Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
CHILDREN'S GUARDIANS
BUSINESS BEFORE BOARD AT ITS
RECENT MEETING.
Report of ]. w. Douglass, Agent, for
the Month of May-Dispo-
sition Of Wards.

tho Cuntou building There were present:
r r Tupper. president: John f. Cook,
vice president: b. Pckman Mann. secre-
tary; VIM. J. Miller. Rev. Louis Stern Mrs.
J. W. Babson. Miss Ella Moore, Mrs Mary
l.. d. Macfarland and the agent, John Yves
ley Douglass. After the reading ana ap-
prevail of the minutes of the last meeting
and the executive committee meeting re-
ports were received from the various com
mittees through their chairman. The COM
mittee on homes and institutions reported
visits to the Junior Republic the Children
Temperance Home, the Elwyn School Tor
Predetermined Children and others.
Some features of the system at the Junior
Republic were informally discussed. Upon
the whole IT was felt that the results upon
such wards as the board had placed there
were very decidedly beneficial.
A special committee on the probation sys-
TEN for juvenile offenders reported tenta-
tive plans for the betterment OF eNstiis
methods The question was raised as TO
whether the probation system could not
humanely be extended to adult first oi1eno-
ers.
The report of the agent Mr.. Douglass,
was submitted and partially considered.
Because of the lateness of the hour and the
Importance of matters not considered an
adjournment to next Saturday was ordered
The agents report in part follows:
Regarding the Wards.
Twenty-three children were made wards
during the month of May until they attain
majority. - being white and eleven col
ored Nine were presented before the
court as incorrgibles. as destitute of
suitable home and children of unfit parents,
9 as simply destitute of proper home, 1 as
an abandoned child and l because of unfit
parents. These children were PLACID as fol-
lows: Industrial Home School, 6; Hart
Farm School ); Bruen Home, 3; Childrens
Temporary Home, 2; boarding homes, 2; on
trial with relatives or friends, 4; on trial
for indenture, l.
The names Of 10 children were added to
the temporary rolls, Q being white and 10
colOred Ten We're received under tenn
porary care without order of the court and
. We're received under temporary care by
order of the court OF these 10 children
were maintained in boarding homes at
the Bruen Home, 1 at the Children's Tenn
porary Home. sent out of the city to rela-
tives friends and 1 was permanently
committed.
nent wards the last day of May up to
ass. and the temporary wards on expense
on that date, II.
Number Under Supervision.
The permanent wards are accounted for
as follows:
Whte-Industrial Home School. %; Junior
Republic. %; ST Joseph's Male Orphan
Asylum. 3; House of the Good Shepherd, l.
ST. Vincents Female Orphan Asylum, /;
House of Mercy. 1: st. Agnes Industrial
Home. 1 total. 81; in boarding homes, 40:
total white on expense, 81. In hospital, 1;
trial with relatives or friends 81; on
trial for adoption, 4: on trial for indenture,
p: on indenture. 93; apprenticed, %; alb
sconders, s. Grand total, $50
Colored-Children Temporary Home, "a
Hart Farm School, 3s; House of the Good
Shepherd. Baltimore, 4; total. 3d. in board
ing homes, 81: total colored on expense.
196. In Maryland School for Colored Blind
and Deaf /: hospitals. 8; on trial with
relatives or friends, 165; on trial for adop-
ton. g. on trial for indenture, H. on in
denture. 135; apprenticed. %; absconders
30: total 63S. Grand total 9SS.
There were thirty-five wards at the insti-
tuition for the feeble-minded at Elwyn, Pa,
and twenty at Falls Church. Va.
Contracts Prepared.
The contracts with the various institu-
tons for the care of our wards for the next
fiscal year have been prepared and are
ready for the consideration of the proper
committee. These follow in form the con-
tracts of former years, and l would re-
specially suggest that the committee on
homes and institutions be authorized to &C
cept and ratify these contracts.
As directed at the last meeting l sub
nit for your consideration form of con-
tract with the Hart Farm School, copies
of which have been sent to the individual
members of the board for their considera-
tiOn in advance of the meeting.
The physicians report shows thirty-six
children on the sick list and a total OF
eighty professional visits made to wards
One death occurred during the month
Forty-one children have been dropped
from the rolls during the month; thirty
nine because of age. one because of mar
riage and one because of commitment to
the reform school.
Free Home Placements.
Total number of free home placements,
%. Transferred from one free home to an
other. Z; returned from free homes, 6; alb
seconded from free homes. 3; total. 10; net
gain in free homes. g. Transferred from ex-
pense to non-expense. 8; transferred from
none-expense to expense @; net gain from
expense to non-eXpense, g.
Summary of probation work for the
month:
Active supervision from last report, 161.
Probation term ended. 13; enlisted in ma
rines, l; again placed on probation, l tenn
porary commitment l; permanent commit
ment TO board. /; committed to reform
school. 1; total, IS; grand total, 143
Active supervision from other months:
Received during the month. %; fines paid,
] sent out of the city. l; net gain during
the month, %; active supervision May 81,
166; reports to office by children 236; chill
dren visited at home 81; cases investigat-
ed. Al one outing for white boys; one out
ing for colored boys.
The Expenditures.
The total expenditures for May were $4-
o3l.G5. divided as follows: For administra-
tive purposes. s759.0S for Hart Farm
School $59661; for general purposes (nain-
tenance). S2.675.96; total. $4.U31.65.
The condition of the funds on June l was
as follows: Maintenance fund-Total appro-
priatiOn, ga, 200; expended to May, as per
last report, S26.744.9S: expended for May
S26IJ.96; balance available, $5,2T9.06
Administrative fund-Total appropriation
$500; expended to May l. as per last re-
port. S6.S74.39; expended for May, S759.OS;
balance available. $966.53.
Hart Farm SchOol-Total appropriation,
$l2OOO: expended to May /. as per last re-
port. 2,44l 90; expended for May, S596.61
balance available. $S.96l.43 Balance avail
able from feeble minded fund for quarter,
81 22D.J9 balance available from fund for
burial OF wards for quarter. $3.50.
Asks for Jury Trial.
Felix Simms. colored. pleaded not guilty
in the Police Court this morning when ar
raigned on two charges of assault and