The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-04-09
Supt. A. j. Hutton of the Reform
School at Waukesha Looks
After Lads From County
THE NUMBER is INCREASING
Superintendent Declares That His School
Plans to Give Every Boy Chance
and the Boy Who Falls
Down Another Chance

A. J. Hutton of Waukesha, superin-
tendent Of the industrial School for
boys in that city, is in Kenosha today
looking after the records Of seven boys
from this county who have been paroll-
ed from the school and who are now
at work in different parts Of the county.
Kenosha county is one of the counties
in the state that has recognized the
great value Of the Waukesha school and
in the last ten years more than forty
boys have been sent from this county to
Waukesha to be placed under the care
Of Mr.. Hutton and he gives a very good
report of the boys under his care. In
speaking of the boys from this county
Mr.. Hutton said that none Of them had
proved to be vicious or of criminal
nature and most Of them have been
parolled within twenty months after
they entered the institution. Many Of
the boys are now employed on farms
in the county and Superintendent Hut
ton states that the boys on the farm
are doing exceedingly well and that
there was no reason to believe that any
of the boys would be called back to the
institution at this time However the
superintendent keeps close personal
inspection over the boys and he is, very
strict in his rule to recall them to the
institution the first time that they lapse
from the paths Of rectitude.
In speaking Of the work Of the insti-
tuition this morning, Mr.. Hutton said:
81 want the people Of Kenosha county
and of the whole state to understand
the nature of our work at Waukesha.
While the Wisconsin Industrial School
for boys is in a way penal institution,
it is an institution that we seek to make
power for good and we seek to reform
rather than to punish. My prop
osition is to give these boys who
never had a chance, chance to
make something Of themselves in
life and if any Of the boys have had
a chance and failed to take advantage
of it, [ am always willing to give them
another so long as there is any good in
the boy Continuing he said "You
see this school gets whole lot of boys
who are raised under conditions that
gives them no chance to get start in
life and many of them when they do
get the start get started wrong. Most
of these boys are anxious to do right
but they do not know the right and we
are seeking to make an upright life pos
sible for these boys. Some Of the older
judges Of the state IL not seem to
appreciate this phase OF the work of
the Waukesha school and it is certain
that some are sent to us who should go
to the Wisconsin reformatoIy at Green
Bay. When a boy gets to the age of
nineteen years we cannot hope to do
a great deal for him in the two years
that it would be possible for him to re-
main with us. The recent hard times
have had direct effect on the Wauke-
sha school and the number of boys re-
ceived has been larger than while the
good times prevailed Many Of these
boys are not criminals in any sense of
the word and when parolled they make
useful citizens.
superintendent Hutton is deeply in
terested in the work Of his institution
and he has been in charge there for so
long a time that he has made himself
endeared to many of the boys in the
state who have been reformed by his
kindly advice and teaching. He never
loses his personal interest in his boys
and he makes it a business to make a
personal investigation of the conduct Of
every boy parolled from the institution.