in the working-classes of the institution. If a pupil indicates, by his natural capacity or his tastes and acquirements, that his mental culture is most important, he has the means for improvement. The way is open and free, and the instrumentalities and teachers are at his side ready to aid him. Pupils there receive such intellectual education as they are mentally qualified to acquire and such instruction in practical handicrafts as is best suited to their usefulness, the institution embracing the home, the college, and the workshop. How to combine the industrial feature with the educational idea of a college was not at first understood by the managers of the institution as clearly as in the light of experience it afterward appeared. In 1864 a chair of industrial science was established, embracing the practical and theoretic teachings of various handicrafts. The labor-branches in the work-room thus arranged for were type-setting, printing, bookbinding, type-casting, stereotyping, turning, carpentering, daguerreotyping, photography, electrotyping, electroplating, and practical instruction in the electric telegraph. Shoemaking had already been taught and carried on successfully for three years. In consequence of the increasing difficulty of finding employers willing to take boys under indentures, the working-class in 1868 had become too large for the existing facilities for manual labor, and it became necessary to enlarge them by introducing a greater variety of handicrafts; which has been done as far as the present comparatively limited capacity of the buildings would allow. INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR GIRLS, 762 SOUTH TENTH STREET, PHILA DELPHIA. This excellent institution was opened for the reception of inmates in September, 1857, by citizens of Philadelphia, and incorporated in 1859. The building and property now owned by the institution cost $20,900. Thirty inmates can be conveniently accommodated. During the fourteen years it has been in operation, the lady managers have admitted 349 girls between the ages of 12 and 18 years, nearly all of whom have been put into good homes or returned to their parents, and have done well. No appropriations have been received, either from the State or city, but the support of the institution is entirely dependent upon individual bounty. THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, WEST PHILADELPHIA. (Roman Catholic.) Girls of a good moral character are received into this institution and taught dress- and shirt-making; embroidery on linen, silk, and flannel; artificial flowers; knitting, and all kinds of housework. The institution is self-supporting. THE BOARDING-HOME FOR WORKINGWOMEN, AT 105 ARCH STREET, ALLEGHENY CITY, It is found, meets a pressing want of the times, and is almost self-sustaining. It was a significant fact, brought out at the second national convention of the thirty-six Women's Christian Associations of the United States assembled at Philadelphia, October last, that three-fourths of the number have established homes on the same plan with our own, showing plainly the need of such an institution as we represent to be not only widespread, but so apparent as to attract universal attention. The first one was founded by a Miss Bramwell, a most gifted lady, of London. THE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURG AND ALLEGHENY Have a prosperous sewing-school of about fifty pupils. The garments made by them are given them as rewards for good conduct and efficiency. SOUTH CAROLINA. CHARLESTON SEWING SCHOOL. In Charleston, S. C., about fifty children of poor parents are instructed by ladies of the Episcopal Church, on Saturdays, in hand-sewing and the use of the machine, receiving the garments made by them as gifts. TENNESSEE. GIRLS' INDUSTRIAL HOME, KNOXVILLE. This school had its origin in a benevolent association of Christians of several religious denominations united, which association was organized in 1873. In 1874 an Industrial Home was started, and its results for a year were so good that the work is continued, and it is hoped that soon an act of incorporation will be passed. Little street-beggars from 5 to 14 years of age are gathered up from their evil associations and trained in habits of industry and good principles. Household-labor and sewing are taught them, and it is expected that the trade of dress-making may be soon also introduced. The girls are sent to the public schools for the ordinary school-training. WISCONSIN. ST. ROSE'S SCHOOL, MILWAUKEE. St. Rose's (for female orphan children, Milwaukee) receives children over one year of age; teaches the common-school-branches, and cooking, laundry-work, and sewing. Before leaving the asylum, all are provided with good situations, and generally give satisfaction. APPENDIX A. The following is the report referred to in the letter of transmittal: PRISON ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK, 58 BIBLE-HOUSE, ASTOR PLACE, DEAR SIR: Your repeated request for a copy of the records and official report concerning the lineage of the stock of offenders, paupers, and unfortunates, in which "Margaret, the Mother of Criminals," appears, must be answered briefly, while I again beg you to await the appearance of the full report, with its genealogical charts, now in the hands of the State printer at Albany. The fact that six generations of debased womanhood and manhood, from parentage already so degenerate and abandoned in habits and social state that the community in a wealthy county allowed the first and each succeeding generation of the children to be lost because so degenerate, at last have been traced and described as a conspicuous stock of criminals, vagabonds, and paupers, is certainly natural. It is simply the record of biological sequences. The connection of events has been traced from the present inmates of prisons, jails, and reformatories, and paupers in a particular district, back to a characteristic parentage; and, by a retrogressive search through six generations, Mr. Dugdale, who undertook this task, completed the records which you have mentioned under the synthetical title "the Mother of Criminals." In the year 1871, the writer reported, concerning the county in which these events have occurred, that the relationships of pauperism and vice to crime and disorder will not escape inquiry by the Prison Association's committee. Fortunately Mr. Dugdale, a most capable and exact inquirer, found this trail of debased lineage while searching out sources of a monstrous group of criminals and vicious youth last year. It is suffieient that the writer assures you that a more rigorous and trustworthy student of facts and human character than Mr. Dugdale has rarely if ever searched among the sources of crime and pauperism. His official report being a lengthy one, embodying a great amount of grouped statistics, it becomes necessary to respond to your requests by the following brief abstracts, derived from that report, in the form of answers to the essential questions concerning which you now ask for information. As you seek to illustrate the public duty of universal and adequate education and disciplinary training, these facts from actual experience will show that it is at an enormous risk to the peace, the public economy, and the interests of morality in any community that vagrant and vicious children are permitted to grow up into an abandoned and degraded maturity, either to be paupers or criminals, and to entail their own likeness upon successive generations. SIR: The delay of the Prison Association's thirtieth annual report, in the State printer's hands, has so long postponed the publication of your special chapter concerning criminal families and their entailments in one of the counties, that I must |