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in administration, protection against fire, and a proper classification of 

 the inmates according to their peculiar physical and mental condition, 

 and a complete separation of the sexes. The model on exhibition pro- 

 vided for the accommodation of eighty persons. It is a matter of con- 

 gratulation that the State was enabled to show a building which virtu- 

 ally represented the experience of the world, and will prove a model 

 for similar institutions in this and other countries. 



The following extract from the current annual report of the State 

 Board of Charities will summarize the scope and character of the 

 exhibit : 



New Yoek State Chaeitable Exhibit at the Woeld's Columbian 



Exposition. 



" At the request of the Managers of the Exhibit of the State of New 

 York at the World's Columbian Exposition,' held in Chicago in 1893, 

 this board prepared exhibits of the penal, charitable, eleemosynary, 

 correctional and reformatory work of the State, which were forwarded 

 to Chicago early in the year, and assigned space in connection with 

 similar exhibits from other States and countries at the exposition. 

 These exhibits, in accordance with instructions issued by the bureau of 

 charities and correction, approved by the director general of the expo- 

 sition, then in course of preparation and referred to in the last annual 

 report of the board, were as follows : 



"1. A map of the State, designating in block characters the location of 

 all its penal, charitable, eleemosynary, correctional and reformatory 

 institutions. 



" 2. A directory of the penal, charitable, eleemosynary, correctional 

 and reformatory institutions of this State, showing the object and the 

 purposes of such institutions and their classification by counties. 



" 3. A set of statistical charts, forty-two in number, relating to crime, 

 pauperism, insanity, immigration, etc., with the annual expenditures 

 therefor, and the value of the property of all kinds in the State, held 

 for penal, charitable, correctional and reformatory purposes, October 

 1. 1892. 



" 4. A complete set of the annual and special reports of this board, 

 with copies of circulars, blanks, forms, tables, etc., issued from time to 

 time in the prosecution of its work. 



" 5. Photographic books or albums of various charitable, correctional 

 and reformatory institutions of the State, with the history, objects and 

 purposes, government and management, receipts and expenditures, and 

 the number of beneficiaries of such institutions, prepared, at the request 

 of the board, by their respective managers. 



" 6. A model of an approved plan for poorhouses, with special refer- 

 ence to separation of the sexes and classification of inmates, heating, 

 lighting, ventilation and drainage, projected and designed by Commis- 

 sioner Letchworth and constructed under his supervision and direction. 



" In addition to these exhibits by this board, other exhibits were pre- 

 pared by various charitable, correctional and reformatory institutions 

 of the State and sent direct to the exposition, among which were the 

 following : A model of the State Reformatory at Elmira ; a model of a 



