Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

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z. On Saturdays work ceases at p. M,
and supper is served proportionately carly
On Sundays and holidays the prisoners rise
at ., and have service or Sunday school in the
morning, and inspection or reading lesson
in the afternoon-breakfast dinner and sup
per being at the same hours as on other
days"
women? / asked"
There are no women here-they all 60 to
Christiania. Now, shall we go and see the
dormitories1
building, and our climb up the steep, narrow,
decidedly dark stairway forcibly recalls my
ascent of the Egeberg few days before. But
when we reach the top, instead of long line
of separate cells, with just room for one
man in each, we find two immensely long
rooms. very much like the dormitories of a
barrack, with at least fifty beds in each-nine
or ten of these being grouped in kind of
square in the centre and the rest ranged along
the walls.
"Well," I remarked '1 wish my friend the
Governor of Glendiary Prison, in the West
I,Indies, could see all this; it would astonish
him, if anything could"
Very likely" says my conductor, with a
grave, official smile; 81 dare say it would as
! tonish him a good deal more to learn that our
warders do not sleep in the dormtories, and
that all the prisoners-we have hundred al
| together--are left completely to themselves all
night
"And do they never make any disturb
ance?"
! "Not they-they'rc much too tired for that,
after their days work. As rule they drop
off to- sleep the moment they're in bed; but
when they don't, one of them usually reads
abound to the rest"
| "And what books do they read?"
| "Well, it's mostly either chapter of the
Bible, or some book of travels, or perhaps
some of the old stories about the Norwegian
sea kings they're fond of them. You'd be
lsurprised to see how many of them can read
quite WELL and those who cannot get an hours
lesson every day from teacher provided for
the purpose-the same man who plays the
harmonium in our chapel"
"Ah! that's one of the things we haven't
seen yet, by-the-by. Where is the chapel2"
"Just around here to the right. Come will
me, and I'll show it to YOU"
Once again. the strange contrast between
the appearance OF the place and its real char
acter asserts itself strikingly enough. From
Iall outward signs l might be back in one o
those quaint little moorland churches in lee
land, toward which. on q bright summe
morning / have often seen the simpl
country folk jogging over moss and moor Oh
theiy wiry little ponies from a distance o
fifteen OF twenty miles.
All the details are exactly reproduced--th
quaint old pulpit in one corner, with it's huge
antiquated Bible: the rows of highbacket
seats: the primitive ornaments of the altar
the old fashioned hymn-boolis, with theil
worn leather covers and well-thumbed pages
the uarrow loophole-like windows, and low
cross-beamed roof
"How often do you have service here?"
Every Sunday morning and every Wednes
day evening.
"And do the men behave well rule 2
every WELL indeed: and they seem quit,
to enjoy the music. The warders sit here, tt
4 right and left, to keep order; but they n
really hardly needed"
From the chapel we proceed to the hospital
which. though somewhat close is neat ant
comfortable Each of the five inmates has
small round table beside his bed. upon which
in addition to sundry medicine bottles, are
bunch of fresh flowers and few books, most
| " of religious sort.
I. On the wall hangs a copy of the prison bill
of fare, which, If less varied than Delmonico'
is well enough for a Jail 1t runs as follows
"Sunday.-B Breakfast: Sixteen ounces of ry
bread and a bowl of 'ollehrod' Cheer thiekenet
with bread-crumhs). Dinner: One bowl o
pea soup, four ounces of bacon eight of ry
bread and half bowl of potatoes. Supper
One bowl of porridge and half a bowl O
milk
''donday Breakfast: Same as Sunday
Dinner: One bowl of porridge, half bowl Q