New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-07
"SINC sing WILL Co"
GOVERNOR PREDICTS
Glynn Addresses Womeu
of Civic Federation on
Prison Reform.
BLACKWELL'S INMATES
A SNOW SOLUTION
DIR. Davis Suggests That Thew r,
Used in Clearing Streets, All
Being Put on Honor.

New York women who are working 70,
prison reform applauded Governor Civ.
at a mass meeting held last night in "a.
negie Hall under the auspices OF n.
womans department OF the Nation,
Civic Federation.
The Governor told his hearers that h,
would use all his efforts to advance IA,
cause. but advised them TO proceed SLOW,
~ and cautiously on account OF the lae1
Of available funds i'm the State Treas,,
at present to meet all the needs that hsy,
been proposed.
II am with you heart and soul" saa
the Governor. Il believe that more Grim.
mails become so by accident than by IN.
tent Society must not become the enemy
Of accidental criminals. Correction is IA,
better than punishment. and crime should
not be committed to punish crime.
Every jail should he a true reforms.
tory. and no convict should go out Of jsil
We have made progress in prison reform
since the days OF our ancestors.
II have received many letters from this
society asking that Sing Sing be abo.
ished. II the society means what il saN
and does what il proposes to do, then
Sing Sing must go. Reforms must A
made in other prisons or the prisons
must be abolished also, but we can't Do
this all at once. The state hasn't tn.
money now, and you must proceed cal.
tiously TO gain your ends
Governor Glynn suggested that mem.
bers OF the society help their own caus.
by interesting themselves in the propose
Constitutional Convention IN lslS and
working for change in the present lave
for appropriations of money
Governor Oswald West OF oregon tod
Of the efforts of the Western state 10 op-
crate prisons with minimum of hard
ship to their inmates He paid hsh
tribute to the women who are working
for a betterment in jail conditions.
Other speakers were Dr. Frank Moor
Superintendent OF the Railway reiofms-
tory. in New Jersey: Or. J. T. GilmoJr
warden OF the tfuh al 'to"" 49,"
Toronto: John Manning. of the Carmen.
Workers Union. and Thomas Mott Us
borne
Mrs. Francis Mcneil Bacon jrr pre-
sided
Some OF the women who occupied ooAis
or seats on the stage were Mrs Roger u.
Bacon. Miss Maud Wetmore' Miss Anne
Morgan. Mrs. August Belmont Mls'
Maud Rives Borland. Mrs. William hanu
ir Miss Caroline Shipper. Mrs. r. W.
Theron and Miss Janet Hoy
Dr. katherine q. Davis. commission
~ correction. suggested at the sfternoo
session of the federation, held IN ur
Hotel Astor. that il another severe snow
storn, should visit the city prisoners ifo.i
r,,aol,weus island be employed i'm cl"ai
ing the streets. 49,,
- would place the prisoners ON the'.
honor not TO run away she SAID. Al
what If two or three did escape we ~
more than that number each inon'n y
80 ,achnicalitv Of the courts. / peNe''
in utilizing prison labor in such en'e.
oencies. II would save a lot OF money "
the city" -. c,,,
ro,,,r,iss ioner Davis said that the GU
needed new Tombs, new "orA"o -.
ond additional farms Tor prisoners. '
cleo advocated a further segresd"o"
male and female prisoners. lhes 80
t"aonened in separate penal INSTITUTIONS
she said. ~o,,,y Of
a.. ~a,ional Committee on Prison Law
aaya an illustrated lecture sho"ihs ~
ovils in the construction Of Jails 'hf'O'.
80, tho state Many still exist ne saD
,hat contain medieval methoos VI m.',
lion So far as cells, sanitation anu
are concerned. -, hs sad
Men are still kept i'm cages. ne . ss
.rt 60 shameful The day of amman ~ 20,
ment of men is past. sing SinS vas tir,s
in 1896. Many Of the cells OF '''' '
-, Great abuse which should he REM
disd is the infrequent convenins OF 'g.
s,,rias prisoners are kept in county 's"
sor ,s long as three months before O''".
hrnnUhr form lOl AiAnA-
are declared innocent and aiio"eu
free" 49,. .r;ls o,
Dr Lewis also emphasized the e'ls u
housing Migrants and others sel's ',n,.
for petty crimes with confirmed er'ln" -.
and the lack OF industrial laoor J"
iails or on farms conducted by tne ,''' !.
tutions where food products cou''
raised. =, NeN
"It is about time that the 'ity o.
YORK grew its own provisions io' p'
consumption" he concluded.
DIR. +. Stag Within spoke on ~"
ordination of Boards and Com''''SS'. .,,,.
othor speakers at the afternoon me-"
we're william Church Osborn JUL" "a
Riley. Superintendent Of fr'so"s' Ell.
York city. and Martha T. falCo"''' al.
Of the Womsns fa'n -.
onv. Darlington. Penn. The sehelS ,s
,ect discussed by the spe'Ne' ,,s,.
Prison Systems and Correcuo''' ~