Edward A. Fredenhagen, A.M.

              Edward A. Fredenhagen, A.M.

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Lecturer on

Crime Prisons

and

Prison Reform




MR. FREDENHAGEN is recognized as the leader in the prison reform movement of the West and has attained a national reputation.  For years he has lived in the closest touch with crime, criminals and prisons.  He speaks with clearness and authority upon the dark and devious ways of that shadowy country below the crime line.  He brings a message of hope, as he outlines the constructive movements for the prevention and cure of crime, and touches the deepest sympathies of his hearers, as he portrays the pathetic struggles and sufferings of those who find that 
the way of the transgressor is hard.
  These lectures satisfy the passion of the people for knowledge and hope where formerly darkness and despair reigned supreme.






Management Central Lyceum Bureau


Kansas City, Missouri






ADAMS BROS., TOPEKA, KAN





PRISON REFORM LECTURES

Below the Crime Line and the Way Out.




This series consists of two lectures, illustrated with over 200 stereopticon views, practically all from original photographs.




Below the Crime Line.



Is the first lecture.  It is illustrated by views of—


Prisons


Breeding Places of Crime


Steps into Crime


Criminal Faces


Identification Systems for Apprehending Criminals


Views of Leading Penitentiaries


Leading Penitentiary Officials and Similar Subjects






The Way Out.



Is the second lecture.  The views represent—


Reformatories


Prison Organizations for Moral Improvement and Religious Culture


Institutions for the Training of Criminally Inclined Youth


Agencies for Aiding Ex-prisoners


Institutions Laboring among the Tramp Classes


Leaders in Preventive and Remedial Work


Leaders in Prison Reform


The Juvenile Court and Probation Movement


and Similar Subjects





The oral lecture is upon, 
Crime, Its Causes and Cure.
  This lecture is the result of careful study of the crime problem, the tracing out through inductive study of its many causes, especially as it is shown in the lives of individual criminals who have been studied by the thousand; the methods of handling criminals with a careful criticism of their weeknesses or shortcomings; the fundamental precepts of prison reform as they have developed from the first reformers until now, and their application in the works of penological writers and in the first experiment of the Elmira Reformatory under the famous Z. R. Brockway; their growth and expression in the reformation of criminal law and the development of the reformatory system and kindred subjects; the rise and growth of the prisoner's aid movement from its crude beginnings until it has become a well defined science; the passing of part of the jurisdiction of the prison and jail to other agencies; such as the juvenile court and probation systems, and kindred subjects.



PRISON REFORM LECTURES

The views are given in groups, such as the best prison in the United States, a typical prison, the Bertillon and Finger Print systems for identifying criminals, criminal faces, an ideal reformatory, an effective juvenile court, agencies for uplifting the criminal and tramp classes.



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Seven Term Burglar MICHAEL KELLY



Figure


A Typical Cell House




Crime is one of the three great problems that face society today (the other two being 
Capital and Labor
 and 
Drink and the Social Evil
).  Viewed from whatever standpoint, it is the greatest of the three.  It wastes more money, corrupts more people, breaks up more families, starves more children and spreads more terror, loss and ruin than all other evils combined.  But a small part of it is represented in the courts and prisons and much of it has not yet been brought within the range of law.  The process of stemming its flood and diking its banks is one of the most fascinating themes that can be presented to the minds of thoughtful and earnest people.  This the lecturer endeavors to do with teaching, description, story and picture.




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Female Ward





Testimonials



Friday, September 1st, 1905.




Santa Fe 
New Mexican
.




The Rev. Edward A. Fredenhagen at the court house last evening presented a timely and important subject, very forcibly and eloquently, in his lecture on prison work and reform.  He showed very strikingly the great steps forward that have been taken in the housing and management of the inmates of the penal institutions of the country and of the results achieved in providing employment and opening the avenues to a better life in late years by such associations as the Societies for the Friendless of which Mr. Fredenhagen is general superintendent.  The lecture was illustrated by views which were especially clear and vivid in detail.




Kansas City, Mo., May 9th, 1906.




To whom it may concern:




The Kansas City Local Union of the C. E. had the pleasure of listening to a lecture including stereoscopic illustrations by the Rev. Mr. Fredenhagen—February meeting.  All who have an opportunity of listening to this eloquent and gifted speaker should avail themselves of the opportunity.  We hope to hear the Doctor again in the early future.




Very truly,
C. E. LOCAL UNION, N. B. Dieterich, Pres.


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ILLINOIS STATE REFORMATORY Sunday Morning Inspection




Kansas City, Mo., May 12th, 1906.




REV. EDW. A. FREDENHAGEN, Founder and General Superintendent of the Societies for the Friendless, Topeka, Kansas.




Dear Mr. Fredenhagen:  On behalf of the Young People's Union of Independence, Missouri, I wish to express to you our most hearty appreciation of, and to thank you for, the instructive and entertaining address which you delivered to the people of Independenee under the auspices of our Union, at the First Presbyterian Church on Monday evening, April 16th.




The descriptive features of this address were most vivid, the stereopticon pictures with which the lecture was illustrated were excellent, . . . . . . . . .




Your address was certainly calculated to make friends for the organization which you represent, the Society for the Friendless, and I cannot close without wishing this organization Godspeed in the great work it is laboring so diligently, and I believe with no small degree of success, to accomplish, in convincing the unfortunate inmates of our jails and prisons that they have friends ready to hold out a helping hand in this world, and, better still, a friend in the world to come.




Yours very sincerely, JAS. M. CHANEY, Jr.
President Young People's Union.



April 30, 1906.




Rev. E. A. Fredenhagen, Secretary of the Society for the Friendless gave his illustrated lecture on prisons and prison surroundings in the Central Church last night.  The views are of unusually good quality and are of a kind not ordinarily seen.  They helped to hold the interest of a good audience accustomed to judge quickly if not critically.  The lecturer spoke for over an hour and gave large numbers of facts about penal institutions and the subject of crime and criminals in general.  He is an exceedingly earnest well informed and convincing speaker and his lecture is bound to do immense good in placing comparatively unknown facts before the public.  Mr. Fredenhagen is an esteemed member of my church.  I commend his great work to the churches and to Christian people everywhere.




CHARLES M. SHELDON, Pastor Central Church, Topeka Kansas.