The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-18
RIGHTLY STYLED TIE TONES



disgrace.
A. a general thing ts Warlcns have boon
kind honr,d. humane men. Ccriuinly Those ~
the present gencration-S Sutton. Johnston, and
uuin have been. Aside from certain innrmi-
ties Of temper and avaricc. they have afforded
no peg on which the most cartious could hang
fair complaint. That they one and all have
permitted abuses believe. but personally they
have seemed To- do all that lay in their power
to keep the prison clean. and make the prison
ers comfortable.
II is not with the mon find fault. hut with
Tho place itself and the disromiorts and inilui-
tcs that have grown into its warn and wool.
In the first place the Toml- is not intended
Tor prison. in the proper sense OF the term.
II ior the detention and safe keeping Of men
hnl women changed with crime not conVcts,
simply people suspected oi WRONG doing. For
their ,afc keeping. and the incarceration Of
bummcr- who are sent in for { n days or SO, the
City Prison is intended and any Use other than
these il foreign to its purpose and am injustice
~ those who have right to demand decent
treatment and decent recommendations while
held for trial
spent an hour or two there one morning,
And ON this occasion, as on many others, saw
with pain and shame:
Tho Infamous Bla * Maria.
The infamous workhouSr.
ne Infamous GROWING Oh IunHu h'lnAS III
damp and buddy ventilated rolls. and the in
famous comninging of good and bad together.
That Black Marial Do you know what itis2
Imagine am ordinary omnibus built narrower.
with o., side boarded up $50 TINT no light. mo-
r"an enter lnrl with sheet iron in which
shut in AZ ne ir,nt by att < w,S Ten iariiion,
shut in h'hind hy hea,y " N"l door. barrod
and locked. with two l'utd t..i--ln which lr.
crowded four "n human 'n--. hand. uilrd
together. Ihcr' ti.N sit. oId and young mon
and women Oh" hari'uni anu tur cllow. Men
who's iongu ii' lt-i ..rn> can n .i"r, anu
young bows Whose utmost rimr. a., thrft oi
wipe. women from whom an ~ lcN Of Wo.
rir .rl' WIGS ~" eT- "inny ' K, H tie I p"
lice station. and entaicd thirty NAYS stay n
Blac kwcll Island. all ~itio-cth run n' kedn
word and at. Dragging ~ rriuH. iut.tng #
evil cutSing AMI shouting I" WNt hepns cnn-
tent NJ IN sturdy horse tr.t "l ns Broadway
Every ia, thu hidcous htrir-m rolls into
thr prison yard. takes Up IT. lO.i and rolls ~.
don say that carriages ul D.Dp'~ should Dee
M M absurd when Tweed ani Stokes ana the
rest wrrct taken totheir destination ,n b red ha-
rou'he-. That WAS The other rNtr mH. L. aNcr-
nec convict regrets his crime. 40 would giniy
regnin his ~-li-rc-p". ID D.. So iIr; hlt. from the
moment oi ARE II 60 that ol th' nntn ia prison.
everything works dead aAa'n-, l'i"rm, and
Ilacr dluun- hon 4 men.
All prisoners ar hand .un' q: common s.nsc
teaches that NOT moro tniu o." 40 "a hundred
need ~, N'ry many w'u.i d. '~ '1p" u th'y
could But m d-i ~ mnd' no Of, -'rr-
OF NOR term, ia Stat prison is tf,..tel Ira-
cis"ly IT, The boy vino ras y ~ ,r, ilr the
lai ~, VIM ,hrn,,h hil rnr h. il sem 81 I"
fenced o. B'nH AW,lls Islam or to SING Sing
without ulrl ut p!l,-. sos 20 ,, ri rat 0n. he is
certain tpinkc tM -uti- toward rum when he
,oin- "a" snr 100 il"l'l s'ii '.'ti line first when
whn IA, MHN'~ "n" oi l''i' 81 fourteen IN
,ric o6l.al- "a, thei i' an. et4,r Kind 4 >e-
'r- ~ 81 'N' a'f, % crow ]. ana ms - N'iNui i-