The times., 1901-05-15
END OF CONFERENCE NEAR
Charity Workers Hear More Ad'
dresses and Elect Officers.
The Delegates Now Find Time for
Equal Interest in Business and
Recreation and Indulge in II
Pleasant Trip Down the Potomac.

Pleasant Trip Down the Potomac
When adjournment is made tonight the
National Conference of Charities and Cor
rections viii have concluded the most sue
eessful annual meeting of its history
Nearly every known form of charitable
and philanthropic work has been given
careful consideration by the leaders in
the respective sections. IN point of num-
bers attending and in ability the present
annual meeting has been the peer of any
ever held.
The busiest day of the entire session
was yesterday. A great amount of work
was done at the morning meetings at Co
lumbian University. In the afternoon
nearly 500 people went to River View
where a planked shad dinner was served.
In the evening a well-attended meeting
was held at Foundry Church, under the
direction of the section on Reformatories,
and the report of the Committee on Nomi-
nations, recommending Timothy Nichol-
son. of Richmond, Ind. for president of
the next conference, was adopted. Mr..
Nicholson is one of the foremost prac-
tical charity workers in the United States
and has for a number of years been a
| prominent member of the conference
The selection of a presiding officer was
not easily made. The name of the Rev.
Samuel G. Smith, Of St Paul was also
| considered. One of the noteworthy
changes was the election of Homer Folks.
| Of New York. to the position of general
| secretary to succeed the Rev Hastings
| Hart. of Chicago, who has held that po-
sition for inward of twenty years.
1t is expected that WI Ting-fang. the
Chinese Minister, viii deliver an address
at the closing session tonight in Foundry
! Church. This afternoon a number of the
! delegates will make an excursion to the
! National Junior Republic at Annapolis
Junction, Md
The meeting last night at Foundry
| Church was devoted to matters of espe-
cial interest to the section on Reformato-
! ries. The chairman Of this section. E. p
Wentworth, Superintendent of the State
Reform School at Portland. Ne. was un-
able to be present. His place was filed
by c. Dewey Hilles, Superintendent of the
| Boys Industrial School at Lancaster,
! Ohio.
mir. Wentworth's paper on The Origin
and Development of the Juvenile Re
| formatory was read by Lyman d. Drake,
| Superintendent of the State Reform
| School at Bonneville, Mo He said that
the last half of the eighteenth century
! witnessed the prevalence Of the most
horrible treatment of youthful criminals,
| but the beginning of the last century saw
an awakening This resulted in the be
ginning of a movement that has now cul-
| minated in ninety eight splendid reforma-
tory institutions.
He advocated the cottage plan, accord
ing TO which dozen boys live together
in one building. The advantages claimed
are the opportunities for closer obsery-
ance Of the boy and adaptation of teach
! ing to his peculiar needs.
! In his paper Mr.. Wentworth urged that,
| 60 ensure success the management of the
| institution should be completely divorced
| from politics and that tenure of office
| should be determined solely by the eff
cheney of the service rendered.
William G. Fairbank, Superintendent of
| the State Industrial School for Girls, II
| AIIdJIetown, Conn, toek as the subject
| of his address Girls ReformatOrias and
/ ] heir Inherent characteristics He call
( ed attention to the fact that the public
/ interest had not been shown in girls re-
! fornatorieS until long after those for
| boys had been eSta abhshed in many States
Of the Union. Mr.. Fairbank Is an adher-
| ent OF the cottage plan and faNOrs it for
! the same reason that most superlnten-
! dents of reformatories do, namely, be
! cause II gives chance 20 deal more
/ closely with the personality of the child
| He said that the girls should be taught
| primarily those things which viii TIT
! them to supervise households. Sewing,
! cooking, laundry work, and nursing
snoulI he taught. together with the studies
| OF the ordinary school education. After
! this might come typewriting, bookkeep-
| ing. and other studies which would fit the
/ girls to take positions In stores and Of
I uces. He th ought, however the best
| thing for gIri to do after leaving the
! school was to enter some good home as a
/ helper.
| The Committee on Nominations submit
| ted their report. and the officers nominat-
! ed were elected as follows:
President, Timothy Nicholson, of Rich
Vice Presidents, r. T Janney. Wash
I ington, ID. C; Franklin MacFeagh, Chi
| cago, III; Thomas Muiry, New York City;
Jose NJ Berriz, Havana, Cuba; Jose +.
! Godoy, Washington, d. c.
General Secretary, Homer Folks, New
| York. Assistant Secretaries-AnIus W.
Butler, Indianapolis. Ind; Miss Mary J..
Btrtwell, Cambridge, Mass; Charles +.
! Kellogg, Waterbury. Conn: W. II. Me
| Claim, st, Louis, Mo; Lee X. Frankel,
Treasurer-A o. Crozier. Grand Rapids.
| Mich.
Official Reporter and Editor-Mrs. Isabel
| &. Barrows, New York
| Members Of the Executive Committee
| The President-eIect, the cx-Presidents,
! and l. ID. Drake, BoOnville. Mo: the Rev
J 5. G. Smith. st. Paul, Mimi; T. r. Bick-
| yer, Col; Mrs. Emily f.. Williamson,
| Elizabeth, n. j; c. o. Merica, Waukes sha.
| Wis; K. W. Hebberd, Albany, n. Y
Chairmen and members of standing
| committees:
Reports from States-Thc General Sec
/ rotary and Charles +. Kellogg. Water
| bury. Conn: a. w. Clark. Omaha. Neb.
State Supervision and Administration of
| Charities and CorreCtiOns-Jeffrey r.
| Brackett, Baltimore, Md, Chairman, W
! r. Lyon, Madison, Wis; Leontine Lin
| coin, Fan River, Mass; Prof. Charles p
| Neil. Washington, ID. c.; Hugh + Fox
| Bayonne, N j.; Eugene Lister Olympia
| Wash: Hon. S. W. RosendaIe. Albany
| y. Y; Rev. James a. Orman, Nashville
| Tenn; A w. Butler. indianapolis Ind .
| Miss Grace W. Minis, Boston Mass b.
| II. OSterhOudt, San Juan, Porto Rico
| Needy Families in Their Homes-Charles
! F. Weller, Washington, d. c. Chairman
| G. NJ. Hubbard. Cincinnati. Ohio David
| |. Green Hartford. Conn; Frank Tucker
! New York, n. Y: Miss Emma Field
| Grand Rapids, Mich; J. NJ. Hanson, Kan
| sas City. Mo; Miss NJ. f. Richmond
| Philadelphia, Pa: Nathan Blur, New
! York, n. y; Miss Charlotte G0n. Des
! MOines, Iowa: Bleecker Van Wagner
| Plainheld, y. J. BENJAMIN Pettee. Bos-
ton. Mass; Francis McLane. Montreal
| Canada.
Juvenile Delinquents-Jamcs Allison
| Cincinnati. Ohio. Chairman; Mrs L. l.
| Bracket. Lancaster. Mass: l. B. Drake.
! New York. N. Y; Miss Harriet A Leav-
| tit. HaliOweli, Me: =. J.. Olds Golden
| Col; Julius San Martin. Havana. Cuba:
| Mrs. John b. Elan. indianapolis, Ind. ;
| Mornay Williams. New York n Y; w
| c. Kilvington. Nashville Tenn.
Destitute and Neglected Chiidreu-C. W
| BiItwell. Boston. Mass Chairman.
| Timothy y. Hurley, Chicago III; W. r
| MahOn, New York. n. Y; James NJ
| Brown. Toledo. o.; Miss Elizabeth Kerr
| Philadelphia, Pa; NJ. T. Park. Sparta
Wis. jerome Z. Clark, Havana, Cuba ;