New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-25
TO CLOSE SCHOOL TO-DAY.
HEALTH OFFICERS AND BOARD OF ES-
INNATE DECIDE AGAINST DISCI-
Primary TRAINING BUILDING.

The closing Of the Brooklyn Disciplinary
Training School was ordered yesterday by DR..
Robert A. Black. assistant sanitary superin-
tendent in Brooklyn. after consultation with the
officers of the Health Department. The order
VIII take effect to-day, when the boys Ill from
typhoid fever viii be sent to a hospital, and the
other 112 boys will be placed in various institu-
lions until suitable place has been provided
FOR them.
At the meeting OF the Board Of Estimate and
Apportionment in the Mayors office yesterday
Deputy Collector Levey, in the absence Of Con-
troller Coler who has gone to Ithaca to address
the Cornell students, made a report on the
condition of the Brooklyn Disciplinary Training
School. NJ. Levey said that the Controller hao
investigated the condition Of the school yester-
day, and found that it was fully as bad as re-
ported He recommended the passage OF
resolution requesting the Board of Managers OF
the institution to transfer the children to otneF
refornatories, pending future action in regard
10 the school. The recommendation "aS
adopted.
Mr. Levey said that a new school with equip
ments would cost upward OF S2UO,OOO, ana IL
was a question whether the city wanted to con-
tinue to maintain the school, where boys were
kept at a greater cost than at other instltu-
tiers
Magistrate Kramer, of Brooklyn, said yester-
day that he had committed a number OF boys
70 the institution at the request OF the society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and
at the instance Of the police. and had not yet
heard OF complaints by those interested In the
children as to the conduct of the institution.
In fact, he had not heard any unfavorabe com
ments from any source, but he thought the
Beard Of Magistrates should periodically, either
collectively or in committee, make themselves
familiar with the control and supervision or
the institution.
Magistrate Lemon said the school, as an in
stitution for the reform Of incorrigibles. was
different from any other institution Of the kind
IN the country, but the building had been in
such poor shape that there had been no test of
the proposed system for reforming bad boys.
The institution at present seemed to be fail
Ure.
Magistrate Bristow remarked that when the
institution first founded the boys were
kept until they showed disposition 10 behave
themselves, when they were allowed to go. Now,
he understood they required to stay till
they reached certain age, and the result was
crowded institution. Magistrate Bristow de-
clared that he was in favor OF training school
for boys. but the institution should be kept
spotessly clean and in good shape all the time.
superintendent Sumwalt, Of the Brooklyn Dis
cplnary Training School, told a Tribune reporter
last evening that official notice had yet been
received Of the action of the Board of Estimate
yesterday. Mr.. Sumwalt said the Grand Jury on
1aVoTably impressed with the management of the
school, although. Of course. il gave indication
OF any action il might take There four boys
suffering from typhoid fever, who removed
10 the Kings County Hospital and there four
mild cases in the school.
It was rumored yesterday that the Grand Jury
would bring in pTesentment tomorrow the
UhsantaTy condition of the building.