Smyrna times., 1901-10-16
NEW CASTLE WORKHOUSE
SOON TO Be COMPLETED
THE LAYING OF AN IRON FLOOR ALL
THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE.
Long Term Couvicts Will Make Pants, While
Short Term Men Will Work in the Quar-
ries-System Should Work Well.

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ries-System Should Work Well.
According to the present estimate the
New Castle County Workhouse at
Greenbank, will be ready for oc-
cupancy about the middle of Novem-
ber. 1t is not known when another
demand will be made on Sheriff Nc
Daniel for the prisoners now in New
Castle jail, but it is expected that it
will be about the opening of the No
yember term of court.
The cells in the main wing of the
new workhouse have been completed
and the twenty cells in the other wing
have been erected and rivetted. All
that remains to be done is TO lay the
iron floor on top and lay the cement
covering upon it. Until this is done
however, the workshop portion of the
building cannot be completed. The
last work done on the building will be
to put in the sewing machines. These
machines will be used in making
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will be employed. The company which
has the contract for trousers will furn-
ish the machines and instructors while
the trustees of the institution will
furnish the labor and the laborers. tits
expected there will be four instructors
sent by the contractors.
The short-term men will be used in
the quarries and will break stone. 1t
would not pay to place them in the
trouser department, because their
terms would expire before they learned
the business, and it is the intention of
the trustees to so work the prisoners
that they will get all the work possible
of them under reasonable rules and
regulations. About one hundred men
will be put at work in the trouser de-
partment under the contract with the
manufacturers. Some of the men will
be used in the work of the Jail.
There has been some question as to
whether all of the men in the work
house would be placed at labor. Under
the law men or women who are await
ing trial cannot be put at work unless
they desire to work. They have not
been convicted of any offense and can
therefore be forced to do nothing ex-
cept obey the rules and regulations of
the prison. If they desire to work the
trustees may give them something to
do. The trouble with this, however,
would be that man might work for a
10y or two and just as he began to be
useful to the trustees he might con-
clude that he was tired of work and
ask to be relieved. He would have to
be relieved under the law. Usually
there are twenty-five or thirty people
in Jail waiting tlial, so that it looks
as if there would always be that many
unemployed in the new workhouse
1t is doubtful if many will ask to be
employed under these conditions.
Three grades of trousers will b,
manufactured at the new institution
The men may be worked upon all thre
grades at once or upon one grade at
time, as the contractors desire. Their
will be eighty sewing machines placed i
position in the workroom and the mum
Der will be increased if it is necessa ry
but it is generally believed that afte
the workhouse is in active operatio
the number of prisoners will decreas
because offenders will remain ava
from this country if they know ths
they will have to labor after they al
sent to Jail.
1t is probable that in time house
will be erected about the workhous
building for the men who are employe
as guards and wardens, but this pla
cannot now be considered, as trustet
will need all of their money to ereC
and equip the main building. 1t
also the intention, in time, to ere
separate buildings for the workshop
but it is likely to be several years b
fore anything of this kind is attempte
The expense would be too great no,
Fiendish Attack,