The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-04-25

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make Of the treatment we get here.
Remember me 10 all the boys ! know.
Goodbye; I'd like TO see tho city With
the trees and flowers all In bloom.
Goodbye; glad Tssawf YOU (
They sat down again on the edge
OF cot. In tho. room next to them
one may lay sick in bed, and several
sat around in chairs. Their surround.
ings are not OF the brightest, and the
time Lays heavily on their hands. Too
old to work, their punishment Is prob.
ably as bad as could be designed,
since they have no adequate way Of
killing the 5lethargy of the prison }rou.
tine. v y, y z,
Every Sunday Diller Groff goes to
the services in the prison chapel
Sam does not. SO. Machen, being a
Roman Catholic, attends the services
whenever a priest goes to the chapel.
AS there are few Catholics there, the
visits OF the priests IRE few.
Alachen's greatest friend In the pen.
ltcntlary. according to the statements
OF the guards, is James NJ, A. Watson.
the young man who was given ten
years for cmbez7ling $4,000 from tho
/ District government. Machen Is a
great reader and student, and Watson,
takes every magazine published anil
reads them when he has OPPORTUNITY,
The taste for literature is the com.
mon tic that9unites the two men. or.
ten they are allowed to sec each 9th.
er In the evenings and talk over con.
genial subjects, x
Watson's Life Is Hard. Z
Compared With tho lot OF Nlachen
and the Grofrs, Watsons life is a hor.
ror. Starting early in tho morning,
he works, with n little time out for
dinner, nine full hours, mailing up
boxes In which arc packed tho whips
made In the whip shops, These box
es he and another man have to lift
4 20 > ~ r.. =.
and carry around. a
He takes his meals In the common
dining room with all tho other ON
ployes of the whip shops. When he
wants another slice or bread at din
ner, he holds up his eager hand. just
as the others do, and tho guards, evel
watchflll for the sign OF hunger, throw
him his slice with precise aim. Catch
Ing 1t with the toxtcrlty born OF hun
cry practice, he breaks It and bend
again over the wholesome but plail
food $5 5Ss
When his hunger is satisfied h,
rises at the stroke Of the marchln,
bell and marches back to his place Ii
tho shops: Hell subject to the poni
Tertiary rules that convlctsg canno
talk to each other while at work an,
at meals. 1t is only IN the evenings
under permission, that he can con
verse. ortwhen a friend calls 10 SO,
him. Hour after hour he drives nail
and tugs Mt heavy boxes. His |
hard labor. y
II was said, however, that he woul,
eventually be given clerical work, u
Il Is thought that his present task 4
too great strain on his constitution
and physique. He makes no con
: plant, but goes about his work I
good humor and willingly.
"Four Good Fellows
AS matter OF fact, the authoritie
at the prison regard Machen, til
two Groffs, and Watson as four goo
fellows They never give any trol
BILE, and they are generally In pleas
ant mood as far as outward indlct
tons are concerned This is the pas
i to favor within the gloomy walls. Tn
: guards like the men who take thei
: medicine like real men.
Watson doesn't talk much about Ii.
y life in the prison. Z
Its a pretty gloomy place in til
early morning." he laughed, "whe
: everybody wakes UP and begins
count up how much time he has le
to serve haven't begun on min
yet. haven't been here Ion
. enough ~ q
The popularity of these fol
Washlnstonians is all the more r
markable when, 1t lis considered no
badly the general run of Washingto
conyicts are regarded by the prise
guards and by the warden. 1t va
said the other day by one OF the al
thorlties that, as a general rule. III