410                      WIS -ONSIN BLUE BOOK.

and three. large school-rooms. The Children's Home takes boys and girls under
eleven,
years of age; the Main Home, the girl3 from eleven upwards, dividing them
into four dis-
tinct classes, according to age and morals, with fair facilities for suitable
separation
and instruction; and the Cottage is an additional and entirely separate building
for proper
restraint and influence over the older and more depraved.
   On leaving the school, children are either returned to former homes or
relatives, or given
 by adoption or indenture to the care of well-recommended families. Boys
are transferred
 to the State Industrial School for Boys, if unfit for homes in families,
when of unsuitable
 age to remain longer in the school.
 Number in school October 1st, 1885 .......................................................
172
 Number since received, including returns ...............................................
126
 Number under care during year....................       .......................298
 Dismissed during year.............................................     
   ......121
 Remaining Septe ber 30th, 1881     ... ............................................177
 'Number of different pupils received since the school opened, April, 1875
................3631
 Total number dismissed..........    .....................................628
 Of these have been returned ... ..............................................
174
 Dismissed and remaining away .........................................................
457
 Remaining in the school September 30th, 18363........................................
177

 Boys, 45. Girls, 132.
 Committed to school and supported by counties ..............................167
 Received and supported by private authority ............................................8
 Cash on hand October 1, 18850...................... ................................
$1,431  309
 Received during  year ...............................................................
23,014  45
    Total funds....................................$24,445 75
 Expended during the year .............................19, 682 Oa
 On hand, September 30, 1886 ......-................................................$4,763
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    NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.



                                1-ANA GERS:
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES; THE CHIEF JUSTICE; THE SECRE-
                          TARY OF WAR- Ex-Officils.
    GENERAL WILLIAM B. FRANKLIN, President, Hartford, Connecticut.
    COLONEL LEONARD A. HARRIS, 1st Vice-President, Cincinnati, Ohio.
    GENERAL JOHN A. MARTIN, 2d Vice-President, Atchison, Kansas.
    GENERAL MARTIN T. McMAHON, Secretary, 93 Nassau Street, New York City.
    GENERAL JOHN C. BLACK, Danville, Illinois.
    GENERAL THOMAS W. HYDE, Bath, Maine.
    GENERAL JAMES S. NEGLEY, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
    CAPTAIN JOHN L. MITCHELL, Milwaukee, Wis.
    GENERAL WM. J. SEWELL, Camden, New Jersey.



                        NTORTHWESTERN BRA NCH".
    GENERAL JACOB SHARPE, Governor.
    GENERAL T. C. MOORE, Secretary and Treasurer.
    DOCTOR S. J. F. MILLER, Surgeon.
  The building of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, located
near Milwau-
kee, December 7, 1836, is called the Northwestern branch of that National
Institution. The
Central Home is located at Dayton, Ohio. Other branches are located at Augusta,
Maine,
Hampton, Virginia, and Leavenworth, Kansas. The whole are under the same
board of
managers.