New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-11

ing After supper having been turned into their ceIs
tbev may read or converse until O'Clock in Winter or
o'clock in Summer; but after these hours ft.iun5 d.
talking are strictly prohibited and the prohibition IS lg
idly enforced The cOnyics friends may SEND the DooAs
The Work House Prison has three tiers Of cells when
are reached by iron corridors Generally these ces are
well lighted and unOfjectionabe In respect OF NSnulo
and all are warmcd-We cannot say hcated-by steam
pines Tie heating arrangements are imperfect ON the
ground floor several dungeons wherein ~
offending cOnyicts are confined the term OF Pish
being from half day to three days according 10 lic
cnoImity Of the ofeusc They are visited twice uahy
by me warden, Mr. John lltch ana, II lIe9
COnton and promise satisfactorily they are liberated.
The sewing girls employed throughout the week III
tho chapel, under the supentendence OF lhG MaIon}i
Mary llanan or her assistant Mary Dunn II Is noted
that Of about 200 females who are seated on ne pine
benches i'm The chapel not Is plying the needle; ana
i'm reply To question Miss Dunn says that not Onehaf OF
these females can Literally they know nothing;
and their cOuutcnances arrest the Truth Of the ronaIkapt
assertion Many OF them are known mt the Police Courts
and IN the woThhOuse as FOUNDERS or, in other words,
fo,naies of tbe street whom gin and almost total de
nrity rec1iary return to the Island within fortnight
or month al longest after their release Why do the
mice istic"s NOT decree that they shall serve year
Whenever tey impose sentence To this natural question
INST o5 tIe yybm NAV take them" Experienced police
reporters will ndorsc the remark Mr. Fitch pointed out
an aged and evidently once beautiful female VINO - S1
inc her tweutleth term on the Isaud-the cause gln
Another now an inmate of the WorlHousc is the wife OF
wealthy husband who has rcsorted To every alicc az.
lost his patience in the VAN atemp 10 "cll ~ ~ 80
bottle; ana he feels safer with her III CUSTODY lIH
where's for 10 sooner does she plant her foot on Slee
OF this city than she is inside the ithest rum Shop ''
c mTcr Of inmates OF the Work House on the 3lst
ultimo was: Males 259 females 425; total, 10 ne
ceiycd during the year, PAIL Warden Flich stIlts
labor which shall be equivalent TO the cost OF ms
or her kecung and with this view he transfers abOu %
per cent Of his prisoners 70 other institutions tele 10
prIfor1n such labor as may De assigned them MessS
Roberts and Knight paid the institution about Sio Et
year for convict labor on tobacco when was SUM az w
Payoniaaye petroleum fire, and which was taken 70
Blackwels Island again to be cured Mr. Barnard, cary
making hoop skirts; but the number thus employed at e
close Of the year was only -. sPIE IarinS n We're
employed in blasting out pond, obtaining stone there
from for building purposes, ana at the same tm9 creams
pond which Will both DeautHy inc BrOuuus anu cl" i'
The Work officers payroll embraces fourteen
hoard Tor the clerk engineer and Keepers the total cost
bcing reported ut $l2235 Total receipts from conas
Institution in 1866 37 Slj Gross expenses, I28 81
THE ALMs-HoUsE,
mates, Of whom males and col females, l hatvc
and 2i Of foreign birth But here il should be noted
born parents. During the year 1888 puprrs were r.
ceiycd from the superintendent OF the outdoor foor'
monthly cost OF keeping the inmates was S3 ana me
total expense II the institution for the u months eh
on the 3Oth OF November S5532 90. During the year
80 % Ct door Poor and OF these g2 were In the Institu-
ton ON the Sat Of December Number Of blind 'IsohS
to whom the Common Council gave $50 each III 1866 3D.
odo the courteous warden ofthe Aims House
and pursuing cur Journey southwark, we rcach heh'
strong wall which extends rom the eastern 10 tne
i.irdcrapiy describes as the wall which separates poy-
eriy tom crime Wonder looming up against the sky In
soer fording granite-the builders selected daI ker-
bucd stone for this structure than for any other on The
isIandtaus The Peucntiay for the City OF New York
H. vastucs alone nj makes IL, 20 stranger fearful
commentary upon the condition 0f society In our cty No
state I'm ou ion-cxcept II may be PeTnsyly ania with
her M0vamousng Prison and the Empire state, To the
fVlng OF whose penal institutions We contribute 80
largy-has or requires prison which can compare with
mis- Great Penitcuiary In point OF size. The Warden, Mr.
Josuh Keen who has been Island officer since S IN
south wing Is the oldest building on the
Island and only structure hcreabout that was MOI
built by labor It's north wing which was ertcisu
cells and en- these held, on the 5lt ot December
nearly GEO couycts, who are doing penan'e or al gr"s
of crime from matslauger in the fourth degree down TO
mere assault and battery.
A table showing the number OF male ana lellale con
ylrt received In the Pcuentiary during The year may
not De uulutsrr-tiug in This connections 49,