Vice-President. Treasurer. WM. BLAIR, JOHN MATHER, A. E. ELMORE, CHAS. R. GIBBS, President. Officers of the School. S. J. M. PUTNAM, MRS. J. M. PUTNAM, Is situated about three-fourths of a mile west of the railroad depot, in the village of Waukesha, the county seat of Waukesha county, Wisconsin. It was organized as a House of Refuge, and opened in 1860. The name was afterwards changed to State Reform School, and again to Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, its present title. The buildings are located on the southern bank of the Fox river, in view of the trains as they pass to and from Milwaukee and Madison, presenting an attractive front to the traveling public, and furnishing the best evidence of the parental care of the state authorities for the juvenile delinquents within our borders. The buildings include a main central building, three stories high, used for the residence of the superintendent's family, chapel, school-rooms, office, dining and lodging rooms for officers, teachers and employees, furnace room, cellar and kitchen. On the east of the main central building are three family buildings, three stories high, each with dining hall, play-room, bath-room, dressing-room, hospital room, officers' room, dormitory and store room. On the west of the main central building are three family buildings like those on the east in all respects. The family buildings were intended to accommodate thirty to thirty-six boys each. The main central and family buildings here spoken of are built of stone, with slate roofs, and are intended to be substantially fireproof. They are provided with hard and soft water force-pumps, hose, and extinguishers. In addition to these buildings and in the rear of them, are two stone shop buildings, three stories high, with slate roofs, which embrace laundry, steam drying room, tank-room, store, cellar, correction house, shoe shops, tailor shop, carpenter shop, paint shop, broom shop and store rooms. In addition to the stone buildings, there are a number of wooden buildings, used for various purposes. There was erected during the year 1877 a correction house, intended for a family of forty of the most refractory boys. It is three stories high, 44x80 feet, built of stone, with slate roof. It contains all that the other family buildings are provided with, and in addition a school room, workshop, with lodging room for such help as are unprovided for elsewhere, band room, etc. There is on the farm a comfortable house and barn for the use of the farmer and his family, and a stone carriage and horse barn, 40x72 feet, two stories high, built in the most substantial marner, of the best material, furnishing convenient storage for the vehicles used on the farm, and comfortable quarters for the stock, with ample room for their necessary food. The farm consists of about two hundred and thirtythree acres of land, the most of it under good cultivation. The income of the Institution is drawn from the products of its own workshops and farm, from annual appropriations, and from charges against counties for maintaining a certain class of inmates. The total appropriations by the legislature for building purposes and current expenses since 1860, are $687,552.67. COUNTIES from which inmates were committed during past year. THE WISCONSIN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. PRESIDENT, MRS. WILLIAM PITT LYNDE. VICE PRESIDENTS, MRS. E. P. ALLIS, MRS. A. C. MAY, MRS. EDW. SANDERSON. J. P. C. COTTRILL, WM. P. McLAREN, SECRETARY, MRS. A. J. AIKENS. TREASURER, MRS. C. D. ADSIT. BOARD OF COUNCILLORS. I. W. VAN SCHAICK, DR. ERNST KRAMER, A. R BUTLER, WM. H. METCALF, The Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls is the only secular reformatory institution in the state where delinquent and neglected girls can find a home. In the winter of 1875 an act was passed providing for the establishment of industrial schools throughout the state, and authorizing the commitment of criminal, vagrant, and deserted children to such schools, by courts and magistrates. The managers of the Milwaukee Industrial School at once organized under this act. The Legislature of 1878, deeming the school worthy of the aid and confidence of the State, appropriated fifteen thousand dollars for the erection of a school building, upon the reasonable condition that the city of Milwaukee should furnish an eligible site. The city, not to be outdone in generosity, immediately conveyed to the State, for the use of the School, a tract of eight acres, worth at least sixteen thousand dollars, situated on North Point, and commanding a full view of the beautiful Bay of Milwaukee. The building is completed, and occupied by teachers, officers and pupils. The form of the building is a parallelogram, sixty by eighty-two feet, exclusive of an extension at each end, in octagonal form, four by twenty-two feet, and a one-story ad ition in the rear for laundry and cellar purposes, eighteen by forty eight feet. It is three stories high above the basement. The building will afford ample accommodation for two hundred pupils, and the teachers, resident officers and assistants. Every part of the house is well ventilated, and provision is made for warming it evenly and thoroughly. It substantially built of Milwaukee brick, upon a limestone foundation. The cost of the structure has been kept within the appropriation. The school was first organized by the name of the Milwaukee Industrial |