It was not only a question of relieving the congestion, though that certainly was a large factor; nor was it chiefly to remove the Reformatory from the vicious proximity of the Branch Workhouse. The plans that had been developed for the New Reformatory were based on penological principles quite at variance with those necessarily carried out at the present location. The new institution would have to permit the utmost possible classification and individualization; but above all it would have to establish the possibility of practical inspiration of its inmates by the encouragement of self-respect, by the exercise of individual responsibility, by healthful contact between officer and inmate. And in many other ways it was to strike out into new treatment of reformable young men. To this ambition for a reformatory on such lines was added the possession of a large fertile farm, the approach of spring--and the enthusiastic propositions to Commissioner Katherine B. Davis from the present superintendent of the Farm, Robert Rosenbluth. “Let us build up the spirit with the institution” was his plan in brief. What was this spirit to be? “Just what are the essentials of your experiment?” I asked Mr. Rosenbluth. “It is,” I said, “a commonplace, of course, to talk of the advantages of agricultural occupation, of fresh air, hard work, and ‘honor system’; and the economic advantage of utilizing, instead of wasting, a good farm for a whole season surely could not have created in you the amount of enthusiasm which you are carrying into this thing; after all, even though you do produce quite as much as $10,000 worth of farm product, it will hardly cover your expenditures for the year.”