Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-17
THE PRISON CONGRESS.
The First Session VIII BE Held Tonigl,t-
Who Are Present at This Catherine

PITTsBURG, Oct 10. - The annual
congress of the National Prison asso-
citation opens here this evening and
prominent men from all parts of the
United States as well as from Canada
are arriving in large numbers to take
part in the deliberations. Among
those who put in on appearance today
were ex-President Hayes, Chief of Po-
lice Il. w. McCaughry, of Chicago:
Hon Il. w. Anglin, secretary of tho
Ontario prison commission, Toronto:
Colonel X. H. Dawson, president of the
board of inspectors of convicts, Mont
gomery, Ala: Mrs. Coad, Toronto: Cap
tain James Massie, Toronto: DR.. A. II:
Rosebrugh, A. NJ, secretary of the
Prisoners Aid Association of Canada.
Toronto; Il. {. Foster, general agent
of the department of justice, Washing
ton; Dr. William T. Harris, commits
sioner of education, Washington:
George NJ. Porteous superintendent
of the American Bertillon Prison
Bureau, Chicago; Rev. Fred
erick III. Wines, superintendent
Of the Doremus mission, Chicago:
secretary OF the state board of public
charities, secretary of the National
Prison association, Springfield; }. w
French. warden of the Indiana state
prison, North Michigan City: w. B
Mcdonald, president of the board of
directors Of the state prison, South
Princeton; Captain j. W. Pope, A. O.
NJ, commander United States military
prison, Fort Lcavenworth: l.. CALI
well, superintendent of the industrial
school of reform, Louisville, Rev III. IL.
kavanaugh, chaplain of the peniten-
tiary, Frankfort, KY; w. c. Stauawon,
superintendent of the boys house of
refuge, New Orleans; Rev. William j.
Bait, chaplain of the state reforma-
tory, Warnersville, Mass; William :.
Greene, general superintendent OF
Massachusetts prisons, Fall River: Mrs.
Eliza l.. Homans Boston: Joseph
Nicholson, superintendent of the house
OF correction, Detroit: Rev. hastings
ii. Hart, secretary of the state board
of corrections and charities, st. Paul;
A. A. Brush. warden OF the state
prison, Sing Sing, \. y: Colonel p. +.
Faison, president of the board of
directors state penitentiary, Raleigh,
y. c.; General Roeliff Brinkerhotf,
president OF the board of state char
tiles, Mansfield, o.; w. ID. Patterson,
superintendent of the work house and
and house of correction, Cleveland O.;
Theodore ID. kanouse. warden peniten-
tiary, Sioux Falls. :. d.; DR. +. ID.
Sims, chairman of the committee on
prisons state board of health, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn: Andrew +. Elmore,
president state board of charities and
reform, Fort Howard, Wis: w. III.
Sleep, superintendent of the state
reform school, Wakesha, Wis, and Pro-
fessor Francis Wavland. Yale college.
The opening session of the congress
will take place in the Carnegie music
hall at $50 o'clock. 1t had been origi-
nally intended that Governor Robert
Pattison should deliver the address of
welcome. but he has found it impossi-
bic to attend, and Mayors H. l. Gour-
ley and John q. Wyman will speak
respectively on behalf of the cities of
Pittsburg and Allegheny. General
Rutherford Il. Hayes will respond, and
afterward as president of the associa-
tion deliver the annual address To-
morrow the ANIMAL sermon before the
congress will be delivered at the First
Presbyterian church, by Rev George
L. Purves, ID. ID. The delegates to the
congress will meet at the Mononga-
hela house and march to the edifce in n
body. In the evening an address will
be delivered in the Duquesne theater
by the Rev. Lyman Abbott, of Brook.
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