Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-18
vsIus and Amount OF 0oods Manue
featured by Them-Thsy Are Paid
from Thirty-three TO vifty-nve
Cents Per Day. seNafss .--.s =


tin, Tomlnson Il Webster contract ut 90
cents per day, 90 on the Derby cycle con-
tract at 40 cents per day, 30 on the Q. w.
Hills contract Mt 80 cents per day, and
pa on the Brooks Burlington shirt con-
tract ut 50 cents per day. The convicts
employed on State account number III.
There were 33 idle and 81 employed as
cooks, scavengers, etc. The maintenance
of convict, food and clothing, costs
trife over cents per day. On State ac-
count there was manufactured during the
year LOB dozen brooms, and 1000 gross
of whisk brooms, valued at $11, 1858;
$11 $3.50 worth of boxes, box shocks,
Grating, ETC., $3,559.67 worth of clothing
for convicts, $2,5O7.56 worth of officers
uniforms and clothing for discharged
prisoners. The cost of material used was
81 ,613.13. On tho prison farm were rails
ed 673 bushels of potatoes, 2S5 bushels of
beets, 500 of onions, "a of turnips, 1854 OF
tomatoes, 64S bushels of green corn, 20
of green peas, II of small fruit, 165 of rad
ishes, 200 of beet greens. 80 of lettuce, 67
of string beans, 80 of spinach, 500 of car
rots, 300 of parsnips, 90 tons of cabbages,
IL tons of Hubbard squashes, 300
punches of celery and SO barrels of Gu
cumbers.
The State house of correction at Ionia
had 55 employees who were paid salaries
aggregating $37 POI. 6S. The number of
convicts received during the year ending
Oct. 81, 1896, was 331, the number who
died 4, the number escaped o, recaptured
3, released on parole q, otherwise re-
leased 325 transferred 1, the number In
the hospital and the number In prison
Oct. 81, 518. Fifty-eight convicts are
employed on knitting contracts at 40 cents
per day, while 256 are employed on State
work in furniture making and Gaming
chairs. During the year los, 854 chairs
were caned, for which $7,996.36 was re-
ceived; 1853 stools. caned at $4,000; 9O5
sideboards, 100 ch.ffoniers, 200 fire
screens, $50 hat racks, $50 music cabinets
and $500 bedroom suits, valued Mt $115,-
900, were turned out. The number of
convicts employed as cooks, ETC.. was 40,
and the number idle 30. The maintenance
of convicts at this institution costs on an
average S1a cents per capita per day.
Last year the prison farm produced 136
bushels of oats, ,537 of potatoes, 1873 of
beets 900 of onions, 260 of turnips, 200 of
tomatoes 80 of small fruit, 75 of cucum-
bers, II of olives, 70 of lettuce, 26O of
sweet corn, II of carrots, IS of parsnips,
20 of vegetable oysters, 1000 heads of
cabbage, 30 heads of caulfower. so tons
of hay and $3.50 gallons of milk.
There were A employees at the branch
prison at Marquette, whose salaries ag
gregated SIS, 763.32. In this prison no
convicts are employed on contract work
and none work on State account. The
only employment which the 205 convicts
have is at grading the prison grounds, re-
moving sand, and at school and drill. The
convicts are not permitted to be idle but
their labor rs unproductive. The average
cost of feeding and clothing the prisoners
is 1917 cents per day each. During the
year ending Oct. 81, 1896, there were 60
convicts received, none died, escaped,
were recaptured, IL released on parole.
80 were otherwise released, and at the
date of the report there was but one con-
Wet in he hospital. The prison farm
produced 905 bushels of potatoes, % of
beets. 1876 of turnips, 1000 ears of green
corn. 90 bushels of green peas, 2,075 heads
of cabbage, 30 bushels of cucumbers, %
bushels of beans, Al bushels of carrots,
20 of lettuce and 1900 radishcs.
The Detroit house of correction has As
employees whose salaries aggregate $780,
600. The number of convicts received
during the year was 1,972; died, 3d. es-
capped, o; paroled, 2; otherwise released.
2,113; number in the hospital, 4; number
In prison Oct. 81, 425; average daily num-
Der of convicts for the year, AT.
In the manufacture of chairs 255 per-
sons are employed, the estimated value of
their product being 100000. In the
pearl button industry 115 prisoners are
engaged, who turn out $4,000 worth Of
buttons per year. II costs an average of \
cents per day per capita for feeding the
prisoners. Capt. Nicholson has added to
his report for the Detroit house of correc
| ton this note: 'The estimated value Of the
product of our chair and pearl button de-
partments includes the value of the raw
material, the value of the free labor ex-
| pended on the material in the different
stages of development before it ever
reaches the prison to be there completed
| by prison labor; also the finished product
of manufacturers outside of the prisons
which il was necessary. to utilize to per-
| feet the articles manufactured and com
plete the same ready for placing it on the
market; and lastly, the value of prison
| labor expended thereon, and also the mar
gin of profit between the cost as repre-
scented by the foregoing items and the
market price of the finished product
| While the value of the product of prisons
is generally referred to and represented
as being the amount Of convict labor in
competition with free labor, as matter
of fact but very small part of the value
of the finished product Is represented by
convict labor"
The Industrial School for Boys in Ian
sing has fifty employees whose salaries ag.
gregate $1O,091.3S. The number of in
mates at the close of the year, Oct. 81,
was 564, the number received was $50,
| died 2, released on parole 26S, and the
number of inmates in the hospital was g.
The school farm produced 30 tons of hay,
24O of ensilage. 21S bushels of oats, 2,212
of potatoes, 1,751 of beets, 213 oe onions
$50 of carrots, 81 of turnips and 2,7SI
heads of cabbage
The Industrial Home for Girls at Adri-
an mas 80 employees, who are paid salaries
aggregating $10,62297. The whole num-
Der of inmates at the school Oct. 81,
1896. was 304. The number received dur
ing the year was 10S. the number released
on leave of absence II, released on con-
tract 157. For feeding and clothing il
costs IL cents per capita per day. The
| girls earned on contract during the fiscal
year ending June 30 last $3,616, and have
$635.3S reserved in the bank
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