The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-04
GOOD SANITATION.


Each floor drains to a center and at
this central point is a trap opening to
the sewer. The whole interior might
be likened to a brick box with three
| apartments, all cement lined. To clean
| the place the janitor can start at the
top with a hose and flush every inch
of space in the building.
The furniture will be so arranged as
to interfere in no way with the flush
ing process of. cleaning. space seven
feet deep and the width of the building
will be reserved at the front of the
house for the desk sergeant's office.
The desk will be small and light, so
that 1t can be carried outside in house
cleaning time, and the wall fixtures
Will have covers made for them that
will protect them from the water.
The cell room, which will be supplied
with iron cages, is beyond the SER
geants office and is partitioned off by
an iron grating extending to the CELL
ing. At the left of the cell room is an
iron stairway leading to the Second
floor and flight of stone steps, under
meath, leading to the basement For
the present the top floor will be used
as lodging house only. Lodgers will
be required to furnish their own sheets,
pillows and blankets; the city feeling
that 1t did its share when it directed
the contractor to turn out the soft side
of the concrete.
With the permission of councils, the
four cages which now occupy the space
along the inner wall of the cell room
in the central station house will be
taken down and removed to the new
lookup. These, with the stone cell in
the basement, it is thought, will suf-
flee until provision is made for more
in the appropriation ordinance. Steam
heat will be used and appliances put
In for gas and electric lighting.
PRECINCT HEADQUARTERS.
The new station house is to be re-
garded in the police regulations as a
precinct headquarters, the same as a
West Side or South Side police station.
1t will probably adopt the name of the
central city station house. All prison.
ers arrested in the central city wards,
excepting on the "hill," will be taken
TO the Center street house. Prisoners
taken in the "hill' district will be
locked up in headquarters in city hall.
women, of course, will be taken to
headquarters, where there is a wo-
mans ward.
Arrangements will be made whereby
there will be desk sergeant on duty
at both the headquarters and Center
street stations at all times. The lieu
tenants at night will make their head
quarters in the Center street place.
Police court will be held in Center
street. Just where the prisoners locked
up in headquarters will be tried is not
decided upon, but it is quite possible
that. they will be tried in the mayors
court room. This, as is true also of
other details of the arrangements, is
subject to circumstances. The plans
outlined above, however, are to be
given trial If any of them prove
to be inexpedient they will be changed.
The main purposes of the new station
mousse are to supply a lookup nearer
the busy" district, so that patrolmen
VIII -Not have to leave their beats un-
protected half an hour or so until they
are dragging dead-drunk to a cell.
ana again to tramps and their accom-
paniments out of the city hall.