Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-06
MANY IMPORTANT
COMMITTEES ARE
NAMED FOR STATE
Charities Board Appoints Prom-
inent Men to Look After
Big Institutions.
Especial to The Newark star.l

~ AA~
TRENTON. Dec. 6.-Seyeral standing
committees charged with important
duties have been appointed by d.
George 3. Wight. State Commissioner
tf Corrections. as the outcome OF sug-
g~estions made, followed by a discussion
at the quarterly meeting of the ad-
eisory board of the State Commission
Of charities and Core ctions held at the
state House Inst Friday. The boaru
is composed of the heads of all the
state charitable. correctional and penal
4 Institutions. The new committees may
have an important bearing upon the
future workings of the institutions.
They are as follows:
Lepislatiye-Dr. Henry A. Cotton,
medical director of the New Jersey
state Hospital for the Insane in this
CITY: DR.. David F. Weeks, superin-
1endent of the State Village for Epi-
leptics at Skillman: C. Clarence Deacol.,
sa4perintenuent OF the Burlington
County Insane Asylum at New Lisbon.
The duties of this committee will be 10
consider and recommend all legislation
relating to the institutions and to gen
eral charitable and correctional mat
ters.
Dependents. Detectives and Delin-
quents-Dr. Henry A. Cotton, George
Z o.. Osborne. of this city. head keeper
: at the state prison; Professor Edward
r. tombstone, head of the Training
School for Feeble-Minded Children 81
yineland; DR.. Henry II. Id
director of research at the same instl-
tuition. 1t will be the work of this COM
mlttee to investigate the causes OF ana
the best methods for preventing crime,
dependency and mental deficiency.
Purehases-Samuel T. Atchley, of this
I city. warden of the New Jersey State
Hospital; o. NJ. Bowen, warden of the
Morris Plains Insane Hospital: Samuei
". Kirkbride, of this city, supervisor
st the State prison; Dr.. Frank Moore,
superintendent of the State Reforma-
tory at Railway; j. C. Kalleen, super
intendent Of the Reform School for
Boys at Jamesburg. This committee
was named to plan the best methods
for purchasing supplies for all the
4 state institutions. 1t is believed that
money can be saved to the State BY
! purchasing certain kinds of supplies
IN large quantities and then dividing
them among the institutions as needed
I This and other similar matters viii be
referred to this committee.
Transfer of Inmates-Dr. George W.
4 King, superintendent of the Hudson
+ County Insane Asylum at ~Secaucus,
AIRS. Elizabeth V. H. Mansell. of this
city. superintendent OF the State Home
4 for Girls in this city; DR.. Madeleine A.
q Ifallowell superintendent of the Home
B for Feeble Minded Women at Vine
- F-ts -H11 10 IL r1nr
with the work of arranging all rams
j 4ers of inmates from one institution 10
another. deciding when such transfers
should DC made and regulating such
matters generally.
Inspection-Dr. Britton d. Evans,
medical director of the Morris Plains
Insane Hospital: j. c. Kalleen, Com
missioner Wight. with Professor e.. l..
Johnstone as alternate. This is one. OF
the most important of the committees
named. Its duties will be TO inspect
the various State institutions and in
vestigate all questions relating to their
management. The idea back of the
naming Of this committee was that
such a body should look into the man
agement of any institution as soon as
there are rumors that things are not
as they should be.
Appropriations-Dr. S. E. English,
superintendent Of the State Sana-
forum for Tubercular Diseases at Glen
Gardner; Samuel T. Atchley, DIR. Brit
ION d. Evans. The work of this com
mittee will be 10 look into and recon-
mend all appropriations for the institu-
tions. 1t has been proposed that the
matter of all appropriations for the in
situations be so regulated that no
money be allowed by the Legislature
unless indorsed by this committee. 1t
is expected that the committee will i'm
prove the appropriations situation SO
that each institution will not have ito
ask for once and a half as much as IL
wants to get three-quarters what it
needs"
Publicity-Dr. Moore, Prison Keeper
Osborne, Tobias Mcconnell, superin-
tendent of the Atlantic County Insane
Hospital at ~Pieasantville. This COM
mittee will have the work of giving to
the press and public all matters relat-
ing to the work Of the institutions and
the charities and corrections depart
ment.
There will he appointed later a special
legal committee to consider the ques-
ton of the commitment and care Of
habitual d~runkards, the voluntary com
rnitment Of the criminal insane, salaries
of employees, the parole and %probations
systems, the indeterminate sentence,
transfer of adults according to Law
from the children's institutions to the
two State custodial institutions for
adult feeble-minded and 50 on. This
committee will report at a special meet
ing to be called the latter part of Jan.
uary.