Show REPORT Of REfORM I At the tho close of the investIgation o of the charges of incompetency n against Superintendent II H Ii H Thomas of oC the State Industrial school last week Chairman Barr Harrr Joseph 01 tho laves invited the citi citizens citizens zens committee who the tho charges against Thom Thomas Thomas as to visit the Institution and make malte such suggestions as were ere deemed proper to lo time tho committee for the tho rectification I or of conditions at time the I 1 tor tory The committee w ich is IR corn oom posed of Mrs T 1 M 11 Bishop Mrs Kate KateS S Hilliard and Rev Rcy Noble Strong I Elderkin have hae visited sited the school and after a thorough inspection of every I 1 department have hac formulated a report rt I submitting certain recommendations A c copy p or of the report follows I Ogden Ogdon at Utah all July Juh 1909 To the Hon lInn Hari Joseph Josoph President Board of Trustees State Industrial School Utah Sir In compliance with your re cc request quest Ole undersigned the school on the afternoon or of Juno 30 and andI i herewith report said visit i I I with suggestions asked for tor torIn forin In general we found a lack or of Iss I tern tem neatness and cleanliness through throughout out excepting the printing office 11 and apart apartments ments The impression of the whole Is of a batik badh conducted ligi i lug Ing house hOlse Ve mention specific II 11 The soiled defaced and grimy grim walls wails and broken plaster of the dormitories In both hoth buildings A coat of calcimine Is s needed throughout halls closets pantry anti and kitchen j I nearly all bedsteads atc are In need of en enamel enamel amel no lIed beds are made in bo boys s dormitory The hospital or r sick sickroom room in main building bunding Is a disgrace to drle drie to despair or suicide an Invalid of all any refinement It is probable that not DOt many inmates come from homes of refinement but it is toe the duty duly of the state to lo teach the ole cle clements ments ot or essentials of oC docent decent living ro fo do this requires that those in charge shall know and care caro for the thereal thereal real refinements of life In this con 1 Jle lIon we nc suggest that you OU Inquire I into the standing of Mrs Colvin the regularly employed school nur nurse e Wo We submit that thal no woman ornan who habitually ally uses profane and foul language and who lio lives In the tho surroundings In which a member of tiis committee found Mrs Irs Colvin Colln is fit fil to have havo charge of the sick All old residents of Og Ogden den CIty Cily know of Mrs Colvins absolute lute unfitness for the position Throughout the main malo building do de plumbing was sas noticed a trail of suds from the tho l pipes was noticed water standing on In boys loyS toilet and various other places Tho plunge room was too hot for possible use oven If a steam bath were desired probably from the same sameI reason that tIle the school room during I the investigation was kept as hot as sU am could make it because of the I I Inability nab iii lr to shut off heat without re reI removing moving radiators Speaking of the I plunge room it was noticed that the only provision for shower bath is such as an lets the water from the shower run directly back Into the plunge pool The Tho reason for the usual arrangement for shower the pool and t the requirement for shower bath before entering the plunge Is obvious We Vo a t change I The cook made excuse for filth filthy bins shelves anti and drawers for the tho rC reason lson that a man from t the c outside was treating for 01 cock roaches the Innumerable dead roaches were proof of the tho good quality of the hut bul also strong or of the lack Jack of cleanliness We do not thInk Uline the omission of ono one dally daily scrubbing could account for the tho condition of the hItch hItchen en and the fact that a number of boys bos dirty hats reposed In the midst of oC the cooking tins seemed scorned to have hae no legitimate excuse Oil cloth for kitchen shelves would bo be nil an improve mCl t over oer t the bare and I unclean pine boards We Ve also suggest the the cook be sent to visit the I kitchen fur the Deaf Doar and Blind school or lint of the aca academy emy or of an any well conducted kitchen We can cannot cannot not understand wh why because lie he cooks COOliS for fOl boys the tho kitchen should be less clean that the above abovementioned abovementioned mentioned kitchens particularly as he has hag an ample detail of boys to 10 help clean We Ve feel however that the real blame horo hore as elsewhere attaches to 10 tho general Wo ro visited the tho and wore ape ap to Ond thorn them but six feet b by seven feet with ono one narrow wooden bunk lIun k when wo recalled that four boys were confined in one cell We Ve were glad to lo flail the two now new under underground underground ground cells cens begun while Dr Conroy was president of the board lad iad not been completed but bul are arc used as store storerooms rooms but we condemn the storing of hour flour In damp basement In the girls the room where tie flour was kept was decidedly musty Some Somo was on the tho floor of cell In the girls cottage oven at this season Wo We hell hear a good deal of tile the Whit Whittier tier Hc school ool Miss Dale Dalo might have hwo told that the girls gilIs rooms room at the Whit Whittier tier are arc things of beauty each with its Ils i little muo white table and centerpiece shinIng b bedsteads cur anti walls the tho woodwork in per por feet condition Wo We can not sufficient sufficiently ly Iy condemn the tho appearance of tiie girls in our institution nor noi the fact that no hue have made mado for four rems nS DId you Mr Ir President lent dent no notice ce tIme strings the remnants of old lace laco curtains at the windows anti and the where no noI more macre cracks nud holes can ho be made I minus sticks at t the bottom lh the cracks ernel In between baseboards and the tho walls where no more nail holos could ellid Und lint the tho kind of I Iture tore ture and enamel rho contrast contrat between this buildIng and time tho I superintendents apartments is too striking We Ve s suggest neat scrim sash curtains on rods for girls bedrooms same to lo be launder d regularly Such Suc 1 curtains would be bc less expensive at first thrum the Nottingham lace laco and would screen the view of rooms acroSs the wa way WOo Wc urge the tho change even evon for this one 1115 need to lO be laug taught ht fitness or the idea II of beauty and utility combIned Of course time crying need of oC the girls Is for a matron traIned in time the art of character building and a graduate of ofa a 0 domestic science school It is ha m that these girls lie be taught sewing cookIng serving and domes blues domestic tic work In general in a skilled man manner mannor nor ner so that when paroled the may maJ find worl won In such sueh homes as it is highly desirable they t should hollid do One capable woman with a thorough domestic set ence training would as to La hygiene and system In both buildings If gIven ghen capable assistants It seems a pity pitr a valuable lathe In the blacksmith s was not in uso because the Instructor know how to repair It H nor much about running It The steps at the tho carpenter shop threatened to lo collapse at our entrance and were au an Index to lo the tho slipshod worle of oC that department We TC Say saw no indications of a poultry plant although poultry would woul be prof profItable HallIe anti and a source of oC Interest to lo some somo of the boys s Wo We S st l a milk room but all the milk mille in n evidence was contained in two vessels in a ro We iVe believe bellee that the farm should produce all the milk and but butter lei ter the Inmates could or would use and that time the cost of maintenance could lie be lessened If this were the tho case The general public believes that with tim help of one hundred boys the tho farm should lie be as regards living expenses and that a more varied and nutritious bill of fare could lie be supplied As to lo offIcers time essential lack In inthe the tho school Is supervision the tho nt of officials from the tho superintendent t down who know what is necessary to refined and decent 11 liv I lag and who are capable of system systematizing I and directing time the work to that end A practical suggestion here bere is that the hoard lOail visit all of the Deaf and amid Blind School find and con contrast contrast the working with that of time tho Industrial schooL Vo o believe you OU would admit the he great is duo to the difference In supervision DurIng investigation the It must have been lIcen apparent to lo time the hoard as aoe asto to us that Chi f Officer Meyers is of oC oCtO tO tio brutal a type lype to be so closely as associated associated with boys bos whose reform is desired The chief f officer should have hac havea haca a fall fair education a broad with wll boys and be a man cere certainly more than a handy man and chief executioner Men en of higher high r Intelligence than that displayed hi Second Officer Grit GrIC fin ought to lo b obtained Better ex cx examples amples of a farmer than Is furnished hr Mr would Induce more re respect respect for fOl farm Carm life In iii the ho s sAn An aroused public sentiment Is I clamoring for tile of Miss Dale whose testimony showed her u uler mit mitter I ter ler lack of faith In her work and an absence of womanly and re that l 1 appalling She Is I of by 1 those reading her hor lesU mon as calloused un cut cutthroat ut throat t pe u to the e state elc etc elc iVd are arc seIl aware that the tho board relied and must rei rely upon the superintendents recommendations lii In this matter But now she has revealed her unfitness to you we ask her dismissal l lWe We wish i a course ourse of oC 1 might be add added d to the school curriculum A cottage collage where boys boss of oC degenerate type might he be segregated is a necessity sity sit In this connection we think the tho school ought to give facts and that boys lIoy showing a tendency to unnatural or degrading vices Ices should receive some special in instruction train from It a physician oh No stronger nt could be made upon time the of the than the ibe occurrences In the canyon eanon with the boys and the tho girls outings These were cases where sufficient care caro and ordinary judgment could have prevented that which has been lIcen a source of humiliation to lo all of us Quoting from the last Issue of the thc AdvanceS If the of our state stalo would Ol only lr make It a point to lo visit t the 1 institution an and l rull fully in Inspect every detail IU in to time tile man management etc elc etc we suggest that It Itis Itis is manifestly Impossible to know liDOW the details If the oaly visiting da Is Sunday FInally assuring ss you no malice mallco or an any feeling other than a desire for forthe forthe the welfare of the most unfortunate class or Of in world has luts us in tills this most disagreeable duly We are aro ELIZADETH BISHOP DISHOP Chairman KATE S Hl LUARD I N S ELD |