The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-15
State Charities Aid Soclety's
Annual Meeting Makes
Several Recon-.
mendatioDS.
POLICE NATIONS A NECESSITY
New. Reformatory Needed-Lock-
ing Up Girls in the Industrial
School Condemned.
Special to the Jersep City Neacs.

nuaI session of the State Charities Aid
Association of New Jersey was begun
yesterday morning in the Association
Hall. DIR. George S. Mott of Fleming
ton, the Vice President, occupied the
chair, and Mrs. Williamson of Eliza
beth, the General Secretary, was at her
desk.
The annual report of the Board of
Managers was addressed to Governor
Werts, and was read by Mrs. Emily E.
Williamson of Elizabeth. Among other
things it states that there is a general
call for the employment of prisoners,
and it suggests tina a commission be
appointed to look into the matter, which
might suggest some plan that would be
lucrative to the county and not interfere
with legitimate labor.
y Police matrons in our large Cities"
continues the report, ARE a necessity,
and we hope for your support in a bill
which we propose to place before the
Legislature, providing for one matron
and, assistant in the principal station
house in first and second class cities"
The report of the Treasurer showed
that the total receipts had been $724.34.
Mrs. Williamson, the Secretary, report
| ed that good, hard work was was
needed at the jails, as at present they
were comfortable resting places for the
FOUNDERS.
FALSE FINANCIAL ECONOMY.
"It is a false financial policy on the
part of our county ~Freeholders to neg
lect the employment of prisoners" the
report goes on. 1.-The cost of commit
ting these FOUNDERS to Jail is very large,
and it is a well known fact that should
our jails be equipped with the means
| of employing the prisoners at work suit
ed to their age and condition, the ex-
penses would be reduced one-half. After
the first commitment the stigma is lost
sight of, and it seems desirable that
our courts should in all cases where it
is possible suspend first sentences. Also
some law should be enacted which would
send the prisoners after their fourth
commitment to the Penitentiary for a
long term. I am surprised each year
to find a younger class of criminals in
our jails. 1t. is hoped that the coming
year will see an appropriation granted
of 5 $1,000 with which to start a small
reformatory like the Industrial School
at Concord, Mass There are some jails
that lave not yet eonformed with the
law which calls for the separation of
minors from older prisoners, and there
are also jails which are in a most ter
rible condition. The one hat is at pres
ent the most noticeable is the one at
Mount Holly, which is lacking in all the
formal requirements. 1t is dirty and its
sanitary condition abominable.
JERSEY BEHIND THE AGE.
New Jersey is behind the age in al
lowing lunatics5 to be left in the Aims
houses. We should have legislation
which would provide medical care for
the pauper insane. AS, it is, insane per-
sons sent to the Almshouses receive no
medical care at all. 1 found in one of
the Almshouses two young women in
| sane from sickness who could lave been
cured if placed under the care of those
who understand the subject.
''At present the locking of each girl
at the New Jersey Industrial School, at
| Trenton, at night will, we fear, produce
terrible calamities in case of fire. A
lock opening all the doors at one time
should be procured. An institution for
the blind is needed, as the expense of
sending those SO afflicted out of the
State is large"
The Committee on Reformatories had
it's report read by ]. c. Pumpelly. The
document said in part
1.-The Industrial School for Girls at
Trenton continues to be admirably man
aged, but it is overcrowded, and the new
building now under way is greatly need
ed. There are 10S girls in the school,
80 having been received during the year
and 81 being placed in homes. Our peo-
pie are already alive to the necessity
that presses upon us for the establish
ing of a reformatory prison for women.
At this place all the officers are females.
The fact that in the State in one year
there are more than $500 females com
| mitted to county jails and penitentiaries
is sufficient to emphasize the necessity
of this important institution. The State
Reform School is in excellent order, but
the establishment of an intermediary
prison or reformatory is urged. More
truant schools, not prison schools, are
needed, for fogging is better than the
JAIL
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED.
The report made recommendations for
First, supervision of homes to prevent
| children from being abused; second, SUI
pervision and care of infants who are
in danger of becoming criminals; third,
the establishment of a ~reformatory for
those who are advanced in age or crime
beyond the degree treated in a reform
at tory for juvenile sa delinanents;m +,a+
the word "hogging" be removed from
the report, as he wa not in favor of
that style of punishment, and the recon-
mendation was concurredSin.
TIL election OF officers resulted as
LII. D., Morristown; Vice President, the
Rev. Albert Erdman, D., Morristown;
sey City; Secretary and Librarian, Mrs.
B. Williamson. Elizabeth; Board Of Man
Mrs. Dexter Tiffany, Plainfleld; the Rev.
pr; George :. M Mott, EH1e epdRe99 iMd MFs;
Gray, Salem; j. C. Pumpelly, Morris
town; the Rev. v pr, 4 Ale atsb Erdm Man.
ristown; the Rev. D. R. Foster, Tren-
ton; Major z Is Pangborn, Jersey
Abel I. Smith, Jersey City; Thomas M.
Gopsill, Jr, Jersey CITY Miss Ruth
Plainfield; DR.. ]. B. Richmond, Newark;
President Austin Scott; New Brunswick;
| Nourse, Elizabeth5 Mrs. 3. Williamson,
Elizabeth, the Rev. Or; E N; MeAllis-
field; the Rev. DR.. Kingsley Twining,
Morristown; IF. B. Lee, Trenton, and
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