Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
LANCASTER DAILY INTELIIGENCER MONDAY MARCH 1882
AT THE PRISON.
The Monthly Meeting of In,

The Monthly Meeting Of Inspectors.
At the monthly meeting Of prison in
spectOrs to-day, during the session of the
board and while its members were consid-
ering some of the bills presented, there
was quite a discussion over the prices laid
for some of the supplies furnished, no;a
bly, those of clothing purchased by Presi
dent Hagan. Concerning these a COM
munication was sent in by Keeper Burk-
holder, most of the points Of which were
brought out in the discussions by tho in.
spectors over the prices paid for the cloth
ing.
The keeper, in his message, complains
that 20 dozen Of damaged stockings were
bought at $3.50 per dozen, when the same
kind can bo had for 90c from the same
place where those goods were bought that
90 suits of clothes and pairs of pants
were purchased at $3.50 per suit, the suits
being Of cotton summer stuff and the
pants of material too thin for mosquito
bars. From the whole lot he had been
| unable to fit an average sized convict, who
| said if he was sent out with such suit he
| would have to steal clothes for shame
| sake. Burkholder had bought him good
| suit, wool coat and vest and partly wool
pants, for ..s5. Four dozen hats had
been bought at s10.S0 per dozen, when
new wool hats could be bought at tine
Adamstown factories at from $3.50 to
s4.25 per dozen. Carpet chain ought
not, the keeper says. be purchased
from dealers "who seldom fill an order
honestly, whose bills are always high and
their weight wrong" Manufactured vim
egar is charged for the price of cider vine
gar. Goods are sent to the prison which
the keeper has no knowledge of having
been ordered and orders given to subordi.
mates in violation Of law. The board is asked
| to investigate the keepers charge that a
prison official was an accomplice of Leonard
Schoenberger, arrested for stealing cigars
from the Jail. A cell key is believed to be
| in the hands Of a convict the gas meter
| is believed to be faulty and responsible
for the enormous gas bill of 1881 for this
quarter coal Oil lamps are asked for tho
| cellar for the sake of economy the yard
wall shoald be fixed this spring. In con-
clusiOn the keeper sends the board a re.
ceipted bill for the bell which he erected
in the prison yard and which useful i'm
prOvement he makes as 4 "donation " to
the prison.
Foregoing arc the main points of Mr.
Burkholder's message When the bill of
Nr. Chas. II. Amer for the hats came up
it was objected that an unnecessary num-
Der had been bought, aud that as they
were odd lots Of old-fashioned goods the
price was too high. 1t was laid over.
| AL. Rosenstein's bill for the clothing
was approved after some discussion, the
majority of the board apparently being
convinced that fair price was charged.
| When the bill of the Lancaster knitting
company for the stockings was presented
Mr.. Rutter produced single dozen pail
of stockings which he said were like those
bought for the prison and which he had
bought at tho same place this morning fol
Rutter & Bair at 80 cents per dozen. Upor
this representation the bill was laid ovel
until Mr.. Hagan and Mr.. Rutter could in
quire into this matter from Mr.. Juliu:
Loeb, proprietor of the knitting company
To reporter Mr.. Loeb has said that tn.
stocking transaction was entirely fair
that the price charged to the prison wa:
the regular wholesale price for the goods
and that the dozen hose bought by Mr.
Rutter from him at 80 cents were entirely
different and much lighter than those solt
| to the prison ut $3.50.