The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-02-12

We supposed that the binding Irvine machin-
cry would only make one kind Of Irvine. but we are
informed that any kind of cord from the finest
Irvine up to an inch rope may be spun with equal
facility.
The number of applications for permission to
attend the night school exceeds the present &C.
commodations. 1t is the intention at present to
take only those into the school who absolutely
illitsrate. The others will be given an opportu-
nifty as soon arrangements can be made for
their accommodation.
One of the boys working in the laun dry met
with painful accident last Thursday. He was
engaged at the washing machine and his hand be-
coming caught between the end of the cylinder
and the outside drum the back of it was lacerated
in painful manner. He considers himself fort
innate in not losing his hand.
AT the close of the chapel service Sunday
Warden Garvin announced that pri mary school
would be opened in short time. He added that
if in the future any man left the prison unable to
read and write it would not be because he had
had no opportunity to learn. He also gave the
Chautauqua movement his hearty approval
"A committee from the two legislative bodies
in st. Paul visited the state prison Friday. Sen,
ator O'Brien, who is also of the board of
prison inspectors doing the honors of the occa-
sion. They examined the Irvine binding plant.
and privately said. it appeared to be all that
claimed for it. and were anxious to see it started
successfully. so that the prisoners could be en-
ployed proftably by the state instead of having
their labor contracted Pioneer Press.
Since the prison tub and pail factory began
been made 1910 dozen tubs and 1880 dozen pals
There was an average of &c men employed in the
shop during the ten months that it was kept in full
operation. The gentleman who publicly an
nounced some time age that all the state had to
show for the money appropriated to run tub and
pail factory in the prison was few leaky pals,
must have been badly informed. for nicer looking
tubs and pals not turned out of any factory.
Says the PIONEER Press: 1.-TWO convicts in the
Massachusetts, reformatory were killed by drink
ing wood alcohol which had been used in finishing
shoes. They evidently had never been accustomed
to nitric acid and coffin varnish." similar Incl
dent occurred in the shoeshop of this institution
several years ago but fortunately unfortunately
as you please-with a less serious termination.
The boys in the shOeshOp noticed one of their
number acting little queer something like a
chicken acts just after having swallowed coal
of fire. All of sudden he seemed to lose his
grip on the surrounding atmosphere and he FELL
an inanimate mass, the floor. The doctor
treated him for heart failure.
Mr.. Alfred Gilmore. who is to superintend the
binding Irvine factory, was asked how the so.called
American system of Irvine making machinery
compared with the Belfast system now in the
prison. He replied that Cembe. Barbour &
Combe. the Belfast manufacturers, would ask no
better vindication of the superiority of their sys-
tenn than to have any other system in the world
put in operation by the side of it. He says that
Combe. Barbour & Combe have had better op-
portunities for perfecting their machines than any
other manufacturers. Their factory is located
right in the midst of the largest fiber spinning
mills in the world where over 100000 spindles
running all the time. Thus they were given
the opportunity to discover and remedy every de-
feet in their machines One of the chief advan-
tages of these machines is that they will work any
kind of fiber that Irvine may be made Of