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— 403 —ANNDAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERSOF THE NEW YORK ST&TE TRAINING SCHOOLFOR GIRLSAT HODSON, ». Y.The institution is for the training of destitute, neglectedand delinquent girls under the âge of sixteen years. They arereceived from ail parts of the State of New York. It is theonly State institution to which delinquent girls under fifteenyears of âge can be committed. It is wholly supported by theState and there is no expense to any county, city, town, village,or individual for transportation, clothing, maintenance, or éducationof girls committed to the institution.Outîit.The présent buildings include seven three-story brick cottages,each of which provides dining-room, sitting-room, laundry,kitchen, sanitary bath and toilet accommodations, and separatesleeping-rooms for an average of about twenty-six pupils andthree officers. So far as living purposes go, each cottage ispractically independent and reproduces as far as possible theprocess, method and spirit of an ordinary home.Besides the cottages, there are seven large buildings andseven smaller ones. The seven include: (1) The chapel, whereunion services are held every Sunday afternoon, conducted inturn by ministers of various faiths ; where religious instructionclasses are carried on every Friday afternoon, for which thegirls are divided into groiTps according to the faiths whichthey profess, a suitable teacher from outside being providedfor each group ; where gymnastic classes and active games arein progress in the basement every afternoon after school hours ;and where the pupils meet in large singing classes four timesa week. (2) The inadéquate administration building where thesteward and bookkeepers, the parole agent and the marshal,the superintendent and her assistant, have their offices andliving rooms and where the physician and several teachers eatand sleep. (3) A large clumsy building intended originally asa prison, now used at one end as a cottage for three gradesof girls and at the other end for a hospital. (4) A school building,somewhat too small, which houses in ten rooms eight gradesof book school classes, three grades of sewing classes, a laundryclass and a cooking class. (5) A rambling wooden building,formerly the hospital, now used at great inconvenience as adormitory for some of the teachers and to house one départaientof the book school. (6) A three-story cottage where thebabies born on the estate live with their mothers and twomatrons. (7) An old wooden stable.The smaller buildings include a disciplinary building whichis badly planned and not sound-proof, a storehouse, icehouse, ecc,as can be seen on the accompanying plan.On August 24, 1909, cottage No. 10, "Lowell" (named forJoséphine Shaw Lowell), was opened, increasing our maximumcapacity by thirty-six, so that there are now accommodationsfor 331 girls. This cottage was built for the lowest or thirdgrade girls, who, prior to August 24, 1909, had been in Stuyvesant,the old "Prison" building.The two cottages for which the Législature of 1906 appropriatedmoney are now practically completed and will be occupied,it is expected, before January 1, 1910. The maximumcapacity of the institution will then be 381. The last two cottagesare attractive in design and appearance and they formwith "Lowell" and the Nursery cottage three sides of a newquadrangle. To complète the quadrangle we shall ask for anappropriation for two more cottages. The grounds around thisgroup have been graded and the walks and roads built. Aconduit for the steam, water and electric light lines has beenconstructed for ail buildings.