The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-01

70 make brick OF the Aosave desert a. in the
peaitent!sTy yard a. WzlIa wssla Wood costs
81 cord Clay $50 car load. The whole
thing Is nothing e.ss but 3 farce and com pGets
failure.
As it is row thu commissioners canno. fad
employment for all ste prisoners. The migl
gives worx % little over 30 men and the yard
10 not over 100. and that onlT .or the summer
months, while there is Al average of 50 men
confined N the peaitsG.lsry. The kitchen,
tailor saop, saosElax.ng shop and all round
work gives GIL ployEaent 20 another anal nGm-
Der, oui there are always a number of prisoners
Idle. Certainly ire coTas1ss.oners ear nsr be
entirely blamed for the Is!ensss Of the prisoners,
especially when ~ remember that re increase
OF prisoners IN the Last fwo years has been De-
yoad al anticipation, yet Il strikes ne that
warden with sa executive turn OF mind could
find some work Tor every man n MS charge
Let ne give point II Illustration The con-
mIss!oners real.zs tbs: !. Is very high p.!ce TO
pay, sle9 Der month fo- water They turtle:
Claim That IA tie summer they are often LETT
without water altogether. and therefore recon-
mend in their report thai the legislature spp-o-
Pirate s2,5ao with which 10 bore well. II the
hopes OF striking ar.esaa water: or, II not sue
eessfu! II striking s-sesian water, flowing
stream may De found aud pun ped into reser-
Eoir surlciens Tor the penIseaIiary's use Ths
idea Is q very good one. There IS no harm II
trying to md ar:esisu water, and by going deep
enough Iley are sure 70 tn q stream SUFFICIENT.
for taeir Use. But one Is struck with the utter
ignorance OF warden, who, having about 20
Ioie men on hand, does not 60 ahead and dig
WeL Boring machinery is valuable only whers
ths saving OF labor Is an object, but with free
ana plenty labor what reasonable man would
think OF spending money icr machines?
There "a nothing 10 prevent the prison author
ties from digging q well as deep any ma
chInery can dig. They have pleary OF o.iex on
the ground with which 20 lire the well as they
go. They can dig il wide enough 20 give plainly
WORKING room for 81 least three men, and there
are plenty OF holes in the ground which could
De used II disposing OF surplus earth. / hope
the legislature will not give them asv money
Tor well digging. Furthermore, hope that
the legislature will compel them 20 dig well
with the idle labor they have on hand, AID stop
paying 81 40 year FOR water alone
During ny visit 7 gathered many statistics
which would be OF interest to the general
reader In 50 far as they give the nationality OF
the prison inmates, the number OF prisoners
sent there from each county and the cause o..
imprisonment. bu. since the CON rissionsrs
have submitted their report to the governor,
and that report embodies al these details.
copy OF which report can be obtained by appli-
cation to the state printer, omit them here.
On TIE whols the penitentiary did not i'm
press me as being vell-conducted institution;
nor am ready 70 say that things could not be
improved under existing circumstances and
with the means at hand, For the sake OF human
ity nope that the legislature will make thor
ough investigation into the management OF the
psnitentiary and institute uany needed reforna
RosH LooKgsH.