Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-09

artistic advertising cards. The cells have
acheerful, home-like appearance, especially
those in the new wing, which have win
dow in every room.
BENEFITED BY THEIR STAY.
"Many of the women are addicted to
the use of snuff" said the matron. "For-
mer inmates frequently writes to their
friends in the institution, always inclosing
at least 10 cents to buy some comfort as
they term it. We have no means of fol-
lowing our girls after they leave us, but SO
far as we can learn | should say that one
sixth are benefited by their stay here.
There are one-third as many men as women
here There are always more women in
the summe, time than in the winter.
Farmers come here wanting help.
Those girls who desire to live out are dis
charged for that purpose. Life on farm
is not altogether happy one for them.
They are worked from morning till night,
poorly paid, constantly haunted with be-
ing Correction birds and discharged on
some pretext as soon as cold weather
comes. Without money or friends they
drift into their old life and ultimately
come back to us"
peated the Captain of the Guard, in an
swer to the question propounded by the
reporter. ''Oh, yes, sometimes they get
away, and we don't often recapture them.
Their uniform is not particularly conspic-
uous, and besides the people in this viein-
ity are all in sympathy with escaped pris-
oners and willingly exchange clothing
with them. One of our girls tried to es-
cape the other day, but we caught her be-
fore she got outside the grounds. She is
only nineteen, and is one of family that
are our steady boarders. Her father,
mother and brother are all here"
"There is a set of chronic grumblers to
be found in every institution" said Moral
Instructor kirkpatrick. "Three out of
every five women sent here claim to be
unjustly imprisoned. l investigate every
case, and occasionally find one worthy of
consideration. INSCRIPTIONS husbands get
their wives committed and jealous step
mothers their step-daughters. | investi-
gated case recently of woman
of respectable family, living In an adj
Joining county. She is subject to fits of
temporary alteration. She came to the
city, was found wandering about the
streets, could give no account of herself,
and a Magistrate sent her up here. AS
soon as reported the fact she was prompt
ly discharged"
INTO A NAMELEss GRAVE.
Down by the river, in the low marsh on
the other side of Pennypack creek, is the
institutions graveyard. The hot sun of
summer and the chilling breath of winter
fell upon it unchecked. In it slumber the
Corrections dead. In one corner, apart
from the others, is solitary grave. In it
lies a girl with a history She was of good
family, splendidly educated and far above
| the average woman in intellectually.
She married when mere girl fellow
whose brutal treatment and open in6delity
| caused her to seek refuge in drink. He
| drove her from his house finally, and sinking
lower and lower, she reached the House of
| Correction. When she was first committed
her evil course of living had not totally
obliterated the innate refinement of her
deiicately chiseled face, and she was as
pretty as picture.
The moral instructor and officials of the
institution were very much interested in
her case, and an effort was made to per-
suade her to reform. For a time she tried
to lead better life, but, disowned by her
| family and deserted by her friends be-
cause of the disgrace she had brought
upon them, she yielded to the old tempta-
ton. Exposure and excessive drinking
were too much for one reared so delicately
and soon after her second commitment she
showed the uumistakable evidences of
consumption and was placed in the hos
pital. When she died her relatives were
notified, but refused to receive the poor
clay, and the Correction graveyard re-
| ceived her remains.