The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-07
STATE REFORM SCHOOL
Extracts From Advance
Sheet ofthe Institutions
Annual Report.
FOUR HUNDRED AND FOUR INMATES
More Than Three Fourths of
the Boys Show Marked
-Improvement-Re-
concentrations.
FOUR HUNDRED AND FOUR INMATES
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TRENTON Jan. Z, 1S9S.-Advance sheets
of the annual report Of the New Jersey
State Reform School at Jamesburg, print
ed by the boys in MIR. Babcock's depart
ment, ia been received. The Board of
Trustees consists of James NJ. Parsons,
Middlesex county; Gervas Ely, Hunterdon
county; Frank S. Gaskill, Ocean county;
Nathaniel S. Rue, Monmouth county;
Horace l.. Durham, Morris county.
The nonresident officials are Rev.
Thomas S. Long, Protestant chaplain;
Rev. Thomas B. Nolan, Catholic chaplain;
DR.. Henry D Zandt, attending physician;
Col. Daniel B. Murphy, military instruc-
tor.
The report of Superintendent Ira ottar-
| son says
During the year 1897 we received by
commitment 5ninety-one boys, seventy
seven white and fourteen colored, and a
at the close of hat year three hundred
and sixty-two boys,two hundred and nine
ty-seven Of them white and sixty-fve col
ored. During the year 1898 we received
by commitment one hundred and forty
eight boys. one hundred and eighteen of
them white and thirty colored, making our
total at the close of the year four hundred
and four, of whom three hundred and
twenty-four are white and eighty colored.
W received boys from every county
in the State during 1898, while during 1897
there were six counties from which we
| received norpe.
AS TO Of commitment, in 1897
there We're forty-four committed for
crimes against property, and forty-ive
fNr o,;., 80 o;,, Az .1,-a, or5. 4rr1
for crimes against both person and prop
erty, while in 1898 there were one hundred
| and three convicted of crimes against the
| person and five for crimes against both
| property and person.
"In all departments, whether in the
school room, in the shops or on the farm,
boys have received instruction and been
the better fitted to earn a livelihood upon
being released from the school.
During the late war our school has
been well represented by our graduates.
In every New Jersey regiment and on
vessels in the navy there We're those who
had been pupils at the school, and we
have yet to hear of one who was a dis
credit to our teaching or to the cause in
which he was enlisted"
George w. Shinn the visiting agent
VINO p6flOulcdily VlSllS tHG HOlleS u tuS
boys who have left the school, reports as
follows:-
efforts are made to reach each OUT
side minors, at least s-erni-annually, to
learn their condition, to see if they are
doing right or are being properly cared
for. Four hundred and n~inety-eight have
been thus reached and result recorded in
detail. Out boys reached and graded as
follows:-
A. l, doing exceedingly well, Z: No. 2,
doing we'll. 3H; total ss4-77 per cent. of
the whole; No. 2, not doing very well, 90;
No. 8, doing badly, p; total, 144-23 per
cent. of the whole.
s'The u per cent. classed in the upper
grades are those found employed, appar-
emily happy and well spoken of by those
whose charge they are under. The %
per cent. classed as the lower grades. are
found inclined to idleness, or vicious, or
criminal in conduct"