The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-14
Great Lumber Plant Which
 is Worked by State Convicts

a Y " -" | chance to do something and do isy coast with eyes refreshed by a wide
 bathed in sunlight. He has the chance
 to labor and to sing with his associ-
 And lest he should forget that he
 nad warred upon society, unless he should remember he Is an outcast until the law and against society. his view
 of the sunlit world is broken by the
 moving figure of the man with the
 sun rss ssd wo9s oas ay ass0s $.
 good, but in the s aay ti@e, 0emh in the light.
 est hours his degrading stripes are
 Upon the " world is marred Ted'i by the snad- ow Gf the man with the gun on his The Dresdfui Night.
 And at. nignt-4at night comes the
 many and many nights for man to become accustomed to the dark and
 strongly walled stockade where he and
 herded together for sleep. It is not
 the windows that the. free man should
 sscaD eor fss as roo Where Se
 fortunates sleep in the convict camp of Dolive Is big and gloomy The men who sleep there are men who have broken the law and who are being pun ished for 1t. Their safekeeping Is the care and the responsibility of the men
 who direct them and of the men who walked about with the shot guns. The convict has enough iron barred windows to give him the ventilation that his lungs require, but the room an avenue of escape He has all the air. all the ventilation that can be given him without increasing his op- This great gloomy room where the tired convicts sleep at night is the thing that lives longest in the memory or the man who visits this camping place
 The beds are let down from the cell: ing. They are q sort of iron bound wooden hammock; The bed proper Is from the ceiling and support the wood biankets the State allows the convict
 Ta s.s ssa ssrs The big sre r0G sers is ana tiers of them. Little aisles run be- tween them and there is a wider pas
 a2ycs sy hs xa o tsn ss fas Sed fo hs as pointed seat in the rough dining room where his meals are served to him.
 It ts not an inviting place. this great
 horror that must come to man when
 thick door of the stockadee is shyt to.
 ihshbs iron par 'as as u6of it shot in it's place and | know that in the blackness or the
 dreary, place surrounded by crime I the long night side by side with them. The Company's Business.
 There are some seventy-nye an nS oanvic.s @
 ssrp s@piessa Company. a sis % For their iaSor tn.
 State receives the satisfactory price of s1.J2 1-2 day for each one The com pany furnishes them a place to stay, builds the stockads and hospital and gives the State the ground on which 1t may grow vegetables for the convicts
 SSrt The m hs s weS soms onso new M ments have been put in the ofhcers of
 the company expect that 1t will cut the
 large total of 100000 feet or lumber l pecially It's timber goes to the export | trade. It is sold to jobbers and by
 them sold to the foreign markets ars,s n leaxs sSa
 p'TTih The 1 company % also has an extensive
 hard wood plant at Hurrcane which is l the Louisville and Nashville. This
 place Is engaged mainly in getting M out 1 the bay poplar turned into commsr-
 ysSi young indianian who is managing the affairs of the Hand Lumber Company
 at Dolive is of ,ne opinion that this bay poplar or Tupelo gum VIII In time
 bring in great financial returns to the State for their thousands ana tnous- ands of acres of 1t in Alabama. In fact in such enormous quantities is 1t 1 found in the Southern portion, of the State that 1t is practically unlimited; 1t takes a high finish md veneer ana l is popular in the markets of the world | especially in England.
 The officers of the company which bought the Hand plant and which pre- | serves the original name ]. l.. Barley. Marion, Indiana. President; A. O.. Bar
 ly. Marion. Indiana. Vice President: and Manager; F. G. Marqdett Dolive
 The State has a conscientious and in dustrious set of agents looking after l inc welfare af the oonvictst And the convicts get humane and just treatment as well as clean food.
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