Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-09-14
the PRISON ASSOCIATION
Annual Congress Assembled Sat-
urday Evening in Denver.
A Pour Days Session Several Hundred
Phiianthropists and Humanttsr-
inns Present-Prison War
,ens' Association

Denver. Colo. Sept. l4.-Thc annual
congress OF the National Prison associa'
| ton OF the United states assemblies ms
evening for a four days session. ana
several hundred philanthroplsts, hu-
manitarians and directors, wardens ana
| managers of penitentiaries and REFORM
atory institutions In all parts OF the
country are registered al the leading no
tells. The congress will be one OF TIM
most important In the history of the or
ganiZation. from the number and nature
of the questions which are 10 be ais
cussed. Among these is the report oi
the American delegation to the Inter
national Prison congress held al Paris
last spring, which contains a large
number of recommendations, based
uuOn the views euunciated by some OF
the eminent delegates to that gathering
from England and continental couh'
tries. Reports of special committees
on the work of prison physicians, on
| criminal law reform, on the manage
ment 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.
The National Prison Wardens asso'
citation will hold it's convention coinci'
dent with the prison congress. This art
ernoon there was a meeting Of the
board of directors of the latter body al
the Grown Palace hotel, at which the
Program for the gathering was finally
determined upon The congress viii be
called to order this evening in he Cen
trail Presbyterian church by Hon. Chas
y. 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 will be made by the president
of the association, General Brinkerhoff
OF Mansfield. O.. Who Will then de-
liver his annual address.
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,
III will sneak. Among the
delegates who have already arrived,
! or who have telegraphed that they VIII
be here are Charlton e.. FELTON,, Chicago;
T.. G. Mcmillan, Dies Moines, Ia; Gen
eral John f. Norrish, Hastings, Mimi;
Timothy Nicholson. Richmond. nd;
Captain J. w. Pope, L. ;. A, Fort
LeaVenworth. kas.; Henry George,
Frankfort, Ky: John w. Willis, ST.
Paul. Mimi; W. +. Hale, San Quentin.
cal: James Massic, Toronto, Ont; Lu-
cius G.. Storrs. Lansing, Mich; j. II. Ell
der. indianapolis, Ind; Rev John L..
Milligan. Allegheny, Pa; Joseph l.. BY
ers. Columbus. O.; Charles NJ. Jessup,
New York city; Il. r. Brockway, Ell
mira, y. Y; Mark l.. Crawford, chi
cago; John y. Patterson, Trenton, n.
j.: Col. r. W. McClaughry, Pontiac,
H.: W. NJ. r. Round, New York city:
Eugene Smith, New York city; r.. II.
Dawson. Montgomery, Ala; Charles II.
Reeve. Plymouth. Ind: Phil Deitsch'
Cincinnati. O.; Joseph Nicholson, De-
troit, Mich: Lieutenant Colonel Thomas
+. Barr, L. 5. A. Governors Island,
New York.