Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-07
Grinding Routine of Peniten-
tiary Life for Is Years.
MUSTACHE TO BE SHAVED
His Blue Prison Suit Will Bear the
Letters ~. S. p"
UP AT z O'CLOCK IN MORNING
Work Until Shutdown, With Brief
1ntermission for Meals-May
Have to Share Cell.

ATLANTA, Ca, November mo spe-
cial privileges await convicted Financier
Charles w. Morse behind federal prison
walls here. He will eat, sleep, work. live
his fifteen years Of confinement with the
other prisoners.
When Morse arrives at the prison and is
suit. with the letters U. S. P. in black on
the back of the blouse and the front of
each leg. His mustache will be shaved.
He will be given a bath. Then he will
enter upon the grinding routine of his i'm
prisonment
Morse will be assigned to a cell in one of
the big cage rookeries. His home will
measure by 10 feet. He will be lucky
II he has 1t to himself. for If half of the
berth is needed for another prisoner, an
other prisoner will get it.
Morse will have to be dressed and
washed and ready for breakfast at
o'clock. He will file with the other blue
suited felons to the big dining room, work
till noon, file back for dinner, work till
twilight. file back for supper. and then be
lock-stepped to his cage.
He will answer the muttered call Of his
prison number as the checker hurries past
his door somewhere up among the cages.
spend the evening as he wishes, by him.
self, in his little prison.
At O'Clock every evening the lights
will be put out. Morse may go to sleep
when he wants to, provided he makes no
noise and creates no disturbance in re-
naming awake.
The question of what work Morse will
do must remain open till he has reported
at the prison. He may be assigned to the
prison office He may sew shoes or do
any one of thousand things. But he
will not be idle.
Morse will be a prisoner among GOO
others. Among the blue suits already
there are men whose convictions were
once the talk of the nation. But they
have been swallowed up in the nav of
the place. and, like them. Morse will dis
appear.
Morse Eats Prison Fare.
NEW YORK, November 7.-Charles w.
Morse, who yesterday was sentenced to
fifteen years in the federal prison at At
lanta, Ca, thus far has proved model
prisoner, according to the officials at the
Tombs. He has asked no special privi-
leges, nor has he been granted any.
There Is rule In the prison that any
inmate whose personal means will permit
him to do so may purchase special food
from vendor attached to the prison or
even have his meals sent in from the out
side. Morse has not awaited himself Of
the opportunities afforded by this rule.
When the vendor visited his cell a few
minutes after he arose this morning
Morse sent him away. with a wave Of his
hand. A little later when the regular
prison fare was doled out to the prison
ers the former multi-millionaire accepted
the two slices Of bread and a tin dipper
of coffee which were passed through the
slot in his cell door.
He ate every bite of the bread. drained
the dfpper Of coffee and had a CHEEKY
greeting for his son Harry when the
young man called on him early in the
forenoon. ~
Morse retired early last night and slept
'soundly until awakened when the hustle
of the day began.