Part V. State Institutions
- Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls
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OFFICERS.
Mrs. GEO. W. SWALLOW, 259 Prospect Ave. ................................................................................................
President
Mrs. H. R. VEDDER, 199 Tenth St. ...........................................................................................................
Vice-President
Mrs. ISAAC ELLSWORTH, 567 Van Buren St. ........................................................................................
Vice-President
Mrs. D. H. JOHNSON, 735 Marshall St. ...................................................................................................
Vice-President
Mrs. A. N. FAIRCHILD, 643 Shepard Ave. ......................................................................................................
Treasurer
Mrs. F. M. FISH, 609 Lake Drive ......................................................................................................................
Secretary
RESIDENT OFFICERS.
Miss MARY J. BERRY .............................................................................................................................
Superintendent
Miss JENNIE GOWER ......................................................................................................................................
Assistant
Miss HENRIETTA C. HURLBUT ...........................................................................................................................
Clerk
MATRONS.
Miss SARAH WILLIAMS ................................................................................................................
Merrill Model Home
Miss CLARA ANDERSON ...........................................................................................................................
Main Home
Miss LOUISE S. CHASE .........................................................................................................................
Russell Cottage
Miss SARAH J. DIXON ............................................................................................................................
Lynde Cottage
Miss AMELIA KNEELAND ..............................................................................................................................
Assistant
Miss LOTTA PHELPS ..............................................................................................................................
Cottage Annex
Miss AUGUSTA HASSELL ...............................................................................................................................
Assistant
TEACHERS.
Miss MINA H. MARTIN .....................................................................................................
Main Home Grammar School
Miss EMMA H. ZINN ............................................................................................................
Main Home Primary School
Miss ANNETTE C. PURDY ..................................................................................................
Cottage, 7th and 8th Grades
Miss WINIFRED GOWER ....................................................................................................
Cottage, 5th and 6th Grades
Miss GERTRUDE FOX .........................................................................................................
Cottage, 3rd and 4th Grades
Miss STELLA BURRINGTON ..............................................................................................
Cottage, 1st and 2nd Grades
Miss CORNELIA MORAN ...................................................................................................Domestice
Science (Cooking)
Miss IDA C. PARKS ...................................................................................
Domestic Science (Dressmaking and Millinery)
H. W. FORSYTH .................................................................................................................................................
Steward
The Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls is located in Milwaukee,
on Lake Avenue, in that part of the city known as
North Point. It is capable of accommodating 240 inmates.
Its proper subjects are:
1. Viciously inclined girls under 18.
2. The stubborn and unruly, who refuse to obey their proper
guardians.
3. Truants, vagrants, and beggars.
4. Those found in circumstances of manifest danger of falling
into habits of vice and immorality, for want of proper care.
5. Those under the above ages who have committed any offense
punishable by fine or imprisonment in adult offenders.
6. In addition to the girls sent by legal process, the school
receives, boards and teaches girls for parents or guardians,
on their paying the same sum as is paid by the counties for
those committed by the courts.
Although the school was founded by private charity, and is
under the control of a self-perpetuating board of managers,
it is incorporated and employed by the state for the custody,
guardianship, discipline and instruction of the aforenamed children.
In default of responsible and efficient guardianship they are
treated as minors and wards of the state, and by it they are
committed to the guardianship of this board of ladies during
minority.
The present statute provides that for each girl so committed
the county from which such commitment is made shall pay
not more than two dollars and fifty cents per week.
It is designed to be in no sense a penal institution, but
it is a reformatory for the older, a temporary place of detention
and instruction for the younger. It's objects are detention
and reformation.
The school organized under the act of 1875, and has received
from the legislature, in 1878, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1885,
1887, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1901 and 1903 sums amounting to $153,000
for buildings, improvements, stocks and furnishings. The city
of Milwaukee has also given for its use a tract of over eight
acres of land, the state holding the title to this property.
The buildings, as completed by the successive appropriations
and affording the requisites for distinct family life, are
designated as the Main Building, Merrill Model Home, Russell
Cottage, Lynde Cottage, Cottage Annex, Assembly Hall, Steward's
Home and Steam Heating Plant.
The main building consists of the administration part and
a family building for girls from 10 to 20 years of age, who are
simply wayward or needing the protection of the school. The
Merrill Model is for those who have reached "honor grade"
and enter this home for more special training preparatory to
being paroled and enjoy more privileges and advantages than in
the other families.
The cottages are additional and entirely separate buildings
for proper restraint and influence over unchaste girls.
On leaving the school, children are either returned to their
former homes or relatives, or given by adoption or indenture