the band tournament held in connection with the Y. M. C. A. conference at Lansing in December, 1916.

The Historical and Patriotic Pageant given on the Fourth of July, which was worthy of the highest commendation, demonstrated that the Industrial School boys are equal to the occasion.

Very few of the boys are incorrigible. They are excellent workers and all they need is directing. They have their baseball league and their football teams. All sorts of athletic games are played, which terminate in a regular field meet on Labor Day. They have moving pictures two evenings in the week in winter and a victrola in each cottage. The moving picture machine and the victrolas are gifts from friends of the institution.

The industries of the school consist of manual training, as installed in the public schools, trades teaching, floriculture, gardening, dairying and general farming. In the tailor shops all clothing worn by the boys while here is made, suits, caps, stockings and underwear, and in addition the suits they wear when they leave the institution. The shoe shop, another trade teaching department, manufactures all shoes worn by the boys while here. The printing office does the printing for the school, in addition some work for the Board of Corrections and Charities. A magazine is published once a month called the Industrial Enterprise. The boys are allowed to send the Industrial Enterprise to their homes. All the blacksmithing and much of the carpentry work is done in the institution. All the bread used by the boys and officers is made in the bakery of the school, requiring about six barrels of flour a day. One department makes cement blocks and tile used for building and for draining the farm. A number of boys who are employed in this department become very efficient cement workers. The dairy department has a herd of high grade Holstein cows which provide milk for the institution. All the painting and paperhanging is done for the institution and the boys are taught this trade. Another class of boys look after the firing in the heating and power plants and learn to be engineers. A good many will follow the trades they have learned here after they leave the institution.

The boys have military drill twice a week in the summer. This is of importance in the way of teaching the boys to carry themselves correctly and to inspire them with instant obedience. The discipline of the school, however, is in no sense of a military nature.

No regular chaplain is employed for the institution, nor is any one form of religious belief or instruction adopted, but the resident clergy of Lansing of all denominations are invited to conduct the chapel exercises each Sunday afternoon. In the forenoon the boys assemble in the chapel for Sunday School and receive religious instruction and entertainment. The choir consists of forty-one boys.

STATE INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR GIRLS

Location. The State Industrial Home for Girls is located at Adrian, Lenawee County. It is beautifully situated about one-half mile north of the city limits on an elevation overlooking the city and much of the adjacent country.

Purpose. The object of the institution is the care and reformation of delinquent girls. Girls between the ages of ten and seventeen years can be committed to the Home through the probate courts and can be retained until twenty-one years of age. They may be discharged or paroled for good conduct.

History. An act to establish an institution under the name of "The Michigan Reform School for Girls" was passed by the legislature in 1879, and the sum of $30,000 was appropriated for purchasing and preparing the grounds, and the erection of suitable buildings, and to pay current expenses. Governor Croswell appointed a Board of Control for the institution and immediate measures were taken to procure a site for the school. Proposals for donations of land and money were advertised for according to law, and as Adrian offered the greatest inducements, the Board selected that place as the site for the institution. Adrian's gift consisted of forty acres of the choicest farming land in Lenawee County and included a beautiful grove of fifteen acres, all of the farm buildings on the forty acres, and $3,000 additional in cash. The site for the institution was chosen in April, 1880, and plans made at once for the erection of two cottages, the old farm house being utilized for an administration and office building and continuing so for nearly eight years.

The Home was opened August 3, 1881. In 1883 the legislature changed the name to "Industrial Home for Girls."

The institution is supported by the State, an appropriation being made by the legislature for current expenses for each year and special appropriations for buildings and other improvements.

The members of the Board of Guardians, three in number, are appointed by the governor for a term of six years, a new member being appointed every two years. One at least of the members must be a woman. The Board meets at the institution once a month.

Buildings and Equipment. The property consists of 113 acres of land and buildings. There are eight cottages besides an Administration Building, Chapel, Schoolhouse, Hospital, Industrial Building, Band Stand, Engineer's Cottage, storeroom, cold storage, farm houses and barns, carpenter shop and pump house, and engine house.

The surroundings are eminently healthful and beautiful. The ample lawns and the grove in the rear take up most of the original forty acres. Across the road north of the buildings are twenty-four acres of pasture and woodland. This portion is situated along the bank of a little stream, one of the many small tributaries of the historic Raisin River, and affords an ideal picnic ground for the girls. The balance of about fifty acres is under cultivation.

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