The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-03
THE NEW COUNTY JAIL.
The Commissioners Close a Contract
with the Pauly Jail Company. The
Cost of the Building will
be $4,000.

j. II. senter, M. e. Smile and j. W.
Brock, the commissioners appointed to pro-
vide new Jail for Washington county, have
closed contract with the Pauly Jail and
Building and Manufacturing Company OF
st. Louis for new Jail to be completed on
or before October l. next. 1t Is expected the
building will be ready for occupany by Sep.
TENDER 1, but leeway OF an additional
month is given in case OF accident.
The cost OF the completed structure will
be $4,000. The contracts, specifications,
etc., are now in the hands OF Mayor Senter's
stenographer, and will be ready for sigma
ture to-day or tomorrow
This Jail commission has put great deal
of time and labor into the matter and by
their intelligent grasp of the situation have
doubtless saved the county thousands OF
dollars. They have visited several Of the
most modern jsils in the country and from
them have obtained ideas which will be en-
bodied in the new structure at Montpelier.
Work will be commenced on the founda-
ton not later than May l.
| 1t is believed that this Jail, when com.
pleted in point Of safety, convenience, sani.
tation and classification Of prisoners, will
be equalled by few and excelled by none in
| New England. The prison building is to
be OF fire proof CONSTITUTIONAL brick and
ste, l-forty-four by fifty. six feet, with two
stories and basement. Three of the sides
of the building and about two-thirds OF the
| fourth side are exposed to the weather
affording abundant means of light and VEN
| tilation. Without the steel work inside
| the building would afford as safe place OF
confinement for prisoners as the ordinary
Jail as formerly constructed, but the place
| of confinement il a steel cage within the
walls of the building-a Jail within jail
so that il perchance prisoner escaped from
the cage he is still inside a strong prison,
The cages for the confinement OF male
prisoners are divided into four sections, in.
dependent of each other, furnishing prac.
tically four separate jails, enabling the sher'
if to divide his prisoners into four differ
ent classes. In the basement is one Gee
ton of eight cells with corridor eight by
forty feet; on the first floor are two sec
tlons Of eight cells each and two corridors,
each eight by forty feet; on the second ftooI
is one section Of eight cells with corridor
eight by forty feet; in all thirty-two cells
On the second floor in addition to the sec.
ton OF eight cells and corridor Is provided 8
woman's ward about twenty by thirty feet
equipped with lavatory and water closet
and a sick room or hospital sixteen fee
square.
In each of the twenty-four cells on the
first and second floors is a water closet anC
lavatory; in the basement is water close
J and lavatory in the corridor. On the frs
and second floors are bath rooms. On thu
first floor is provided a consultation room
of convenient access from the sheritf's OF
flee where counsel or visitor can communi
inmates and yet be unable to pass to tn
prisoner tool or other article, even pen
knife. The cells are all provided with slid
ing doors with lever automatic locking d
l vice by means of which any one or all o
the doors in section may be opened ant
3 shut and locked by person outside til
! cage.
= Each of the thirty-two cells is provide
, with two folding steel hunks, 30 that tn
prison can accommodate in case OF necess
I ty sixty-iour male prisoners beside tn
. ample room provided for women. Fror
) the cellar bottom to the roof runs vent
lating stack five feet wide and forty fee
i long, running between the rows of cells
: Into this stack or utility corridor, as it j
called, is delivered all the foul air; and il
8 this stack is placed all the water closets, az
q cess TO them being had in steel inches COY
i cred with sliding doors opening out OF eac
r cell. This system Of ventilation is that en-
o ployed in one wing of the penitentiary d
o Trenton, N. j., which the commissioner
$ inspected and found entirely satisfactory
r The building will be heated with hot al
r furnaces which will be set in the ventila
t ing stack in the cellar. The residence wi
o be substantial but OF plain finish, veneere
/ with brick. twill be 38x40 feet. IL col
/ tains kitchen, dining-room, parlor, stat
!, hall and sherif's Office on first floor, an
Il five chambers and bath room on secon
y floor The residence is also to be heate
Il with. hot air. The whole building is I
be wired for electric lights and thorough
plumbed. 1t is intended to place the rel
idence where the Walton house no.
stands with the prison running north an
| east