MISCELLANEOUS BOARDS AND
COMMISSIONS
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ST. MARY’S INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
FOR BOYS.
(Terms Expire 1935.)
Name Postoffice.
R. Walter Graham Baltimore
James M. Easter - - Baltimore
Edward Gross Baltimore
Edward Davis Baltimore
George W. Rife Baltimore
Superintendent,Brother John Fidelis, C. F X.
The Governor appoints five for two years from first Monday in
May. (Ch. 35, 1908.)
St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys of the City of Baltimore was
incorporated in 1866. It is situated in the western part of the city on
Wilkens, Caton and De Sota Road.
This school is under the personal management of the Xaverian
Brothers, a body of men who devote their lives to the education of
boys and young men. Brother John Fidelis is the present Superin-
tendent, and all communications should be addressed to him.
The State of Maryland appropriates $60,000 annually towards the
maintenance of the boys sent to the school from the various counties
of the State. The wards of the City of Baltimore are paid for by the
city at the rate of $16% per month.

BOARD OF MANAGERS OF HOUSE OF REFORMATION.
Institution at Cheltenham, Prince George’s County.
(Terms Expire 1935)
Name Postoffice.
H. B. Claggett Upper Marlboro
Clarence M. Roberts Landover
,John E. McCormick, Secretary, Viekers Building Baltimore
Superintendent, John B. Pyles.
Governor appoints two State Directors for this institution annually
in the month of February. (Bagby Code, Art. 27, Sec. 553.)
The inmates are all colored boys between the ages of 10 and 21 years.
Each boy under 16 years of age is required to attend school one-half of
each day and be engaged in some industrial work the other half. All
inmates over sixteen years of age are required to attend school for one
and a half hours five nights a week. Various industries are taught, the
principal one heing farming. The larger boys are carefully trained in
practical farming. All the work of the farm of 1,238 acres is done by
the boys under a bead farmer and an assistant. The other industries
in which the boys are trained are tailoring, shoemaking, painting,
laundering, baking and broom making; others are taught to be waiters.
All the clothing worn by the boys is made by them in time tailoring
department.
The boys are committed by the courts and magistrates of time State
and City of Baltimore. Those coming from Baltimore are committed
mostly by the Juvenile Court. All commitments are during minority,
but are really indeterminate, as, by an honor system, a boy may earn
his parole in one year after he enters the institution.