The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-23
PRISON COMMISSIONS PLAN.
WILL PROVIDE 4 BUILDING TO AC-
COMMODATE 300 CONVICTs.

Plans and Specifications Under
which Rids Have Been Called for.
There win BE Three Structures
All of which Must BE Completed
Bcfore April I-BanLruptcy Pro-
ceedinEs Instituted Against the
Southern Fire Insurance Co.
Atlanta. Dec. 22.-( SpeciaD.-The prison
commission have partially formulated
pans for convict quarters, and VIII ad-
vertise for bids the first of January The
quarters are 10 lie erected on the convict
farm near Muledgeviie. where it is pro
r,sed TO provide for 800 prisoners
Under The law a separate cell must be
provided for each prisoner. and the three
classes, boys. womSn ana men, must he
housed in separate buildings. There viii
therefore be three structures, and they
must be completed by or before April !,
1889. when between two and three hundred
convicts of these classes viii be put on
the farm.
The buildings will be of wood, supported
by brick or stone wall four feet high.
The floors and walls viii be double, and
the building in every way substantial
main hall. The cells VIII be arranged
Ground the four walls, each covering
space 6 by feet They viii be divided
by wire netting, which admits of better
ventilation than wooden partitions. At
each end projecting outward will be clos
cts, and in the rear a large bath room.
The building for the men will be the larg
est. that for the women next, and the
smallest for the juveniles.
Ennananysa
Bankruptcy proceedings were Instituted
In the Federal Court to-day against the
Southern Fire Insurance Company of At
lanta by the Excelsior Springs Improve
ment Company. L. O. Benton & Bro, and
the Atlanta Lithographing and Printing
Company.
The petition, which follows an applica-
tion for receiver made in the state court
yesterday, states that they hold claims
against the insurance company aggregat-
ing about 1000 They charge that the
company has committed an act of bank
ruptcy within the past four months by
transferring some of its property TO GER
tain creditors while in an insolvent condi-
ton.
A list of salaries paid the officials of the
company is included in the petition. Ac-
cording to this list the officers received
$500 a year 1t is alleged that the entire
receipts from premiums for the year end
ing Aug. 81. 1898, were only S6,77S.27, less
than enough to pay the salaries. A hear
ing will be had on Jan. 2, pending which
the receivership application will abate.
Mayor in Atlanta.
Mayor Meldrim spent to-day In Atlanta,
returning home on the Central train to-
night He came up to appear before the
pardon commission in behalf of a client.
Big Cotton Mill for Polk.
Col. J. A. Waddell of Polk county, near
Cedartown, confirmed the report here to-
day that he has sold a large tract of his
land in Polk county. to the New York
Mills Company. hich win at once COM
mence the building of a giant cotton fac
tory on that site.
The new mill will contain $4,000 spindles
and 400 looms, and viii make what is
known as New York mills domestics. The
new mill is virtually the removal of the
New England plant of the New York Mills
Company. Purchase money and titles
have passed, and nothing can now inter-
fere with the enterprise, which will be a
great addition to GeOrgia's manufacturing
interests. The site comprises 267 acres on
the Southern Railroad a Longs station.