H. E. ALLISON, M. D., STATE HOSPITAL FOR CRIMINAL INSANE, MATTAWAN, N.
Y., FISHKILL-ON-HUDSON,

Spoke of “Preventative Heredity of Crime.” He considered 10 per cent. a
very strong factor. They had received at the Asylum 175 twelve-year-old
boys from the Elmira Reformatory. But this does not agree with Mr.
Torrance, but there might be a larger percentage in a little older
growth.

There has been great progress in the care and treatment of the insane.
Our population now (Sept, 1900,) is 765 in N. Y. State Asylum,
Mattawan; and soon we will need two institutions, for the 1st, 2nd and
3rd term insane must be classified. In a short time we shall have from
1,200 to 1,500, as they are to be taken from all the institutions of
the State that they may have proper treatment as well as reform. The
life men in the New York prisons is 25 per cent. of the prison roll,
and we need two institutions, one for the convict insane, and one for
the insane, charged with crime. We have now over 300 detained after the
expiration of their term.

T. J. CHARLTON, SUPT. REFORMATORY SCHOOL FOR BOYS, PLAINFIELD, INDIANA,

Spoke of the commitments on the charge of heredity, as being so few in
that State, less than three per cent.

CAPTAIN C. S. TREMBY, U. S. N.,

Spoke of the discipline, etc., in the Spanish war, and especially at
Santiago, of the extreme kindness in the discipline to the Spanish
prisoners. The naval discipline seemed to him of a much better class
and showed better work.

In the U. S. Naval Prison there is one-third time off for good
behavior. This went into effect by direction of the court.

MRS. FRANCES A. MORTON, SUPT. REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN, SOUTH FARMINGTON,
MASS.,

Spoke of the needs of elementary practice in education--that at
Sherbourne Reformatory for Women, all the holidays’ recreations have
been cut off for the want of education, viz.: 22nd of February, only
eight of 200 women could tell why the day was observed, and only nine
could tell why the 4th of July was kept. Since the death of Mrs.
Johnson, one has not arisen to take her place so fully. Any rebellious
woman is now put out of sight, not allowed to associate with the rest.
Sewing-schools, housekeeping, &c., are for their moral elevation.

ADDRESS.

REV. AUGUST DRAHMS, CHAPLAIN STATE PRISON, SAN QUENTIN, CALIFORNIA.

“_Increase and Decrease of Crime in Civilized Countries._”

He showed that crime in England decreased 35 per cent. in 16 years,
and now it is but two and a half per cent. of the population. Juvenile
decrease in Reformatory was 22 per cent. less. Scotland 8 per cent.
less. United States last 7 years raised 1-44/100 per cent. Russia 32
per cent. decrease in 10 years. Austria 2 per cent. decrease in 6
years, Hungary less. Sweden less in serious offences by 30 per cent. in
10 years, Norway less. Netherlands falling off in prison offences, but
much increased in 11 years to 35 per cent. Russia was 6,000, now 2,100,
Japan less. France is foremost, decreased one-third in the past period,
by 46,000 or 31 per cent. in all her prisons. In 1896 there were but
15,100 prisoners. Estimate of all in prison throughout the world in
1890 is 263,500.

Hon. Frederick H. Wines, LL.D., Washington, D. C., spoke of the
increase and decrease of crime in civilized countries which caused
much discussion; as he is the Assistant Director of the United States
Census, he expressed his great admiration of the paper read by Chaplain
Drahms, and its optimistic view; but he said you make a great mistake
when information is based on the increase from the United States
Census, for the prison census prior to 1880 is worthless, they were not
taken, and the estimates were made by those in authority in my office.
The census of 1890 was made particularly by the officers, and 1900 will
certainly show a marked decrease of crime.

NEXT CONGRESS MEETING PLACE.

Invitations were extended by the following cities--Philadelphia,
Detroit, Chattanooga, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Niagara Falls. The
Delegate Committee met after adjournment and decided on Kansas City.

ENTERTAINMENT OF THE CONGRESS.

This afternoon at two o’clock, all met at the hotel for a drive; forty
open carriages, drags, tally-hos, &c., with teams varying from two to
five horses, were provided by the gentlemen of the city, very elegant
turnouts; and all were taken to the Garfield Monument, thence through
the park to the lake front, returned about seven o’clock. On the way
all were refreshed in the park with lemonade. The drive was greatly
enjoyed by all, as we were taken through the finest parts of the city,
and saw the bright side.

TUESDAY EVENING.

Dr. J. F. Gilmore, Warden Central Prison, Toronto, Canada, invited the
Congress to a meeting to be held Thursday, Sept. 27th, at Toronto in
behalf of the Charities and Correction of Canada.

W. E. Shefton, Supt. of the Ohio Reformatory, at Mansfield, invited the
Congress to visit that institution before they returned home.

JOSÉ F. GODOY, FIRST SECRETARY OF THE MEXICAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON, D.
C.,

Spoke of its prisons; they were partially after our cellular plan,
partly under the State government, and partly by private enterprise in
the lesser misdemeanors. That the prison officials were required to
keep a very minute description of every man, and that they were treated
morally and physically according as the several cases required, that
there was no absolute settled plan, that every man should be treated
alike, as in most of the United States, but that there was a tendency
in that direction.

ADDRESS, HON. EUGENE SMITH, NEW YORK CITY.

“_The Cost of Crime._”

It was very comprehensive, and the figures quoted giving the estimates
and cost of crime, especially in large cities were astonishing. Mr.
Smith held that municipal and county taxation was very largely due to
crime; that there was hardly any taxation, federal, State, county or
municipal, but what could be greatly reduced except for the existence
of crime.

In order to come to some definite conclusion as to the cost, Mr. Smith
quoted statistics from representative cities, New York, Cleveland,
Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Richmond, Charleston, and New
Orleans.

SOME STARTLING FIGURES.

New York, during the year 1899, paid from the public treasury for items
wholly due to crime the sum of $12,988,804. Then he mentioned many
other expenditures which were partly chargeable to crime aggregating
$7,889,259, making a total of $20,778,083. In comparing these figures
with the population of New York, Mr. Smith concluded that crime in the
American metropolis cost the people about $6 per capita annually. In
San Francisco it ran about $5 per capita, and in other cities mentioned
from $3 to $3.50 per capita. The excess in New York and San Francisco,
was partly explained from the fact, that the figures quoted included
county taxation.

The speaker then gave comprehensive statements, from which he gathered
conclusions as to the cost of crime in the rural districts, adding
that a very conservative estimate would be $1.00 per capita per year.
Estimating that the present population of the country was 75,000,000
and that 40 per cent. lived in cities of above 8,000 inhabitants,
he placed the total cost of crime at $150,000,000 per year. To this
he added $50,000,000 from federal and State taxes, making the total
$200,000,000 per year.

These figures, said Mr. Smith, inaccurate as they may seem to be,
prove that crime is by far the largest factor with which political
economy has to deal. The only other item of expense that comes near to
it is the maintainance of the public schools, which for the same year
aggregate about $139,000,000. But the enormous expenditure mentioned is
only for the prevention of crime.

The city of New York expends each year an enormous sum for maintaining
its fire department, but that is not the only expense caused through
the existence of fires. No possible statistics can be compiled to give
an estimate for the cost of property stolen and the suffering caused by
crime.

These facts are real, not estimated.

THE AVERAGE STEAL.

To obtain an estimate of this cost, however, the speaker said that
$1,600 per year was the amount of money stolen by the average habitual
criminal, and it was certainly a conservative estimate; there were at
present 100,000 prisoners in confinement, of whom 40 or 50 per cent.
were habitual; but this did not represent the cost of drunkenness
which, he said, is generally crime in its most debased form, nor the
cost of crime which was never detected. Adding up all these items of
expense chargeable to crime, the speaker produced the enormous sum of
$600,000,000 per year, which, he said, exceeded the value of the cotton
or wheat crop. Any help for the future must come by regenerating the
people by Christianity.

JOSEPH F. SCOTT, SUPERINTENDENT MASSACHUSETTS REFORMATORY,
offered a resolution, the substance of which was: That this Prison
Association endorse the “Indeterminate sentence law system, and
recommend that the various States adopt it as part of their criminal
jurisprudence.”

There was considerable discussion, and it was referred to a committee
to report at the closing session.

The Committee on Place for holding the next Congress reported that they
had selected Kansas City for September, 1901, and that Philadelphia had
made a bold fight for it. It was voted by the Congress to accept the
report of the committee, and made it unanimous.

A resolution was passed, as a matter of testimonial of past duties to
Mr. Z. R. Brockway, who had resigned the charge of Elmira Reformatory,
N. Y.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, A. M.--CHAPLAINS’ MEETING.

Beside routine work, reference was made to Dr. McKim’s book. Chaplain
Batt spoke of the “Exaggerated value set upon human life,” page 185.
“Plans innumerable devised but all fail,” “and that literature of
the Congress is not such as is desirable for the betterment of the
prisoners, so that it rests mostly with the chaplains.”

J. WARREN MEADE, WARDEN AUBURN STATE PRISON, N. Y.,

Spoke of prison discipline. Best way to reach a man’s heart was through
his stomach. That it was very necessary to give attention to the
appointment of the officers, in order to impress the men with a care
and cleanliness. The criminal should have a time to sing if he chose,
and should be assisted in fitting himself for life-work in the world.

The dungeon cells are sufficient punishment for any infraction without
resorting to a paddle. Said he could not imagine how Massachusetts
could have a fixed commutation for life sentences, except they use the
Life Ins. Co.‘s approximate longevity table, like age 34 to serve 25
years, age 40 to serve 16 years, and so on. Good discipline has the
effect to remove criminal desires.

Both T. E. Ellison, Fort Wayne, Ind., and Gen. R. Brinkerhoff, of
Ohio, remarked that the wardens and superintendents summoned daily the
overseers, guards, etc., to discuss the wants, needs, and peculiarities
of convicts, in order to be in touch of all his employees, and to the
prisoners by the overseers.

MEMORIAL TRIBUTE

Was recorded on the death of Michael J. Cassidy, Phila., Pa.; Joseph
Nicholson, Detroit, Mich.; Mr. Yale, California, members of the
Association.

WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN, warden State Prison, Jackson, Mich., spoke of
discipline in his State Penitentiary, that the conditions were laid
down by the State Board of Control. The law governing penitentiary
officers, wardens and chaplains, is that they become acquainted with
the inner life of the prisoner, and there is a desire on the part of
the men to conform to the rules. There are always some incorrigibles.
We have a system of graded schools, and graded prisoners. Four and a
half hours a week for discipline of prisoners, the officers become
acquainted with the natural abilities of the prisoner, and are able to
report fully to the warden. There are two ways of governing the man,
Force or Persuasion, the latter, the best of all, if it succeeds.

Life terms in Colorado average less than 9 years, longest term is 16
years. There are now 160 life terms.

Chaplain Batt thought we ought not to use the words “Criminal and
Convict”; in Massachusetts it was never used, but “Prisoners and Men”;
never inmates, they hated to be called inmates.

Many of the wardens claimed it impossible to hold any conference daily
with employees. At Concord, Mass., Reformatory they meet at 5.30 P. M.
daily. Chaplain Batt spoke of heads of prisons summoning employees for
detail work, and referred to the report of Commodore Nelson summoning
all his officers to his ship, to make ready for the battle; the battle
was really fought in the cabin of his own flagship.

C. P. HOYT, WARDEN, BUENA, COLORADO,

Said corporal punishment if judiciously used, is really the best mode
of punishment and that there should be but one grade only in the same
prison. When a man does well, give him a ticket of parole.

J. WARREN BAILY, MASSACHUSETTS,

Spoke about discharged prisoners, what shall be done with them, how
shall he be aided, and how long? Best way, to seek some employment
or trade for him on his discharge. Aid should begin when he enters
the prison gate and continue till he goes out. (Reference was made
to the Penna. Prison Journal “At the Prison Gate.”) No person should
be discharged a citizen, but paroled for a time, with continuous
oversight. What we need is graded reformatories, with three grades,
place him in the second, and he can work up to the first, or drop back
to the third, and then has to work up to the first before he can be
paroled. Spoke of the need of well-managed prisons and reformatories,
where vast numbers had gone through the three grades and come out good
citizens.

OREN C. PAINTER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND,

Read a paper about The Prisoners’ Aid Association of Baltimore.

AMOS W. BUTLER, IND., SEC’TY BOARD STATE CHARITIES,

Spoke of the State parole that out of 717 paroled, places were found
for all but 3, one blind, one cripple, one insane; of this number, 12
failed to report monthly; 9 were returned to the reformatory. No man is
released except for the maximum time, and the oversight is continued
until the time is completed.

CONNECTICUT REQUIRES

That thirty days before the prisoner goes out, he shall be seen by the
committee on discharged prisoners, furnished food and board for a time,
and work; that there has not in five years, in that reformatory, been
a single infringement. It turned out that out of 100, only 18 had been
paroled in five years.

Report of Committee on Mr. Scott’s resolution. Specific action was
deferred till next year. Only passed the sentiment or voice of the
Congress “in favor of immediate sentences.”

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, CLOSING SESSION.

Professor R. G. Henderson read a paper on Psychological Laboratory in
Prisons. Recommended that one be established, to try it.

      _Physical._     |    _Psychological._    |    _Sociological._
                      |                        |
  Anatomy, heredity,  | Knowledge, emotion,    | Legal, political,
   physiology, mental.|  mental tastes, ideas. |  religious, domestic,
                      |                        |  industrial environment,
                      |                        |  culture.

Dr. Wines remarked, “I am not an anti-penologist, have no opinions to
enforce. In the United States census there is opportunity to examine
all the matter concerning prisoners. Each prison and reformatory was
furnished with a complete case, to study fully before reply, and if the
wardens also help give it, a more correct record can be made, and the
Government take up all the matter, furnish the apparatus and the men to
do the work.”

Mrs. Deborah C. Leeds suggested a vote of recommendation of the
Congress, that a “woman’s prison or reformatory” be established in
every State, passed.

COMPLIMENTARY RESOLUTIONS TO

The Local Committee and the Young Men’s Christian Association for the
delightful carriage ride, the newspapers, the Street Railway Company,
the Old Stone Church, Rev. W. D. Pickard, D.D., for his admirable
sermon, and Dr. S. B. Barrows for his paper on criminal law, were
passed by a rising vote.

It was stated that in Indiana Industrial School for Girls each one was
kept separate, or cellular. In Massachusetts women are sent to jail,
then to a reformatory, but if convicted more than twice are sent to
prison.

Rev. Dr. Pickard made some brief remarks, also Professor Henderson, and
the Congress closed with singing the Doxology and Benediction, 5 P. M.,
Sept. 26, 1900.

Next Congress, Kansas City, 1901.

The above report was read at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Prison
Society, October 18, 1900. It was directed “that it be printed in the
Journal of 1901.”

  MRS. DEBORAH C. LEEDS,
  JOHN J. LYTLE,
  REV. R. HEBER BARNES, _Sec. Com._

 _Pennsylvania Official Delegates at Large from the Society._

TREASURER’S REPORT.

GEORGE W. HALL, _Treasurer_,

IN ACCOUNT WITH

THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY.

  1900.                   DR.

  January 1.--To Balance                                         $ 670 94
               “ Income from Investments                         1,658 86
               “ Contributions and Membership                      402 00
               “ Interest on Deposits                               19 36
               “ Printing the Journal                               16 00
               “ Special, for Discharged Prisoners, Eastern
                   Penitentiary                                  3,675 62
               “ I. V. Williamson Estate                           468 00
               “ Income C. S. Williams Estate (In trust)            81 00
               “ Life Memberships                                   40 00
                                                                ---------
                                                                $7,031 78

  1900.                   CR.

  Dec.   31.--By Discharged Prisoners, Eastern Penitentiary     $2,139 03
               “ Salary John J. Lytle as General Secretary       1,000 00
               “ Discharged Prisoners, County Prison               675 00
               “ Salary Fred’k J. Pooley, County Prison Agent      750 00
               “ F. J. Pooley, special (extra service E. P.)        50 00
               “ C. S. Williams Estate to Home of Industry          81 00
               “ Janitor, fuel, library                            127 99
               “ Repair of office and stationery                   402 34
               “ J. J. Lytle, Prison Agent, Eastern Penitentiary   500 00
               “ Printing 5,000 Journals, mailing, etc.            421 53
               “ Balance, (and “Barton fund” $176.71)              884 89
                                                                ---------
                                                                $7,031 78

We have examined the vouchers for 1900, and find the cash balance
$884.89, and of the Barton fund $176.71. Also the securities, bonds
and mortgages, certificates, trust deposits, title and fire insurance
policies, were examined and found correct.

  CHARLES M. MORTON,
  R. HEBER BARNES,
  LINDLEY H. BEDELL,
  _Auditing Committee_.

PHILADELPHIA, _Feb. 1, 1901_.

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FORM OF BEQUEST OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.

I give and bequeath to “THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY” the sum of
____ Dollars.

FORM OF DEVISE OF REAL ESTATE.

I give and devise to “THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY” all that certain
piece or parcel of land. (Here describe the property.)

ARTICLE V.

The Acting Committee shall consist of officers of the Society, _ex
officio_, and fifty other members. They shall visit the prison at
least twice a month, inquire into the circumstances of the prisoners
and report such abuses as they shall discover to the proper officers
appointed to remedy them. They shall examine the influence of
confinement on the morals of the prisoners. They shall keep regular
minutes of their proceedings, which shall be submitted at every stated
meeting of the Society; and shall be authorized to fill vacancies,
occurring in their own body, whether arising from death or removal
from the city, or from inability or neglect to visit the prisons in
accordance with their regulations. They shall also have the sole power
of electing new members.

ARTICLE VI.

Candidates for membership may be proposed at any meeting of the
Society or of the Acting Committee; but no election shall take place
within ten days after such nomination. Each member shall pay an annual
contribution of two dollars. If any member neglects or refuses to pay
such contribution within three months, after due notice has been given
such person, the Acting Committee may, at its option, strike said name
from the list of members. The payment of twenty dollars at any one time
shall constitute a Life Membership. Any person paying not less than
five hundred dollars shall be called a Patron of the Society.

ARTICLE VII.

Honorary members may be elected at such times as the Society may deem
expedient.

ARTICLE VIII.

The Society shall hold an Annual Meeting on the fourth Fifth-day
(Thursday) in the First month (January) of each year, and Stated
Meetings on the fourth Fifth-day (Thursday) in the months of April,
July and October; at which seven shall constitute a quorum.

ARTICLE IX.

No alteration in the Constitution shall be made, unless the same shall
have been proposed at a Stated Meeting of the Society, held not less
than three months previous to the adoption of such alteration; and
no such amendment shall be adopted unless approved by the votes of
three-fourths of the members present.

The Secretary shall state on the notices of that meeting that an
amendment or amendments to the Constitution will be acted upon. All
other questions shall be decided, when there is a division, by a
majority of votes; in those where the Society is equally divided, the
presiding officer shall have the casting vote.

OF VISITORS.

No person who is not an official visitor of the prison, or who has not
a written permission, according to such rules as the Inspectors may
adopt as aforesaid, shall be allowed to visit the same; the official
visitors are: the Governor; the Speaker and members of the Senate; the
Speaker and members of the House of Representatives; the Secretary of
the Commonwealth; the Judges of the Supreme Court; the Attorney-General
and his Deputies; the President and Associate Judges of all the courts
in the State; the Mayor and Recorders of the cities of Philadelphia,
Lancaster, and Pittsburg; Commissioners and Sheriffs of the several
Counties; and the “Acting Committee of the Philadelphia Society for
Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.” (Note: Now named The
Pennsylvania Prison Society.)

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the
Miseries of Public Prisons.

SECTION 1. _Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the same_, That all and every the
persons who shall at the time of the passing of this Act, be members
of the Society called “The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the
Miseries of Public Prisons,” shall be and they are hereby created and
declared to be one body, politic and corporate, by the name, style,
and title of “The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of
Public Prisons,” and by the same name shall have perpetual succession,
and shall be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in all
courts of record or elsewhere, and to take and receive, hold and enjoy,
by purchase, grant, devise, or bequest to them and their successors,
lands, tenements, rents, annuities, franchises, hereditaments, goods,
and chattels of whatsoever nature, kind, or quality soever, real,
personal or mixed, or choses in action, and the same from time to
time to sell, grant, devise, alien, or dispose of; _provided_, That
the clear yearly value or income of the necessary houses, lands, and
tenements, rents, annuities, and other hereditaments, and real estate
of the said corporation, and the interest of money by it lent, shall
not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars; and also to make and have
a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew at pleasure;
and also to ordain, establish and put in execution, such by-laws,
ordinances, and regulations as shall appear necessary and convenient
for the government of the said corporation, not being contrary to
this Charter or the Constitution and laws of the United States, or of
this Commonwealth, and generally to do all and singular the matters
and things which to them it shall lawfully appertain to do for the
well-being of the said corporation, and the due management and ordering
of the affairs thereof; and provided further, that the object of the
Society shall be confined to the alleviation of the miseries of public
prisons, the improvement of prison discipline, and the relief of
discharged prisoners.

  SAM’L ANDERSON, _Speaker of House_.
  THOS. RINGLAND, _Speaker of Senate_.

Approved the 6th day of April, Anno Domini Eighteen Hundred and
Thirty-three.

  GEORGE WOLF.

LEGAL CHANGE OF NAME.

The Following Confirms the Action Relative to the Change of the Name of
the Prison Society.

 Decree:

 And now, to wit, this 27th day of January, A. D., 1886, on motion of
 A. Sidney Biddle, Esq., the Petition and Application for change of
 name filed by “The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries
 of Public Prisons,” having been presented and considered, and it
 appearing that the order of court heretofore made as to advertisement
 has been duly compiled with and due notice of said application to
 the Auditor General of the State of Pennsylvania being shown, it is
 Ordered, Adjudged, and Decreed that the name of the said Society
 shall hereafter be “THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY,” to all intents
 and purposes as if the same had been the original name of the said
 Society, and the same name shall be deemed and taken to be a part
 of the Charter of the said Society upon the recording of the said
 Application with its indorsements and this Decree in the office of the
 Recorder of Deeds of this County, and upon filing with the Auditor
 General a Copy of this Decree.

  [Signed]      JOSEPH ALLISON.

 Record:

 Recorded in the office for the Recording of Deeds in and for the City
 and County of Philadelphia, on Charter Book No. 11, page 1064. Witness
 my hand and seal of Office this 28th day of June, A. D. 1886.

  GEO. G. PIERIE, _Recorder of Deeds_.

[Transcriber’s Note:

Obvious printer errors corrected silently.

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.]