The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-28

much of it as he wants Here is an aver
age menu for the day:
breakfast
Hash, Bread mo butter), Coffee.
Dinner.
Supper.
stewed fruit. Bread, Coffee
This bill will be changed each day in
the week. For instance, in place. Of hash
for breakfast, pork sausage. beef stew or
syrup and butter may be used At dinner
pork may be substituted for beef, or meat
will be roasted instead of boiled Pork
and beans is often the staple for this
meal. On holidays, a better meal il serv-
ed, with few extras. Chickens and dump
lings is the regular Christmas dinner, with
plum duff, bread pudding with molasses
for dessert.
There are no cigars after dinner or at
any other time; but if the prisoner is a
tobacco user two ounces of plug tobacco
will be issued him each day of the week
during good behavior.
once a week, either on Friday or Satur-
day, the gang in which the captain is
working, will be called from its work and
marched to the bathroom. Fifty big tubs,
hlled with water at the gut temperature
are waiting for them. The bath over, a
suit of clean underwear is given them,
and the soiled ones sent to the laundry
Then the gang is marched back to work
Some of the Luxurics.
One popularity of the prisoners toilet
VIII be not unlike the captains expert
ence with a private valet. He will not
have 60 go to the barber shop for a
shave or hair cut, the shave comes to
him. All week long, the force of BARRIERS,
NIT hraFs r.1--
from shop to shop, shaving the prisoners
or clipping their hair.
On Sundays the prisoners are permit
ted to sleep an hour later than on week
days. At $50 Sunday morning the prison
is inspected by Warden McGlaughry and
his deputy, when the prisoners, themselves
cleaned and FURNISHED, stand at attention,
clothed only in their underwear, with
sleeves rolled back and breasts barred,
while the officers pass their cells. At $3.50
there is service in the prison chapel,
which the prisoner may attend If he wish;
otherwise he remains locked in his cell.
Sunday school is from 1880 to 11:30. This
is a privilege sought, for as it gives an
opportunity for conversation with the
class teacher. The entire afternoon is
given to the prisoner, when he may read
or write letters to relatives. He can send
a letter but once in two weeks, however,
and then IL is thoroughly read by the
prison officials
Once in four weeks, Capt. Carter may
see such friends as may wish to visit
him But military etiquette will not per-
NIT the officers of the fort TO visit him.
His friends can, however, bring him
either food, medicine or money.
Punishments and Rewards.
The regulations are severe and rigid,
Should he fail to keep his coat buttoned
while at work he will be reprimanded. A
pencil found in his cell will mean loss
of good time. For greater offenses he
may be placed in a solitary cell and hand
cuffed to the door. These cells differ but
little from a bank vault, but they are
smaller. There is scarcely room to stand
up and they are only three feet wide.
No light penetrates the thick, planked
door and scarcely enough air creeps
through the hole under the door. The
sound of his own voice here would ring
in his ears like the clangor of an alarm
bell.
But on the other hand there is not
little inducement for good behavior Bet
ter and lighter work of a clerical nature
is one of these. In Capt Carriers case It
will doubtless mean engineering work on
the new prison, now in process of con-
struction. The wearing of red badge
with a white star, which gives convict
clerk entrance unmolested to the differ
emit prison departments, 10 aiO'hS:
of the most sought for privileges is that
of wearing the "trusty' clothing, a suit
of dark blue, neat and unconspicuous. But
the greatest inducement is that two
months in each year are deducted from
the term of imprisonment for good pris-
oners.
But when all is said. Capt. Carter can
not but find prison life at Fort Leaven-
worth a dull, wearisome grind, vastly diff
ferent from that which, as dashlng
Young officer, he led when stationed here
in 1880 as chief engineering officer of the
DEPARTMENT of the Missouri.