The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-31

vi the dDONG llulllDeI llCLS
have been discharged:
Males .................... LOU
Females NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
1913
Leaving in confinement Sep
TENDER so, 1896. ........... $50
This number was divided as
to color and sex as follows:
White males... ..............'. Oh
White females. ............".. D
Colored males. ...............' %
Colored females. ..............
Total 1856
The prisoners certainly did not so
supperless to bed. During the year the
following amounts of provisions were
used in the prison kitchen, from Octo-
Der /, 1885, to September 80, 1896:
Corned beef, 80 11-16 tons; fresh pork,
745 TBS; fresh beef, 7 $3.50 tons; salt
pork, 413-5OO tons; fresh mutton, 1890
TBS sausage. $40 lbs; turkeys, 407 lbs;
fresh fish, alewives, 1882 ga lbs; salt
salmon, 1 4-25 tons; salt haddock, dry,
1 3S7-400 tons; salt mackerel, 1853 lbs;
salt haddock, picked, 2 951-2000 TBS; po
tatoes, 1874 IL bushels; carrots, %
bushels; cabbage, 4,5O3 heads; turnips,
$50 1-2 bushels; parsnlps, 265 bushels;
beans, 301 1892 bushels; onions, 243 1-2
bushels; beets, s IA bushels; peas, II
bushels; rareripe onions, 81 bushels; to-
matoes 5 bushels.
Occasionally the men are allowed a
smoke. The following shows there was
$423.70 expended upon the weed, or IS
cents worth per capita per diem.
Tobacco is issued on the 1st and 10th
of each month, the regular monthly is
sue being one-haf (1a) pound per man.
In special cases additional issues are
made.
From time to time, as required, addi-
tional bedding and furniture for the
prison has been supplied, and the sums
of two hundred and thirty-flve dollars
and eighty-seven cents ($2S5.SO, and
two hundred dollars and forty-seven
cents ($200.4T, respectively have been
expended to renew articles in this line.
There has been expended for citizens
clothing issued to prisoners upon their
discharge from the institution, the sum
of three hundred and thirty-one dollars
and twenty cents ($331.200
Various improvements necessary,
among them the question of improved
lighting facilities, are taken up.
We quote in part from the report:
Owing to the additions made from
time to time of new buildings and cell
blocks, during the past three years, it
has been found that our naptha or gas
oline gas machine is inadequate to
meet the requirements Of the increased
demand for light. The gas machine is
dependent for pressure upon an auto
matte water wheel, the water being
supplied from the water main, and as
the pressure of the water supply dur
ing the last year has been so low, it has
frequently occurred during that time
that the lights have gone out entirely,
and at other times nearly so.
Certain members of your honorable
board were present one evening at an
entertainment in the chapel when,
owing to the above stated reasons, you
were nearly left in the dark with about
four hundred convicts congregated in
the room. This situation you will
doubtless agree as being, to say the
least, unpleasant.
Even with an increased water pres
sure the necessity for still greater
lighting power remains, as we have al
ready overloaded the capacity of the
gas machine, and with the contempla-
ted additional cell room provided it
will be impossible to supply Il quanti-
ty of light required. But this again
is not the most serious objection to the
present system. Should any breakage
occur, or accident of any kind happen
to the gas machine, the institution
would be left in total darkness, except
for such inadequate light as could be
supplied from the few kerosene lamps
and lanterns about the institution.
When it is taken into consideration
that in addition to the vitiating of the
air by the exhalations from 800 pairs of
lungs, there are 800 kenosene lamps do
ing their utmost to burn the oxygen
out of what little pure air is left, it will
be seen that the introduction of cleo
tricity will not only be economical but
will also prove wonderfully beneficial
to the health of those confined there,
and would assist materially in the re-
duction of our sick-list. The cost per
diem. for furnishing light for the insti-
tuition has been at the rate of 76-10O
cents per capita
During the year the new storehouse
and kitchen has been completed. This
large and commodious storehouse fully
meets the requirements and purposes
1tr which it was erected.
The report closes with few recon-
M !dations and some well-deserved
wo-d is Of recommendation for the State
Prison association which we quote:
Your earnest attention is solicited to
the following recommendations, in the
interests of the Connecticut State Pris-
on, heretofore commented upon at
length in this report:
Additional steam power,
Supplementary water supply,