The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-24

quired to keep clean. They have
good clean comfortable beds. They
are supplied with sufficient guam
tity of plain food, and have the APP
pearance of being healthy and con-
tented They cultivate the farr;
and are being taught agriculture
mostly
Buildings
The main building at School No.
was burned last November, and the
only buildings at this school are are
any good is the house that was built
for the superintendent, which is not
finished, and barn built about a
year ago. which is good structure:
also temporary building that has
been constructed during the last
month for an emergency dining
room
The buildings at School No. 2 are
in good condition, but are beginning
to be crowded on account of the in
crease in the number of boys sent
there. The same condition as to fire
prevails that prevailed two years
ago. when the Legislative Committee
of 1913 visited the school and to
which they called attention and
stated that it was ineXcusable and
criminal carelessness, and should be
corrected The horrible results of the
fire of November, 1914, might have
been avoided had their suggestions
been carried out. The buildings in
School No. should be lighted by
electricity, and the dangerous oil
lamp done away with; also addition
al fire escapes provided.
Management
There are but four managers serv-
ing at present, one having resigned.
Two of these are Comparatively new
on the board. They are having reg
ular meetings as required. and as
far as we can judge are striving to
better conditions at the school, but
are badly hampered by lack of
funds.
We understand that the manage
ment have changed superintendent
five times during the past two years.
The present superintendent has only
been in charge about four months
He Is an unmarried man without
previous experience, and has not
been in charge long enough to devel'
op what ability he has.
Recommendations.
We recommend that the Board Of
Managers Immediately have the
buildings known as School No.
wired for electricity, and connect
with current to be supplied by the
City of Mariana, which on investi
CATION we find can be had for less
money per month than the oil ant
gasoline now being used is costing
We recommend that the sum of Foul
Thousand Dollars be appropriated b!
this Legislature to cost of installing
Electric lights in building. and motor
for pumping the water.
We recommend that the school fol
white boys be separated from thu
school for colored at Mariana, ant
be removed to some other point il
the State that will be more access
ible from all parts of the State, ant
that will be nearer the large
markets. We recommend that tn
school for white boys be placed un
der the management of the Board o
State Institutions and that they b
authorized to purchase or receiv
donations of not less than two hun
dred acres of land close to som
good trucking section, and in a rec
ognized Christian community wher
the reformation of delinquent boy
may be assisted by the moral atmos
phere prevailing.
We recommend that this Legisla
ture provide sufficient appropriation
to carry OF the removal and estah
lishment of the Industrial Schoo
for white boys as suggested. w
make the above recommendation
after careful Investigation of pre-
vailing conditions. AS the school
now situated and conducted it
scarcely more than a convict camI
and there is great danger of tn
State turning out boys from this in
stitution that will not be improved
but will go Immediately back t
criminal practices.
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