The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-30

good onduct. II enforce discipline. this
good lady introduced dark cell n a
chain, which was wound twice around the
body of the recalcitrant inmate and then
padlocked to the floor SO that the VIC
tim could only lie face downward. In
one case, the Lady Superintendent fur
Their thrashed a girl, after she was
chained, with a cowhide until she was
black and blue.
The girls did not take kindly to this
discipline. They rose in revolt. They
! smashed things-literally. They demol-
ished the plates and dishes. they wreck
ed the furniture, they tore their dresses
to ribbons, they beat the matron and her
assistants, they tried 10 set the build
ing on fire. They climbed to the win
dows and gathered about the building a
| crowd of seven hundred and fifty people
songs.
This was three weeks ago. The revolt
is still on. This mornings New York
papers give the report of yesterdays
battle. We quote from the sun
CHICAGO, March %. 1Ss5.-The incor-
rlgible girls who are confined AZ the
newed their disorder tonight. At seven
o'clock tonight the n~eighborhood of the
home was aroused by yells from the
girls, and hurried calls were made for the
police
A SQUAD of police was sent to the in
stitutio3 and stop vas put to the out
but as soon as the police withdrew the
thirty girls started in for another riot.
ha Thss f and, u gee eTfPg'h 4 ha shis eo and
other implements; started in for VIC
lence. At ten o'clock a hurry call was
s soSp0 Street g station at poin nearly iiy-l three niles
away, and two wagon loads of police
FASTENED from other districts. The neigh
borhood of Indiana avenue and Thirty
first street was thronged with spec
tators all the evening. All day long
shrielos ard wailings, suggesting tor
madhouse. The release of one of the
GIRLS from the Institution yesterday was
the. cause of the riots today and to-
Mrs. Dayton. one Of the matrons, fed
the building. and another, Mrs. Holt. has
gone TO Springfield to ask help of Gov.
Altgeld. Meantime the nome IS IN SUI
prenle control of the inmates.
The ch.valry of Chicago IS entirely I'M
able to cope with this state of things.
TIE Record" the same paper which is
clamoring for Maggie Tilier's reprieve,
in an editorial last week. g~ravely adj
vocated a return to first principles In
the form of a seriatin spanking for the
innate of the Home. But the other
no,ar- i, +htc ipc+anca mora trliv nm
hold the chivalrous STANDARD of the
WINDY City. They urge that gentle and
Cnristian methods, more in keeping with
the tone of the end of the Nineteenth
Century. should be adopted. They urge
that when a young lady of mingled
Chinese and Italian parentage develops
a desire to split open the Matron's occi-
put or to execute a saraband in seanty
costume on the dinner table, she should
have scriptural quotations read to her
and passages from the Sayings of Poor
Richard TO show that such conduct leads
neither to mansions in the skies nor
even to palatial residences on Calumet
avenue.
And so there is poor Chicago with
ninety nysterical young she-criminals on
her hands, raising a daily circus in com
parison with which Barnum's monkeys
are amt and fiat. She does not, know
what to do with them. 1t is truly alarm
ing.
We would suggest that she call to-
gether the late Board of Lady Managers
of the Chicago Fair and submit the
problem to them. They might, if all the
discordant members could be reduced to
tears in time, reach a decision by the
end of the year.
And. by the way, if they ever should
come to an agreement, we would wager
dollars to %doughnuts that they agreed
with the Record"