EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1019

cial trade of the City of Baltimore; as a father, he loved his
home and was devoted to his wife and family; as a fraternal
man, he rose to the highest positions within the gift of the
greatest Order of modern times; as a Republican in politics,
he was called upon by his party to give to the State of Mary-
land the value of his training and experience as State Treas-
urer. The Governor of the State of Maryland, a Democrat,
appointed him a member of the most important Board author-
ized by the State laws for the government, organization and
training of the Police Force of Baltimore City. In all of
these positions he served his State with an energy and zeal
worthy of emulation by any man, but it was in the later years
of his life that he consented to take up a work as high and holy
as that of any Missionary in Church history. The State of
Maryland possesses a large colored population, the City of
Baltimore alone having one-fifth of its entire number resident
within its limits, a singularly carefree and happy, and often
improvident in habits, race. Poverty and disease have exacted
from them a heavy toll. The white people of the State cheer-
fully joined with the prosperous and industrious members of
the colored race in extending to them the benefits of a liberal
public school education, but there still was work for some big
man or set of men to do, and that was to care for the delin-
quent and dependent juvenile portion of that population. The
Judges and Police Magistrates in Baltimore City, and the
Judges and Committting Magistrates in the Counties, were
often confronted with the serious problem of sending that
class of young people to prisons, where they came in contact
with unrepentant and unreformed members of society who were
confined in them by edict of law. There was no home or
reformatory open to them, such as were possessed by the white
race. The State of Maryland, mindful of its duty and anx-
ious to assume and discharge its responsibility, established a
home for them in Southern Maryland; but, homes and farms
and fields and money do not make a success without the in-
spiration, the enthusiasm and the energy of a true man.
When General Shryock was called upon by the State of Mary-
land to head this Institution, he found a work so congenial
that it brought into action latent powers unknown even to his
best friends and even himself. Great as was his success in the
business world, popular as he was as a fraternal officer, success-
ful as a State Treasurer and Police Commissioner, it yet re-
mained for him to achieve his crown of fidelity in the faithful