Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-29
TO ENLARGE THE REFORM SCHOOL.
Buildings Estimated For to Meet the
Demands ON the Institution.

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Buildings Estimated For to Meet the
Demands ON the Institution.
Mr. II F.ua rra.;da,, 81 tho h,.rd ~
-. =, p- rs,s A.
Vi 'ne reiorn schooi' mas auoresseo ,i'e
'o'o"ihS Ae''er 10 'he Attorney Seherai ana
similar one to the Commissioners Of the
District.
Ho, At,orrar car..I
c.. ~ 100000
"n' bs ulreeuoh OF tne ooaro Oh trustees
nave the honor to submit q supplementary
estimate of appropriations required by the
reform school IN add,,;or tn tho estimates sub-
r,,,,.I L. =, 49, :, ,ho oo,h .,
" me ~ W" IA M ie''ei Vi WIG ~''- "a
July last lhey are as foiows:
family buildings Observation-Disclosures. $50. 600
/ chapel. $4,000
1 .a1;,;oUot .,,,I.L... 0oo
.6,.,;ai az, -, - t;,.ha 10 O0dl
'''A' "-'1 80
Total SIS 600
Thee a,,n-on-;ations ore rcon,raa 10 afford
me- ,oIni o. 1,har ;r,,atas II anrear.
frc,o le.,srs mich 49, race;vad comics Of
which are berewitb tra,smit.ed To Won that
nj the date Of the writing Of these letters
there vsrc twentI-ore hovs under sixteen
wear. of age in the work house and twenty
thre. bovs batveen Ten and sixteen wears of
age in the mil II nnnesrs from the letter a
COW of which il also transmitted from the
clerk of the Police Court that during the past
fiscal wear there were fully 100 boys discharged
or given n nominal fine and Turned loose upon
the community because there was no room in
the school
This makes about $50 bows now at large or in
the jail or work house who ought to be sent to
the reform school.
The present buildings of the school were
erected to contain but $50 bows. We now have
200 fifty more than we should have Our dor
nitories are crowded beyond the limits of
health or safety. The recent attack of typhoid
which prevailed at the school was caused our
physician saws bv the overcrowded condition
OF the iormitories. and hs has advised that no
more boys be received in the school until the
number now there shall have been materially
decreased. and not to again permit the dor
mitories TO be overcrowded as they are now.
IL we do will always be liable to attacks of
a similar character.
You will therefore see that accommodations
are needed for 200 more BOYS that are now
oyercrowdi ding our dormitories, and the build
ings could be filled almost as soon as completed.
The serious alternative is presented: Shall
these boys be sent to the reform school, edA-
Gated. cared for, taught useful occupations.
and made useful citizens, or permitted to NIL
the streets and crowd the Jail and work house!
The question must be met now.
Daily am /, as president OF the board, obliged
to refuse admIttance to the school to the par
ents of wayward boys. and in many instances
numbers whose parents have urged me to send
them TO the school have been sent to the jail or
work house through the police courts.
The expense of keeping them in these places
Is nearly a. great as keeping them in the school.
II Is hardly necessary for me to point out that
boy should be sent to neither OF those places.
The District OF Columbia Is rapidly lncreas-
ingIn population, and crime and hayward boys
are increasing In the same ratio. When the
buildings OF The school we're erected wears ago
. they suhced Tor the then pOpulaton OF Inc
District of Columbia. Since they we're erected
! the IoI uiatiOn of the District OF Columbia has
almost doubled We now ask that the accom-
modations of our school be almost doubled to
meet this increase.
/ 1t may be said that we are asking for large
sum. 1t may look large, but measured by the
number of bows who would be saved from a
1 life Of crime and the large amount of money
which would be saved in their prosecution the