New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-26
HAS FAITH IN THE TRUSTEES
GOVERNOR VOORHEES, on THE STATE
DUsTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GrRIs

ON The STATE IN
DUsTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
referring TO the assertions repeatedly mad. -.
az Is N ,aVor OF secretly conducting the inves,,
ton Of the State Industrial School for Girls So
80 " % H"ue oy legislative committee, Governo.
'oorneeS SAID to a Tribune reporter yesterday.
J. With the present issues I have absoIr+a,,.
ing 70 do decline to take any Dar1 IN ley moth
responsibility ended when 1 selected new B Ny
u uSees believe that it is competent 70 Sd1
with the problem and that il win 40 - % DEAL
i pSt interests OF the State if it is left 10 pr- Sns
~ own methods. No can deplOra tOo E -Hue
me lnceSsant agitation about the school N 9lueh
S 81 II Is utterly subveTsive of all discinl,os
Gnu MAKES almost impossible the successful Tra'
Asement OF the school The Inmates are b man
and snow eie1 ~ f q mat they are badly treated
hfno"Iedse warrants me in saying that this aSJti
institutions of a ike character and tbsse ~ T'ner
telhng what viii be the end Of II am SuraIv ~, no
Few weeks AT least to familiariza rhensess We, "a
od s NE [%nIIlon OF affairs before their meth
II were to follow my own personal inclination
njti MeIt ~ Inc position OF the trustees would
the yellow journals to attend the proposeS iTy OF
flSdoloI i ms NAV seem TO some if felt tba
Importance is attached their yellow s+s+ t..-e
may be inferred when il is said tbat Elements
sentatlveS of six of these publications yvbjcb -
plotted in lurid lines and with assumed patbos ~
for their accounts but said thew vara PTrsonaly
ders to write as they did I have no douht IN tn
men who have similar orders with refsrensc 1uIS
the investigation 20 be conducted nv tba 1rss,o
committee The facts of the case can he obtsiralSS
without the help of space writer's and sanss+iout
mongers and believe that the people Of the Stata
agree with me in this matter.
II no opportunity is 10 be given 70 the trustees
to adjust the difficulties and # they are to rs
criticised before such opportunity Is given no sef
respecting person would retain his place for :
moment, and few viii be fond who would ba
Wiling TO assume the thankless task. The stats
should he willing 10 have confidence in the rrr-
tees. and to assume that they viii act horesfIv
and consctentiously until it is shown that thew
have done otherwise. IVY
Apart from what the Governor said. as abova
quoted. it is known that the agitation in counAc-
ton with the State Industrial School for Girls has
extended TO the State Reform School for Bows -
Jamesburg and that the managers of the last
named institution fearful that If this agitation
is continued il may have bad effect Already
there signs OF insUbOrdinat ton there and the
possibility of bad results from corrupting fn4u-
ences such as are always more or less prevalent
in institutions of the kind are not so remote as
they We're before the agitation of the affairs IN
the girls school began. In the boys school ons
person is in charge Of twenty inmates while in
the school for girls there about twenty inmates
in charge of
Speaking of the coming investigation OF the
girls school, Assemblyman Mungel, chairman OF
the committee. has said that it shall be full and
conducted openly privately viii not be known
until after the committee meets to-day The press
of the State is almost unanimous against secret
sessions.