The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-22
STATE CONVICT BOARD
BOOKER WASHINGTON ASKS ABOUT
REFORMATORY.
Negro Educator Mnnifests His Interest
I'm states Proposed Aid to
Young PrisOners-Rnutine
Work at Monthly Meeting

Booker Washington. principal of the
negro school at Tuskegee, appeared be-
fore the State Board of Convict Inspec-
tors yesterday at its regular monthly
meeting. He expressed the apprecia-
| ton of his people at the action of the
Board In establishing a reformatory
for negro child convicts at Speigners,
and assured the Board of his willing
ness to help in any way in his power.
Washington wished also to know how
| the State reformatory would affect two
or three proposed reformatories which
were under way in other sections Of
the State.
President Carmichael of the State
Board of Convict Inspectors told him
that the Speigners reformatory would
be put up by the State and maintained
by the State for negro children who
might be convicted of crime 1t would
have no connection or interest in any
outside institution. He told Washing
ton that the State Board would be glad
to see other institutions of the same
sort erected by private aid and that
such institutions would have the best
wishes of the Convict Board. He told
| the principal of the Tuskegee Institute
that the Board would receive any sug-
gestion that he might make in regard
to the regulations of the reformatoly.
gestion to make, but that he was very
much gratifled that the State had I'M
, dertaken the work of correcting GRIM
inal tendencies in negro children.
In discussing the reformatory with
the negro educator, President Car
michael mentioned the fact that the
reformatory was for town raised negro
children. He said he had no negro boy
convicts who had been raised in the
country.
Washington said that this had been
his experience at Tuskegee. He had
rarely ever to dismiss a boy from his
school for misconduct who had been
reared in the country. The students
whose misbehaviors drew dismissal
down upon them were usually the ne
groes who came from the towns and
cities.
Washington was accompanied to the
Capitol by Professor Tulane. another
well known negro teacher.
There also appeared before the Board
an intelligent and educated negro wo-
man. who said that she represented tine
Colored Women's Confederation ui
Clubs of Alabama. She, too. wished to
see the members of the Board in refer
ence to a reformatory for negro chill
dren She wished to draw the atten-
ton of the members of the Board to
tory, a project which had started with
100 acres of land. the gift of a we'll
known negro.
The Convict Inspectors endorsed the
movement and wished for 1t success,
but announced that the efforts of the
State officials would be towards making
the Speigner reformatory success,
without dividing up their energies in
assisting any other school.
The meeting of the Board was at
tended by President Carmichael, Ply
stefan Inspector Shirley Bragg and As
sociate Inspector Thomas Bradford,
The meeting was filled with routine
matters. In attendance upon the meet
ing were President ]. C. Maben of the
SchIoss- Sheffield Coal and Iron Com
pany and Mine Superintendent w. l.
Rogers.