The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-22
WORK FOR DIVORCE.
Continued from First Page.)

ASA G4ASL ago.
of charities and correction that the re-
form school of Kansas has been a kin
~dergarten for the reformatory and an
academy for the penitentiary."
In the discussions last night the dele
gates criticised the governor for these
statements. One of the delegates from
New York, talking to a State Journal
reporter said: THE governor I ade a
serious mistake when he made the
statement. 1t gives the visitors a bad
impression to carry away"
1t was explained to his particular
delegate that the governor usually quail
1f1ed this statement with the additional
statement that the condition was the
result of miSmanagement and pJliticS.
We'll, that is a different proposition,
but the governor did not say So"
President Faulkner placed the gov
ernor right by saying during the even
ing: 1.-The governor did not mean ex-
actly what he said because he has a
pride in the state institutions. He did
not qualify the statement as he usually
does"
Men from Indiana, New York. Massa-
chusetts, Iowa and Minnesota were last
night clarifying the institutions of their
respective states and usually wound up
their remark by giving Kansas a dig
on account of what the governor said.
When Mr.. Faulkner was speaking he
said:
My friends the state reform school of
Kansas is not equipped with an indus
trial department as some of those which
you have mentioned but 1 believe that
the institution outside of that depart
ment is about as good as n of those
about which you have been talking"
This quieted the clamor against Kan
1 saS and the section meeting which had
been discussing the reform schools and
refOrmatories gave way to a stereopti-
con exhibition illustrating the Missouri
reform school at Bonneville.
The session of the conference was re-
sumed last night after the delegates re-
turned to the city by special train from
visiting the Haskell Indian school at
Lawrence. A large number of dele
gates went to Lawrence and were shown
every department of the institution, the
drills, methods of teaching, the work
shops and industrial departments. 1t
was a pleasant diversion from continu-
Gus speech making.
AS the Haskell school has the reputa-
ton of being one of the foremost gov
eminent institutions in the United
States there was much interest attached
to the excursion which was planned by
President c. E. Faulkner and H. z.
PEARS, the superintendent The visi-
tors were taken to Lawrence and return
by the Santa Fe in a special train in
charge of c. L. Seagraves, representing
the passenger department.
There is a striking difference between
the men who are here as officers of var
iouS Institutions in other states and the
officers of the Kansas Institutions Men
who have grown old in the service of
the state Wnlc0 Iney represent tell OF
their success in the management of re-
form schools and reformatories. In
Kansas a man who is interested in
these institutions is compelled to make
the acquaintance of a new crowd of Of
fcers every two years.
E. L. Charlton, a venerable gentleman
from Plainield, Ind, who has had
charge of The Indiana state reform
school since it was a small institution
with few inmates brought to Topeka a
wagon load of articles manufactured by
the boys in the industrial department
of that institution. In his address last
night, Mr.. Charlton told of the Strug-
giles Which they have had in Indiana
to keep paTtisanship out of the manage
ment of the institutions endowed fol
penal and charitable purposes. Every
thing imaginable is exhibited by the sup
erintendent as the product of the In
diana industrial departments.
The boys nave developed wonderful
proficiency and when the term of sen
tence is completed they go out of the
institution able to earn a living as a re
suit of their application to a trade by
the management of the school.
The management of this institution
summarily dismisses an officer or EN-
ploye who is guilty of slapping or other
wise furnishing a boy. And, Mr.. Charl-
ton believes in giving the boys as gooC
a time as is consistent with good man
agement. He is the man who "cele-
brates with or without provocation.
Mr.. Charlton has appropriate exercise.
for the Fourth of July, Labor Day
Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years
W~ashington'S birthday, Lincoln Day
Jefferson Day, Easter and all other no
table days during the year. I'm fact,
said one of the speakers, there is
celebration of some kind going on in tn
indiana school most all the time"