New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-30

positively picturesque. and they are indeed com.
Portable homes-tar more 50 than the buildings
lions for three hundred women; there are only sew.
Sy in the sGS Thsrs that NUM- sn
State who ought to be in the Auburn Prison but.
lives send Women Convicted Of crime in most cases.
to pententiares. These women ere not so well
chance Of their moral reformation in them as at
Auburn Moreover. the State could support them
cry Or their IS ALREADY aaH WARDEN
Mead is employing the seventy women In sewing
our for various asylums and reformatores.
Mr. Stewart and his companion found the women
poured. on the first floor of the women's prison.
There was row OF sewing machines at which the
work sorting out the garments and pressing and
nnr u 5h% These wom Zen have reGen made
Charities III Of New-York City. They make fifteen
@ M IN h Moe coy T q i pS Sa
now filling order Of four thousand suits for the
for the Department OF Correction OF New-York, and
two hundred coats for the Industrial School at
Mrs. Ballington Booth has made several visits to
the prison and had private chats with the women
convicts. Her visits said to have a decidedly
good Influence, and naturally. chiefly among the
Still another department OF the prison is the
f2un 1r There are made CASTINGS and great bars
to New-York five or six tons OF iron castings.
THE KIND OF ORDERS FILLED
The multifarious nature OF the orders received
by the prison and the work its convicts per-
forming can best be Judged by the transcript be-
low Of Its orders on one day recently.
Wh
clothes baskets. one teachers chair. one dozen
ag sqt' Of snd ew ee4son
Watertown. n; Y;-Haif.dozen cloth caps. two
brooms. dozen whisk brooms. one piece towel
ling and one piece cheviot for suitngs
-Tweive dozen brooms, two dozen whisk brooms.
two pieces hickory shirng and two pieces ticking.
The following orders now in process Of execu-
ton in the various departments:
Broom and Basket NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Of Reservation. Niagara Falls, y. Y, 6 dozen
brooms; Long Island State Hospital willow
clothes baskets. dozen clothes baskets. dozen
brooms. half-dozen hampers and 20 dozen brooms;
90 sta ions Is wase-paper baskets and brooms
University STATE OF New-York. Albany. % round
Bedstead Department-Coll,ns State Hospital. 30
white enamelled iron beds; Long Island State Hos.
&ospa BRASS beds state Hospital
100 white enamelled iron beds ,,
bureaus ana 10, wardrobes: Buffalo State Hospial
SO bTs5H charm Chairs
tables sns 4dHsS Hs
tables. 100 wardrobes 100 washstands aH chairs
Blanket epartment-Clinton Prsot 800 pairs
Reforrla tory 400 pairs gray DlenRelsi soldiers anu
Sailors Home Bath. " Y, 800 pairs say blankets.
| double woOllen.
Cloth Department-Onondaga County Pen!ten-
tiary 300 yards striped suitings and 100 yards suit.
! ings oxford MIXTURE: Sing Sing Prison, 1900 yards
striped suitngs: House of Refuge Randalrs Island.
800 yards gray uniform cloth Roo hester state Hos
| pita 40 yards toweling; Elmra Reformaiory.
300 yards uniform cloth and 900 yards towell!ng;
Long Island State Hospital. 1000 yards dickey ker.
sew and 1000 yards ticking.
| Clothing Observation-Disclosures County Poor
house. Rait-dozen mems. suits; Sheriff Ontario
| County Canandaigua, dozen mems coats end !
dozen pairs mems trousers: Sheriff Saratoga Coun-
~ RaIIston Spa 80 pairs mems trousers New-York
State School for Bind. Batavia II suits IS over
| coats 5 pair trousers and 10 cans.
! iron md Brass Castings Department-Depart-
| nent Of Correction. Blackwelps Island, sets
CRATE and 10 pairs brass ferulss; sheriff R,cn-
| mord County 8 dozen iron cell buckets Will
! lard state Hospital % standards for gas pipe
fence ard $40 cast-iron grave-merkers, numbered:
| Clinton Prison, o0cO wheelsarrow castings.
| The above are but few OF the orders taken
| from each department. The total amount OF ship
| ments from all departments during the month OF
| October last was su.ST7 81.
| Upon the day Of the visit the convtcts were en-
ployed a. follows