Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-01-31
BILL Nye IN JAIL.
Re Givss : Description Of Lodiow ss..ss

Poison.
As you enter Ludlow Street jail the door 4
earefuliy closed after you and locked bv
means Of an iron lock about the size Of 4
pictorial family Bible. You then remain On
the inside for quite SPELL You do not hear
the prattle OF soiled children any more All
tho glad sunlight and stencil condensing
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, bot
wnen you get inside all Ii changed
You register drst There Il good rsn
there that you can write with, and ths clerk
does not chew toiu and read . sporting paper
while you wait for . room. He Il there to
attend to business, and be attends to IL h
does not seem to care whether you have any
baggage or not You can stay here for days,
even II you don't have any baggage AL you
need e kind word and mittimus from the
court
One enters this sanitarium either a. .
Doarder or felon. lf he decides to come in
e Doarder he pays the warden SIS week
Tor the privilege Of sitting at his tabs and
eating the Injuries Of the MARKET You also
get better room than at many hotels, and
you have good strong door with paddock
on It which enables you to prevent the sudden
and unlocked for entrance Of the chamber
maid After few weeks At the seaside -
SIP per day. think the room in which Lam
writing b not unreasonable at 81
SILL, OF course. ws miss the - breese
here.
You can pay $50 to 800 per weak here Il
you wish, and get your moneys worth, too.
IA IL
cnamber, 80 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,
table, chairs, carpet and 50 forth From his
window ons can zee a. far - the eye can
reach.
Heavy iron bars keep the mosquitoes ont,
and at night the rooms are brilliantly lighted
by fncandescent lights Of one candle power
each. Neat snuffers consisting OF the thumb
and forefnger polished on the hair, are to BE-
found in each occupied room.
Bread Is served to the freshmen and juniorz
In rectangular wads. 1t is such bread a. con-
victS tears have moistened many thousand
years ~ that way it gets quite moist.
The most painful feature about life in Lnd
low street Jail is the confinement Ono can
not avoid feeling Of being constantly ham
pered and hemmed in.
One more disagreealls thing Is the great
social distinction here The poor man who
sleeps in a stone niche near the roof, and il
constantly elDowed and hustled out of hi.
bed by earnest and restless vermin with .
tendency towards insomnia, Is harassed by
meeting in the courtyard and CORRIDOR thu
paying boarders who wear good clothes, livs
we'll, have their cigars, brandy and Kentucky
Sec all the time.
| The McAllister crowd here Is Just a. ex
elusive as it is on the outside.
But, great Scott, what a comfort Il Is to I
man like me who has been nearly killed by
| cyclone to feel the firm, secure walls anc
solid time lock when he goes to bed at night
| Even If cannot belong to the 400 here, / an
almost happy.
Weretire at 7:30 O'Clock at night and arts,
at 630 in the morning, so as to get an early
start. A man who has five or ten years tx
serve in place like this naturally likes t.
| get at it as soon as possible each day, and q
he gets up at G30.
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 il
her arms They do not get up at $50. Il
is at this hour we remember the fra
grant drawer in the dresser at home wher,
socks and handkerchiefs are put every weel
by our wife. We also recall as we go abou
our stone den, with its odor of farmer cornet
beef and the ghost of some bloody handel
predecessors snore still moaning in the walls
the picture of green grass by our own door
way and tire apples that were just ripenins
when the bench warrant came.
The time from 6:30t to breakfast is takeI
up by tire average of non-paying inmate BY
doing the chamberwork and tidying up hi
stateroom. | do not know how others fee
about it, but | dislike chamberwork mos
heartily, especially when am in Jail. Moth
ing has done more to keep me out of Jail,
guess, than the fact that while there have t
make up my bed and dust the piano.
We go down to the sink to wash our face
and hands. It is pleasant sight, and re
minds me of herd of red legged geese in
mud hole.
Breakfast is generally table d'hote, an,
consists of bread A tin cup Of coffee take
the taste of the bread out of your mouth
and then if you have some Limburger chees
in your pocket you can with that remove tn
taste of the coffee.
Dinner is served at l2 o'clock, and consist
of more bread, with soup. This soup ha
everything in it except nourishment Tn
bead on this soup is noticeable for quite
distance. 1t is disagreeable. There is every
thing in this soup, from shop worn rice up t
heats foot oil Once / thought | detecte
cuisine in it.
The dinner menu is changed on Friday:
Sundays and Thursdays, on which days 20
get the soup first and the bread afterward!
In this way the bread is saved.
Three days in the week at dinner each ma
gets potato with thousand legged worr
in it. At O'clock comes supper with toas
and responses. Bread is served at suppe
time, together with a cup of tea. To thos
who dislike bread and never eat soup, or
not drink tea or coffee life at Ludlow Stree
Jail is indeed irksome. Bill Nye in New Yor
World.