Evening star., 1898-11-22
M SCHOOL
Annual Report by President Of Board
of Trustees.
FHE AGGREGATE NUMBER OF INMATES
Receipts and Expenditures, With
Estimates for Appropriations.
MOUNT OF EARNINGS

A M o U Mt OF EARNINGS
Col Cecil Clay, president of the board of
trustees Of the reform school, has made
his annual report to the Attorney General,
fully reviewing the years work. 1t is as
follows:
In accordance with law, / have the
honor to submit the report of the board of
trustees of the reform school Of the Dis
trict of Columbia for the fiscal year 1898.
AT the beginning of the fiscal year there
We're in the school 224 boys; there were re-
celved during the year 13O, total of 354
as against 344 for the previous year. Ninety
OF those received were committed by the
Police Court and thirteen by the Supreme
Court of the District Of Columbia; sixteen
by United States courts outside of the Dig
trict, and eleven by the president of the
board of trustees
There were discharged during the wear
eighty-five by order of the trustees. twelve
Dy expiration of sentence Omitted States
courts), two by order of court one by
transfer to the insane asylum, one by par
don of the President of the United States
and four escaped and are still absent leav-
ing in the school June 80 1893 249 There
We're no deaths during the year ard the
general health of the inmates was and is
good.
An accompanying table shows the esti-
mates of appropriations for the next fiscal
year, ending June 30, 1900. which. under
the law, have been submitted to the Com
m1ssfoners of the District of Columbia for
Insertion In the act making appropriations
for the District. The amount appropriated
for salaries for the present fiscal year was
s16.242.' The amount of the present esti-
ma te for salaries is s16.452.
Under the laws governing the reform
school, ofhcials and employees, other than
those whose salaries are fixed by law are
appointed and their compensation fixed by
the board of trustees, subject to the an
proval of the Attorney General. The diff
ference between the amount appropriated
for the present facal year and the amount
estimated for the next is due to the fact
that Congress failed TO appropriate suffi-
cient to pay the salaries as fixed under this
law. Six Watchmen are authorized whose
salaries have been fixed at $40. 80 month
gross amount for the year of 81 $40 while
Congress only appropriates $1.410, an
amount which would make the monthly
salary $19.5S 1-3.
support of Inmates.
The amount estimated necessary for
the support of inmates is the same as was
appropriated for the present fiscal year
and has been appropriated for number of
years past, although the number of bows
has been constantly increasing From 1884
to 1883 the amount appropriated annually
1or the support of inmates was $4,000 the
average number OF boys being 15S Since
1888 the annual appropriation has been
sZoVo and the number of boys has steadily
increased. until there were 249 at the close
OF the fiscal year 1898. The estimate for
| the construction of an assembly hall at a
| cost of s9,7 40. is the same as was submit
ted for the year 1898, when the following
reasons We're given:
The erection of chapel building for
| which an estimate of So 40 is submitted is
| not urged necessity but as being ad-
| Visable- Religious services are held at the
school every Sunday, which of necessity Y
| nave 10 De heid IN the school room of the
| main building. where. naturally, they %
not have the same effect that they would
| have If held in building designated for
| that special use because of the boys fa-
| miliarity with the surroundings through
| constant weekday association: an addi-
| tional reason being found in the INSULT
| cheney of the school room to accommodate
| in addition to the boys, the other persons
| employees of the school, of course and cit
| izens-who attend, the former regularly
| and the latter frequently in large numbers
| Such a building would undoubtedly be of
| very great service in carrying out :he real
| object of the school,
with the increased number of boys the
erection of such a building has become
| rlore nearly a necessity, and so appar-
| cnt to the joint select committee Of Con-
| gress appointed to investigate the charities
| and reformatory institutions in the District
| of Columbia that in its report, dated March
/ 81, 1898, it said:
The board of trustees has also recon-
! riended appropriation for assembly
| hall or chapel structure. There is now an
urgent need for such a building, and the
| board and the committee believe that it
| should be provided soon financial con-
| ditions warrant the expenditure
Division Into Families.
Under the system upon which the school
| is run the inmates divided into families
intended to p1lynher fiftv bOys nd
a separate building is provided for each
| family. The population Of the school on
| June 80, 1898, was 249, distributed in four
| family buildings, making an average of
! between sixty and seventy in each building.
| AS there is steady increase I'm the number
! of inmates, the erection of another family
| building is now necessity, as the popula-
| ton of the school warrants it, and by the
! time it can be erected the population will
| be still larger. Not long ago it became
necessary to inform the courts Of the Dis
| trfct that no more boys could be received
| at the school for want of room, which, of
course necessitates their being sent else
where, perhaps to the jail, where they are
| in contact with criminals and not under the
kind of treatment intended for Juvenile pet
ty offenders. An appropriation Of $4,000
has been submitted for a new building, be-
ing the same amount that was appropriated
| for the last family building.
There has been turned into the treasury
to the credit Of the United States and the
istrict of Columbia jointly the sum Of
| So 2S5. IA, derived follows: From the pa
per-box factory, 81. 100; sales from green
| houses, $232.9 sales of surplus farm prod
ucts. s97 10, and from miscellaneous sources
S255.66.
In last years report 1t was stated that
| the board has always been of the opinion
| that such part of the boys time is given
| to work other than in the schoolroom should
| be devoted as far possible to receiving
| instruction in such handicrafts and manual