EEPOET ON THE CHARITIES AND CORREC- 

 TIONS EXHIBIT. 



EXHIBIT CLASSED IN LIBERAL AETS DEPARTMENT, BUT INSTALLED IN THE 

 ANTHROPOLOGICAL BUILDING. 



A special effort was made by the exposition authorities to secure from 

 all the States exhibits of the methods employed in their charitable, 

 penal, correctional and reformatory institutions, and a special bureau M^as 

 formed for that purpose in the liberal arts department. New York's 

 board heartily supported the idea and obtained the co-operation of the 

 State Board of Charities. The latter, under the personal supervision of 

 their secretary', Dr. Charles S. Hoyt, prepared a systematic statement 

 of the laws and conditions governing the work in New York, and tabu- 

 lated charts of results obtained and develoi3ments noted, supplemented 

 by models of the best institutions in the State. The Board of General 

 Managers on their part defrayed all expenses connected with the exhibit. 

 As a tangible and graphic representation of the results of many years 

 of liberal expenditure of public money and of the labors of earnest, 

 able and devoted men and women, it possessed a special interest for our 

 own citizens and gave to visitors from other States and countries an 

 impressive conception of the charitable munificence of New York. It 

 is much to be regretted that the installation of the exhibit from New 

 York was so poorly arranged by the exposition director in charge. 

 Scattered about the Anthropological Building in several different places, 

 in accordance with the exposition idea of a comparative exhibit by States 

 and countries of similar subjects, the display lost a great part of its 

 impressiveness; The paucity of material rendered the " comparative " 

 display in this department a total failure from a scientific standpoint, 

 and the State displays suffered correspondingly in effect because of this 

 fractional arrangement. Much of the confusion was probably due to 

 the indifferent attitude of the exposition oflScials towards the liberal 

 arts department in the construction period of the fair, and the very 

 late date and consequent hurry in which the Anthropological Building 

 was completed and the exhibits installed. 



Among the most noteworthy exhibits from New; York in this 

 department were the Eochester Industrial School, containing a full 

 representation of the studies pursued and work done in the institution ; 

 the model of the Elmira Reformatory; model of the Utica Insane 

 Asylum ; model of the Letchworth Poorhouse, and splendid series of 

 lorty-two statistical charts tabulating volumes of information. 



The Letchworth Poorhouse especially attracted wide attention. It 

 was designed by the Hon. Wm. P. Letchworth, of Buffalo, who has 

 been for many years a member of the State Board of Charities, and has 

 made poorhouse architecture a study for twenty years. The objects 

 attained in the model are perfect sanitation, convenience and economy 



