Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-29
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
Superintendent Rowslf's Report 70 The
Governor and Council.

Governor and Council.
The sixteenth annual report Of the mar
sgement Of TIE Maine Indus.rial School fer
girls vas presented 10 the Governor and
Council at their iast session and ordered
printed.
In his report sups. Ro~eIl says: Ii sub
mitting tuis sixtee nth annual .ehool report
it gives me pleasure to say that satisfactory
progress has been made IN all Department..
Of the institution work daring the year.
Seventeen girls have been com
mitatd to the school from twelve
different towns and ei.ies. About
the same number have been sent to homes,
some permanently. AID others on Trial.
Several also have been returned to the
school for time, 90 that cur numbers
have averaged about the same IS las. year.
II IL evident that this school continues TO
be regarded as one Of great importance in
the line Of furnishing homss for the many
dependent and destitute girls Of our cities
and towns, who are in NANTES. danger Of
falling into habits Of vice and immortality
There have been several cases during the
year where girls a. the schoo. and 10 the
families have required vigi!ant care and
vatchfulnsss and In = few instances mild
form Of dieipiice has been employed with
good effect, and producing, q. IL fondly
hoped, favorable and permsnen. results.
In several instances the Interference Of
parents and guardians continues to be one
Of the annoying experiences Of the school
but generally they are fully satisfied with
the results attained.
There are cases where the girls sent
here would be proper subjects for u school
for feeble minded. There are other,
Who had become so familiar with vice
before commitment to the school, or
whose hereditary tendencies render
them incapable in q great measure
Of appYeeiating the benefits conferred
upon them BY having home in this
Institution, who wonli seem to be a. sub
jects for a Woman's Reforma.ory Prison
where their Influence would not be detri.
mental to those youager and less DEPRIVED
than themselves, ald where restraints nigh.
be resortei to sufficiently stringent TO COM
pei submission and render escape impracti-
cable. A few insubordinate inmates in
an institution like ours are capable of exert
ing a demorslizins il fuence very difficult
to control without resort to more severe
measures in the way Of discipline than Wa.
contemplated by the founders Of the school,
or that would be advisable to siopt
where the best moral and social
results are to be achieved. An institution
in this State must sooner or later be
inaugurated where persistently and incor-
rightly viciou, women aod girls of larger
growth, may be placed where their corrupt
ing influences may not contamina,e those
comparatively free from crime. The
iadustrisi feature Of education is receiving
prominent consideration Good health has
prevailed with exception of a number Of
cases of "A grippe. Thanks are extended
Miss DIR. Williams and DR.. Roberts of this
city for eratuitous services as we'll as 10
other physicians who have made liberal
discounts on bills. Considerable drainage
has been affected the past season. of those
committed the past year came from Gar
diner, Portland 2, Calais 2, Easton 2,
and on, each from Saco, Randolph,
Belfast, Mschias Augusta, Skowhegiu,
AMI Roek'and making total of $50 since
organization Of school. During the year,
Il were committed. 6 returned. IL sent TO
bones. > married.
Many friends Of the school have contrib
uted as in the past Years. Miss Grosven0r
of Ha.iowell has almost entirely supplied
the girls with hats, while Mrs. Robinson of
Augusta. = lady of ninety five years has
made nearly three score of quilts for the
school. The bequest fund has not been
encrosched upon. The balance on hand at
last report was s3 sil As, balance to new
account, 81, 1907.
The associate subscribers elected De-
cember 10th 1890, were. L. ID. Carver,
Mi. Susan Waliron, Mrs. C, C. Hunt.
Augusta; j. W. Church. c. II. Clsry. J.
H. Leigh. J. II. Lowell. Haliowell; A. G.
Hall, Il. W. Dunn, John Ware. Water
vile.