Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-04-06
PENITENTIARY AFFAIRS.
A Big Grist of Public Business Turned
Out by the Board of Managers
Contracts Let.
Old Employees Hold 0ver-Resignation OF
the Assistant Superintendent
New Improvements.

the board of penitentiary commissioners
concluded the work of their session be-
gun on Saturday morning. All the men,
bers of the board were present. During
the afternoon Assistant Superintendent
J. M. Montoya wrote out his resignation
and presented it to Superintendent Cha
vez, who accepted the same, and the su-
perintendent so notified the board of
managers.
THE EMPLOYEES.
The board adopted a resolution direct
ing Supt. Chavez to submit forthwith
list of those he proposed to employ as
subordinates. The superintendent stated
that this could not be done without much
confusion, as while some changes in the
present force were necessary he could not
detect the defects until he had had time
to get the routine of the institution, and
asked to be allowed until the next regular
meeting to present his list of employees.
The board voted by to that the super
intendent should present his list at once,
the list many of the old employees whose
dismissal would have worked manifest
injury and confusion in the conduct of the
institution. This is the list:
Penitentiary physician, DR.. Longwill;
chaplain, Rev. }. H. De FOUR; matron,
Mrs. J. Frank Chavez.
Canuto Alarid, yard master; Evaristo
Duran, day cell house keeper; Isidoro
Torres, night cell house keeper; Ambrosio
Ortiz, captain day guard; Tomas Quin-
tana, captain night guard. Guards:
Juan Jose Padilla, H. F. Swope. Benigno
Ortega, Ricardo Alarid, Ygnacio Tru-
| jilo, Cristobal Pena, Santiago johnson,
Locadio Jiron, David Baca, Maxine Mar
tinez.
The first three appointees were con-
firmed by the board, and the others were
held over until the next session, one
month hence, therefore, all the old en-
ployes retain their positions, as also does
Assistant Superintendent Montoya until
their successors are named and qualified
at the next meeting.
LETTING CONTRACTS.
The bids for furnishing the peniten-
tiary with supplies for the ensuing six
months were opened in the presence of
some ten or fifteen bidders. There were
thirty-two bids presented, accompanied
by the necessary certified checks, bonds,
samples, etc., and the task of going
through the mass of figures was tedi-
GUS one. The beef contract was awarded
to A. Bischoff at $4.9S per cwt. The
contract for flour was let to Reaser Bros.
at 1925 per cwt.; coal, same, at $4.34
per ton; corn, same, at $3.50; hay to
same at IS cents. Bacon to A. Stab at
$7.341a per cwt. Oats to same at $2.05;
beans, to same, at 1898; coffee, to same,
at $21.3712 per cwt salt, to same, at ST.
10; Prices Baking Powder, Climax
tobacco, whole pepper, matches, etc.,
also awarded to Mr.. Stab. Coal oil to
H. B. Cartwright (on LOTT at 81 cents ;
pure cider vinegar, 6. Rivenburg, %
cents candles, 100 yards of black SILICA
and several other articles were awarded
to Wedeles & Eldodt; 200 pards of crash
at l6 cents went to GrHnsfeld, Lindheim
& Co., also number of other articles.
Hardware contracts were awarded to f.
D. Franz to the amount of $1,000.
Leather supplies went to T. F. Keller, of
Albuquerque, to the amount of $22S.35
| Furniture and utensils to the amount Of
$l22.02 went to A. Staab. Tools, wheel
barrows, etc., for repairs, amounting to
| $468 .02 was also awarded to Staab.
IMPROVEMENTS ORDERED.
The board then took up the matter of
improving the institution and grounds
and made number of important orders.
1t was decided to adopt the electric light
system Of lighting the institution instead
of using coal oil, and to this end Conn.
Laughlin was named to get the cost of
poles, wires, insulators, ETC., and Comr.
DeMier was named to get similar infor-
nation regarding the connection of the
penitentiary with the plaza by telephone.
1t was stated that, to complete the
walls about the grounds author
lied by the new law, it would
require at least 100000 of
brick and the superintendent was in
strncted to begin at once and continue
the manufacture of brick throughout the
summer. The superintendent was also
directed to keep the convicts at work at
least eight hours each day, and to make
detailed statement to the board at each
meeting as to the number of men at
work and the character of the labor per-
formed.
There being now eleven female con-
vcts in the penitentiary, the superin-
tendent was also directed to purchase
lumber and partition off the third floor to
increase the capacity of the female ward,