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.