Putnam patriot., 1913-09-12
GOVERNORS DAY
 AT THE BIG FAIR
Lieutenant Governor Tinqier Delivers Address to Crowd
THOUSANDS GREET HIM
Other Officials of the State Are on the Grounds Womans' Reformatory Commission Begins Work
 National Guard News.

ASPSNioi h1dIlioEu OOrTeSpoIdence. Hartford.-f'rom the vantage ground of the judges stand. Lieutenant Gov. ernor Lyman Twining Tiugier ad dressed the people assembled at Char ter Oak park on Governors Day" at the Connecticut fair grounds. There was the second biggest outpouring of the week. estimates of the attendance at tbe time of the Governor address. 1;S0, running from 15,o00 to 10000. with people still piling by the girl guarded turnstiles in a steady proces- sion which promised to increase the total by many thousands more belore the racing started at 2:S0.
 The Reception cimmittee.
 The Lieutenant Governor was ae- eompanied by a reception committee which included in its makeup the delegation that represented Hartford in the last general assembly, with one notable exception.
 Mayor Cheney presented the acting governor 10 the large assemblage which was quite as notable in a diff ferent way as the great attendance of Labor Day. There were more peo- pie of State prominence present or at any rate. it seemed so, because the notables were not swallowed up in the massed humanity that filled the park space All the State officials answered to the roll, Comptroller Daniel P. Dunn, reporting for the third time. and having a lot of people to greet The State Treasurer Edward & Rob erts, was there, and in fact a roll call of the officials who have their working or receiving offices on Capitol Hill would have shown but few absentees. There were present the mayors of many cities the head men of many villages. several senators and more members of the lower house than of tentimes faced Speaker Morris c. Webster toward the flag end of the last session. What did they talk about?
 What They Talked About.
 Well, the crops, the fine weather the fair has been having, the looks of the Ayrshires, the Guernseys and the Holsteins in the new cattle sheds, the blue swine and the way to prove it to doubting Thomases was to show them; Governor Baldwin's address in the West favoring the payment by the State of the election expenses of all candidates for public office; whether Homer s. Cummings will lock horns with Bryan F. Mahan for the United States Senatorshfp; whether it is true that William Jennings Bryan had giv en the cold shoulder to Philip Troup son of the secretary's life long friend, who is holding up the federal judg ship, and occasionally, what, good looking acting governor the man from Holland county makes and whether he would have votes enough in the State convention a year away. These were some of the topics.
 Reformatory Commission Begins.
 The members of the commission ap- pointed to inquire into the matter of the establishment of reformatory for women in this State held its first meeting in the old Senate Chamber. All the members attended They are Arthur R. Kimball, of Waterbury; Ed W III 1s inHCs OA GAahOih 0Pi Professor William B. Bailey of New Haven; Miss Alma F. Owen, of Suf- field, and Miss Alma Lyman, of Mid dlefleld
 Professor Bailey was chosen chair man of the commission. The com mission was in session about two hours during which the scope of its l d lAI to find out the number of women in the State between sixteen and thirty years of age who have been sent to jail for offenses, those who are out on probation, or who have been fined. When this information is secured, the commission will be able to state if the reformatory is needed.
 It is the intention of the members of the commission to familiarize them selves with the work at the House of the Good Shepherd in this city and of the Florence Crittenden Home in New Haven. The members of the commission will communicate with the institutions in other States in re- gard to their work.
 They will also make personal visits to these institutions and in other ways obtain knowledge of the work of con- ducting reformatories for women.
 States Watchfui Eye.
 The State Board of Charities held its first meeting since the summer va cation. The following were present. Dr. E. A Down, Mrs. F. A. Mitchell. J. B Holman and Secretary c. P. Kel- logg.
 The members and the secretary re ported visits D various institutions during the summer.
 Mrs. Mitchell and Nr. Holman re- ported a visit to the school for boys at Meriden They found the institu- tion in a satisfactory condition, and the boys engaged in occupational work under the charge of monitors.
 Mrs. Mitchell and Secretary Kel- logg visited almshouses in Groton. Ledyard, Colchester. East Haddam and Mansfield. They found almshouses in pretty fair shape" and suggested improvements in such miner matters
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