Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-15


| The twentieth annual report Of the reform
school OF the District of Columbia, prepared
| by the president of the board of trustees, Mr..
A. ]. Falls, presents an interesting exhibit of
the operations for the past year of this excel
lent institution
The school was organized nearly twenty-one
years ago, and from that time down to and in
Guiding the 30th of June last there have been
received 1856 boys. On the first day of the
last fiscal year there were 155 boys in the
school During the fiscal year ending June 80,
1883, "a boys were received, making during the
year total Of 239 boys.
or boys received during the year were
committed by the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, 40 by the Police Court and
70 by the president of the board of trustees
Eighty were received upon first commitment
and upon second commitment. The average
age OF the boys was twelve and half years.
The oldest boy received was sixteen years of
age The youngest eight years
No deaths have occurred at the school for
over two years, and from the time the school
was organized until now but nine deaths have
occurred out of population of 1856, covering
period of nearly twenty-one years. This of
itself speaks well for the care and attention
the boys receive. They have-though plain
the very best food in abundance and the bes.
medical treatment when sick. Fortunately,
but few cases OF sickness occur. and generally
when they do occur they are of u mild type and
readily yield to treatment.
Forty-nine boys were discharged during the
year. 1t ID rule of the board of trustees not
10 discharge boy unless he has proper home
to return to, and where boy has earned his
discharge by his good conduct. If he has no
suitable home, every exertion Is made by the
superintendent and the trustees to find home
and employment. As a rule boys ON leaving
the school readily find employment and con-
duct themselves well.
Many instances have been brought to the at
tention of the board of discharged boys hold
ing places of trust and responsibility III this
and other cities, and, with very few ex-
ceptions, whenever they hear of discharged
boys they learn that they doing WELL The
training that they receive AZ the school fits
them for the battle of life. They sent out
well equipped to make their way in tie world
and to become useful and honorable citizens,
and 1t is the pride and pleasure of the trustees
to point to the honorable and credltable career
of large majority of the boys who have been
under their cOn,rol and management.
The Proposed Railway to Mt. Vernon.
A bill was passed in the Virginia senate yes
terday incorporating the Washington and Mt.
Vernon railway company, the following being
named as incorporators: Gen. Eppa Hunton,
Col L. l. Washington, James II. Hopkins,
Myron NJ. Parker, George Truesdell, E. Kurtz
johnson, A. A. Thomas, Gen. VIM. H. Payne,
Page Mccarthy, Peyton Wise, Samuel II. Lunt,
William Clark and associates. The company
Is given the right to build and operate road
from point in Alexandria county near the
end of the Aqueduct bridge along the Potomac
to the vicinity of Mount Vernon, and animals,
electricity or steam may be used as motive
power.