WILLIAM MARSHALL FITTS ROUND.

MEMORIAL MINUTE.

The following minute was unanimously adopted by the Executive Committee:

William Marshall Fitts Round, for nearly twenty years the corresponding secretary of this association, was born at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on the twenty-sixth day of March, 1845, and died at Acushnet, Massachusetts, on the second day of January, 1906. He received a New England academic education and for a while studied in the Harvard Medical School, but did not graduate owing to ill health. Brown University in 1892 bestowed upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

In 1872 he was appointed United States Commissioner to the World's Fair which was held in Vienna the following year and had charge of the New England Department. He then became a journalist and worked on papers in Boston and this city. In 1877 he married Miss Ellen Minor Thomas, grand-daughter of Hon. Charles Minor of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, who survives him. In January 1881 he became a member of our executive committee and in November 1882 our corresponding secretary. This position he resigned on August 30, 1900, on the ground of ill health. His later work was in Boston, both in penology and journalism.

Mr. Round was sincerely interested in all schemes for social betterment and both officially and privately prominent in their promotion. He had a leading part in the reorganization of the National Prison Association and was its secretary and one of its directors. He was a delegate to prison congresses in Rome, Paris, St. Petersburg and Brussels.

When Mr. Frederick G. Burnham in 1887 conceived the happy idea of establishing on a farm at Canaan, New York, an institutional training school for unruly boys he called in Mr. Round as adviser, and Mr. Round lived at the farm at intervals for several

years, down to 1893, as director. For the easier handling of his trying charges he introduced the cottage system, and also the "mill" system whereby the obedient could pay by their good conduct for certain extras and privileges. On the farm he organized his employees into an order which he called appropriately, the "Order of St. Christopher," for the training of aspirants to positions in public institutions.

After leaving the farm he lived at College Point, L. I., and there had for a while the care of a small orphan asylum.

In early life he wrote under the pen name of Rev. Peter Pennot and published several books: "Achsah" a New England lifestudy, Boston, 1876; "Torn and Mended" 1876; "Child Marian Abroad," 1877; "Hal, the story of a clodhopper," 1880; "Rosecroft, a story of common places and common people," 1881.

The Prison Association was however, during the years of his connection with it his chief concern and no one who heard him plead for it in public or observed his conduct in contact with its beneficiaries needed to be assured that the prisoner had in him a wise friend and helper. We gratefully record our appreciation of his long and enthusiastic services.

TREASURER'S REPORT,

FOR THE TWELVE MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1905.

STATEMENT OF THE RESERVE FUND.

Balance on hand January 1, 1905.
Interest received thereon from the New York Life
Insurance and Trust Co. to December 31, 1905..

Balance at credit of reserve fund, December 31, 1905,

$2,649 17

80 06

$2,729 23

J. SEELY WARD, JR.,

Treasurer.

We hereby certify that we have examined the books, accounts and vouchers of the Prison Association of New York for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1905, and that the above statement is correct in all respects.

TOWNSEND & DIX.

COUNTY COMMITTEES.

In order to secure proper attention to local conditions, and cooperation with reference to the general prison system of the State, the plan of organization of the Prison Association of New York involves the formation of a corresponding and cooperating committee in each county of the State. The persons in the following counties have accepted such positions and additional lists of members are in preparation:

Broome county.-Residence, Binghamton, Dr. J. G. Orton, H. M. Beecher, Austin S. Bump. D. H. Carver, Dr. J. M. Farrington, S. J. Hirshman, E. C. Tichener, William A. White.

Cattaraugus county.-Residence, Portville, Hon. W. B. Merse

reau.

Cayuga county.-Residence, Auburn, Frank W. Richardson, Dr. Cheeseman, Prof. Arthur S. Hoyt, Mrs. Mary C. Beardsley, Frederick Sefton, M. D., Rev. E. W. Miller.

Chemung county.-Residence, Elmira, Z. R. Brockway, Rev. William T. Henry, W. C. Peebles, Mrs. J. H. Pierce, Hon. Charles R. Pratt, Thereon H. Wales, M. D.

Chenango county.-Residence, Norwich, Nelson P. Bonny, J. L. Ray, Rev. Daniel W. Dexter.

Clinton county.-Residence, Plattsburg, James Eckersley, W. C. Pike.

Delaware county.-Residence, Delhi, Andrew J. Nicol, James K. Penfield.

Erie county.-Residence, Buffalo, A. G. Sherman, George B. Bell, C. B. Armstrong.

Essex county.-Residence, Keene Centre, John Martin, Mrs. John Martin, Horace Nye, Mrs. Lilian Winch.

Genesee county.-Residence, Batavia, H. J. Burkhart.

Greene county.-Residence, Greenville, Chas. P. McCabe; residence. Catskill, J. I. Olney, Jeremiah Day.

Herkimer county.-Residence, Herkimer, O. H. Deck, M. D.. Jefferson county.-Residence, Watertown, J. C. Knowlton, Jesse M. Adams, Rev. Richard G. Keyes.