New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-26
4 FOURTH STATE PRISON.
WHY THE PLAN Is FAVORED.

CLAIMS OF SULLIVAN COUNTY To BE CONSIDERED
IN THE SELECTION OF sITF-oPPORTUNITIEs
FOR PROFITABLE EMPLOYMENT OF CONVICT
LABoR-THE NECESSARY OUTLAY FOR BUILDINGS
NOT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ADVANCED FOR A
NEW PRISON
tFEoM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBUNEJ
MONTICELLO, Sullivan Co., n. Y, Jan. OBI
NewYork State 70 build fourth State prison. Sullivan
County will he liberal enough to offer excellent SITE
Superintendent Psbury is known TO favor the erection
fourth prison somewhere the lower tier OF eoun-
but refrains from making the suggestion to the
Legislature the ground that his experience in his
present position not yet sufficiently long 1t is under
STOOD however that ne has signied willingness TO
support such suggestion, and Mt Pilsbury has So Tar
earned the thanks and confidence OF the people OF the
state that they will doubtless give him as many prisons
as the State fill and can make self-supporting
lis her ability to assist in accomplishing that desra-
bic objcct-makng prison meet Its own expenses
which makes Sullivan County so Wiling Ia secure
another institution for the State and qualified beneht
for herself The county is practically rugged Wilder
ness Monticello the county seat numbering 400 In
habitants old fashioned and sleepy IN the WINTER
when hbernates that IL Is not fully awake to It's OPP
portunites. This is the first matter OF any pubnc
moment which has risen above its horizon since the
railway came from Port Jcrvis twenty-five miles away
and stopped here. On the day when James FISK IT,
was killed this little line OF railway TO have been
saddlcd the Erie Railway. Left to itself IL
to ruin at railway rpeed. Then L. A.
Mlbank WAS made superintendent, and by econom'
ical management repaired the road. ana mas
made IT selfsupportng. Two trips to Port
Jervis are made daily, which altogether constitute a
run miles On my trip up to Monticello the ensi-
neer offered a in the cab OF the engine and al
layed ali By the proud statement that 50 90 sur
feed for the locomotives entire daily expenses; for
surely on that pittance locomotive. on such steep
grades could acquire enough surplus vigor to blow
Has fhn
yearly expenses the road within $22 Aud was
mainly due 20 him that t was discovered that the Bush
kin Vslcy could simultaneously supply unsklled con-
Wet laborwith plenty OF profitable work to do Oi
course would the future OF the little railway To
have great State prison for station. All that has
been DONE thus far to advance the project has been al
fected openly and those mos; interested assert that SUI
Ivan County If chosen the site Of State will
lie selected solely because II has superior advantages for
II has no money spend IN obbyinelt is called hope
fu sign that at Albany political parties and factions a
pear to ne equally friendly toward sullivan County.
General A. C. Niven, scventy-;hree years OF age
lives at Monticello He was State Prison Commissioner
with Sinclair TOusey and superintendent Pshury. He
believes with the latter that another state prison would
be good investment for the STATE, and has prepared
hl which will DC brought before the Legislature prob
rbly within two weeks. II the bill should become law
he says Sullivan County must stand or fall on her merits
when Commissioner is appointed 10 select site. SUI
shall abstain from having anything " do with the con
struclion OF the buildings II political commission is
appointed. He Will risk being in anyway connected
with State prison jObbcTy
The arguments advanced g show that arother State
prison needed ,ed mainly what super7ntend-
ent Plsbury has done towards prison reform and what
he has said might De done The three State PRISONS now
In use are over crowded A. Sing sing there 900
convicts, the proper number y LOO, AID at
Auburn Zoo. with ordinary capacity for 1000
Then also there aboGt 1000 convicts In different
county prisons and reormaOrcs, Tn various parts u!
the state. who being supported IN hiieness AT an
average cost OF g per head week. superintendent
P.iury think. that if these we're brought together in
another pti.on IN advantageous place, their labor
could he utilized aud made 10 for their support and
possibly leave profit The Dannenoft prison III
Clinton County, IA far from trade
centres that Mr. Pilsbury says IL is prac'c-
ably impossible To- make contracts Ter the convict
labor OF tie prison and cheaper I" Keep inc pilaoh'.s III
.drne-s Last year each convict NJ Dauncinoa cost the
state about 500: Auburn SAG; and 10 slug sing.
Ssi sheriff NORRIS o point. TODAY. OF starting
from Monticello with three C1nyicts, one Or Danncoia,
and two for Auburn. and 9hd TIE eNp'hse 10 ne s"t
voud be about 800 II new prison wcie BUN. easy
from trade ccni@ts and rom the western SUD
lower tier counties there would be large annual
saynS TO The state Tor transportation
The Wild picturesqucncss aud ruggeduess of this r.
on can scarcely be exaggerated For twelve miles out
Of the railway follows the Nevoisnk. which
waters beautiful valley MountZion il the first station
On ire way. aud Paraasc the second Here there are
Abundant beds 81 bright clay on the hil sides ana
brickn. Al Oakland, where there are said TO he al
most rcXnausti0e beds OF potters' clay. the RAILWAY
bends ut the confluence OF the Bushk and the Never
sink and follows the latter three miles Ia HARDWOOD
somewhere in these three miles II Is Thought the
ncw prison ought to bc built. The BuShkill IA
a fall II 60 feet, and rushing ana
the entire distance, with tie railway
sometimes 200 feet above IL bed The banks are
oep and III places rocky ana are almost perpendicular
ninr wheels intervals Of POO 500 feet Tor t whole
h. frzfg nj
Eden. and the next noticeable spot T. The CUR
follow basin with meadow, an ddbhraDie size IOr
rr; ,ou dOrm Then HARDWOOD, where there
ere saw mills Monticello X ten miles beyond aud If
the valley 0f the BusDk Il chosen ~ prison site the
railway i be continued the Midland Rail way, six
miles distant This W0uld giyc the luShk Valley easy
direct Omnunca0n by railway with every part oil
York and 1876 miles from Binghalnfon. 10 might be
added ttaJ there !aucries at Gilman :, Tour miles
above HARDWOOD The country for miles on born sides or
the uskl L. wild forest OF maple, becch. blrch ash.
proposed to the state 1000 acres OF the best
timber aud brick and potter clay lands at The nominal
wou;d ajrd inc xlusIible wealth of material Tor the
most lucrative Rinds "a convict Labor.
Even more valuable than these resources, however,
are quarrics of blue nagstonc. The hills on both
banks OF the Bushldl almost solid masses Of blue
asstone. Of the beat quality. and practically unlimited
III quantity. several quarries now worked with
proi and supply IN part EcWY0rk and large Eastern
cities with fagstOnts. SUPERINTENDENT PilsbUry Is
quoted saying that the hai,tD would make good
work could d. arranged 80 ~ to have con iciS max"
the brick break me ground, and build the tiltccs The
advantage Of tue location would reduce the hFst eA-
pcusc 70 "A reIna kabiy sriai' amount
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