respects they also are scandalous; the same peril from fire exists, the fate of the inmates being practically sealed in case of a sudden conflagration. At Dannemora the building is better, the corridors are roomier, and the light is better than at Sing Sing or Auburn; but even there the ventilation is extremely imperfect, the sanitary arrangements unsatisfactory, and the fire protection in adequate. We have put the report of the committee as to these particulars mildly, but the actual conditions described are simply sickening, especially in Sing Sing. Beside the material conditions of the prisons the committee reports particularly on prison labor in relation to discipline and classification, and on the condemned and punishment cells. The labor conditions at Sing Sing and Dannemora are worse than at Auburn. At Sing Sing, except in the stone shop, the men do not work on the average more than four hours out of the eight, and during that four hours do not accomplish more work than could be accomplished outside in three hours. Even to establish that average many of the prisoners are entirely idle. In Auburn about six hours' labor are done daily, and with the exception of 160 idle men in three idle companies all the men were working. The system of instruction of pris oners at Auburn, which is the work of Mr. Hall, the superintendent of industries, is commended, the committee saying that he alone of all the men employed in this most difficult undertaking has successfully coped with the problem of prison labor and its relation to the character of the men and the discipline of the prison. There is at Sing Sing and Dannemora practically no scientific classification of the prisoners, the classification being based chiefly on the number of convictions and not upon the character of the prisoners. The committee offers its contribution to the vexed subject of prison labor in relation to the markets, and quotes a number of verdicts of buyers of prison-made goods, the most of which express dissatisfaction with. the quality of those goods. In brief, the conclusion of the committee is that the prison buildings are bad in almost every respect, highly unsanitary, badly ventilated, and badly lighted; the discipline of Sing Sing is decidedly lax, at Dannemora somewhat better, at Auburn still better. In the matter of classification almost no regard is paid to the character of the convict, and the discipline is calculated rather to crush out hope and ambition than to reform and inspire the prisoners to better living. The law requiring political division of the states to purchase the products of the prisons is evaded, and at present the system of prison labor does not furnish a sufficient amount of work to keep one-third of the prisoners employed sufficient time to accustom them to habits of industry. If the report of the committee could be summed up in a sentence it might fairly be said that the prisons Society before giving to the societies, private almoners, or persons included. in the cautionary lists named below. This caution implies that the society knows of facts which should be known to subscribers who are asked to give, and may effect their action, but does not necessarily imply condemnation. Any information relating to the names upon the lists, particularly if of such a character as to warrant a withdrawal of caution, should be forwarded promptly to the executive committee of the council. NEW NAMES ON THESE LISTS. Burdett, William Vesey. Franco, Antoine and Angelino Clements. Ralph, Theodore and Clara Perry. Guardian Angel Day Nursery. Miss B. T. Redmond. Harget. See Sisters, Beatrice, Annie, et al. High View Park (Va.) Colored School. Independent Life Saving Corps. Kingsley, Mrs. M. A.; manager Seaside Home. Lamadrid, Mrs. J. M. See N. Y. and Brooklyn St. Andrew's One-Cent Coffee Stands. Legal League. See Mrs. Jessie Mordaunt. McElhenny, C. E.; collecting for Volunteer Life-Saving Corps. Mack, C. E.; collecting for Volunteer Life-Saving Corps. Manhattan Press Club. See Down-Town Press Club. Maternity Home. See Woman's Infirmary. Matthes, Rev. Dr. Albin. Mitchell, Rhoden. See Rankin-Richards Institute. Moorcroft, Walter, Mission. Mordaunt, Mrs. Jessie. See Legal LeagueNational Unsectarian Home. Wm. H. Ramscar. New York Industrial Home for Adult Blind. George Wilson, collector. N. Y. & Brooklyn Telegraphers' Mutual Benevolent Association. N. Y. & Brooklyn St. Andrew's One-Cent N. Y. Contagious Diseases Society. See house. See Woman's Infirmary. solicitor. See St. Mary's Lodging 'Woman's Infirmary and Maternity Home. Or any other relief enterprise not managed or indorsed by citizens of known good standing and responsibility. IV. INDIVIDUALS NOT INCLUDED IN THE PRE- ALDEN, THOS. S. See Hunt, Thos. S. ANDERS, GEORGE. See Tichler, Walter. for another woman, and begs on her own account by letters. ANDERSON, MRS. See Prentiss, R. L. ANDERSON, MISS MAGGIE, 109 Queen street, east, St. John, New Brunswick. Beggingletter writer; tells story of personal ail ments. ARCHER. See Wadge. BAILEE, IRENE. See Baillie, Florence. BAILEY. See Baillie, Florence. BAILLIE, FLORENCE; alias Bailee, Irene; Bailey; Baylie, Gladys; Cam, “Lady Florence; Hill, "Lady Florence; tells tale of death of husband four years ago; present need in consequence of an accident to her foot; is a confidence woman known to the society since December, 1884, when she claimed to be a British earl's daughter, calling herself "Lady Cam," and was put upon this list. She is tall, usually wears a veil and has noticeably irregular teeth. BALMER, EDWARD. See Bennett, Thomas M. BARKLIE, FRANK C. See Finlay, Wm. Edgar. BARON, EDWARD; alias Barrett; Barry ; Baruth; Berry, Edwin F.; Morgan, Edwin F.; Rodney; Roy; Starin; young man, dark hair and mustache, glasses, slender build, 5 feet 8 inches high, slightly lame; claims to hail from Easton, Pa., and to be about to locate in New York; is a begging-letter writer; has been imprisoned as a swindler. wears BARRET, EDWARD. See Baron, Edward. BARRY, EDWARD. See Baron, Edward. BARTH, CHARLES, teacher of languages; makes false statements and gives false addresses. BARUTH, EDWARD. See Baron, Edward. BAUER ; alias Dankert, Danker, Denker, exconvict; claims to be desirous of living an honest life, but hounded by detectives, etc.; begs small sums for transportation, etc. BAYLISS, THOS. S. See Hunt, Thos. S. BENDER, EDWARD and EVA, alias Bernhardt; alias Bendix; woman asks aid for sick husband; both are able to work, and do at times, but prefer to beg. BENNETT, THOMAS M.; alias Frank P. Campbell; Edward Balmer; David Mayers; Herbert Rogers; persistent and notorious begging-letter writer and swindler. BENDIX. See Bender. BERNHARDT. See Bender. BERRY, EDWIN F. See Baron, Edward. BROWER, JOHN and HATTIE; alias Kelley unmarried couple, drunken and disorderly. BROWN, J. W. See Wilson. BROWN, MRS. WM. See Thompson, Wm. 2 BURDETT, WILLIAM VESEY; son of Mrs. George C. Burdett, who was herself unfavorably known as a persistent beggar; persistent begging-letter writer; is paralyzed; sometimes claiming relationship to person addressed, and uses names recommendations without permission; also gives erroneous information. BURGER. See Wagner-Ludloff. as CAM, LADY" FLORENCE. See Baillie, Flor ence. CAMPBELL, FRANK P. See Bennett, Thomas M. CARTER, HENRY C. See Finlay, Wm. Edgar. CLARK, MRS. See Prentiss, R. L. COACHMAN, JOHN H.; alias Horton, Morrison Jas.; Scott, Jas. G.; solicits relief, presenting forged letters of recommendation. COHN, CHAS. See Miller. COUTURE, NAPOLEON, French music teacher; gives false addresses uniformly, claims to have been a patient in a public hospital, but can not be identified. DANKER, CHARLES, or DENKER. See Bauer, Charles. DAVENPORT, EDGAR C. See Morgan, John. DAVENPORT, WILLIAM F.; alias Rogers; young man; dark brown eyes, left half closed, with cast in it; height, 5 feet 4 inches, medium build; manners those of a sporting man; has used forged letter of introduction and given false name of alleged employer. DAVIDSON. See Wadge. DAVIS, JAS. See Morgan, Wm. DAWSON. See Russell, Alla M. DAY, MRS. See Prentiss, R. L. DEAS. See Hunt, Thos. S. DELS; alias Di Dio, Eleanora; De Drago, Del Vasto; Clara Stein is accused of getting children into homes or in charge of societies, for a consideration; is notoriously unworthy of confidence. DEL VASTO. See Dels. DENKER, CHARLES. See Bauer, Charles. DESCOE, MRS. See Prentiss, R. L. DEVRILLS OF DEVRIES, EDWIN H.; tells a story of employment as engineer on the Tampico branch of Mexican Central railway until his discharge in consequence of epilepsy and partial loss of hearing. DI DIO. See Dels. This is not the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, 5 Livingston place, which by many is known as the "Woman's Infirmary." 2 New name on this list. DOBSON, WILLIAM J. and CECILIA; a married couple who have been for years living upon charity; man persistent beggingletter writer, but not worthy. DOBRENZ,,A. É., M. D., German physician; persistent begging-letter writer; has used the name of Gross. DRAGO, DE. See Dels. DRUMMOND, George. See Morgan, John. DUCE, ELIZA H., about 40. English; well educated; has worked at intervals in various capacities-seamstress, housekeeper, housemaid, etc.; has respectable relatives in England; borrows money, especially of Episcopal clergymen; drinks; has had much done for her, but apparently prefers to live on charity while pretending to desire work. DUFOUR, JOHN OTTO; alias Hemminger; Kammergeist; sometimes drops his first or middle name; also known as the "French missionary," but is not a minister; calls on clergymen and solicits their influence to secure him German pupils; is addicted to drink. DUNKINSON, F. H.; begs money for Mrs. Kronheim, as a friend of the family. DUNN. See McCann, Mrs. Mary Dunn. EDGAR, WILLIAM E. See Finlay, Wm. Edgar. FIELD, ARTHUR. See Morgan, John. FINLAY, WM. EDGAR, or Wm. Lawrence; alias Barklie, Frank C.; Carter, Henry C.; Lawrence, W. Livingston; Livingston, Henry W.; Mason, Robert Lee; Van Rensselaer, Beekman; Williams, John W.; Ten Eyck, Walter Phelps, son of the late Richard W. Ten Eyck, of Albany, N. Y.; begging-letter writer; tells story of sickness and want; claims relationship to eminent persons; also house-beggar with story of lost pocketbook. son FLEMING, CHARLES. Claims to hail from Maspeth, L. I.; has a crippled arm. Fox, MRS. ELLEN, widow, and her Martin, aged 18; the son, a hunchback, works in ferry houses and on piers on the East River, but also writes begging letters, which he presents to persons at private houses; mother intemperate and generally unworthy. Fox. See McCann, Mrs. Mary Dunn. 1 FRANCO, ANTOINE, and ANGelino Clements, his wife; man has been imprisoned for passing counterfeit money; woman writes begging letters. FREDERICK, Philip. See Parker, Joseph. GARDINER, MRS. A. M., swindler. GOLDSTEIN, BERNARD; street beggar; claims to speak five languages, to be a bookkeeper or a cloakmaker; but is drunken and generally worthless; family frequently dispossessed. GOULD, MRS. See Prentiss, R. L. GOULET, MISS PHYLLIS, trained nurse; tells false story of commission to hire a nurse and of her loss of money. 1 New name on this list. HAESELIN, CARL ALPHONSE; begging-letter writer, with a bad record of laziness and fraud. HAMILTON, JAMES. See Morgan, Wm. HALL, GEO. FRANCIS. See Hilford. HARRINGTON, Wм.; alias Wm. Livingston; young man, English, chemist; calls at houses and asks for money to pay railway fare of a blind brother to Peekskill or elsewhere; gives false addresses; manners very familiar, and plays the trick of using as a recommendation a name he finds on a card in the card basket of the lady on whom he calls. HEARN, HARRY. See Morgan, Wm. HENRY, MISS, or Miss Louise or Eliza Henry, or Hendricks, or Miss Lucy Henderson, or Mrs. Hennessey; middle-aged; dresses in respectable black; tells story of her own sickness, and that she expects to go to a hospital, also of an invalid and deformed sister, and at times of an aged and blind mother. HILFORD; alias Hall, Geo. Francis; Hill, Halford; Rhodes, Frederick; young man, dark complexion, tall, slender, with husky voice, plausible manners; procures report of benevolent societies and visits their managers, claiming to have been sent from one to the other; usually applies for money or clothing to enable him to go to the Adirondacks, Catskills, or elsewhere, for the benefit of his health. HILL. See Hilford. HILL, LADY" FLORENCE. Florence. See Baillie, HOPE, THOS. S. See Hunt, Thos. S. HOVEY, MRS. See Prentiss, R. L. HOYTE, ANNIE M. See Hoyte, M. Edith. HUNT, THOS. S.; alias Alden, Baylies, Deas, Hope, Williams, etc., ad inf.; young, tall and slender; presents begging letters; usually signs same family name as party addressed, and waits for answer. Writing, neat and peculiar. JACKSON, CHAS, See Wilson, John. JOHNSON, ROBERT JOHN ; states that he formerly begged for a church he was pastor of, and now asks for his own needs; has served a term in state prison for swindling, as he appropriated to his own use the money ostensibly raised for his church; has shown himself since his release unworthy of confidence. JOHNSON, MRS. Wм. See Thompson, Wm. KAMMERGEIST. See Dufour. KELLEY. See Brower; see Wagner. KREISWIRTH, often called Reiswirth, Jacob; a Hebrew; claims to be a convert to Christianity; is a persistant relief seeker, but of very bad character. KRONHEIM, MRS. ANNA JOHNSON; intemperate; pretends to be in need; has 4 grown children able to earn their living. LANG, HENRY; ex-convict; claims to be a painter, but unable to join the union because he has been in prison; writes begging letters. LAWRENCE, W. LIVINGSTON. Wm. Edgar. See Finlay, LEIGHTON, MRS. See Prentiss, R. L. LIVINGSTON, WM. See Harrington, Wm. Fox persistent begging-letter writer; mendacious; husband lazy. MCCORMICK, MRS. MARY, alias Quinn; very untruthful and persistent applicant for charity. MCDADE, J. W., claims to have been mayor of San Francisco; borrows money in the name of a club. 1 MANISHOFF, MARRISCHOF, or or MORKISCHOF, MARK; claims to be a convert from Judaism; but he is entirely unreliable, though very plausible in manner and voluble in promises. MASON, ROBERT LEE. See Finlay, Wm. Edgar. MATTHEWS, MARY. See Mayers. MAYERS, ANNA; alias Annie Myers; Mary MOELLER. See Wagner-Ludloff. MORGAN, JOHN; alias Edgar C. Davenport; New name on this list. MORRISON, JAS. See Coachman, John H. MUELLER, CHAS. P. See Miller, Chas. P. MULHOLLAND, KATE, MRS. ; alias Mrs. Kate (?) Anderson; alias Milholland; Mullins; Sheridan; now calls herself Miss Harriet Taylor; makes appeals in newspapers, but is intemperate, quarrelsome and thoroughly untruthful; has several children, the eldest of whom, Thomas, she has trained to be an accomplished liar. MULLINS, MRS. KATE (?). See Mulholland. MYERS, ANNIE. See Mayers. NICHOLAS, MRS. HELEN FULLER, age 40; inveterate begging-letter writer; pretends to desire pupils in foreign languages, but has repeatedly refused to give instruction after receiving the money for tuition. NOBLETT, THOS. J., English, an expelled freemason (1880); has been recommended by clergymen. NORMANN, M. See Wagner-Ludloff. O'NEILL, W. J.; claims to be a convert from Romanism. O'REILLY, PATRICK. See Morgan, Wm. PEARSON, J. T. See Wilson, John. PENN, ROBERT. See Morgan, John. PILGRIM, F. E. and R. C. R., his wife; chronic beggars from churches which they join. POLLACK, HENRY JOSEPH, single, age 22; presented forged receipt for money loaned, and with which he was enabled to get a position. POWERS, ALICE; notorious character, street beggar; gives false addresses. PRENTISS, ROBERT (or RICHARD) LEIGHTON, and his alleged wife, with aliases Anderson, Clark, Day, Descoe, Gould Hovey, Leighton, Moore, Thompson, Wesson, White; couple come from Boston, where they had been in prison; both persons of very bad record; the man has a crippled arm and the woman is the wife of another man; that he is the son of a Southern Episcopalian clergyman and the brother of another is true. PRICE, WM. See Wilson, John. QUINN. See McCormick, Mrs. Mary. 2 RALPH, THEODORE, and CLARA PERRY, his wife, with four children; family thoroughly pauperized and chronic beggars. REID, WM. See Wilson, John. 2 New name on this list. |