The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05

himself but what is the result2 Not one
word said about It; the matter is hushed
up completely. The intendant Of the
asylum, sets at naught bo'h prison Gus
toms and the orders of the court. Prison.
ers fight, gamble, assault officers, and
even escape from the institution and their
good time is given back to them
The prisoners who do not "stand in,
however are thus treated;
I'm some instances men who were
without shoes, CT even rags to tie up their
feet, were sent out in the coolest weather
of last winter and made to work in the
snow and ice, causing some of the poor
fellows TO lose either toes or fingers
The Sunday Globe is prepared to es-
tabish the facts herein alleged, if the
high and mighty Mikados, known as the
District Commissioners, orders an inves-
tigation, or if the arrogance of intendant
Stoutenburgh summons the editor TO a
court Of justice for any exceptions he may
take to this article.
We reserve for future issues of the
Sunday Globe the petty pilfering 10y per.
sons connected with the Asylum, such
as carrying OF bread, meats, etc, and the
misuse Of the carriages and horses Of the
institution by persons unconnected with
and not in the employment of the Gov
ernment The escape Of prisoners from
the woikhouse has become monotonous
and we are conscious that there is little
news in such announcements, but the in
competency Of the intendant is empha-
siscd by these ever reoccuring escapes.
The iduciary management Of the institu-
tons, the extravaganza and fav6ritism
shown by the intendant will form the
subject of the next excerpt. Meantime,
the Commissioners will have opportunity
TO overhaul matters, and in the public in
terest make such changes as will take
away the reprcach from the District, that
it has the worst managed and most dis
graceful Asylum and Almshouse in the
country.
In this city of labor unions and head
quarters of great labor societies, it occurs
to us that the working of men thirty four
hours on a stretch-even if they are work
house guards-is, to say the least, un.
complimentary to the efficiency if not the
sympathy Of organized labor. There is
an eight hour law on the National Statute
books, and if il can be successfully vio-
lated by intendant Stoutenburgh and the
District Commissioners, in the case Of the
guards, why not in an the other public
departments?
Thi- man S,ou.enburgh is made Of very
ordinary clay, he is but a common mortal
and is not licensed-eXcept by the Dis
trict Comm 'ssioners-to violate law Of
the U. S. Congress. Even the Commis.
sioners have 10 power to change the
statutes, and they as well as Stouten.
burgh, have sworn to obey the laws of
the United States, This eight hour law
is one of them, and its fracture is just as
indetensible as any other violation Of The
statutes. If government employees are
worked twelve hours instead of eight they
are clearly entitled to compensation for
the twelve hours, as time is computed on
the hour and not on the day. Why has
organized labor permitted, without pro-
test, this gross violation by Stoutenburgh
for SO long period?
Upon what meats doth this our C0zar
feed, that he has grown so greatT'
Stoutenburgh has been employed
twenty odd years in one capacity or an
other at the Asylum; he has boasted in
the presence Of guard that he is worth
forty thousand dollars, but even if he is
in the possession of this princely sum
neither that fact nor his long servitude
are iustifCations for his violations OF law,
nor do they qualify him as the sole and
irresponsible owner in fee simple of The
District Aims and Workhousc.
If intendant Stoutenburgh is Law unto
himself the District Commissioners, and
not Mr., Stouteuburgh, are at fault, and
if the District Commissioners pursue "the
even tenor of their way" and effect no
reform in the matter, despite this article,
the responsibility for the violation of the
eight hour law rests not with them but
with the apathetic and unsympathetic
labor unions OF the city.
The philantrophist and criminologst
alike, are also invited to visit the Com
missioners and endeavor to inject into the
management and Judgement of the Dis.
trict pauper and petty criminal some share
of that humanity and reformation so ad.
mirably advocated in Prison Congress
reports and National Charitable Assoca.
tion meetings.