. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ut six hundredcriminals. At Concord is the Reformatory for Men, with sevenhundred inmates, and at Sherborn, another for women, with twohundred and fifty inmates, both of which strive to reclaim theoffenders for the first time against the law. There are besidescounty and city prisons and several other correctional \11 work bv the convict is now done for the benefit of the State,contract labor having been abolished in 1S87. Statistics of thecour
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ut six hundredcriminals. At Concord is the Reformatory for Men, with sevenhundred inmates, and at Sherborn, another for women, with twohundred and fifty inmates, both of which strive to reclaim theoffenders for the first time against the law. There are besidescounty and city prisons and several other correctional \11 work bv the convict is now done for the benefit of the State,contract labor having been abolished in 1S87. Statistics of thecourts show that the number of commitments for drunkennesshave increased over one hundred and fifty per cent since 1880,while there has been a notable decrease in the number of commitments for more serious crimes. For instance, thenumber of commitments for assault, burglary, forgery, homicide, larceny, etc., in 1858 was four thousand threehundred and three; in 1880 it was three thousand two hundred and ninety, and in 1890 it was three thousand,seven hundred and ninety-two, and this notwithstanding an enormous increase in the JAMES RUSSELL LOWELLS HOME. .-i/. of to-day. The influence of Massachusetts educational methods upon the country has been of immeasurable value. Itis everywhere acknowledged that here education has been reduced to a science which has been made as nearly per-fect as possible by legislation, and by intelligent educators. The seed of what is now a national system of freeeducation was sown in Boston in an order adopted by the freemen of the town in 1635, as follows : The 13ofy 2 month, 1635 ; Likewise it was then genally agreed upon that y o Philemon Pormont shall be entreated tobecome schoolmaster for y teaching and nourtering of children w vs. The record of the General Court ofMassachusetts contains the ordinance of 1647, ^^ follows : Now that learning may not be buried in the gravesof our fathers, every township in this jurisdiction af
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