Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-02-01

spikes and nails with onesfourth inch
boiler plate between them. The first
floor, two thicknesses of 2x6 plank set
up edgewise and plated between. Inside
the outer walls is a corridor all around the
cells three feet wide, except in front
which is six feet. We did not get the
thickness of the inside walls, but the
man that gets inside them will live to be
an old man before he will be able to get
through them. The gratings are one-inch
round bars, iron on outside and chilled
steel on inside. There are eight small
cells besides the two large ones. BY
bearing down on lever all the cells, If
the iailer so desires, are fastened and
opened at once from the corridors. As
we stepped inside one of the large cells
we came face to face to the only two
prisoners we saw, and recognized two of
our old friends and townsmen-the
Browns. They appeared glad to see us
and showed US their wash room and bed
room. We noticed that instead of the
old-fashioned slat eds, they had the i'm
proved antique bedstead with cord such
as we used to ''cord up" with linch-pin
and ancient hard wood monkeywrench.
The jail house is 31x40 feet and has a
dining-room, sitting room, parlor, kitch-
en-, bedroom and hall on first floor, and
plenty of room up stairs, including room
with grated windows and heavy door for
female offenders. A good deal has been
said about the Jail house being unpleas-
ant and the jail dark, damp and of poor
ventilation, but Mr.. Miles considers the
house as pleasant as the houses will aver
age and we saw no reason why the jail
was not we'll ventilated; good coal
stove with fire kept off all signes OF
dampness and we are sure there was
light enough.
The amount Of money appropriated fol
the buildings was $4,000 and the town
of Newport raised $4,000. The court
house was built for $12O7O. The vaults
cost $775 aside we suppose from the
iron doors and iron which the contractor
did not furnish) The Jail house and Jail
foundation and work cost $4,000 and the
judges furnished the material for the jail
outside Of that, which was estimated to
be including iron doors for vaults, not
far from $4,000.
The amount of lumber consumed in
the buildings is about two hundred and
forty-eight thousand feet, and two and
one-half carloads of lime were used The
amount that the county will realize from
rent of Jail house and offices in court
house will be about $500 annually.
Taking the buildings all together and
considering their cost compared with the
buildings Of the class in other counties
from ali we could learn, we think the
people of the county are we'll pleased
with them.
Credit should be given Mr.. CaldbecF
| for the faithful manner in which he has
carried out his contract, and to the judg
es Of the court-Judge Ross in particular
who we are told has spent much of his
time in looking after the details of the
court house. 1t has been reported, an(
has been the opinion of other contractors
that Mr.. Caldbeck would lose $4,000 OF
the contract, but from the talk that W.
| had with him we are convinced that thi
is not so, and that he is not only comins
out with reputation that will rank higl
among contractors but that he will max
something besides. Go to court thi
week and see the buildings for your
| selves