Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-02-25
BILL. NYE IN JAIL.
1s Gives Description Of Ladiow ssress
Prison.

C64Nthhg NfbaSA YOU ana
means Of an iron lock about the size Of
pictorial family Bible You then remain on
the inside for quite a sl,cl You do not hear
the prattie OF soiled children any more. All |
the glad sunlight and stencil condensing
pavements aud dank haired children Of Riv-
In ton street are heard no more, and the |
heavy iron storm door shuts out tho wall Of /
TIE combat from the alley near by Ludlow
Street jail may be surrounded by a very |
nj SCRABBLE and dirty quarter Of tho city, but |
when you get lnsde all ~ changed.
You register first There Is good pen
there that you can write with, and the clerk
dues not chew tolu and read a sporting payer
while you wait Tor room. He Il there 10
attend to business. and he attends TO it. lie
does not seem to care whether you have any
baggage or not Yon can stay here for days,
even II you don't have any baggage. AL you
need Is a Kind word and a mittimus from the
court
Une enters this sanitarium either as q
5oarder or u feion II he decides to come in
as a boarder he pays the warden SIS a week
Tor the privilege Of sitting at his table and
eating the luxuries Of tho market You also
get a letter room than at many hotels, and
you have good strong door With paddock
on it which euables you TO prevd u the sudden
mnid. After few weeks at the seaside at
$lJ Ter day. think the room in which am
writing u not unreasonable at g.
Still, OF course. we miss the sea breeze
here
A Yon can pay ESQ To 500 per week hero II
you wish, aud get your moneys worth. too.
For the latter sum ono may 1.-Two In the bridal
chamber, So IT, speak, and eat the very best
vlctualS all the time
A boarder gets good sized room. with
wonderful amount Of seciusion, plain bed,
table. chairs, carpet nnd SO forth From his
window ons see as far as the eye can
reach
Heavy iron bars keep the mosquitoes out,
and at night the rooms are brilliantly lighted
by incnndeScent lights Of one candle power
each. Neat snnifers. consisting Of the thumb
and foreiinscr polished ON the hair, are 10 DO
found In each occupied room.
Bread Is served To the freshmen and juniors
in rectangular wads 1t IS such bread as con-
victs' tears have moistened many thousand
years In that way ii gets quite moist
The most painful feature about lie in Lud.
low street jail is the confinement one can.
not ayo,i a feeling of being constantly ham
pered AMI hemmcd in.
One more d4sas reeaie thing Is the great
social distinction here The poor man who
sleeps ~ a stone niche near the roof, and IL
constantly elpowed and hustled out of his
bel by earnest and restless vermiu with a
tendency towards insomnia, Is harassed by
, meeting in the court yard and corridors the
, paving boardcrs vino wear good clothes. live
, well, have thelr cigars, brandy and Kentucky
Sec all the time.
The McAllster crowd hero Is just as ex
, elusive as it is on the outside
But. great Scott. what a comfort IL Is TO 9
. man like me who has been nearly killed by q
r cyclune to feel the firm secure walls ant
0 sold time lock when he goes to bod at night
4 Even II cannot belons to the 4O0 here, | an
: almost happy.
! Weretire AT 7;SO o'clock at night and nriss
! at $50 III the morning, SO as TO get an early
start a man who has tive or ten years x
serve in place like this naturally likes q
get at ~ rs soon as possible each day, and 81
. ho gets up at $50
T. We dress by the CANDY light OF the candle
I and while we do ~ We remember far away
~ at home our wife and the little boy asleep il
!, her arms They do not get up at go Il
!. is at this hour we remember the fra
" grant drawer in the dresser at home wherl
: our clean shirts aud collars and cuffs anc
Z SOCKS and handserchiefs are put every weel
a by our wife We also recall as We go abou
our stone den. with its odor of farmer corne,
o beef aud the ghost of some bloody hande,
y predecessor ) snorc still moaning in the walls
. the picture of green grass by our own door
way aud tire apples that were just ripenin
when the bench warrant came.
> The time from 6;3Oto breakfast Is take
y up by the average of ou-payin- inmate b.
n doing the chamherwork and tdying up hi
d staternom | do not know how others fee
It about ii. but | dislike chamberwork mos
Il heartily. especially when am In jail Moth
Ia ing has done moro to keep me out of Jail,
. guess, than the fact that while there have /
!. MAKE up my tied aud dust the piano.
: We go down 10 the sink To wash our face
y and hands IL IL pleasant sight, and RI
u minds me of a herd of red legged geese in
u mud hole
Breakfast IS generally table d'hote. an
IS consists of bread a tin cup Of coffee take
l. the taste Of tile bread out of your moutt
n and then If You have Some Limbnrger chees
: In your pocket you can with that remove th
taste Of the coiree
. Dinner is served at IL o'clock. and consist
10 of more bread, with soup. This soup ha
% everything In 1t except nourishment Til
% lead on this soup /, noticeable for quite
? distance. IL is disaEreeabe. There is ever
Il thing in this soup, from shop worn rice up |
; meats foot oil Once | thought | detecte
- cuisine In it
The dinner menu Is changed on Friday
Sundays md Thursdays, on which days 80
get the soup first and the bread afterward
Z In this way tho bread Is saved
4 Three days In the week at dinner each ma
gets a potato with Thousand legged worl
10 In IL At o'clock comes supper with toai
i and responses Bread IS served at supns
!. time. together with a cup of tea To thos
a