The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-04
REFORMERS HERE
Officers of National Association
of Charities Coming.
Will Make Arrangements For
the General Meeting.
LOOK OVER GROUND.
They Propose to Take a Look at
State Institutions.
Arrangements Made For Meet
ings in Churches.
LOOK OVER GROUND.

A special meeting of several of the
officers and leading men of the Ma
tionaI Association of Charities and Cor
| rection, will be held in Topeka on next
| Saturday, and will probably continue in
I session for four or five days. This
meeting will be preliminary to the
twenty seventh conference of the as
| ISOLATION which will meet in this city
in May of this year.
The following gentlemen villa arrive
in Topeka this week: Colonel c. E.
Faulkner, president of the association,
Minneapolis; Mr.. H. H. Hart, secretary,
Chicago, and Mr.. o. A. Wright, ex-
president. They come for the purpose
of becoming better acquainted with To-
peka, her city and state officers, ar
| range dates and transact such other
| business as is preparatory to the con-
| ference which is to be held here in
May.
Mr.. James A. Troutman, vice presi-
dent, has arranged the following pro-
gramme of entertainment for the gem
| tlemen:
On Saturday afternoon, all members
of the state board, heads of the penal
| and charitable institutions of the state,
| the state officers, and a local commit
tee of forty or fifty of the citizens of
Topeka. will meet with the gentlemen,
to talk over matters, pertaining to the
| meeting Gnd the association.
On Sunday, seven meetings will be
held in the various churches of the city,
| by the visiting gentlemen In the morn
| ing, Colonel Faulkner viii speak at the
First Congregational church. At the
First Conversational church In
the the evening at the First Meth
Christian church, Mr.. Hart will
speak in the morning, and in the even
ing. at the First Baptist church. Mr..
| Wright's morning address has not yet
| been decided upon, but in the evening he
will speak at the First Presbyterian
| church.
On Sunday afternoon at three o'clock
all the gentlemen will be present at
Rev. Chas. NJ. Sheldon's church.
Monday at ten o'clock in the morning,
a special session of the Ministerial
Union will be held, in order to give the
members a chance to meet the visiting
gentlemen, and discuss such business as
may properly come up for action.
At IL o'clock a delegation from the
| thirty-two women's clubs of the city
will be given opportunity to meet the
gentlemen.
The Twenty National Confer
| ence of Charities and Correction will
meet in Topeka in May, and the visit
of the officers is preliminary to that
meeting.
The National Conference of Charities
and Correction held in Topeka will be
! an important one and will bring to-
S6lIlSI representative people from all
| parts of the United States. The con-
| ference will last about ten days and the
| programme will include among other
features, visits to the various penal
and charitable institutions throughout
| the state.
The aims of this association are along
| general reformatory lines, especially
with regard to the reformation of the
management of the state institutions,
removing them from politics and plac-
ing them on a safe and sound basis
The dates of the conference to be held
| IN May have not as yet been decided
definitely upon, but will be determined
at the preliminary meeting to be held
| here Saturday.
Governor Stanley is taking quite an
| interest in the coming conference and
seems in hearty accord with the aims
| of the association.
The officers of the association are as
follows: President, c. E. Faulkner.
| Minneapolis; vice presidents, J. A.
| Troutman, Topeka. Kan. G. H. Knight,
! M. D., Lakeyille, Conn; Mrs. Isabel G.
| Barrows, Dorchester, Mass; general
| secretary, Hastings H. Hart, Chicago;
treasurer. A. o. Crozier, Grand Rapids;
| official editor, Mrs. Isabel C. Barrows,
| Dorchester, Mass.