The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-01-02
THE REFORM SCHOOL.
What the Trustees Say in Their Annual
Report.

The annual report of the State Reform
school has been completed.
The trustees enter into a history of the
school and refer to the advance made in
the management and treatment of the
BOYS. To give more hours of study to
the b oys and give them all equal educa-
tiopal privileges, the trustees during the
year have divided the large school room
in the main building by partition
through the center in which are placed
rolling doors. SO that there are now four
schools in the building and one at the
cottage, all in charge of efficient teach
ers.
Divine service, they declare, is of q
purely non-sectarian character. 1t is
held in the chapel on the Sabbath as a
part of the discipline of the school. and
on the same cay q Sabbath school is CON-
Quoted by the teachers of the instiiusion,
under the direction of the superintendent,
clsrgymen of all religious denominations
under the rules of the school being inyit-
ed to be present and. address the boys.
The farm is great school of instruo-
tion to the boys who work on it, and the
trustees say Supt. Harrington is model
farmer.
educational discipline needed more than
in the dining room. Most If the boys
nave to take their first lesson in table
manners at the school. AFs -s
. The cottage for witch an appropriation
was made in 1896. is partially completed.
Tho material is OF brick, it is all covered
in, the partitions put up and the build
ing completed ready for the laths. The
trustees will ask the next legislature for
an appropriation to finish the building
and furnish IL.
They recommend that the following
appropriations be made for the ensuing
two years: 1897, current expenses, $40, 600;
for the new cottage, s., 500; ordinary re-
pairs, 1000; total, $28, 500. 1898, current
expenses, $1,000 ordinary repairs.
81, 600; total, 1872, 600
THE FINANCES OF THE SCHOOL
The treasurer's account shows the total
receipts to have been s28, 236. SO, from the
following sources: Balance on hand,
Dec. ], 1895, 81, 663. 90; from state treas
urer, for current expenses, $40, 900; in
terest on Sanford legacy, s42; ordinary
repairs, 81, 900; farm and stock, s675. "a;
chair work. 81. 046.23; from cities and
towns for. board of boys, etc., 81, 131. 80:
rebate on cloth, 1887. 40; all other sources.
$840. 81. The expenditures roach the re-
oeipts minus q balance of 81. IA.
Of the appropriation for the erection of
a new cottage a balance Of 81, 1876. SO re-
mains. The unpaid bills on the part of
the cottage faccount amount to ~, 927,
and the treasurer asks for further APP
preparation of So, 600 to complete the
building.
Superintendent Harrington in his re-
port gives the following figures
Boys in tho school Dec. !, 1895, ISL
Committed the past year, "a
reviously out on leave returned B
Returned. previously escaped, 40
Whole mum Der in school during
the year, l9l
Allowed to go on trial, sS
Discharged,
Remanded, SO
Remaining Dec. 1, 1896, 1856
Of the offences for which boys were
committed. were: Larceny, "a; trnancy,
2; vagrancy, 1; malicious mischief, 1;
drunkenness, l; breaking and entering,
2; cheating by false pretenses, /; COM
mon pilferers, 1; attempt to steal. l.
Of the boys committed 10 have in
temp erate parents; 6, lost fathers: 10,
ostmothers; 3. relatives in prison; 5,
step parents; 10, idle; much neglected:
10, truants; 8. Sabbath breakers; 81,
untruthful; 25, profane.
Two were years old; /, ten; 3, eleven;
4, twelve; Y, thirteen; 9. fourteen; 9,
fifteen.
On the farm $50 tons of hay were
raised; Il, 81 gallons OF milk ssold, and
S75 dozen eggs produced. The apple crop
amounted to 900 bushels
The advance of the institution in its
various departments has made it inoreas-
ingly difficult to provide each boy with
both the industrial and scholastic train