Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-25
REMEMBERED By FRIENDS
Recipients of Bountiful and Tooth
some Dinner.
HEALTH GOOD, TREATED WELL
Other Inmates of the District Insti-
tuition Of Confinement RECALLED
With an Unusual Dinner.

| tuition OF Confinement RECALLED
With an Unusual Dinner
Six Tennesseans ate their Thanksgiving
| dinners behind the bars of the District
| Jail today. They We're Capt. Joseph +.
Shipp. former sheriff of Chattanooga
jeremiah Gibson. formerly jailor in the
| Tennessee city. and Luther Williams,
Nick Nolan. Henry Padgett and William
Mayse, also of Chattanooga, all serving
sentences for contempt of the United
States Supreme Court and because Of the
| lynching of a negro.
! 1t is far different Thanksgiving day
| from that for which they had hoped this
| year, but they have no complaint to
make of their treatment at the District
| Jail. If the warden, Capt. Mckee, had
allowed their friends in Tennessee to
| send to the Jail all the turkeys and other
provisions which they desired to send
Capt Shipp and his compa MONS would
have had continuous Thanksgiving din
ner from this time until Christmas But
Warden Mckee limited the supplies to a
| sufficient amount for one large dinner.
/ SO the friends in Tennessee wired to y.
p. Jenkins of 903 II street northwest and
| told him to go the limit in supplying a
i first-class Thanksgiving dinner for the
prisoners.
Bountiful Dinner Spread.
| Turkey there was in plenty. with cram
berry sauce. and potatoes and all the
other vegetables and dainties which go
to make I'D a good old-fashioned Thanks
! giving dinner. And the prisoners all en-
joyed it thoroughly. They have small
room adjoining the cell in which they
are imprisoned which they use as a din
ing room. Capt. Ship. courtiy OF manner
| and military in his erect hearing. pre-
] sided at the dinner, and, although TIE
prisoners we're not able to drink the
health OF their relatives and friends Ill
/ the sunny south. because the jan au-
thorities had refused to allow any liquors
| or wines to be sent to the Tennesseans.
! many heartfelt wishes and prayers for
those a. home were offered up by the
! prisoners.
| A few of their friends were allowed to
visit the Tennesseans today, and they
talked over the ole days at home and
the good times which they had all had
together on past THANKSGIVING days.
Capt. Shipp and jeremiah Gibson. both
admitted that they had spent worse
Thanksgiving days than today when they
were in the field with the gray-clad
armies But in spite of the good treat
ment which the prisoners were accorded
they looked with longing eyes at the out
| side world. and would have traded their
| Thanksgiving fare for a taste of freedom.
How is the weather outsider" asked
one of the prisoners. ut looks cold, but
we don't know much about the feel of
smile. Its cold in Tennessee some
times. but we are not likely to have
snow there this time Of year.
In Good Health and Thankful.
All the Tennesseans are in good health.
They have large room all to them
selves in which their six cots are placed.
There is ample space for tables and
chairs, and the prisoners spend large
part of the day playing cards, reading
the newspapers, of which they have a
large supply every day, and talking over
their situation. The warden of the jail
has forbidden them to give out any state
ments in criticism of the court for SEN
fencing them to Jail for contempt on pain
! Of having the privilege of seeing visitors
cut off entirely. So whatever they may
think of their imprisonment they are
careful not to spread it abroad.
| I'VE have much to be thankful for, -
said one of the Tennesseans today. and
we are not going to complain as long
as we are treated well as We are at
present"
Prisoners Lives Cheered.
Thanksgiving day in the Jail for the
| other five hundred and odd prisoners con-
fined there was frightened by the gifts
which their relatives and friends brought
| them. Warden Mckee makes it rule
! to allow the prisoners to receive presents
| of food, tobacco and clothes from their
| friends on Thanksgiving day and to see
| and talk with these friends for short
time.
All day long today and Yesterday after
noon there was a stream of visitors to
| the Jail. bringing with them baskets and
boxes for the prisoners. Wives, whose
love for their husbands made them for
get any wrongs they may have received
from their rightful protectors, brought
presents which they had purchased with
hard-earned money. Daughters and sons
remembered fathers and mothers who
not Of the sufferings which had been in
fiicted upon them by their parents, but
of the days when there had been love and
peace in their homes
! The guards and other attendants at the
Jail examined all tire presents carefully
| to see that there were no tools or weapons
or notes concealed in the packages. Candy
is tabooed by the warden. except in small
quantities. for fear that the prisoners
might make themselves sick eating it. and
many q mother and wife was compelled
| to carry away these dainties which they
had brought to cheer their sons and
daughters and husbands.
Chicken Dinner Served.
A dinner Of chicken and cranberry sauce
and potatoes was served to all the prison
ers at 2 o'clock today. Warden Mckee
has made many innovations at the Jail
| which make the conditions of the prison
ers more bearable He marches the
prisoners into light and airy dining rooms,
where they range themselves at long
tables, and has had the space between
the inner and outer walls of the Jail moor
ed with concrete and turned this space
into rooms In which the prisoners may
exercise. He had hoped to have these
exercise halls ready today. but the work
has not been entirely completed. AS soon
as 1t is the prisoners will be able to spend
about three hours a day in these long
halls, exercising and amusing themselves
as they see fit under guard, while their
cells are cleaned out.
BRIDE AND GROOM THANKFUL.
L. ~