Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-03-25
MFRS. BACON SCORED.
Strong Adjectives for Her Industris
School

Strong Adjectives for Her Industrial
School Report.
HARTFORD, March A.-The management
of the Connecticut industrial school for
girls was heard yesterday to reply in few
preliminary broadsides to the reflections on
the condition of things at that institution
contained in the last 80 called report of the
state board of charities, which is signed by
George Anna Woolsey Bacon secretary. and
Virginia Thran Smith.
The occasion was the hearing before the judici-
airy committee on the bill allowing the same priv
ileges on appeal In the case of children com nit
ted to the Industrial school and reform school as
are allowed in other cases Of appeal At present
the children are sent at once to the schools pend
ing the trial Of the appeal from the superior
court. MIR. Healy, who introduced the bill, said
that under the present system children after
wards found innocent, were tainted" with the
Clarence E. Bacon Of Middletown, member of
the board Of directors of the Industrial school,
appeared against the bill He objected strongly
mitted to jail pending the trial of their appeals
That or any other disposition Of them would Of
almost hopeless any further work for their re-
FORM The aim OF the entire system of treatment
at gs sa boys to avoid the
He decied that, under the present system, 1t
brought a faint to the reputation Of girl that
from homes and associations Of vice and every
thing that coarsened and tempted to evil, these
School than in any place to which they would be
sent pending the trial Of their cases of appeal
During his quiet, effective plea, Mr.. Bacon was
Interrupted by Chairman Fox, who asked him If
On the industrial school.
Eyes, have seen that report, was the reply,
It's most wicked thing, would like to meet
Mrs. Bacon right here about that report.''
q 0fH arv ARa Afv
this: 'One building is set apart for girls of no.
torious lives, and another for about twenty little
TO- a the
tween these two extremes in the various other
buildings are many other girls, innocent at the
| and size from the children's cottage, who came
to the school, some of them years ago, and who
| companionship Of petty thieves, liars and girls
OF unciean speech In other words, girls are put,
| ~ the very law which was framed to prevent it,
Mr.. Bacon said that In such sentence as that
| Mrs. Bacon either didn't know what SIZE was
talking about or she was perverting the truth.
The speaker then sketched the careful provisions
for the classification of the inmates OF the school,
A careful record of 1852 who had gone out from
eadng s1a
OF the very worst class Of those handled there 81
ON Show tbs
| success which the management had in placing
in sUa
for the girls.
At another part of his address he character
lied the report which Mrs Bacon and Mrs. Smitl
had signed as ''contemptible, outrageous" Il
| another sentence he spoke of it as "a vlciou
| thing, mean thing" Mr. Bacon spoke with
quiet frmness that evidently impressed the com
| mittee very favorahly.
| Chairman Fox said that he had been SURPRISED
that, after that report, the management Of tn
Industrial school had not demanded an investiga
ton. Mr.. Bacon replied emphatically that TIT
matter would be heard from before the presen
session Of the general assembly closed.