St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-18
TIE REFonm SCHOOL VISITED
General Inspection. Some Talks to
the Boys and n Lunch.

the Boys and n Lunch.
The afternoon session of the conference
was migratory one, as had been planned.
AT $50 O'Clock the delegates assembled in
front OF the Ryan and by Secretary Hart,
Col. Kerr and George. Hazard were loaded
into long line of private carriages, hacks
and omnibuseS for visit to the state re-
form school near Midway park. There
were at least $50 people in the party. The
carriages were drawn up ST. Peter street
TO Summit avenue: thence to Dayton ave-
nue. and thence to the school.
Here under the guidance of D. w.
lngersoll, president of the board,
of managers, and William P. Murray,
member of the board, the visitors were
piloted about the buildings, inspecting
Kitchen, laundry, dormitorieS and work.
shops. In the latter the distinguished man
ayers of all sorts OF reformatory institutions
were especially delighted at the sight of
the boys manufacturing children's carts,
sleds, wagons. cutters, rocking horses,
tables, etc.. and with the making of tin
ware All the departments were visited
The girls building was not neglected.
Here the girls were assembled in the school
room and sang number of hymns for
the crowd, one of the number acting
aS accompanies on the organ. At
the conclusion, II. Thane Miller, the
originator of the Y. NJ. G. A. movement in
this county, who is blind, sang, by request,
Tell Me the Old, Old Story" the girls
and audience joining in the chorus. MI.
Miller then asked blessing. At this time
word was passed around that something
was going on in the dining-roo and all
assembled there. The rooms and tables
were handsomely decorated with flowers,
the tables set aud on each plate lay bou-
tonniere. A st. Paul caterer served sand
wiches, ice cream, cake and lemonade to
the party. At the conclusion of
the repaSt all were invited to
the large school room upstairs
where all the girls and boys in the institu-
ton had been assembled, Mr.. Ingersoll
called the assembly to order and Mr.. Miller
sang The Land of the Vest and was
heartily applauded, Not only this. the
boys evidently were having picnic and
proposed to make the most of it, so they
encored him and stuck to 1t until he re-
sponded with Where is My Wandering
Boy Tonight" MI. Miller offered a short
prayer and eX-President Hayes was called
upon for speech.
GEN. HAYES SPEECH.
Mr.. Hayes said he would express the
SIdlluCdliUH VI tllG NlSIGOlS W GuG DOdrQ
the institution. 1t seemed to him that the
good effect of the singing should not be
disturbed. Naturally the old when in the
presence of the young dealt in reminis-
cences and advice. If he thought of adj
vice he could recall nothing better than the
line from the first song just sung, ''What
we sow we shall reap" He joined in the
prayer that the boys and girls should SOW
so that they could reap happiness hereafter
j. c. Mills of North Carolina was called
upon and said:
l suppose you would like to have me tell
you VINO these people are. Tuey are the con-
ference OF charities and corrections. We
have been here long time. You boys here
have made some mistakes, so have we. What
we see in the Bible is 1.-THE greatest of these
is charity" They did not know the meaning
of it, so they made picture OF three women,
big one in the middle and small one On
each side, and put underneath 1.-THE greatest
OF these is charity" Laughter. A short
time ago they thought they would make a
new translation of the Bible, and when they
got to charity they did not know much about
it and put it down love" They did not know
that charity was love put in practice. He told
in an inimtable manner the story Of the darkey
who caught posSum and went to sleep while
it was baking. Another dsrkey came in, saw
it,ate the possum, put back the bones CREASED
the sleeping mans lips AMI fingers with the
fat and left. When the darkey awoke, MIR.
Mills continued, he smacked his lips and
tasted good possum grease. He saw the bones
were there and the possum gone and ex-
claimed: ''Wall, spose L must err eat dat
meat but it was very unsatisfactory pos
sum-" This was the way with the charity he
had spoken Of, it was very unsatisfactory. In
short time, boys, they will put US old ones
in the ground. You will have to run this
world, and we hope you will do it better than
We have, So I will only mention four words
that hope you will remember: DO good
and be good
DR.. Byers was called on. and humorously
alluded to Mr.. Mills 'possum story, enter
tanning the boys well. He then told some
pathetic instances in his own experience
connected with prison life, turning on the
point of kindness. Judge Folett of Ohio
said that no deeper lesson had been i'm.
pressed upon him than the one expressed
by Mi. Hayes. You can make yourselves
whatever you prefer" And he entertained
the audience with several stories. cleverly
told. and in each bearing moral.
After Secretary Hart had announced the
route for returning, the exercises closed
with singing Rescue the Perishing''
On the return, which was via Summit
avenue a call was made at the Catholic
orphan asylum. Thomas Brennan, John
Dowlan. Tom PrendeTgast and j. G. Don
nelly of the board of managers were present,
and did the honOrs.