Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-20
|ARK. INDUSTRIAL l SCHOOL FOR BOYS | IN JEFFERSON 
 |Final Decision Reached by Board Meeting in
 Little Rock. PRACTICALLY IN CITY PINE BLUFF Site of 1GO Acres Donated by Capt. and Mrs, Sebastian Gesreiter, and Citizens Subscribe $5,366 to Additional Land.

The State Industrial school for boys will be located in Jefferson county.
 This matter was determined last night
 at a meeting of the board ins Little
 Rock. It will be located on site do-
 mated by Capt. Sebastian Geisreiter.
 Tine site is two and one-half miles west of the city, comprises 160 acres, and
 Borders Bayou Bartholomew. The To-
 cation of the Industrial school in lief ferson county, will be of the greatest adyantage to Pine Bluff and will be of intestinable value to the local com- mercial world.
 It was created by an act of the 1917 Legislature which provides that good Harm of not less than 200 acres shall
 be purchased, an institution created
 and the boys in the present Reform
 school at Little Rock moved there, the
 new institution to be known as the |Boys' Industrial school. The bill pro-
 yides that the present Reform school
 plant is to be converted into badly
 needed State industrial school for de-
 linquent girls.
 The present Reform school is situ- lated on 200 acres of poor, rocky and slaty hill land, only 30 acres of which lean be cultivated at all. Not enough work to keep boys or enough pro- ducts to help sustain the institution. Hardened older offenders from the penitentiary associated with little fel- lows from juvenile courts in one big institution.
 The new institution will be on pro ductive farm with agriculture and trades taught, and children segegrated according to ages and morals in cot |tages, thus having family life. The institution is placed under the management of an unpaid citizen board of five members (two of whom are women), instead of under peniten- |tiary commissioners, as the Reform school was, and the new board has the right to transfer to the peniten- |tiary any boy committed to the school | who is unfit to associate with the other boys.
 Appropriation Insufficient. The legislature appropriated $26,200 for two years' maintenance of the Boys school, but only $5,O0O to pur- chase land, put up buildings and move the school, because being a new in. |stltution it fared hard, since the |states' finances were in a poor condi- tlon. The legislature expected the site to be given.
 In Nav Tho hoo,.J J1vo@.tsooI 1,o fho newspapers for donations of land, money and building materials. Several towns made offers but the best offer came from Jefferson county.
 Capt. Sebastian Geisreiter, who would not at that time permit his name to be used and Mrs. Geisreiter offered to donate 16O acres of land lying two ana half miles west of the city on Bayou Bartholomew, uncultivated, but well timbered, worth $8,000. Two hundred acres was required for a site, and it was desired to purchase 80 acres adjoining, 55 in cultivation. This was also good bottom land, to be had at the reasonable price of $3,500.
 Judge L. B: Cheek, judge of the Juvenile as we'll as the county court, ana Miss Julia Houston, secretary of tne board of managers of the institu- slon and at the time probation officer ol the Jefferson County juvenile court, set themselves the task of raising tne money to purchase this land and something over for buildings. As sisted by Leo. Andrews, Sheriff Will mI1ams, M. w. Mayors, president of the trades council; A. L. Cason, A. E. graves, Mike Tieney, J. A. Moote, waiter Davis, B. E. Shields, c. E. Bar .net, Roy Hammond and w. H. Meeks, sach of whom circulated subscription . .lsts in the city proper and at the Cot ton Belt shops, they began a campaign !or pledges of money and materials sI ana succeeded in securing total of ss,S66, in pledges, to supplement- the oHer of Captain Geisreiter.
 The offer of Jefferson county, being me pest received by the board, was ac- cepted over two months ago.. but the WONtlnYpA m nou uo favo