The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-27
BIC DINNER GIVEN
At STATE PRISON
Two Hundred and Eighty-One
COnvicts Enjoy Delightful
Repast.
THREE TAKE MEALS IN
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
inmates of JailS and Orphan
ages Also Are Given Great
Spread.

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dinner in the state prison and Salt
Lake City's and Salt Lake county IS
penal and charitable institutions Thurs
day.
Two hundred and eighty-one, the
largest number at any one Of these
places, ate dinner at the state prison.
Among this number were two life pris'
oners for frst-degree murder, Abe Ma
.ors and Joe Sullivan. Another des
pcrado who ate his Thanksgiving din
ner at the prison is Richard Deming,
serving ten years for highway robbery,
Deming, Majors and Sullivan ate
their dinners IN solitary confinement,
on account OF their desperate charac-
ters. They were not allowed to leave
their cells, side by side, on the second
tier north IN the south cellhousei but
the rest of the prisoners, except JWo
women inmates, were served with dan
ner in the regular prison dining room.
Tho two women, who were served III
their cells, or, more properly, thelr
apartments, are Clara Smith and Mary
Jane Smith, neRresseS- Inc nfse Is
serving FIVE years for burglary, and the
second twenty years for murder. The
former has four years and a half yet
to serve and the latter more than four,
teen years, exclusive OF their good
time.
Deming, Majors and Sullivan spent
the day quietly, receiving no visitors;
In the afternoon they read little and
enjoyed themselves otherwise by play,
ipg upon musical instruments passed
into their cells. This is Deu!ng, S first
Thanksgiving in prison, Sullivan's sec
ond and Majors eighth.
The bill of fare at the prison was as
follows: Roast pork with dressing,
mashed potatoes with brown gravy,
coffee, tea and milk, bread, cake and
squash pie, pickles, oranges and ba.
nanas. The number of inmates of the
prison is two below the record, 283,
which was reached November !.
AT County Jail.
Forty.six prisoners, the most noted
among them being Thomas Vance, now
on trial for alleged wife-murder. were
served with roast chicken, cranberry
sauce, mashed potatoes with brown
gravy, bread aud butter, coffee and
cream and apple pie, at the county ]ali-
Vance spent the day quietly. receiving
no visitors, in cell No. 10 OF the lower
rotary, which he occupies with +, +.
Stevens, charged with robbery at Muir
ray. Vance has been IN lail awaiting
trial since the 29th day OF last No
vember, almost year.
At the city Jail forty-one prisoners
ate roast pork and dressing, with cream
potatoes and brown gravy, bread aud
real-for- sure butter, coffee and nlnce
pie, for Thanksgiving dinner, served BY
Day Jailer Wilkinson. Among the old
timers at the city jail is Edward Muir
tie. who has been there so long that
ae regards II as his natural home and
could not we'll be driven away, Murue
replies with entire truth 10 any and al
who may ask him how long he has been
there. that he twas there before they
.ame and he'll be there when they re
latt1
once in every two months. which al
ways comes addressed, ''Rcar 12O East
First South street ~ whic' IS the city
jaiI. Murtie has been [ re so long
that he cannot remember a Tbanksglv.
ing dinner that he did not have IN jail.
Another interesting prisoner who ate
dinner at the city Jail Thursday is Mrs.
Mary Miller, whose downfall. like Muir
les, was caused by drink The woman
was once wealthy, but fell to drinking
through disappo ntment IL love affairs
and business failures.
Roast turkey with dressin". potatoes
and brown gravy. cranberry sauce.
bread and butter. corn, celery. milk
and coffee, pumpkin aud mince pie.
fruit cake grapes and apples, were
served TO the 100 inmates Of the county
inlirmarv, under the direction of Mrs.
Emma s. Cottle, matron. There were
n few visitors TO otherwise cnliven the
GGV IOT Tue lUudLcS- .
At the Orphanages,
One hundred and sixty-eight tots,
ranging in age from 2 to l6 years,
ate u delicious Thanksgiving dinner at
Kearns-St. Ann IS orphanage Thursday.
The dinner was with the compliments
OF Mrs. David Keith. In the neigh
borhood of 600 pounds of turkey, with
its complement of mashed potatoes
with brown gravy, celery, coffee, cake
and pic, disappeared before the vora-
cious onsl3ughts of the youngsters, who
were helped out in this pleasing labor
by fifteen or twenty elders, some of
whom are connected with the institu"
tion aud some of whom were visitors.
The dinner was well cooked and served
N decidedly tempting style, which af-
iorded excellent excuse for the hearty
meal the healthy youngsters made.
AT ESQ in the morning there were
religious services rs Il fitting beginning
Of the day. and in the afternoon the
happy youngsters, without parents, un-
like more fortunate people, were al
lowed to enjoy themselves in dancing
and music.
AT Orphans Home.
At the Orphans Home and Day Nur-
'.ry 1ifty.oDe hapless Youngsters, rang
ing IN age from three weeks TO sixteen
wears, enjoyed an appetizing dinner of
the great national bird roasted, with
sweet potatoes. Irish potatoes mashed.
cranberry sauce, bananas and whipped
cream, apple pie, cake and ice cream.
At this place there were many visitors
throughout the day.
The eleven inmates of tho isolation
hospital, in Emigration canyon, north
west Of the city, enjoyed big turkey
dinner. furnished by friends and super.
viscd by the nurse, Miss Neva Farmer,
ss well as persons suffering from small
uoX could enioV anythinr under suci,
circumstances. The inmates are Hattie
Nye, A. +. Lyons, Mrs. Jane and James
and Walter Goodyear, David Bartholdi,
Zell and Armstrong Pugmire, Alice L.
lingsworth- Clifford Tellef5en and Rosie
Benson None OF the eleven is serious
~ III Of The disease and probably will
be sufficiently recovered in n few days
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