St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-18
THE MORNING SESSION.

nation on these subjects.
THE MORNING SESSION.
Several Papers on Iseformatories--
work in Is indeEgarrens.
Promptly on the dot President Neff
called the conference to order at 9 o'clock
yesterday morning. At the time there were
not over thirty people in the hall, the recep-
lion of the evening before doubtless having
made o'clock seem very early in the morn
ing. But the delegates continued to arrive,
until at $3.50 there was good audience.
Prayer was offered by Rabbi Sonneschein Of
St. Louis, and the reports from states was
continued, +. H. Wines of Illinois
chairman. Rev. DR.. r. c. Buckner of Texas
was called on for report from his state and
submitted both written report prepared
by DIR. y. \. Denton of Austin, state cor
responding secretary Of the conference, and
extended remarks of his own. There is no
provision for predetermined children in his
part of the state. He said the condition of
the jails in Texas was very bad. When he
left the stand. II. IL. Giles of Wisconsin
asked as question of privilege to submit a
resolution. 1t was that in accordance with
The advancement of charitable work there
be appointed a committee of seven with +.
ID. Wines as chairman, 10 form an art gal
lery for the preservation Of the faces Of
the members OF this conference. This was
greeted with a hearty laugh, and Mr..
Wines stated that he would express for the
conference its gratitude to the newspapers
if not for the pictures for the full and &C
eurate reports of the conference. This was
heartily approved by several others and the
resolution adopted.
Hon. T. B. Sanborn of Massachusetts,
submitted the report for his state prepared
by Col Gardiner Tufts, the state CORE
spending secretary, celebrating it with re-
marks Of his own. He praised the laws
for ca ring for children and said that the
demand for infant girls for adoption was
equal to the supply. The report of Col.
Tufts was very interesting paper on diff
ferent methods of caring for the insane,
especially celebrating the system of board
ing insane patients out Of the hospital in
private families in Massachusetts.
KINDERGARTENS
The committee on kindergartens submit
ted report through the chairman, Mrs
Anna HalIowell, Philadelphia who also
read report Oh Free kindergarten in this
Country" prepared by Mrs Constance
Mackenzie, superintendent of free kinder
gartenS in Philadelphia. The paper gave
details of the establishment of kindergarten
societies in the principal cities of the eoun-
try by which free kindergartenS have been
established and the poorest children thereby
enabled to secure the very best of training
possible for young children. 1t was a very
interesting and instructive paper, its reia-
ton to the work of the conference being
that the proper early training of children
diminished pauperism and crime. Miss
Hallowell also read paper on The Kin
dergarten as a Preventive of Vice and
Crime, prepared by Rev. r. Heber New
ton of New York. This paper, like the
one which preceded it, was Oh the program
to be read by the author. but in the ab-
sence Of the writers, were read by Miss
Hallowell. The theory of this paper was
that society should not teach children to
say lead us not into temptation" but
should lead them out of temptation and
that want was conducive to crime. 1t was an
exceedingly interesting and beautifully
written eXpOunding Of the chld's school
and its influences. Miss Emily Hunting
ton of New York was called upon and en-
tertained the conference with an account
of the management Of the day nursery at
the w lSOn industrial school and mission in
New York, in which the children of work
ing women are cared for during the day.
President Netf said he had the pleasure
to present lady whose work in behalf of
the soldier would never be forgotten, the
originator of the American Red Cross So
ciety, the Florence Nightingale of America,
Miss Clara Barton of Washington CITY.
Miss Barton came forward amid the plaudits
of the audience. She has a remarkably
pleasant face and wears brooch contain
ing the badge under which she has spent her
life, the red cross" She introduced her field
hospital and related her attendance upon
the worlds conference of the Red Cross in
Geneva. several years ago. While there, a
telegram from the empress of Russia an
nOunced prize of 5000 francs and a gold
medal for the best field hospital, movable.
She spoke in very interesting manner of
the subsequent relations with the empress.
She told the story of the competition for
the prize, and invited the audience to visit
the one receiving the second prize. an Amer
lean invention, on exhibition in the rear of
the capitol. Miss Barton was warmly ap-
plauded throughout.
Miss HallOwell replied to some questions
on kindergarten work, and Miss Hunting
ton replied to a question of Rabbi Some
schein as to how her mission brought to-
gether and managed children of different
races, speaking different languages.
THE REFORM SCHOOLS.
P. Caldwell, superintendent of the in
dustrial reform school at Louisville, XIV,
then took the stand to read a paper on
1.-THE Reform School of To-dav-Its OBJ
iects and Possibilities" Before beginning
his paper he said that in Justice to himself
to his wife, to his aged president, who mad
been in the reform work for twenty wears
and in justice to the taxpayers of Louis
vile, he wished to deny an assertion made
the previous evening by gentleman from
the platform (Judge Prendergast of Chi
cago) that reform schools were schools for
the rearing of criminals and vestibules to
the pententiary He would go further and
deposit with the president of the confer
ence check for $500 to go to the gentle
man if he found his assertion true of re-
form school in Louisville, or if
that gentleman could find fifty out
of the 1880 turned out of the
reform school who had been imprisoned
or even if he could find that ten of them
had ever been in the Kentucky penitentiary.
Mr.. Caldwell read very lengthy paper,
speaking very rapidly indeed, but in voice
easily heard in all parts of the room. He
pictured the worst types of boys who get
into reform institution, entered briefly
into the systems in vogue in different states,
and considered the proportion of very bad,
bad, moderately bad and semi-good children
composing reform school. He gave very
comprehensive outline of the method of re-
forming vicious children, going through the
different stages of development. He ia
vored the workshop as reformatory insti-
tuition, as occupation was one of the best
means for good, and shop work was better
than farm work, as it could be
rigidly inspected and came into competition
with skilled labor. To teach the bow so he
could earn a good living was one of the
best inducements to him to get his living
honestly. No community should expect a
revenue from a reform school. 1t should
be self-suppolting and no more.
MORAL ELEVATION
J. G. Hite. Lancaster. o., superintendent
of the boys industrial school, read a paper
ON ..Moral Elevation In Reformatnries.