St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-22
CONGRESS- AFTERMATH.
NATIONAL PRISON assoc ALTON or
THE UNITED STATES.
THE WORK DONE AT ST. PAUL

St. faui-lhe Congress FrOs
nOunced the Best In the His
tory OF tho Associatton-Opin-
ion on tho State Pcnitentiary.
The prison congress which adjourned
on Wednesday evening will no doubt
mark an era in psnology in the United
States. The national association is find
ing. as the years pass, q stronger and
Strengthening public sentiment sup
porting its work. Those best qualified
to speak say of the st. Paul conference
that it accomplished more practical
work than any preceding one; that good
seed was sown that will return a har-
vest of improved laws aud better sys-
tens of prison management. A few of
the representative men of the congress
talked freely with the GLOBE. Their
comments are given below:
1.-The National Prison association con-
gress held at st. Paul | regard as the
most useful and satisfactory session the
organization has ever held" said Presi-
dent Brinkerhoff. ut was the largest
in point of numbers during the eleven
years that have been an active mem
Der. 1t was the strongest in ability.
high order. Before the organization
existed, before its work began to be-
felt, the popular and official idea was
that a warden should be simply a man
of superior physical strength. of brute
courage, SO to speak, qualified to rule
through the fear that should exist in re-
gard to him, capable of being the best
man when il came to contest of muscle
with unruly and insubordinate charac-
tiers. This is all changed now.
The wardeps and superintendents
of reformatories and industrial schools
have come to be chosen from men of
high culture, Of the finest executive and
business capacity. men of heart. of
philanthrop:c purposes, ardent students
of their duties. seeking the betterment
OF society as we'll as the men under
their charge. Many Of the delegates to
the congress are we'll fitted for college
presidents. The papers read furnish
indisputable proof that new and bet
ter era has set in for prison manage
ment. The country is to be congratu-.
lated. and though 1t is easily the first
and best among the nations in its sys-
TEN of prison control. it will become
model for the world to- follow in far
greater degree than those engaged in
the work thought at first, greater
moral and humane power than even the
sanguine friends OF prison reform have
dreamed off,
II want to speak particularly, of the
people of st. Paul." said Secretary j. l..
Milligan. "In the twenty-five years
that have been associated with prison
work have never become acquainted
with community so heartily In sym
pathy with the ideas and aims which.
underlie the National Prison association.
This has been shown in the way in
which the delegates have been treated.
BY the bounless courtesy OF all and the
devotion of some. In my official work l
am under the greatest obligations to
Secretary Hart, of your board of cor
rections and charities, and the clerk in
his office. l have never had, such as
sistance elsewhere. assure you app
preciate it. and have employed it. Then
A. S. Tallmadge seems to have gwen
his whole time to us, with genius and
grace to anticipate all our wishes-our
thoughts almost. Oh. it has been
blessed congress, made so IN large part
by the people of st. Paul, whose friend
ship and acquaintance shall ever re.
member and cherish"
-
Fright glad am We came to this
city," was the remark of Capt. Joseph
Nicholson, of Detroit, president OF the
wardens' association: yet the wardens
did not need to come here. for we have
found that your people think and feel
as we do. Instead OF our educating you,
the fact is you have helped us. The
wardens' association, for whom / may
speak. has. been strengthened and in
spired by being the guests of st. Paul.
] can hardly tell You how good re feel.
but this / will say, that the meeting Of
the wardens' association in st. Paul
VIII be the brightest leaflet in its his
tory"
my first acquaintance with st. Paul
was made eight years ago." said J. S.
Appel, of Denver, president of the board
board OF charities. II got an inspira.
ton then when ! attended the national
convention of corrections and charities
held here, ana my heart has been III st.
Paul ever. since. This city with its grand
men. and Minnesota with its model in
situations. stand as leaders aud cham
pions at the head of the column of our
work"
Chaplain c. L. Bradshaw, of the Al.
legheny county, Pennsylvania, work
house, was pleased to observe of the st.
Paul prison congress ''that it had
joy of kindred minds. 1t has been good
for the wardens to be here. They needed
10 come where they could get good, and
here they got it. Now they will be
working along the lines of the Chap
lains' association, all because of the
high associations st. Paul has afforded.
For one, l want to GENE back here, and
that before very long"
P. r. Costello. Assistant Superintend-
ent Cincinnati House of Refuge
The Red Wing reform school is the
finest institution l have ever seen, and
l have been in the work twenty-seven
years. l was pleased enough with Min
nesota. but since l have been at Red
Wing am proud of her. as l did not
suppose could be. Your people have
done so nobly they should supply the
one thing lacking. provide a state
agent, to care for the waits and or
phans, to find them homes, SO that the
great good of this training in the re-
form school may be perpetuated in all
their after lives.
SALTWATER PRISON.
The delegates to the prison congress
who visited the state penitentiary had
the time and opportunity to inspect this
institution thoroughly, and they did so.
Every one commended the extreme
neatness of the prison, which was not
at all .'fixed up'' for the visitors, beyond