Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-18
REFORM SCHOOL FOR BOYS
Annual Report Submitted to Commissioners
by President Cecil Clay.
Statement > of improvements Made
During the Yenr-Data ms to
Personal Habits.

Col Cecil Clay, president of the boys re-
form school. today submitted to the Com
missioners the report OF the institution un-
der his care for the past fiscal year.
In a letter accompanying the report Col.
Clay says:
During the year covered by this report
number of Improvements have been made
at the school. A new bakery building,
equipped with modern improvements, has
been erected, the second floor of which is
used for a manual training school-the
Sloyd system. The steam heating system
has been overhauled, new pipes put in
wherever needed, and all pipes laid in brick
trenches, instead of wooden boxes. Repairs
of various kinds have been made in the
main and family buildings an auxiliary
cooking range installed and the system of
water supply pipes overhauled and amend
ed. Necessary repairs have also been made
to the boiler house, the work shops and
green houses. New fencing has been out
up and the old repaired: sewers have been
enlarged and extended: the roadways drain
ed, resurfaced and curbed; school rooms
the boys dining room and dormitories have
been painted. On all this work the boys
have been employed wherever practicable"
Total of Boys Received.
The report shows the total number Of
boys received since it opened to have been
2.262. with total of only twelve deaths m
that period, the mortality rate being less
than five-eighths of one per cent During
the year PIG boys were received. OF this
number 16 came by commitment from the
Police Court, by commitment from the
Supreme Court, District OF Columbia 81 by
commitment from United States District
courts, and IL by commitment from the
president OF the board of trustees. With
.he us remaining in the school al the be-
ginning OF the fiscal year. the total pupu-
ldtion of the school during the year was
sill Of this number 10 were discharged.
by order CT the board of trustees 50 were
sent away. the sentences of 20 expired, 3
were discharged by the District courts. and
u escaped. The number remaining June 30
1897, was 224.
Personal Habits,
An interesting item is given in the report,
entitled Record as TO personal habits of
boys when received" 1t shows that of the
rs received during the year. Ct; kept bad
company and used tobacco So had bad or
doubtful records and had fairly good
home records.
OF the 126 committed, but ten attended
school regularly. 1t was for larceny and
mcorrisibility that most Of the commit
ments were made. A total of 40 were sent
to the school because of stealing and IL
were sent down because of lncorrigibiIity.
another interesting table gives the edr-
cational requirements of the boys when re-
celved- Seven did not know the alphabet
4 Knew the alphabet only 10 could only
spell in one syllable. 40 could read in prim-
er, 2i had been in second school grade and
- could read tolerably well. But IS had no
knowledge of penmanship. % could only
write their names, Is wrote in a GRAINED
hand and "a wrote fairly WELL
Inc financial statement of the RECEIPTS
shows the boys to have earned a total of
s-iio during the year. OF this amount 81
100 came from the paper box industry
$50 from sales of surplus farm products
S.'sS' from sales from green houses and
s2iSO1 from miscellaneous sources.