The various trade schools of the institution will be located in the industrial building, and the instructors will live in the nearby cottages. Twenty-five boys employed in trades will live as a family under the immediate supervision of an instructor. This industrial group and its cottages is now outlined only in plan, no appropriation having yet been made for the buildings.

The sixteen cottages provided for in the appropriation made by Chapter 631 of the Laws of 1904 are of frame construction, two stories in height. Each will have a sitting room and dining room for boys, a sitting room, toilet room and bedroom for the supervisor and matron in charge, a kitchen, pantry and store room, on the first floor. On the second floor there will be a dormitory for the boys, a room for a night watchman, in case one is employed, a toilet room and clothes room. In the basement of each will be located the steam boiler which will heat the cottage, and a room in which the boys will remove their soiled shoes and put on slippers before entering the living rooms above. There will also be a vegetable cellar.

It is intended that the garden supplies, fruit, milk and every other article of food which it is possible to raise upon the farm, shall be produced in sufficient quantities by the boys for their own use at least, and in the case of the older and larger boys, a surplus for the officers, or for sale. Each cottage is designed to be complete in itself, and to have no connection with the other cottages. It will be wired for electric lighting, but until an electric plant is installed, kerosene lamps will be used.

A general laundry will do the laundry work and a general bakery will supply the bread for the whole school. In connection with each of the sixteen cottages and farms there is to be a barn for the horses, cows, sheep and other domestic animals.

It is the purpose to divide the tract into fifty-acre farms. These agricultural cottages will be held responsible for the proper culti vation of their respective farms. All division walls and fences are to be removed, the hedge rows cut down, and the ground thoroughly tilled. Where necessary, woven wire fences will be erected for boundary purposes, with the object of making the whole site appear one unbroken farm.

The location of the cottages was determined largely with the fifty-acre farms in view, and that the boys living in each house might be near the farm which they are to cultivate. Of the sixteen to be erected, six are located North and ten South of the Scottsville and East Rush road. Usually, high land has been selected for sites, but to the South of the Scottsville road some of the cottage sites selected are in the lowlands. The State Board of Charities believes that some of the sites are badly chosen and should be changed. The barns are to be located about one hundred feet from the house.

By chapter 631, Laws of 1904, the Legislature appropriated for sixteen cottages and sixteen barns complete, $136,000; for bakery and store house, $5,000; for reception house and hospital, $15,000; for ice house, $2,000; for roads, $5,000; for farm stock, equip ment and seeds, $10,000; for furnishings, $10,000. This appro priation bill was signed by the Governor and became a law on the 9th of May, 1904, and the money immediately available. Plans and specifications for the cottages and barns were prepared soon thereafter by the State Architect, and were then immediately approved by the Board of Managers and the Building Commission. Advertisements for proposals for the construc tion of these cottages and barns were published on the 6th of August, and the contract for their erection was awarded on the 16th of the month to the Schenectady Engineering and Construction Company, they being the lowest bidders. This contract cov ered both the construction and electric wiring, at $94,614.00 for the construction work and $1,840.00 for the electric light work. The contract for heating and plumbing was awarded to Richard T. Ford of Rochester, at a combined bid of $25,800.00, making the total contract for the construction of the sixteen cottages and sixteen barns complete, $122,254.00, which is about $14,000.00 less than the Legislature appropriated for these buildings.

Work under these contracts was begun on the 26th day of September, and the team work has been done on the excavation of fifteen of the sixteen cottages, and the sixteenth cellar will be completed within a few days. Delay in the shipment of material

has thus far prevented actual construction work, but the material is now being delivered on the site.

Plans have been prepared for the hospital, and for an ice house, and there are now ready preliminary plans for the bakery and store room building.

By chapter 167 of the Laws of 1904, it was provided that no girls should be committed to the State Industrial School after the first of June, 1904. At that date there were in the institution sixty-five girls. Since then all except four of these girls have been paroled from the institution into the care of employers or relatives. The four exceptions are feeble-minded and they have been placed in the custody of the superintendent of the poor of their respective counties, there being no opportunity to secure their commitment to the State Custodial Asylum for Women at Newark because of lack of room in that institution. The last girl left the institution on the thirtieth day of September, and on that date the Girls' Department was formally closed.

The removal of the State Industrial School to its new home makes large appropriations necessary in order that the institution may be completed at an early date. The Legislature of 1904 made an appropriation for sixteen farm cottages and barns. These will house four hundred inmates, and it becomes essential that the administration building be erected at once. For this purpose the Board recommends an appropriation of $25,000.

The religious instruction of the boys should proceed with their other training, and the Board recommends that provision be made for chapels.

The industrial building will be required as soon as the majority of the boys are on the new site, and the boiler room and power house and the other buildings essential to the successful operation of the trade schools should be provided for, as also ten additional cottages which are recommended so that the city dormitories may be abandoned in another year. The sixteen cottages in course of erection are to accommodate 400 boys. Ten additional cottages will provide room for 250 more. As the total population on the first of October was 686, this provision will apparently leave about 36 boys without cottage dormitories, but it will be possible

to make use of some of the farm cottages to provide temporarily for this number, and thus when the ten additional cottages asked for are completed the institution can finally leave Rochester.

Fencing is needed to prevent the encroachment upon the State land, of neighboring flocks and herds, as well as for the protec tion of the cattle and sheep of the School.

Farm stock and equipment for cultivating the land, together with seeds, fruit trees and small fruit plants should be provided, and also for each of the cottages now building, horses, cows, swine and sheep.

The State Board of Charities recommends for this institution the following appropriations or so much thereof as may be necessary:

For administration building, $25,000; for industrial building, $15,000; for boiler room and power plant building, $10,000; for creamery building, $3,000; for fruit evaporator building, $2,000; for fencing, $3,000; for Catholic chapel, $10,000; for Protestant chapel, $15,000; for ten cottages, $75,000; additional for hospital, $10,000; for fruit trees and small fruit plants, $1,000; for stock, equipment and seeds, $5,000, making the special appropriations recommended, $174,000; for maintenance, $160,000; making the total appropriations recommended, $334,000.

NEW YORK STATE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, HUDSON, COLUMBIA COUNTY.

(Originally established in 1881 as the House of Refuge for

Women.)

[Established 1904.]

This institution has capacity for 285 inmates. The number of inmates October 1, 1903, was 194, and 54 were admitted during the year, making the total number under care 248. During the year 85 were discharged, thus leaving under care October 1, 1904, 163, of whom 7 were infants. The average number present during the year was 168, and the average weekly cost of support, including the value of home and farm products consumed, $6.04; excluding this value, $5.82.

The receipts during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1904, were: From cash balance of the previous year, $271; from special appropriations, $32,633.10; from general appropriations, $53,000; from other sources, $441.09; total, $86,345.19.

The ordinary expenditures of the year were: For salaries of officers, $16,803.46; for wages and labor, $6,116.46; for provisions, $3,433.48; for household stores, $1,767.73; for clothing, $1,870.12; for fuel and light, $7,737.56; for hospital and medical supplies, $406.07; for transportation and traveling expenses, $1.528.65; for shop, farm and garden supplies, $1,580.15; for ordinary repairs, $380.80; for expenses of managers, $519.25; for remittance to State Treasurer, $439.77; for all other ordinary expenses, $2,738.89; total, $51,320.39.

The extraordinary expenditures were reported as $30,793.10, of which $29.252. 75 was for buildings and improvements, $800.85 for extraordinary repairs, and $739.50 for all other extraordinary expenses, making the total expenditures for the year $82,113.49. The cash balance October 1, 1904, was $4,231.70, and the outstanding indebtedness $1,840 for bits unpaid.

Of the expenditures for maintenance during the year 45.1 per cent. was for salaries, wages and labor, 18.5 per cent. for provisions, 3.5 per cent. for household stores, 3.7 per cent for clothing, 15.2 per cent. for fuel and light, .8 of 1 per cent. for hospital and medical supplies, 3 per cent. for transportation and traveling expenses, 3.1 per cent. for shop, farm and garden supplies, 7 of 1 per cent. for ordinary repairs, 1 per cent. for expenses of managers, and 5.4 per cent. for all other ordinary expenses.

Chapter 728, Laws of 1904 (appropriation bill), appropriated for maintenance of the institution and for transportation of the convicts, $55,000.

Chapter 723, Laws of 1904 (special act), appropriated for additional amount necessary to make heating contract for prison and administration building, $905; extending switch board, $250; enlarging dynamo room, $200; furniture and furnishing for rooms and offices and new hospital equipment, $1,000.