Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-04-28
BRICK AND TILE.
The New Machines in Full Opera
ton at the Territorial
Penitentiary.
Measures Adopted Which
will Rebound to the Benefit Of
the Institution.

A reporter for the New MEXICAN visited
the territorial penitentiary yesterday at
the request of Superintendent Bergman
to inspect the new brick making machine
recently put up. It is Craycroft ma
chine with capacity of 10000 brick a
day. The cost of the machine was 1862
and the freight 1925 making the entire
cost 1857.
The machine was put in place Thurs
day and the first brick was turned out
from it yesterday. 1t was necessity as
without it all other work would have been
obliged to stop and all the men put to
work making brick.
DOING GOOD WORK.
1t req uires twenty men to keep the
machine going. Some feed it, some haul
the necessary material and others carry
the brick away to dry. 1t is an interesting
sight to watch the men at work. Taking
into consideration the fact that none of
the men working on the machine have
ever before had any ex perience in making
brick, the quality of the brick turned out
yesterday was remarkably good.
The immense brick wall which, when
completed, will surround the penitentiary
grounds, will need over 100000 brick to
finish it, and this the superintendent ex-
poets to be able to do by the end of June.
There are sixteen men now working on the
huge arch which will be the main on
trance to the grounds.
MAKING SEWER PIPE.
Another economical innovation which
Col. Bergman has introduced is sewer
pipe machine which, when in full working
order, will turn out 300 lengths of pipe a
day. This machine will pay for itself
even if length of sewer pipe is never
sold, as it will take over 1000 feet of pipe
to finish the penitentiary sewer. Eight
men are required to work the machine
and finish the pipe, which is of superior
quality.
The lime kiln has earned money for
the institution ever since the first fire was
started in it over two years ago. 1t is
kept in constant operation and every
pound not used in the penitentiary is
sold for a good price.
AN ELECTRICAL GATE.
One of the interesting improvements
is the large iron gate which will be placed
in the entrance arch. An electrical ap-
pliance has been so arranged that the
gate can only be opened by pushing a
button in either the office or the front
guard tower. bell is also attached to
the gate which rings whenever the gate is
opened and it will also serve as an alarm
should anyone attempt to get out with
out first pushing one of the two electrical
buttons.
One of the things that Immediately at
tracts the attention of the visitor is the
scrupulously neat appearance of every
thing connected with the institution
There are 100 convicts in the penitentiary
at present and not one of them is allowed
to remain idle, unless he is sick. No time
is lost putting convicts to work. While
the reporter was inspecting the place
the Indian, Nesh-Kai-Hay, was brought ir
by Sheriff Dustin, of San Juan county
and in half an hour after entering the
Indian was put to work in the yard wheel
ing brick.
Under the uperintendency of Col. Berg
mann, economical measures have beer
adopted and the penitentiary is conduct
ed in as excellent n manner as any SINH
lar institution in the country.