St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-20
SALTWATER SILHOUErTES.
The Old-Time Activity Beginning to be
Seen at the Prison.
THE NEW BROOM FACTORY
Special Exercises to be Held In the
Public Schools This Afternoon.

Throughout the prison shops, both
those under the more immediate control
of the contractors and in the depart
ments where the state account plan Is
to be tried. the Old-time hustle and ac-
tivity begin to assert themselves, ana
among the prisoners. both in anu out OF
the shops, there is apparent an I'M
wonted air of cheerfulneSS and alacrlty,
such as might result from gOod feeding
and considerable treatment at the hands
of the officials. Supt. COyell, of the tub
and pail factory. exhibited yesterday
piece of pine board OF which the parent
log was taken out of ii long soaking IN
the lake only Just before the lake froze
over. The board shown was one of the
pail bottoms which had been stacked in
lhe new dry kiln when wateI-sOaked
and green, on the previous day, and
at the end of fifty hours came
out thoroughly seasoned and as dry as a
bone. The factory uses SturteVant
hot blast kiln. the air being heated by
passage over 1000 feet of steam heated
pipes and forced by fan into the kiln,
the temperature of which varies from
$50 to 20J deg Fahrenheit. Eight days
will suffice to season inch boards. Sew
eral of the head and Stave machines are
now in operation, manned by cOnvlctS.
cutting up the pine cantS which are
supplied from the outside. the fiVe-inch
cant.+oeing used for heads and the four
inch for slaves. Mr.. Curell estimates
that by the time a tub or pail has gone
through ali the processes of manutac-
ure its component parts will have been
handled over necessarily at least fifty
times. but no complete article in this
line will be turned ont until all
the initial processes are thoroughly
in hand. Ultimately from fifty TO sixty
prisoners will be employed in this de
partment The broom factory, provided
for at the last meeting OF the managers.
will be located in the third story of the
brick shop, some of the machines being
put in place yesterday. Twenty
thousand handles. which arrived
recently, and several carloads of broom
corn are stored at present in the soil
tary." 1t is understood that Hon.
George NJ. Seymour is the protector of
the brOOm-making industry and that the
experiment is tried with no expense to
the state.
With the closing of the public schools
weeks special exercises will be held in
most of the departments. Several of
the rooms have been nicely decorated,
notably that of Miss Smedley, whose
school is the first TO display the Amer
lean flag. In the high school. the two
divisions Of the first year latin class
will spell down" in the dead language,
spelling and giving the parts of the
verbs of the eOnjugatiOns thus far
studied. The two sections of the
physiology class will also be against
each other in complex photographed
contest.
In the district court yesterday the
ease Of \. II. Clapp against r. NJ. Coles
was dismissed by consent. The case of
Peter Kwasniewski against James Hap
son to recover damages for Injuries re-
Ceiyed in a runaway of defendants
team is next to be tried. The jury in
the case of Pratt against the water COM
pany retired to deliberate on verdict
ut o'clock.
The first Information regarding the
death of Walter Bioomer was received
yesterday in a miS-Sent letter from
HOugtOn, Wash. The young man,
while engaged in numbering, was
caught and crushed on the side of a
btctp lllll ny Il luIn Vi runaway loSSs
and lived but few hours after the acct
dent.
Henry Muller. DR.. T. G. Clark. Ira
King. J. 0. Busse and L. II. Warren
visited White Bear last evening to at
tend the installation of officers of Gar
net Lodge No. 166, A. f. and A. NJ.
At the residence of Mrs. G. NJ. Sey-
mOur the regular monthly meeting of
the W. c. L. U. will be held to-day at
$50 O'clock.
All the Saltwater contingent have ar
rived from school at FarIbault to spend
the holidays at home.
Hennepin county contributed two
short-term men to the state prison yes
terday.