The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-03

machinery where the wooden chairs are | turned. On the second floor is the tiu- | ishing department and upstairs at the front of the building is the caning room where the cane bottoms are put ln, Just back of the last mentioned room and on ! the same floor is the chapel, a large room, with plain seats, with a seating capacity of perhaps 400, Here all pris- oners not sick are obliged to attend divine service every Sunday morning, The service every other Sunday is con ducted by Q Catholic priest, according to his church, and in an alcove at one l side of the platform is an altar and shrine with other paraphernalia, such as is used in the Catholic service, and this is on rollers, so that it can be rolled out upon the platform when the Cath ollie service is held The Protestant service is conducted by the T. M. C. A., which furnishes the Protestant speak CTS and has general supervision of the service.
 Next Sunday the Philharmonic band will furnish music in the chapel. There is also @ small organ oh the pla tform, which usually furnishes music for the Sunday service. The Catholic service is held from S;30 until 9:30 and the Pro- testant from 930 until 10:30.
 On Wednesdays each male prisoner Is given a plug of tobacco and the ofli- cials say that that day is eagerly look ed forward to, as those who do not chew sell their plugs to the others. The men get through work in the shop at 6:30. At ' the gong is struck and at that signal all the prisoners undress and go to bed, after which the cells are locked, all those on the same tier being locked by simply throwing up a lever at one end of the row. At 5:30 in the morning the gong is struck for them to get up and at [ o'clock the days work
 is begun.
 The women are never locked in their cells, except at night or on occasions of unruly conduct.
 As each prisoner iis brought to the jail he or she as the case may be, is compelled to take a bath. and the clothes are thoroughly examined to see if there are any vermin on them or if they are dirty. There are at present no bed bugs in the jail, and but a very few of the prisoners have any occasion to scratch their heads, a condition of af- fairs seldom met with in an institution of the kind where tramp,s and all sorts of characters are lodged.
 The jail is in a very crowded con- dition at present, and about fifty of the men are obliged to sleep in the hos pital where nice clean pallets are ar ranged on the floor. Am addition is be- ing built at the rear of the present building, and is nearly ready for the iron roof, which will be put on. The chair shop will be moved into this new part, and the old shop will be fitted over and steel cells will be put in, thereby doubling the cell room. An eX- tension will also be built on to the side of the office next to County street.
 In one end of the office room al pres ent there are medicine cells well stock ed with common remedies, and these are dealt out by Turnkey Hart, who is becoming quite q physician from the amount of practice which he gets. There have been no deaths in the jail for about three years, and 1t often hap | ing Dr. Peck the jail physician more than once a week. Each morning all those prisoners who feel i'll make known thelr complaints to MT. Hart. These persons usually number thirty or forty, and those who are really sick are easi- ly picked out by the turnkey and rem edies are administered. The linen closet opens from the office and is wei stocked with all sorts of bed linen and towels. In the same closet is kept a supply of oNetdlls, shoes and other goods for the use of the prisoners. There is also in the closet placed on shelves and each article carefully label ed with the owners name strangely heterogeneous collection of pipes, knives mouth organs, raZors, and hundreds of different articles taken from the pris- onels whom they were taken 10 the jail
 The entire institution is now in first class condition to start the new year and 1t is fitting to say that there is prob ably ID another county jail in the state 7 with SO large a number of prisoners which is kept in better condition and where the system of government of prisoners is in better shape than the New Haven jail. Much credit is due Sheriff Spiegel, his assistant and the other jail officials for this state of af- airs: Yesterday afternoon at 5:3t o'clock there occurred at the jail the first wedding there since Sheriff Spiege tool office. The contracting parties , were Daniel Murphy and .An'nie Kent both of Ansonia. Murphy was arrested last Sunday in Ansonia for bastardy and brought t1 the jail. By the wed ding yesterday he was set free, and the couple seemingly perfectly satisfied aNc happy went away rejoicing. Murphy presented his bride with a nice wed !, ding ring. Justice of the Peace Philir Pond 2d performed the ceremony ant it was witnessed by Turnkey J. ; Hart and Clerk Rowe.
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