Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-26
BILL ME IN JAIL.
He Gives a Description of Ludlow Street
 Prison.


 carefully closed after you and locked by means of an iron lock about the size of pictorial family Bible. You then remain on the inside for quite a spell. You do not hear f the prattle of soied children any more. All the glad sunlight and stench coudensing pavements and dank haired children of Riv- ington street are heard no more and the heavy iron storm door shuts out the wall of the combat from the alley near by. Ludlow Street jail may be surrounded by very miserable and dirty quarter of the city, but i when you get inside all is changed i You register first. There is a good pen ! there that you can write with, and the clerk ! does not chew tolu and read sporting paper while you wait for a room. He is there to attend to business, and he attends to it. He does not seem to care whether you have any baggage or not. You stay here for days even if you don't have any baggage All you need is kind word and mittimus from the court One enters this sanitarum either as a boarder or felca. If he decides to come in as boarder he pays the warden $l5 a week for the privilege of sitting at his table and eating the luxuries of the market. You also get better room than at many hotels, and you have good strong door with paddock on 1t which enables you to prevent the sudden and unlocked for entrance of the chamber maid. After few weeks at the seaside at Sl9 per day, l think the room in which am writing is not unreasonable at s.
 Still, Of course, we miss the sea breeze here.
 You can pay $50 to Sl00 per week hero If you wish, and get your moneys worth, too. For the latter sum one may live in the bridal chamber, so to speak, and eat the very best victuals all the time.
 A boarder gets good sized room, with wonderful amount of seclusion, a plain bed, 1 table, chairs, carpet and so forth. From his 1 window one can see as far as the eye can reach
 Heavy iron bars keep the mosquitoes out, and at night the rooms are brilliantly lighted 1 by incandescent lights of one candle power each. Neat snuffers, consisting of the thumb and forefinger polished on the hair, are to be found in each occupied room.
 Bread is served to the freshmen and juniors in rectangular wads. It is such bread as con victs' tears have nioistened many thousand years In that way it gets quite moist.
 The most painful feature about life in Lud- low street jail is the confinement. One can not avoid a feeling of being constantly ham, pered and heInned ill.
 One more disagreeable thing is the great social distinction here The poor man who sleeps in q stone niche near the roof, and is constantly clbowed and hustled out of his bed by earnest and restless vermin with tendency towards insomnia, is harassed by meeting in the courtyard and corridors the paying boarders who wear good clothes, live well, have their cigars, brandy and Kentucky Sec all the time
 The McAllister crowd here is Just as ex- elusive as it is on the outside
 p,,f ,f--A s4 .-A man like me who has been nearly killed by cyclone to feel the firm, secure walls and solid time lock when he goes to bed at night Even if l cannot belong to the 400 here, am almost happy.
 We retire at 7:30 o'clock at night and arise at G:30 in the morning, to get an early start A man who has five or ten years to serve in place like this naturally likes to get at it as soon as possible each day, and so be gets up at 6:30
 We dress by the gaudy light of the candle, and while we do so we remember far away at home our wife and the little boy asleep in her arms. They do not get up at 6:S0. It is at this hour we remember the fra grant drawer in the dresser at home where our clean shirts and collars and cuffs and socks and handkerchiefs are put every week by our wife. We also recall as we go about
 
 beef and the ghost of some bloody handed predecessors snore still moaning in the walls, the picture of green grass by our own door way and tfe apples that were just ripening when the bench warrant came
 The time from G:30 to breakfast is taken up by the average of non-paying inmate by doing the chamberwork and tidying up his stateroom 1 do not know how others feel about it, but 1 dislike chamberwork most heartily, especially when l am in jail. Moth ing has done more to keep me out of jail, guess, than the fact that while there have to make up my bed and dust the piano. We go down to the sink to wash cur faces , and hands It is pleasant sight, and re- , minds me of a herd of red legged geese in q mud hole.
 Breakfast is generally table d'hote, and , consists of bread A tin cup of coffee takes . the taste of the bread out of your mouth and then if you have some Limburger cheese in your pocket you can @ith that remove the , taste of the coffee.
 } Dinner is served at 12 o'clock. and consists l of more bread, with soup. This soup ha: everything in it except nourishment. Tht - bead on this soup is noticeable for quite ' distance. It is disagreeable. There is every : thing in this soup, from shop worn rice up tC l neat's foot oil Once 1 thought 1 detected cuisine in 1t
 The dinner menu is changed on Fridays [ Sundays and Thursdays, on which days yoI l get the soup first and the bread afterwards
 In this way the bread is saved Q Three days in the week at dinner each mar l gets potato with thousand legged worn , in it. At 6 o'clock comes supper with toas 2 and responses. Bread is served at suppe
 time, together with cup of tea To thos s who dislike bread and never eat soup, or d t not drink tea or coffee, life at Ludlow Stree s jail is indeed irksome.-Biil Nye in New Yorl @ World.
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