The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-20
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PUBLIC CHARITIES.
An Important Exhibit for the Great
Worlds Fair.
Methods of Treating and Handling the
Sick, Halt and Insane Poor, and
the Control and Confinement
of Criminals.

Crime and charities Will be displayed
hibit relating to public institutions OF
charity and their work. This will be
made under the auspices and direction
| of the bureau Of charities and correc-
tons. Nathaniel S. Rosenau, the su-
| perintendent, estimates that in the
| United States the annual expenditure
| for public charitable institutions is full
| ~ 1926, 200, 900, and that not less than
$500, ZOO, 900 is invested in buildings and
equipments for carrying on the work
of these institutions. IN this estimate
| no account is taken of pe-itentiaries
| and iails. In speaking Of the exhibit
| which the bureau will make at the fair
Mr.. Rosenau said: Isolated efforts
have been made on several occasions to
show what the world is doing for un-
fOrtunateS who are not able to care for
themselves, but it has remained for the
Columbian exposition to produce in a
comprehensive bureau an exhibit that
will represent the effort now being
made and illustrate the present facili-
ties for dealing with them. Philan-
thropists divide the individuals with
whom they deal into three classes-de-
fectives, dependents and delinquents.
The detectives are subdivided into those
temporarily disabled and those perma-
nently disabled. The temporarily dis
abled include the sick, the injured
and the acute insane. The perma-
nently disa bled include deaf mutes,
blind, epileptics, idiots and chron-
ic insane. The class of dependents
includes those who are not wage earn
ers, and therefore obliged to subsist on
the bounty of others-for instance,
paupers and orphans up to the time
they become self-supporting. Delin-
quent is the soft word used to desig-
nate the criminal element We expect
to get exhibits at the worlds fair from
all the state boards of charities, state
prison commissioners and other organ
izations having similar official func-
ton. We will also receive assistance
from individual institutions and soci-
cites and from colleges in which scien-
tifc philanthropy and penal science
are included in the course of study.
This will be supplemented by exhibits
from manufacturers who make a spe-
cialty Of goods for these institutions.
Eve will show everything connected
with an asylum for the care of insane
people from the paper that legally COM
mits them to the asylum to the ar
engagements made for caring for them
once they are within it's walls. We
will show the work that is done in all
kinds of dispensaries, the operation OF
sickdiet kitchens, the work OF flower
and fruit missions, the gratuitous home
service rendered to the poor by physi-
clans, the organization and work of
general and special hospitals, and the
general system of ambulance work. We
expect to show the work of children's
aid societies, the societies for the pre-
vention of cruelty to children, the man.
egement of orphanages and the method
of conducting day nurseries, fresh-air
missions and summer homes, also news
boys and bootblacks' homes.
''In the section devoted to criminals
we will endeavor to show the plan of
organization, training and equipment
of model police force, including the
weapons, signals, patrol wagon system
and police station arrangements. An in
teresting feature of this section will be
full-sized prison corridor, the cells Of
which will be an exact reproduction of
the cells in which criminals are con-
fined in all the different countries and
states of the world"