Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-07-18
The New County Jail.


1t will be remembered that at the
last meeting of the Board of Super
visors the Jail Building Committee
were instructed to furnish plans and
specifications for new jail building
that would cost the county an
amount not to exceed $4,000. The
Committee, consisting of Messrs Ry-
land, Evans, Seaton and Bennett, af-
ter inspecting some Of the best iails
recently built in this and other
States, have agreed upon plans for a
prison house that will no doubt
answer the purposes intended, and
De one OF the most enduring if not
indispensable institutions that the
county will ever contain Plans and
specifications by many different par
ties were presented, bids made for
performing portions of the work, etc.
The contract was awarded to Haugh
y Co., of indianapolis, who have
agreed to construct the building for
$4,000 0ncluding plans and specifi,
cations. and have it all ready for
occupancy within fifteen months
from the present time. The founda-
ton is to be laid before cold wealth
or comes, and all the material for
the building will be delivered on the
grounds so that work thereon can
begin as soon as the winter is over.
The following bids were opened ::
For Jail complete, by Bagley &
Greensade, Milwaukee, sol 1000 90
For JAN completed Haugh &ICo.
Indianapolis, 2O,5OO 90
For iron work only, by Rouse &
Dean, Dubuque, $4,000 90
For iron work only, by Bagley &
Greensdale, Milwaukee, 1890 90
For iron work only, by Haugh &
Company, Indianapolis, $500 90
For stone work complete, by r.
l.. Hoskins, Lancaster, $500 90
Il or stone work complete, by
Treat, Sanders and Griesse,
Platteyille, 4,4OO 90
For all work except iron, by Nor
ris s Hinkley, Monroe, 1854 50
For all work except iron, by d.
L. Riley, Bloomington, 9,275 90
Foe all work except stone and
iron, by r. Brooker, Lancaster 5000 90
The Jail will be erected on the
vacant lot lying north of the old bas-
tile and west of the court house
square This is owned by the
county and will make a very good
site for the location Of prison
The edifce will be made Of brick, and be
two stories high above the basement room
having an altitude Of I feet 5 inches, and ey
tending feet below the present surface of
the ground. The basement will be divided in
10 two compartments, one of which 1.-THE frontN
- 10 be used as fuel room, and contain the
furnaces tor heating the various rooms, cells.
etc, above There are to be eight basement
windows, each grated with two horizontal and
seven upright bars of iron. The walls are TO
be ! foot inches thick, and will be well laid
with good building stone in best lime and sand
mortar.
The dimensions Of the building will be
80 l-2X15 ID feet, all measured outside of
brick work. All outside walls above the wa
ter table will be II inches in thickness, 20 be
built oil best quality of Lancaster brick.
The floors are to be of bush-hammered lime
stone, inches thick, laid level and pro perly
bedded in mortar. All the window frames
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quate provisions for thorough vent ls;lon viii
be made.
The Jail will contain twelve cells, six on
the first floor aud as many on the second
Each cell viii be SKI and feet high. made
OF Jail plate quarter of an inch thick, and SET
on iron pillow, blocks six inches from the floor.
Tue doors TO these will be 2x6. made of ar
ticulsted iron work, secured with heavy bolts
and provided with strong locks. a corridor
enclosed by grating of articnIated iron
work will surround the outer tier of cells on
both the first and second floors. This grating
will extend from floor TO ceiling. Separaiing
the corridor from the gallery VIII be another
grating Of homework, the horizontal bars of
which are to be OF strong band iron, and the
upright Of one inch round iron, spaced three
to foot. The lower ends Of these bars will
pass through the stone floor and be securely
riyeted. The gallery is TO be two feet wide,
and will extend all around the main prison.
Besides the cells, gallery and corridor al
ready referred to, the first floor will contain
kitchen ard guard the second a Jatlor's
bedroom aud a female ward, furnished with
SIX cells, and provided with an iron door.
The walls on three SIDES Of main prison
eight feet high. the wall on the north side the
entire height, the whole ceiling of the apart
ment containing the cels,as well as the floor.
walls and ceiling of the female ward, are 10
be lined with jali-plate iron quarter Of an inch
in thickness.
There will be eight windows in the prison.
and two in the female ward, each made Sc
cure with cast steel gratings, consisting of
three horizontal bars and seven vertical, the
latter let into the caps and slls two inches.
and the spaces around them al the bottom well
filled with melted lead.
There will be two swinging beds in each cell.
and six In the ward for women. These will
be hung with chain suspenders, ,and hinged
with strong hinges four inches from the wall
TO be made wholly of iron.
The painting, glazing, ETC., is TO be done in
thoroughly workman like manner, and all
the material 10 be used in the construction of
the building shall be Of proper qualities for
carrying out the designs Of the structure, and
shall be inspected by the Superintendent and
Building Committee.
A more detailed description Of tie
building can not be given at present.
The specifications from which we
have drawn the particulars for this
notice arc now in the hands OF Mr..
G. W. Ry and, and in one of the
rooms on the floor over the Herald
Office may be seen the neat drawings
Of the plan after which the much-
talked about and much.needed prison
house Of Grant county is to be con-
structed. These drawings are the
work of Mr.. II p Thompson, of Fon
du Lac, Wis, who, as designing
architect, stands almost without a
superior in the West
Messrs Haugh & Co., the eBterpris-
ing firm to whom was yesterday
awarded the contract for building
the Jail, make such work a specially,
and have in their extensive establish