The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-09-21
the PRISON ASSOCIATION
Annual Congress Assembled5#s.as1t-
I urday Evening in Denver y
zA!:RouH Days Session - Several Hundred
Philunthrop,sts and mani
inns Present-Prison War
= dens' Association.

Z Denver. Colo. Sept. I4.-S3rhe annual
congress of the National Prison associa,
ton of the Gnited States assemblies this
evening for a fout' days seasiSni ami
several Fhuidliedt Rphfiahtfropfsts, ha-
manitariansta and directors. wai1ens and
managers of penitentiaries and reform
atory .;instt1 i'm all .paIlss 81 the
country are regfatered misunderstanding no:
tells. The congress will be one of thu
most imnortant.in the history ,ef. the or.
~ganization, from h number and nature
of the questions which are to be dis
.cussed. Among these is the report of
the american delegation to the Inter
national Prison congress-; held ut Paris
last spring, which contains q large
number of recommendations, based
upon the views enunciated BY some of
the eminent delegates to that gathering
from England and icontinentali coun-
tries. Reports of special committees
on the work of prison physicians, on
criminal law reform. OH the manage
lnent of police forces in the large cities.
and on prison; discipline, are to be con-
sidered at length. while papers on
Politics and Crime" and THE Ethical
Aspects of Crime Will also be exhaust
lively discussed. ..if H{faa.s issj, t,.7
The, National Prison Wardens' asso,
citation will hold its convention c%oincif
dent With the prison congress. This aft
ernoon there was a meeting of the
board of directors of the latter body at
the Brown Palace hotel, al, WHICH: the
program for the gathering was finally
determined upon. The congress will be
called to order this evening In the Cen
trail Presbyterian church by Hon. iChas,
ID. Hoyt, chief justice of the state su.
preme court. Governor Albert w. Nc
Intire will welcome the delegates in be
half of Colorado. and Mayor Thomas "a.
McMurray for the people OF. Denver.
Response viii be made by the president
of the association. General Brlnkerhoff
of Mansfield, o., Mho will then de
liver his annual address. u4fis 49,.
Tomorrow morning the delegation
will meet at the Brown Palace hotel and
march in a body to the Central church,
where the annual sermon will be
preached by Rev. Dr, William j, Slo-
cum of Colorado Springs college and
president of the state board of charities
and correction. In the evening at
Fourth Methodist church, Rev, Freder-
lex II. Wines OF. Springfield,
ILL.,, will speak. Among the
OeleSdleS WHO nave dlItduS dIIlNeu,
or who have telegrapheds that they will
be here are CharltonalI. FELTON,, Chicago;
E. G. Mcmillan, Des Moines, Ia; Cen
eral John F.. Norrish, Hastings, Mimi;
Timothy Nicholson, Richmond, Ind:
Captain J. W. Pope, u. S. "A, Fort
Leavenworth, .Kass; Henry George,
Frankfort, Ky; John w. Willis, st.
Paul, MINI; w. r. Hale, San Quentin.
Cal; James Massie, Toronto, Ont: Lu-
cius C. Storrs. Lansing. Mich; J. r. FL
der, Indianapolis, Ind: Rev John l.,
Milligan. Allegheny, Pa, Joseph p. BY
ers. Columbus, o.; Charles NJ. Jessup,
New York city u. r Brockway,i I'll.
mira, N. VI; Mark L. Crawford, Chi
cago; John N. Patterson. Trenton, N.
j.; Col. r. w. McClaughry. Pontiac.
ILL.,; W. NJ. +. Round. New York city.
Eugene Smith, New York city; r. III:
Dawson, Montgomery, Ala; Charles H,
Reeve. Plymouth. Ind; Phil Deitsch,
Cincinnati, o.; Joseph Nicholson, De-
troit, Mich; Lieutenant Colonel Thomas
f. Barr. u, $. A.. Governors Island,
Anew York. f4 +.