INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS.

OFFICERS OF THE SCHOOL.

A.D. HENDRICKSON,
Superintendent.

MRS. A. D. HENDRICKSON

Matron.

The Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, 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 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.

Section 1 of chapter 66 of the general laws of 1870, as amended in 1873, enacts that "the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, at Waukesha, shall be the place of confinement and instruction of all male children between the ages of ten and sixteen years who shall be legally committed to the said Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, as vagrants, or on conviction of any criminal offense, or for incorrigible or vicious conduct, by any court having competent authority to make said commitment."

Section eight of said chapter sixty-six as amended reads as follows: "The courts and several magistrates in any county in this state, may, in their discretion, sentence to the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, any such male child who may be convicted before them as a vagrant, or of any petit larceny or misdemeanor, and the several courts may, in their discretion, send to the said Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, any such male child who may be convicted before them of any offense which under the existing laws would be punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, and the said several courts may, in their discretion, commit to the said Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, any male child within the ages specified in section one of this act, upon complaints and due proof made to said court or magistrate by the parents or guardian of such child, that by reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct, such child is beyond the control and power of such parents or guardian, and that a due regard for the morals and welfare of such child manifestly required that he should be committed to the guardianship of the managers of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys: provided, in all cases, the terms of commitment shall not be less than to the age of twentyone years.

The whole number of inmates in the Institution, since it was opened in July, 1860, to September 30, 1873, is 966. Of this number, 73 were girls and 293 were boys.

The successive annual reports show that the number of inmates was as follows:

TABLE showing the counties from which they were committed.

NATIONAL

ASYLUM FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS.

The building of the Asylum for Disabled Soldiers, located near Milwaukee, is called The Northwestern Branch of that great National Institution. The Central Asylum is located at Dayton, Ohio. Other branches are located at Augusta, Maine, and Hampton, Virginia. The whole are under a Board of Managers, consisting of the following persons:

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ex-officio.

THE CHIEF JUSTICE, ex-officio.

THE SECRETARY OF WAR, ex-officio.

Maj. Gen. B. F. BUTLER, President, Lowell, Mass.

Maj. Gen. J. H. MARTINDALE, 1st Vice President, Rochester, N. Y.
Hon. LEWIS B. GUNCKEL, Secretary, Dayton, Ohio.

Gov. FREDERICK SMYTH, Manchester, N. H.

Dr. ERASTUS B. WOLCOTT, Milwaukee, Wis.

Brig. Gen. JoHN S. CAVENDER, St. Louis, Mo.

Hon. HUGH L. BOND, Baltimore, Md.

Gen. THOMAS O. OSBORNE, Chicago, Ill.

One vacancy exists in the Board-that of Second Vice President. This office was held by JAY COOKE, of Philadelphia, who recently resigned.

THE NORTHWESTERN BRANCH

Is beautifully situated, three miles from the city of Milwaukee, and within sight of its towers and domes. It is a capacious brick building, containing accommodations for 700 or 800 inmates. The plate which accompanies this sketch gives a fair view of the main edifice, and its style of architecture. In addition to this building, which contains the main halls, eating apartment, offices, dormitory and engine room, are shops, granaries, stables and other outbuildings. A farm of 425 acres surrounds the building, of which considerably exceeding one-half is under cultivation. The balance is a wooded park, in the care of which the greatest industry and good taste are displayed, traversed by shaded walks and drives, beautifully undulating, and a landscape of marked and peculiar loveliness throughout its entire extent. The main line of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad runs through the farm, and the track of the northern division passes beside it.

WHO ARE ADMITTED, AND HOW.

Any disabled volunteer or regular soldier, sailor or marine, who has been honorably discharged from the service of the United States, is entitled to admission, in case the disability was contracted in the line of duty, in the service. The present inmates are suffering from all kinds of disability. The loss of one leg or both, one arm or both, blindness, insanity, chronic disease, or acute disease if contracted in the service, ulcers and unhealed wounds, or any sort of affliction that deprives the sufferer of the ability to labor for his livelihood, entitles him to admission.