,
says, gives them leave of absence during good
behavior. 1t has worked well elsewhere, and
experience has demonstrated the need of it
here. The board therefore has asked. through
the Attorney General. the required legislation
last year requested that minors sentenced by
the federal courts outside the District OF Co
lumbia may be sent t. this school, an amend
ment to the act of Congress Incorporating the
school is necessary. for now committals can be
made only by the courts in the District or by
the president OF the board of trustees The
board has renewed its Recommendation for the
| amendatory legislation. The board has already
submitted to you the estimates of appropria-
lions necessary lor maintenance for the COM
Ing fiscal year, as follows:
One superintendent. 81 500; assistant super
intendent. 5000; teachers and assistant teach.
ers, $4,000; one matron of school, 5000; two
matrons of families, $500; one superintendent
| OF chair shop $3.50; on farmer, $3.50; one en-
gineer, $500; one shoemaker, one baker, one
| tailor, one cook and one florist, each $500,
81 500; for one seamstress, one chambermaid,
| one laundress and the dining-room servants,
each sl44, $72O; for watchmen, not to exceed
four in number $500; for one secretary and
treasurer of the school, 5000; in all $11 1876.
For support of inmates. including groceries,
flour, iced, meat, dry goods, clothing, leather
and shoes, fuel, hardware, tableware, furni-
ture, farm implements and seed, harness and
repairs TO same, plumbing, painting and glaz-
Ing, stationery and books, medicine and medi-
cal attention, fertilizers, stock fencing aud
necessary items, including compensation, not
exceeding $500, for additional labor or services,
$25 1000"
A copy of the report of the attending physi-
clan, DIR. Charles A. Wills, is submitted.
From the report of the superintendent it is
found that the total number of boys received
since opening is 1,O74; total number Of deaths
since opening, Z; rate OF mortality, less than
age OF boys received since opening, Is years:
age OF oldest boy when received, 10; age of
youngest boy when received, q; number of boys
In institution June 80, 1854, 1913; committed
curing the year by the Supreme Court, g; by the
roic Court, 81; president Of the board, Ii; and
popuiation during the year, $50; number dis
charged during the year, 1O1; number remain
ing June 80, 1855, LAO. The age ut which most
are received Is between IL aud Is years. The
pInty' larceny, vagrancy, hOusebreaking, as.
sauiI, uauclouS trespaSS, profanity, forgery ana
arson: LIE three 1irst causes predominant In
the District Reform school.
Inc religl0us training Of boys before commit
ment Is as follows: 35 parents attend Baptist
churcn service; parents attend Episcopal
cnuEcn service; "a parents attend McthOuist
cnurcn service; 2 parents attend Presbyterian
cnurch; parent attends Lutheran church SER
VICE. anu parent attends Deaf Mute church.
RANGE OF TUE THERMoMErER.-Thef follow
ing were the readings at the signal office to-day:
. H. 2. 4 n m a N.