New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-01
EYER REPORT IN DOUBT.
COMMITTEE MEETS, BUT REACHES NO

A meeting o, the committee appointed at the last
session OF the Legislature to Investigate the man
agement OF the state Industrial School for Girls,
now the State Home for Girls. was held at the
office OF Edmund W. wakelee No 80 Liberty-st.
NewYork City yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Munsle.
the chairman: Mr. Albeit. Mr.. Wakelee and Mr..
Meeker were present An outline report. previously
prepared. submitted by Mr.. Albeit The COM
mit,ee would not divulge the views OF Mr.. Albeit.
but it evident that least two members of
the committee did not approve Of them and would
not consent 10 their adoption part OF the re-
port. Mr.. Wakelee also submitted his views IN
outline. and they were also considered. but no def
mite action taken. After prolonged discussion
Mr.. Munge and Mr. Wakelee were appointed to
continue the preparation OF the report. and they
will have it ready to submit to the whols commit
tee at early meeting TO be called by Chairman
Mungle.
Assemblyman wakeee declined TO grant inter-
view He preferred. he said 10 let the report OF the
committee appear In full and coming from II
a whole. II II could agree. he hoped IL would.
although 1t was clear that there was some friction
He thought II due 10 the COMMITTEES
that he should speak for publication 1t was
evident however from Mr. wakelee's manner that
he had decided and emphatic views OF his own. and
that he would assert them In minority report II
such should be necessary.
FRIEND OF MR. wAKELEE SPEAKS.
Later a Tribune reporter a close friend OF
Mr.. wakelee who though somewhat reluctant TO
the testimony and had reached conclusion which
there could be doubt would be satisfactory To-
the public. He continued:
l happen to know and what shall say was not not
his viaxs has ontInsd tbsn, soroewbat in his wav.
That prior TO 1897 the State Home for Girls was
WAS satisfactory and results eoWmendaoe 70 5hSse
the matter over with me. has said that the general
physical condition Of the school good and that
he visited il. That much know. Mr.. Wakelee
deems it Just to say. But he has also said. and
TO adopt In their report that since 1897 charges OF
Of punishment gaTay an ike N have
shown that there was lack Of proper UNDERSTAND,
want Of sympathy with the character Of the IN
to rule and punish rather than an honest effort
TO reform and lead the girls 20 better life; That
and individuals largely against Mrs Myrtle B.
ieT her Clerk and thai the charges
have been denied by Mrs Eyer. and In spite OF the
those assistants who complained of her methods.
It was apparent that the former Sosrd OF I
act promptly or with a sufficient degree or force
or authority within their rights as trustees.
ACTION OF THE TRUSTEES CRITICISED.
That course of the trustees. instead of Iessening
smothered it temporarily although they knew
of the school as between the matron and the teach
the matron Were true she should not, in Mr.
wakelee's opinion expressed in a recent CONVEX
single hour. If they were false. and were gratu-
itously circulated by the opponents of Mrs Eyler.
the trustees should have promptly demanded the
resignation of the mischief makers.
1t because of this condition of affairs that
general feeling of unrest and Generalization had
trustees and the teachers. Escapes from the
school became more frequent. punishments in
creased, the evidence shows, in undue proper
ton. and the discipline. in spite of its harshness.
was Intellectual. The outcome of this distressing
state of affairs, as Mr.. Wakelee has said, is that
the teachers not in sympathy with Mrs. Eyler are
longer connected with the school and. Mr..
Wakelee marked. he did not for this reason feel
called upon express any further opinion than
this in regard 70 their connection with the in
stitution.
In regard TO the charges of cruelty Mr.. wakeles
said that the testimony most conflicting. d.
rect charges were made and ratly denied. and
gether he believed that the influence of the matron
has been greatly undermined that her usefulness
wholly destroyed.
HOW THE INSTITUTION SHOULD BE RUN
/ know that Mr.. wakelee believes and T am con-
hdent that in connection with the above he will
urge the committee TO SO report, that the State
Home Tor Girls, as an institution supported out OF
the public funds. should be conducted to
merit the support and sympathy OF the whole
management for II 10 be so conducted and man
One thing Mr. Wakelee dweIt upon at some
mates of the school, who committed without
any choice upon their part. receive kind and
influences but that they so treated, and have
been so treated. should be apparent all the peo-
these conditions have not prevailed is so well
known, not only TO the committee, but to the peo-
Mr.: wakelee will embody all that 1 have told you
in his opinion Of what the report should be- In
stronger ground than he has inttHated he would
take What | have said is without his authority
1t Is true. but, nevertheless. its accuracy sub
stance will not be questioned