The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-01-21
THRONGS
DO VISIT
new JAIL
open HOUSE" IS OBSERVED AT
THE NEW JAIL AND SHERIFFS
RESIDENCE BY THE PEOPLE. !"
NEW PRISON IS NOW READY FOR
USE AND SHERIFFS RESIDENCE
IS IN ORDER FOR OCCUPANCY.
Highly Phassd Are the Throngs of
Visitors With This Most Modern
structure-Brief Description Shows 1t
To Be Unexcelisd and Is Great Strue-
tur, For Money Expended.

Saturday was "opan house" at the new
| jail anI sherifT's residence ami there was
constant stream of visitors from city
county and various other places from
900 o'clock a. m. to 10 o'clock p. m,
and many travelling men IN the city
ayailad themselves Of the opportunity 70
inspect tne best institution of the kind
in the country. Shariff and Mrs. John
NJ. Flanagan, hi deputies, President S.
IS. Faris, of the county court, and Arehi-
tects Holmboe and Lafferry very cour-
teously escorted the crowds through tne
building from top to bottom and eS'
planned the workings of the place and
the many points of interest.
The building contains fifty-seven calls,
Of which nina are in the basement de-
signed for city prisoners and in eonnec-
tion with tnis floor is shower bath to
be used upon the. entrance of prisoners.
toe first floor Of the jail proper mas 20
cells and . corridors, the mtter being
designed for exercise or the prisoners.
This row also mas shower batn con
nectcd with it. On the Mezzanine floor
sslo contains 20 cells with the snow
er bath ana prisoners corridors; the
third floor mas two iuvelila cells, four
detention or women cells and two large
hospital rooms or cells with movable
iron beds
The sherif's residence contains ten
spacious rooms finished in hardwood and
molarnly equipped vita water light and
atat, not including Tn, siierifr's office
and private Office, jury room and turn
keys room and !. @quipp with large
laundry in the basement; servants rooms
work rooms and storags. From the pan.
Try and kitchen i a dunno walter rum.
ing TO the top of the buiMine, which
facilitates tha fssding of prisoners.
Tn styla of architecture is IN Ameri.
canizition of the French renaissance.
exacutc,I in Cleveland stone, which adds
decidedly to Ii, caa:rn ara has vitri
d.d tile roof, constructed by Scott A.
Waite. Of Pittsbu,g. Pa. A paramount
feature Is ii, iron frame work con
-tructed by tn, Champion Iron Com
pany. of Huton. Ohio.
rnis company Ia. patents covering
the locking devices OF the most modern
kind. which were used in the new Jail,
making it possible to lock or unlock any
one or all Of tno cell doors m each range
Of ten. all at the same time. This is
a modern feature possessed by few jails
in this country. as is also the clroms
steel used extensively here which is
case-hard med and reckonad absolutely
tool proof. The county commissioners
saw il successfully resist a drill of sew
cral hundred pounds pressure.
The sanitary arrangements include a
water closet and laratory for eaca cell
eacn perfectly vented and so arranged
tnat each and every service pipe in
the entire building i constantly expos.
ed and open 70 the immediate view or
the plumber when ever needed.
Tne heating system Is Of the most
approved vacuum pipe. steam heat being
drawn swiftly tnrougn the radiation by
a powerful pump now located in the
court hou-s basement. There is no,
water throughout the building and by
tne simple use of the fixtures and an
instantaucous heater there is an un.
limited supply Of not water. This wa-
instail,d BY the ParkersJurg Supply &
Plumbing Company. VINO al-o installed
the steam heating plant. The plumb
ing proper in the jail was done hy jaime,
5. Mansfield & Co, OF Mansfield. Ohio
md the clarksburg Supply Company, Of
tnis city did the electric wiring.
" Ine wood work casing was cmittet
wisely from the standpoint of claanli
ness and health and Joint opaninrs
cracks and The ike we're plastered. waiei
together with the cement floor in n.
basement makes the building almos
vsrmin proof
Tne contractors were Messrs. Ellio
( Winchell. Of zanesvills, Ohio. and n;
place. whose work mas been most salts
factory and who nave built up an en-
L
: viabls reputation here a building con
tractors by the construction of the fine.
md most modern jail building in all ia
country.
Tne ~ and other work done by Ia
Champion Iron companv. al K.r.1,, =