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2nd Annual Report (1895) ==Staff== Supervising Board *Governor, John E. Rickards, Helena *Att'y Gen'l, Henri J. Haskell, Helena *Sec'y of State, L. Rotwitt, Helena Board of Trustees *Judge [[J. W. Strevell]], President, Miles City *Hon. [[C. K. Middleton]], Miles City *Hon. [[H. B. Wiley]], Secretary, Miles City Physician. *Dr. [[W. W. Andrus]] Miles City Director *[[A. J. Hylton]] Matron *Mrs. Helen R. Hylton ASSISTANT OFFICERS<br> Irrigator and Care of Stock *[[E. K. Davis]] Gardener and in Charge of Boys *[[Jas. George]] Teamster *[[R. N. Wilcox]] Night Watchman *[[Albert Baker]] Teacher in Boys Department *Miss [[Ella Hood]] Teacher in Girls Department *Miss [[Emily Kennedy]] Seamstress *Mrs. [[Eva Humphrey]] In Care of Dining Rooms *Miss [[Katherine Kinsella]] Cook *Miss [[Mary McGovern]] ==Residents== {| |'''Status'''||'''Boys'''||'''Girls'''||'''Both''' |- |Number on roll December 1, 1895||43||7 |- |Number received during the year||28||2 |- |Number pardonded by the Governor|| ||1 |- |Released on age|| || ||5|| |- |Paroled by Trustees|| || ||5|| |- |Escaped|| || ||1|| |- |Returned from escape|| || ||1|| |- |Whole number enrolled|| || ||64|| |} {| |'''Age'''||'''Boys'''||'''Girls''' |- |Eight||9||2 |- |Nine||2|| |- |Ten||2||1 |- |Eleven||3|| |- |Twelve||1|| |- |Thirteen||4||1 |- |Fourteen||6|| |- |Fifteen||2||3 |- |Sixteen||3|| |- |Seventeen||9|| |- |Eighteen||3|| |- |Nineteen||3|| |- |Twenty||1|| |} Those committed this year were for the crime of— {| |'''Offense'''||'''Boys'''||'''Girls''' |- |Burglary||4|| |- |Forgery||1|| |- |Grand Larceny||4|| |- |Incorrigibility||10||1 |- |Petit Tiarceny||4|| |- |Rape||1|| |- |Vagrancy||4||1 |} ==Projects== The year just closed has been a very busy one. Beside doing the regular work of the institution we have: * erected a brick '''barn''' 40'x80' two stories high. In this are stalls for nine horses and nine cows, two box stalls for young stock, one crib, one feed room, one harness room and two rooms for the boys and officers and sufficient mow room for eighty tons of hay. * under process of construction a '''cottage''' which will accommodate eighty boys. ::*In the basement are two '''gymnasiums''', also a small room to to be used as a '''Bake Shop'''. ::*First floor contains two '''washrooms''' 20'x28", a '''dining room''' 29'x50' for boys, and one 20'x20' for officers, a '''kitchen''' 20' x29', a '''hospital''' 20'x31' and one '''living room''' 14'x20'. ::*Second floor contains two schoolrooms 25'x40' each, two clothes-rooms 10'x21' each, five living rooms 16'x20', one bath-room 8' "x20' for employees, also a '''hall''' 9'x65'. ::*Third floor contains two '''dormitories''' 40'x53', one '''living room''' 21'x21', two '''clothes rooms''' 10'x20'. * built a '''small house over our root-cellar''' which we intend using for a Hennery and carpenter shop. Beside being of use for these purposes it will be of great help in keeping the cellar warm.<br> (''Room measurements approximate'') Our Boys have done the greater portion of the work on these two buildings, thus enabling many of them to become fair mason's and carpenters. The boys showing the greater disposition to learn masonry were kept at it till the work was completed. The same being true with the carpenters, as I deemed it more advisable to give those desiring to learn the trade, the chance to accomplish all they could during this season's work, than to give all of them a smattering of the work whether they had a taste for it or not. Beside the great good this work has done our boys it has been a great saving to the tax-payers of the state and enabled us to get a larger and better building for the money appropriated. ==Description of the school== The farm consists of one hundred acres located 1.25 sixty acres of the farm were purchased the 26th of last April, all but three acres have been cleared and thirty-five acres were put under cultivation this season. With some leveling, every foot of the farm can be put under a high state of cultivation. The buildings are of brick, the one occupied now is 50'xlOO' three stories high, the one under process of construction is 53'xl05' and is also three stories. The institution is lighted throughout with electricity furnished by the Electric Light and Water Co., of Miles City. ===Root cellar=== This magnificent cellar has been binned so as to allow fresh air to circulate entirely around each bin. Its capacity is sufficient for all the vegetables the school can consume during the year. ===Lawns=== Last spring we planted one hundred American elm, one hundred Lombardy Poplar, fifty Balm Gillead, two hundred native cottonwood, one hundred and fifty assorted fruit trees and the per cent of loss was small, not to exceed one dozen trees. I have tried transplanting the native pines in every position, I could learn of, and at all times of the year, but have only saved seventeen out of seven hundred and fifty transplanted, these were dug up while the ground was frozen and hauled in with two feet of earth frozen to the roots, this I think is the best way to get them to live, yet I lost so many that were treated so that 1 am not certain and have about given up all hope of getting them to live in this soil. ===Orchard=== This consists of over three hundred assorted fruit trees, they have made a rapid growth and the prospect for an orchard is good. The soil around each one was thoroughly soaked just before the cold weather set in and we believe this will save the trees from heaving during the thaws and freezes in the spring. ===Garden=== This has been an exceptionally bad season for this work yet we have succeeded in raising enough vegetables for our use. Currants and gooseberries, those that were planted one year ago made an excellent growth and to these have been added five hundred of each, and in two years they will produce all the school can consume. Strawberries, last fall a part of the patch was covered with the very best stable manure and the balance with tomato vines. Those covered so carefully with manure died, while the ones covered with vines lived and made a good stooling this season. ====Products==== Asparagus, from two year old roots Beans, green Beans, dry Beets, ta le Beets, stock Cabbage, early Cabbage, late Carrots, table Carrots, stock Celery Corn, roasting ears (lorn, dried Corn, Brown Madura. Corn, broom Cucumbers, sliced . . Cucumbers, pickled. Lettuce Melon— The hard frost of September 14, rained the entire crop, about four car melons would have been ripe in a few days. Millett Onions, green Onions, dry Onion seed Parsnips Peas, green Peas, dried for seed Potatoes, early Potatoes, late Pumpkins Radishes Rhubarb Rutabaga Salsify Sour-Kraut Spinach Squash Tomatoes, frozen September 14. Turnips 300 pounds 1,200 " 2,100 " 2,400 72,000 " 500 " 50,000 " 6,000 14,000 " 5,000 bunch's 350 dozen COO pounds 10,000 " 150 " 1,400 " 4 bbl. 20,000 heads loads of fine 2,000 pounds 1,200 19.500 " 10 " 8,000 " 2,500 " CO " 4,000 " 52,000 " C0,000 " 1.100 " 4,000 " 4,500 " 6,000 " 4 bbl. 1,200 heads 70,000 pounds C,000 " 85,000 " ====Inventory of garden tools==== Hoes 34 Mattocks 15 Mower, Lawn 1 Rakes 20 Shovels 19 Scoops 3 Spades 24 Drill 1 ===Farm=== ====Farm products==== Corn, Frozpn September 14 21,000 lbs Fodder 45,000 lbs Oats 40,000 lbs ====Inventory of farm implements==== Sulky Breaking Plow 1 Stubble Plow 1 Disc Harrow 1 Tooth Harrow 1 Single cultivator 2 Double Shovel Plow 1 Cutting box 1 Road Wagons 3 Spring Wagons 1 Double Harness, heavy 3.5 sets Double Harness, light 1 set Buggy Harness 1 Saddle 1 Bridle 1 Horse blankets 3 ====Livestock==== Horses 7 Cows, dry 2 Cows, giving milk 6 Heifers, two years old 2 Calves, weanlings 4 HOGS. Brood Sows 9 Hogs, 200 pounds 2 Shoats, 50-70 pounds 19 Shoats, 30-40 pounds 4 Suckling Pigs 8 Boar 1 Total 41 ===Inventory of carpentry tools=== Axe 1 Brace 1 Bitts 7 Bar 1 Drawing Knife 1 Chisel 2 Hammers 6 Hatchets 1 Hand-axe 2 ==Schools== To give the larger boys the full benefit of masonry and carpentry they were detained from school to finish the brick work but now that that work has been completed all arc assigned to school and arc studying to make up for the time spent at their trade. They attend as last year one half of each day and are employed at different work the other half. The laundry work is yet being- done in the small room in tended for a pantry, Mrs. Eva Humphrey had charge of this department during the year and although she worked under very great disadvantages the work was satisfactory, but I hope before another year to have better accommodations for laundry work. Miss May McGovern has charge of the kitchen and with the help of four boys does the baking and cooking for the entire school. The range becoming too small for the increased number of children forced us to purchase a Bakers oven. This is being set up, and will lightcn the work. ==Discipline / Security== I am pleased to state the discipline of the school is good. The boys and girls realize the necessity of good order and each strive to excel the other in good behavior. One boy who expected to be released in three weeks, for some unknown reason, made his escape. He was (by his right age) over twenty-three years old, so no reward was offered for him. ==Health== There has been very little sickness and no contagions disease amongst us. The ladies of the school make it their duty to give their mother's treatment to each ailing one and they are soon at their regular duties. ==Recommendations== #More land, the farm now consists of one hundred acres, this is just one-sixth as much as it should be, with more land we could raise hay, corn and oats enough for our stock and it would enable us to raise more hogs, cattle and sheep, thereby making us more self supporting. #A good dairy, there is nothing better for growing children than plenty of good milk, this we can not have until our farm is enlarged. #Cold storage, we are in sore need of some place where we can keep our meat, butter and milk. #Bath Boom, "cleanliness is next to godliness," a school can not prosper without the bath room. I hope we will be able to build a good room for the plunge and spray bath in connection with our intended Boiler House. #A system of dry closets, sewerage to the river, which is nearly two miles away, would be very expensive and I suggest you investigate the "Dry Closet System," and urge our next legislative assembly to appropriate for that purpose. #Dynamo. It will be a saving to the state and of great benefit to our boys if we could generate our own electricity. It would pay for itself in three years, beside giving the boys a chance to learn that trade. #Printing. This is the most valuable trade from an educational standpoint that can be introduced into a Reform School. Boys learn punctuation, capitalization and composition faster at the printer's case than in a school room and for the educational advantages I hope we can introduce the trade the coming year. #Fencing. All fences are in poor condition, enough lumber, for the north line fence, has been ordered, but we need a good fence in front of the school and cross fences. I return my grateful thanks to my faithful employees who have labored earnestly for fourteen hours each day in their efforts to reform the erring ones under their care, and to the press of Miles City and other cities of the state for kindly notices and support. To the christian people of the state for magazines and papers sent us. And to you Hon. Trustees for the support you have given me and mine at all times and the confidence you have in our management of the School. Very respectfully, A. J. HYLTON, Director
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