Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-04-27
A GOOD SHOWING.
What New Mexico will Display in the
Charities and Correction Exhibit
at the Worlds Fair.

Last November, President H. Il. Hart,
of the twentieth national conference of
charities and correction, wrote to the
secretary of this territory asking him to
nominate some one to be corresponding
secretary for New Mexico of that organ
ization. Mr.. Alexander nominated the
Rev. Geo. G. Smith, of this city, and in
due time he was appointed to place
which, whatever honor may attach to it,
has required much laborious employment
at the desk and extensive correspondence.
In addition to the report to the confer
ence, which is to meet in Chicago in June,
Mr.. Smith has prepared an exhibit of the
charitable and penal societies and insti-
tutions of New Mexico for the Columbian
exposition. This exhibit is made at the
| request of President Hart and of Natha-
| MEL S. Rosenau, superintendent of the
bureau of charities and correction of the
Worlds fair. 1t was shipped last night,
and will have its place in the Liberal Arts
building at Chicago.
The exhibit embraces charts, plans,
photographs, map of New Mexico and
some articles designed to show the
or the work of institutions represented.
The charts contain an immense amount
of information az to the inmates of our
charitable and penal institutions, and
their occupations.
Chart No gives the government and
supervision of the territorial institutions,
including county jails, the penltentiary,
the insane asylum and the deaf and dumb
school,
Chart No ? exhibits the name of each
institution, location, original cost, an
nual operating expenses, average number
of inmates for the year 1892, and total
number of days board of inmates for the
same period. This chart includes insti-
tutions under territorial control, those
under U. S. government direct control,
Catholic institutions under the U. S. gov
eminent control, by contract, Presby-
terrain institutions unuer the u S. gov
eminent control, by contract, and the
school of the American Missionary assoc
citation similarly related to government
control.
Chart No. 8 is entirely devoted to the
county jails.
Chart No. 4, three sheets, each twenty
eight inches by twenty-five, exhibits
charitable institutions under private
control, and comprises the female orphan
age of the Sisters of Charity, twenty -four
Presbyterian mission schools, eleven
Methodist mission schools and five Con-
gregational mission schools, together
with the Guild of the church of the Holy
Faith; the Woman's Board of Trade,
Benevolent department, and the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.
Chart No. enumerates and classifes
the delinquent or criminal population.
Chart No. 6 gives view of the depen-
dent classes.
Chart No. shows our hospitals and
their work.
The rest of the charts exhibit as fully
as possible the individual institutions
the founding, their object, the control,
the support, the original cost; the annual
expenses, total, and per capita; the
officers, the inmates, the clothing, the
diet, the work, the course of instruction,
if the institution be school, etc.
Plans give the way in which the differ
ent floors are divided and the uses to
which different parts are put. Unfortu-
nately, few of the institutions have fur
nlshed the secretary with plans. Forty
two very fine photographs-four of which
are l4x22 inches in size, and the others
1Ox8 inches-show the interior and GER
tain rooms of many of the institutions.
These photographs were taken by Mr..
Curran, or copied by him, and will be
a notable feature of the exposition. The
map will show where the penal and charit-
| able institutions are located. The ex-
hibit, while not as complete as the secre-
tary would like to make it is yet most
creditable to the territory, and will go a
long way toward showing visitors at the
exposition that New Mexico is well
abreast of the times in these matters.