The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-12-16

There are five chambers on the second
floor, including small apartment. in front,
cut off of the passage. These chambers,
arc finished up in keeping with the lower
story. There is bathroom over the
kitchen, iitted up in the most complete
manner with hot and cold water pipes, sta
tionary porcelain wash bowl, water closet,
racks, closets, etc. The rooms on this
floor are well supplied with closets and
clothes presses, and every way fitted for
comfort and convenience. Over the second
story is fixed an iron tank with a capacity
OF 1000 gallons, from which the building
is supplied with water The water is
pumped from L well under the Jail, by =
Harrison lifting and forcing pump, capable
of filling the tank in three hours. A nice
airy dormitory or servants room is fitted
up in the attic, with commodious lumber
apartment. Under the whole is Il cellar,
seven feet deep, with concrete and cemented
floor, which conceals drain pipe that pass
round the foundation walls and connect
with large drain pipe that empties into a
street drain, thus insuring a dry cellar at
all seasons. The Jail is entered from the
rear of the hall in the sheritf's house by a
wide heavy grated iron door, on the inside,
and a heavy ash door, strapped with iron,
and secured by one lock, which fastens by
a triple boiling apparatus that enters the
iron frame at top, bottom and side. SINH
lar doors secure the entrance from the cor
ridor to the yard and the cellar of the sher-
ifs house, and also each cell. Inside of
the Jail we stand at the bottom Of a cor
rider fifteen feet wide, running the whole
length of the prison, and rising to the roof,
sky light, five by ten feet, with sash man.
aged by cords that hoist and lower them
from the corridor, which serve the purpose
of lighting and ventilation. Large grated
windows in the east gable end of the cor
rider also serve to light the building, max
ing, what with less provision for the
accommodation of sunlight, would be a
gloomy prison house, an airy and cheerful
looking place. The floor and corridor are
laid with twelve inch iron joists, three feet
eight inches apart, with corrugated iron
arches between them, covered with fifteen
inches of concrete composed of broken stone
combined into solid mass by cement
Over this is laid floor of inch and quarter
yellow pine. The cell floors and ceilings
are laid with nine inch iron beams, placed
ON their sides, between which are four by
four inch white oak scantling to which the
floors are nailed, and which no prisoner
will ever be able to penetrate. There are
ten cells on the lower floor, eight by nine
feet in the clear and six ON the upper or
second floor. Two of the upper cells are
nine by seventeen and half feet each,
and are intended for hospital purposes,
and occasions where more room is required
than is afforded by the ordinary sized cell.
Each cell is supplied with an iron soil hop
| per, which empties into a six inch iron
pipe, leading outside of the Jail, where
they intersect an eight inch pipe, run
ming under the wall to we'll, fifteen
feet deep on the outside of said WALL
| By means of stop cock each cell is
| supplied with water. A large Chlson fur
mace in the cellar warns the prison with
heated air. Each cell being fitted with a
regulating register under the control of
the inmate, and also ventilation flue
which supplies the cell constantly with a
current of pure air, from a six inch flue
built in the outside wall that connects
with twelve inch terra Gotta pipe leading
to two feet ventilating tlue in the centre
wall between the sheriff7s house and Jail,
terminating in a chimney above the roof.
The height of stories are same rs those of
sheriff's house, first floor eleven feet five
between the cells are of brick, eighteen
inches thick. and between the corridor and
cells, twenty-five inches, of brick laid in
cement The sash Of cell windows are
wrought iron, set in cast iron frames with
inch and half cast steel bar in centre which
passes through heavy cross piece in the
middle and is imbedded in the cast window
frame at top and bottom. The sash can
be open and shut at the pleasure Of the
prisoner. Each cell has an inside grated
iron door and an inch and three quarters
ash one, opening into the corridor, fastened
by the same continuance as the large doors
above described. The upper tier of cells
open on gallery four feet wide, supported
on iron flanges. The stair to the gallery
is Of iron, and the hand rail on either side
of the stairway and running round the gal
lery is inch and half iron tubing
The cellar beneath the Jail corridor is
fourteen by forty-eight feet with concrete
and cemented floor. Near the centre of
this is placed the large cast iron furnace,
which is intended to heat the entire jail
The yard wall of the Jail runs thirty feet
from the Jail round three sides connecting
with the prison at its intersection with the
sheriff's house. 1t is built of heavy blocks
of Port Deposit granite, two and a half
feet at base and twenty inches at top, and
twenty-five feet high, capped with long
blocks Of hewn stone rounded on top, SO as
to prevent the possibility Ct fastening a
graphing hook in the wall.
The entire building is rooted with the
best slate from the York County, Pa,
quarries. 1t is one of the most complete,
secure and comfortable prisons in the State
and is credit to the county and Board of
Commissioner under whose administration
it was put through. The complete and
thorough finish of the work in every part,
stamps Mr.. Seminar, the superintendent,
a master mechanic. There were doubtless
some UNNECESSARY expenses incurred in the
construction and completion of the work,
but it is a structure that looks like it would
stand for centuries. The entire cost of the
work was about $4,000.
Court PrOeeedings.-The regular Deem
Der Term Of tho Circuit Court for this
county met on Monday morning last, at 10
o'clock-Judge Stump on the bench
Neither Judges Robinson or Wickes have
yet arrived