FORM OF DEVISE OF REAL ESTATE.
I give and bequeath to “The Pennsylvania Prison Society” all that certain piece and parcel of land. (Here enter the description.)
OFFICERS FOR THE SOCIETY FOR 1919
President
EDWARD M. WISTAR, Provident Building, Philadelphia.
Vice-President
NORRIS J. SCOTT, Moylan, Pa.
Secretary
ALBERT H. VOTAW, 119 S. Fourth Street, Philadelphia.
Assistant Secretary
CHARLES P. HASTINGS, 119 S. Fourth Street, Philadelphia.
Treasurer
JOHN WAY, 409 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
Counselors
FREDERICK L. CLARK, West End Trust Building, Philadelphia.
WILLIAM DRAPER LEWIS, Law Department, University of Pennsylvania.
General Agent
FREDERICK J. POOLEY, 119 S. Fourth Street, Philadelphia.
Acting Committee
| Harrison Walton | John A. Duncan | Fred Swarts Brink |
| Charles P. Hastings | Mrs. Mary S. Grigg | Dr. B. Frank Kehler |
| Rev. F. H. Senft | William Morris | Dr. J. J. Mullowney |
| Isaac P. Miller | Mrs. Emma L. Thompson | Robert B. Haines, Jr. |
| Charles McDole | Rev. Thomas Latimer | H. Wellington Wood |
| Harry Kennedy | George S. Wetherell | Dr. Charles Williams |
| Henry C. Cassel | Frank H. Longshore | Charles C. Simmington |
| Mrs. Layyah Barakat | C. Wilfred Conard | Mrs. Eliza M. Cope |
| Rev. J. F. Ohl | Rev. M. Reed Minnich | Watson W. Dewees |
| Mary S. Wetherell | Miss Emily Whelen | George A. Coburn |
| Frederick J. Pooley | Miss Annie McFedries | Joseph P. Byers |
| William Koelle | Dr. John Frazer | Franklin S. Edmonds |
| Deborah C. Leeds | Dr. J. Treichler Butz | Leon J. Obermayer |
| Mrs. Clara Hodges Allen | George W. Wilkins | Miss M. N. Cochran, Jr. |
| Miss Rebecca P. Latimer | Mrs. Mary Ella deLong | Miss Florence B. Kane |
| FOR ONE YEAR | FOR TWO YEARS | FOR THREE YEARS |
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| BUCKS COUNTY | ALLEGHENY COUNTY | ALLEGHENY COUNTY |
| Mrs. Anna K. | Garges Paul T. Beiswenger | Rev. F. W. Beiswenger |
| CHESTER COUNTY | MONTGOMERY COUNTY | CENTRE COUNTY |
| Mrs. B. K. C. Marshall | Capt. Nicholas Baggs | Hon. J. Linn Harris |
| YORK COUNTY | LUZERNE COUNTY | |
| Miss Rhoda M. Starr | Mrs. Anabel Wallace | |
STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 1919
Visiting Committee—Eastern Penitentiary:
| Rev. J. F. Ohl | Charles P. Hastings | Edward M. Wistar |
| Rev. F. H. Senft | Charles McDole | Fred Swarts Brink |
| Harry Kennedy | John A. Duncan | George W. Wilkins |
| William Koelle | Albert H. Votaw | Dr. B. F. Kehler |
| George S. Wetherell | Rev. Thomas Latimer | Leon J. Obermayer |
| Henry C. Cassel | Isaac P. Miller | Chas. C. Simmington |
| Harrison Walton | Rev. M. Reed Minnich | Geo. A. Coburn |
| Frank H. Longshore | Dr. Charles Williams | H. Wellington Wood |
| William Morris | |
Women| Deborah C. Leeds | Miss R. P. Latimer | Mrs. Mary Ella deLong |
| Mary S. Wetherell | Miss Emily Whelen | Mrs. Layyah Barakat |
| Mrs. Mary S. Grigg |
| John A. Duncan | Norris J. Scott | Deborah C. Leeds |
| Rev. J. F. Ohl | H. Wellington Wood | Mrs. Clara Hodges Allen |
| Frederick J. Pooley | Albert H. Votaw | Miss R. P. Latimer |
| Frederick J. Pooley | William Koelle | John A. Duncan |
| William Koelle | | Robert B. Haines, Jr. |
| Fred Swarts Brink | | Mrs. Layyah Barakat |
| Dr. Charles Williams | | George W. Wilkins |
| Miss Florence B. Kane | | Charles P. Hastings |
| Rev. J. F. Ohl | Mrs. E. M. Cope | Hon. J. Linn Harris |
| C. Wilfred Conard | | Joseph P. Byers |
| Isaac P. Miller | George W. Wilkins | Miss M. N. Cochran, Jr. |
| John A. Duncan | | George S. Wetherell |
| Mrs. Mary S. Grigg | Miss Emily Whelen | Mrs. Mary Ella deLong |
| Rev. J. F. Ohl | Miss Florence B. Kane | Joseph P. Byers |
| Rev. F. H. Senft | | Albert H. Votaw |
| George S. Wetherell | | John A. Duncan |
| Robert B. Haines, Jr. | | Fred Swarts Brink |
| John A. Duncan | Isaac P. Miller | Watson W. Dewees |
THE JOURNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE AND PHILANTHROPY
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY.
The 132d Annual Meeting of THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY was held by appointment in Assembly Hall, Church Building, northwest corner Fifteenth and Race Streets, Philadelphia, on the evening of January 14, 1919, President Edward M. Wistar in the Chair.
Twenty-five members were present.
The Minutes of the 131st Meeting were read and approved.
The Report of the Acting Committee for the year 1918 was read by the Secretary. It was approved and directed to be printed. (See pages 7-14.)
The Treasurer, John Way, presented a detailed statement of the receipts and payments for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1918, accompanied by a schedule of the securities held for the Society by the Fiscal Agent, The Provident Life and Trust Company. The statement had been audited and the securities had been examined by the auditors. (See page 15.)
On behalf of the Committee on Nominations, the Secretary presented a list of nominations for the Officers of the Society and for members of the Acting Committee to succeed those whose terms expire on February 1. Watson W. Dewees and George S. Wetherell were appointed Tellers. The election being duly held the persons nominated were elected to the offices designated in the report of the Committee. (See page 3.)
A communication was read, sent by Leonard G. Yoder, Esq., Solicitor for the Berks County Prison, calling attention to the fact that the Act of the Assembly, approved 1917, provided that prisoners in the county prisons could be employed at agricultural labor only during the continuance of the war which is now interrupted by the armistice. The net profit of the labor of prisoners thus employed in Berks County in 1918 was $800, and the Solicitor recommends that this Act should apply permanently and requests that this Society should exert an influence on the present Assembly for the purpose of encouraging the continuation of this beneficial measure for the employment of prisoners. By motion, the communication was referred to the Legislative Committee of the Acting Committee.
Dr. George W. Kirchwey of New York delivered the Annual Address. He is the Counsel for the Commission under appointment to investigate prisons and to recommend such revision of our present penal system as may seem advisable. While the report of the Commission was not yet entirely prepared, he intimated that some scheme of Central Administration would be proposed, not so much to take the management away from the present Boards of Inspectors as to exercise advisory and supervisory powers and to correlate our various correctional institutions. The conditions now obtaining in regard to the employment of prisoners were deplorable in this Keystone State, and it was the aim of the Commission to provide some form of productive labor for all able-bodied prisoners. They were prepared to recommend an extension of agricultural operations and favored the early removal of the Eastern Penitentiary to a farm in the eastern portion of the State. He deprecated every form of brutality in the treatment of delinquents and evidently thought the old repressive spirit and measures could still be found to have lodgment in some of our prisons. He was sure that a large number of our prisoners, possibly a majority, were mentally deficient and ought to have special treatment adapted to their needs, which, under present circumstances of incarceration, was impossible. If we wish to restore the men whom we confine in our prisons, we must do more than simply restrain them within certain limits; we must treat them as erring brothers and sisters, not as dumb driven cattle.
To nominate to our next Annual Meeting the officers of the Society and members of the Acting Committee whose terms expire next year, the President appointed William Biddle, Robert Dunning Dripps, John A. Duncan, William C. Warren and Miss Emily Whelen.
ALBERT H. VOTAW,
Secretary.